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okaybutlikeimagine · 4 years

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Hello. Thoughts on Dads!Harringrove??? the boys like in their mid 40s with 3 kids. what type of parents do you think they’ll be??? will their grandpa jim spoil them??? i love harringrove parents w all my heart. they both deserve a big happy family of their own 🥰

Hello, my thoughts are it’s the cutest damn thing ever and i could cry just thinking about it aUGH HARRINGROVE DADS.

Okay, so i’ve read quite a few things talking about the Harringrove Dads and adopting little babies, adopting sweet little girls, etc. and i absolutely live and die for that shit. Like i’m so serious, i think it’s so sweet, it warms my heart, i eat it up, i LOVE it

But also (and i’m sure i’m not the first to say it) I feel like they’re NOT the type to go adopting babies. They’re not getting a surrogate to raise a kid from infancy. They may want to, they may have that inkling, they may see Jonathan and Nancy having a baby and get that infamous Baby Fever, but I just… I really can’t bring myself to write that.

Bc (in my canon) Billy was adopted as a 17 year old delinquent. El was adopted as a 12 year old lab rat. Steve was basically abandoned at home when he got too old to be the “cute little boy” their parents could tote around to promote their Nuclear Family image. They’re two boys who were made very keenly aware that there are shitty people out there who believe kids get less desirable the older they get. Shitty people who think babies are worth more than older kids who probably just come with “problems”.

(i’ve also been rewatching Boy Meets World and GUYS. i see a lot of Billy in Shawn Hunter. Boy who’s taken in bc he’s been neglected and he’s a sensitive kid underneath but he’s got this hard, bad boy shell bc it’s easier than crying every day)(AUGH and just like Will in Fresh Prince goddamnit i fucking LIVE for those kids who think and act all tough and use their pretty looks like a weapon but all they really need is a caring and stern hand who’s gonna keep them on the straight and narrow and help them out along the way i am SOFT.)

So if these boys have 3 kids, it’s 3 kids who were seen as the “worst” of the bunch. 3 kids they fought to connect with bc these kids didn’t see anything in themselves anymore but goddamnit, Steve and Billy saw 3 kids beat and broken by the system that told them the older they got, the smaller their chances were of ever getting out of this place. They came with problems and fears and shells harder than Billy’s steel toed boots but like hell were Billy and Steve going to let these kids go the rest of their lives thinking they were damaged goods.

(god now i wanna write OCs of their children. look what you did to me!)

Okay so their parenting style changes as they grow and adopt more kids, as what happens with most parents. They learn what’s good and what’s not so good and they get better at fixing problems (but of course it’s never quite that easy bc they’re adopting kids of different ages).

And of course i’m saying they adopt the kids everyone has turned away, but for their first kid they adopt a little boy, about 5 years old, bc they gotta start small. He’s very cute and has a bit of a lisp and he mixes up some of his letters and he’s… energetic. He runs and he screams and he tires himself out real quick to the point where he just flops down and takes naps where he is, meaning there has been more than one occasion where Billy or Steve has found the child sleeping face first in the middle of a room (the entry room seems to be his favorite. Billy doesn’t blame him, the carpet is softer there than anywhere else.) One time he even flopped down on the middle of the sidewalk and again in the middle of a department store. Both times Billy scooped him up like a rag doll and carried him around the rest of their trip out.

And i know it’s not the BEST movie but i can’t help but think their parenting at the beginning would be a bit like the movie Big Daddy. Like, a lot of well-intentioned but misguided advice, a lot of “real world” lessons (like how to piss on the side of the road), a lot of hurried and frazzled solutions to things because “kids are messy why are kids so fucking messy why can’t he ever stay clean?”

“He’s just a kid, Steve, c’mon-”

“He’s always sticky! How! How is he always sticky? What’s making him so sticky!”

And I just!! Augh!! Imagine Steve at work all day and Billy has off/maybe he’s inbetween jobs right now so he can be home with the kid/whatever and so he has errands to run and takes their little kid with him and the kid’s like:

“What’s your real name?”

