what would Ace be like as a dad?
I rewrote my answer to this like three times help.
He's stressed, depressed and trying his best //shot
Dark Ace is the guy who never planned on having kids, but then some ankle biter urchin decided to adopt him and he couldn't say no.
As a parent he mellows out considerably in comparison to his Dark Ace persona, and he makes sure to keep the kid as far away from the spotlight as possible while they're growing up. He just wants them to have the 'normal' childhood that he didn't get. Obviously if you have the Dark Ace for a parent, your childhood will be far from truely normal, but let him try at least.
He doesn't have a lot of living relatives that he isn't estranged from, but he has a big enough found family on Cyclonia that more than makes up for a lack of blood family. Pretty much all of them adore kids in some capacity, so 'Dark Ace Jr' is set up to have several doting aunts and uncles who will occasionally 'steal' them to go and cause havoc while he's busy.
Cooking and flying are things he often tries to get the kid involved in, since they're useful skills to have in Atmos. Also he just really likes cooking. If they show interest in other things though, he encourages it and tries to get into it himself. For example if they like comics, he'll read along with them so that he knows what they're talking about when they tell him about the story.
He's not the kind of person to say 'I love you' out loud, even to family. Actions are much preferred over words, but expect some fun nicknames here and there ("sky shark", "menace", etc.)
Overall he's the parent who wants his kid to have a better life than he did.