“You know that. It’s Billy.”

“…. why?”

And Billy shrugs with an “I dunno, cuz I couldn’t talk and my parents could and they had to call me somethin.”

“You could’n talk?”

“Hey, you couldn’t either.”

The boy thinks for a second before: “Could too.”

“Could not. Not when you were a baby.” He pokes the boy in the shoulder, still very tentative with how much the little tike can take. “Don’t start attacking me! You didn’t name yourself.”

They walk for a second but Billy chimes in before the kid can.

“Hey, that’s not fair though, is it?”

The boy looks up and shakes his head, but he can see the confusion in his eyes.

“You should be able to name yourself, right? What do you want your name to be? Anything in the world, what do you want me to call you?”

Which is how Steve comes home to their child and Billy eating some baby carrots smothered in BBQ sauce and his husband telling him: “By the way, the kid’s new name is Hot Dog.”

“…. what?”

“He picked it out himself.”

And just imagine Billy and the kid are going grocery shopping and Billy catches the boy reaching for a can of spaghetti-o’s.

Billy reaches for the can and takes it off the shelf. “You like these?”

The kid nods.

“Alright then. Watch out-” he hold the kid back gently before chucking the can at the ground. He turns to his boy. “Dented cans are half off. Y’know, Microsoft dropped 3 points.”

His kid nods in awe.

“Wanna pick that up for me?” Billy asks and the kid follows, before rearing the can back to throw it on the ground.

“Woah woah woah! Watch it there!” Billy grabs the boy’s arm, before aiming it a different way. “Aim away from your feet… there ya go. I know they’re kinda tiny targets but still, don’t wanna give yourself a flat tire there.”

The kid chucks it and Billy laughs. “Nice job, little dude.”

And i just have so many THOUGHTS about this!!! Their second kid being a little 9 year old girl who’s real fucking good at boxing and fighting and also a little too good at sneaking out the window. They’ve caught her a few times in the backyard or the front yard, just sitting around shivering. It always gives Billy and Steve a heart attack.

“What are you doing out here?” Steve asks, kneeling down to look at the girl, Billy taking note of her hands balled up into little fists.

“I heard a… noise. A loud noise.”

“Oh, yeah, your brother just dropped a glass.”

“Oh. Did you… did you… hurt him?” Her fists clench tighter, her shoulders get tighter, closer to her ears. Billy sees himself in it. He wants to ease her shoulders down out of her ears.

“No! No of course we didn’t.” Steve soothes, rubbing the girls arms soothingly. She looks skeptical.

But it becomes a pattern, and they realize it’s whenever she thinks something is going on or someone is in danger. To the point where if any loud noise happens, one of them rushes outside to look for Jordan climbing out a window.

Steve’s out there this time, grabbing hold of her middle and helping her out of the window because they’ve let their plants grow a little wiley and she was having a hard time getting past them. He sets her down gently.

“It’s fine, hun. You’re fine. Your dad just dropped a pan.”

“Oh…”

“Y’know, you can’t keep doing this.”

“What?”

“Ditching out the window like this.” He kneels down to look at her. “It’s not safe. And one of these days it’s gonna be snowing and you’re gonna jump out in your PJs and be all cold.”

“I’ve done it before.”

And if that doesn’t break Steve’s heart. He thinks about Billy when he was a kid. About the stories Billy has told him when he’s tired and a little drunk and feeling a little emotional. Steve loses himself in the sadness of the thought for a second.

He brushes a little bit of dirt off her shoulder.

“Yeah… well you don’t have to ever again, alright? I mean it. Nothing is happening to you here. We’re not gonna hurt you… Now give me a hug.”

She accepts it, which is big for her, and Steve squeezes her as tight as he squeezed Billy that one night he found him with a cut on his cheek and bruises all up and down his arms.

And then they adopt another boy. A 17 year old boy. A boy who’s been in and out of so many homes he doesn’t have a number for it. A boy who’s angry and jaded and… loves poetry and is so gentle with children and animals.

And him and Billy butt heads… a lot. They’re so similar… at least he’s similar to what Billy used to be. And it pisses them both off bc suddenly Billy knows what Hop felt- frustration. Utter frustration at this boy not understanding his fucking potential.

And i’ve written a whole dialogue for this but it’s long and very dramatic and I might just end up writing a fic about all of these little sweethearts (bc i have so many ideas!!!) but basically the boy telling Billy and Steve that he’s fucked up. He’s fucked up and no one will ever be able to change that and Billy is adamant that he’s not until he admits-

“No. You’re right, you are fucked up.”

Steve is shocked. “Billy!”

“No, shut up Steve.” Billy points at the kid. “You are fucked up. You’re a fucked up kid, and you know what? I’m fucked up too. And so is Steve. And so is your aunt El, and your Aunt Max, and your Uncle Will and Uncle Jonathan. And y’know what else? Your grandpa Jim is fucked up too. Hell, even your Grandma Joyce is fucked up. Wish I could tell you she’s not but ding ding ding! She is!”

And they get in a fight. There’s no fists, no touching, but it’s a major fight of Billy telling this boy what Hop told him once: You’re our kid now and we love you. And you can leave and never think about us again but we’re never gonna forget you.

And: “Don’t you dare fucking compare us to those assholes because I’m not giving up on you. We’re not giving up on you. You’re family now and no matter what you do, I’m gonna be there to worry about you and be happy for you because you deserve it!”

And Billy gets frustrated with all of his yelling so he grabs his stress ball and walks away, breathing heavy, and Steve is there to look the boy in the eye and tell him Billy’s right. And that he understands that the boy has a past before they ever met him “but Billy had a life before he met me… and same with me and him, and we can still love each other. So maybe we’re just on an even playing field. We get to learn about you while you learn about us and… and even so, we can still love each other, right?”

AUGH I’M SOFT. ANYWAY.

Hop and Joyce spoil them fucking rotten. It’s really hard to spoil a 17 year old boy as stubborn as an ox (“You were bad enough, now you bring me another one?” “You saying you didn’t like taking care of me, Pops?” “I’m saying I have enough gray hair as it is.” “Oh shush, Hop!” Joyce hits him) but they do their best. They give him love and support. Joyce bakes a shitton of cookies and cakes and Hop buys the kids toys (and the older boy CDs and records and band tees)(“I’m trying! The older I get, the less I know what kids what.”)

And they love all their aunts and uncles too! The little girl has a hard time reading and she reads way below her level, so Aunt El helps her out!

“I understand. I learned to read really late.”

“Really?” The girl’s heart lifts a bit. “How late?”

“I was twelve.”

“Really??”

El nods and gives a kind smile. “Yeah, but I learned, didn’t I? I had a lot of help, and I can help you, too! Just like your dad helped me.”

The girl smiles brightly.

Will’s favorite is the youngest boy (but he would never tell the other two that. Of course not.) because he’s silly and he took to Will almost instantly and he likes to roll around in the grass and catch bugs and those were never really things Will liked as a kid and he… he likes that. He didn’t think he’d ever like that but there’s something about this kid that brings out adventure in him. He reminds Will of Mike when they first met. A bundle of energy and excitement that always dragged Will around on adventures.

The older one hangs out a lot with Max and Jonathan. Jonathan likes hanging out with the kid cuz he reminds him of Billy when Billy was young. (“I don’t remember you being this… exhausting though.” Jonathan tells Billy.) (“You’re just getting old, bud.” Billy says with a laugh and a clap on the back) They smoke weed whenever they can and Jonathan gives the boy some good old 70’s and 80’s music to listen to and tells the boy “Meatloaf is not the best of our decade, don’t listen to your father. Either of them, honestly. Their music taste is shit.”

Max hangs out with the older one too. She gives him advice about girls and how to talk to them and she picks up a skateboard for the first time in years because of him. They go to the skate park sometimes and everyone there is amazed that a twenty something year old girl is here to skate with them until she skates circles around them. (She becomes the hit of the skate park)

She also wrestles around with the little 8 year old girl sometimes! She has a lot of heart to hearts with the kid, giving her advice as well and telling her silly stories of both Billy and Steve so that the girl learns to trust them more.

And overall they’re a big, loving family!! And they’re slightly dysfunctional too and i just! Can’t see it happening any other way!! Bc they’re a little dysfunctional but they’re dysfunctional with LOVE and isn’t that what matters???? It’s a lot of work and a lot of sweat and a lot of tears but it’s their family and in the end their kids love them to death bc they realize their fathers love them to death and!!! Everyone’s heart is full and happy and i’m crying!

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“ Life's been a wild ride, I've seen bullets hailin' from every direction, fought battles with swords and my wit alone while on a motorcycle with an eagle on my back. Might be exaggerating a bit, but what I'm sayin' is despite the struggles we gotta stay who we are.” - Cayden Whinrich

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"If you believe in the magic of the heart, you'll go places as long as ya follow it. So follow that chaotic little fucker wherever it goes, sure, it might get broken a few times, but that's nothin' the magic of family can't fix eh?” - Sarah Brokowski

“ Life is about making memories, loving who you are and family. Family isn't someone who'll hurt you. Family is whoever will catch you when you fall. Not those who'll push you.” - Sarah Brokowski

”I’ve been fighting the darkness all my life, so what’s one more cold night? I've been throwing punches my whole life, sometimes ya gotta fight to survive, have all my damn life, so what's one more punch huh?” - Ariel

“ Life can be a bitch sometimes, but I beg of you, don't be a bitch in return.” - Ariel

”I could make a million bucks and a dream if only I had the faith the sun gives the moon when she sinks. But spose life sought to destroy me, and in some ways, it did. But in all this destructiveness, I found beauty, I found love, family.. and me.” - Jessie Villritz

“ You don't need money to be rich. You don't need a single penny, to have a dream.” - Jessie Villritz

“ I'm not gonna chase an empty dream, I'm not gonna pick up a rose by the damn thorns, not anymore.” - Jessie Villritz

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”Life is ever shifting, ever changing, we may witness many ends in our life, but never our own. Perhaps this is why death is such a foreign concept to the living.” - Caldiph Benzington

“ Everything done to me, is fault of my own. Even the scars I wear upon my battered and sinful heart. Because when you're such a sinful creature, karma is the reason for your scars. And I imagine I've killed so many, karma has battered my heart around as a kitty cat would a yarn ball.” - Caldiph Benzington

”What are delusions to a mad man but truths yet to be made? Hay not yet spun to gold. I am Rumpelstiltskin, making a mockery of the truth by turning it into a lie. You can say, "I am alive." But with one squeeze of my trigger, and I make you into a liar!” - Elliot Creglow

“My mother wishes I hadn't become such a sinful beast, she may not have raised me this way, but the world did.” - Elliot Creglow

“ My heart beats no beautiful melody, for something so rusted and rotten can not sing so wonderfully, it can only screech and writhe until it withers and dies. And so my heart screeches, echoing in my ribcage begging to soar, and yet I poison it with more lies and deceit.” - Elliot Creglow

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"I'm just a bullet with no target, these days. Soaring through the air, I fly across the world only to slam into my own damn noggin. Sure, I could take aim and ricochet through the solar system until I found someone worth ending, but here I am, bloodstained rifle in hand, with nothing but my sins and my demons to accompany my haunted mind.” - Ivory Falcone

“ I played a damn game with my morality, and the darkness stared me dead in the eye, cracked that wicked grin of his, and let the words, "Checkmate," roll off his damn tongue.” - Ivory Falcone

“ One bullet could save a life, but the same bullet could unravel one. I've saved many with the gun by my side, but the bodies crumpled at my feet are often more innocent than not. And by God, that scares me to death." - Ivory Falcone

"It's a cruel world out there, and I fear I've been caught in the riptide of my sins, drowning on everything I never thought I'd become. Life has thrown me many surprises, but the fall of myself, was the worst one.” - Danny Savinwit

“ Oh my father taught me to be strong, but how can you be strong when the world makes your knees buckle and your soul whimper? And my brother and I, we'd rough house, but I imagine all I do is fight these days, if only to survive a little bit longer.” - Danny Savinwit

“ I guess, to survive these days, you gotta die. At least, part of you. Innocence ain't part of this new world, spose all we really got left is sins and hope. And hope ain't enough to keep us alive, these days. And hope dies when sins are committed.” - Danny Savinwit

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“ I'm the lion inside 'a the den, and yet I'm also Daniel, fallin' inta the damn den, bein' condemned for me actions.” - Arnold Schull

“ Love is a lost game, mate. All it'll do is shatta' you in the end, so I've shut meself off, become numb. Because if I can't damn well feel, these sins won't effect me, just other's.” - Arnold Schull

“ I shut meself off long ago, let meself become nuthin' but a beast. I got claws, I got a crooked grin, and mate, I got a black heart, capsized by the sins 'a a bloody mad man." - Arnold Schull

"I've been dabbling in sin so long I think myself a devil when I've only brushed the surface of darkness with my fingertips." - Norma Borwick

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"If this is life, then give me death." - Larry Devendra

"Tell me how it is, you can feel the sun's warmth, when your heart is ice cold and your blood is flowing every color you never thought you had in your paint box?" - Molly Chain

"Life is just a consequence of God's loneliness." - Osbourne Smithens

"When faith falters and lives crumble, sadly it is I, to blame." - Gusto Mellowrich

"I'd ask for forgiveness, but that doesn't change the past." - Gusto Mellowrich

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How unfortunate, to see my silence used as a weapon." - Sidgallio Kimley

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"The world's put me in my place. I imagine it's nothing more than a cell of my own mind." - Christian Holden

"Da world don't like ya, don't show it why it's right, show it why it's wrong." - Daisy Gloria

" I am no real boy, I am but Pinocchio dancing upon the stage, wondering how life got to be this way, I see the spotlights, the twinkle in my eyes of glass, and the crack in my heart painted black. I seek the appraisal of Jipedo, yet know he's nothing but a figment of my broken mind, their is no fairy to grant me reality, no whale to swallow me whole, only sins in which I spread upon this barren land." - Nico Sanvitz

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“Kneel at my feet, or I’ll kneel at your grave.” - Isiwoah Sakigowami

"Life can rather easily unravel my friend. All you have to do, is defy me." - Isiwoah Sakigowami

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"Seems karma ain't real, cause if it were, it'd have rewarded good people, and left the bad ones to rot, but here we are, our only reward our own misery, but, yet, we're still good." - Sandro Colorfeid

"Those days, they were times when we were naive children, life comes with struggles, issues, pain, scars and trials and error, people like to think, they don't got issues, they got a pitch perfect life, but everyone hurts, everyone has scars, and some, ignore 'em. We have dreams, and we gotta, achieve em, sure, it may be the steepest fucking climb ever, steeper then even Everest, but, it's a climb that's damn well worth it. The tools? Your own two hands, your boots, and a glimmer of hope, because, all ya need, is a glimmer, cause it damn well grows into a glowing shimmer." - Sandro Colorfeid

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"Someone once told me everything happens for a reason, that the scars were made to build me up. But all these scars have done is ruin me. Tell me, if everything happens for a reason, why did the world fall? Huh? Give me a damn reason society was meant to crumble. Because as far as my eye can see, is a world on fire. And when both your nightmares, and reality, is a world on fire, you learn the breathe in the ash and march on with burnt lungs." - Richard Vanraker

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"Give me a blade, and watch what I do to my own heart." - Sidney

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