[Little Cato's ears perk up. The prospect of ever, ever talking to someone with a similar experience, who wasn't a part of his crew and therefore had some form of bias or another, hadn't really occurred to him as being a possibility.]
[That's one problem with your entire social circle - your entire world - essentially being one group of people.]
[For instance, he doesn't know how he can talk to Gary about it when Avocato is his best friend, when he's dedicated himself to being a co-parent, and when Gary has issues with grief over losing his own really cool dad. A grandpa Little Cato had only seen through a magical viewing window to the past - a man who he wishes he could've gotten to know. He seemed like a great guy and he understands how Gary had nursed that grief his whole life]
[When he talks next, it's not the tea. He's forthcoming because it's a chance to talk to someone outside his crew that maybe actually understands something similar.]
Can't help it. Same crew, same ship. And the whole saving-the-universe thing was starting to look pretty bad. If I went off to try to become a bounty hunter again, I wouldn't be able to help fight it.
[And he had helped, he had been a valuable member of the crew, he'd sometimes pulled things off that they needed someone to. He wanted the agency of being there, so that even if it all ended, at least he could say he tried.]
Besides, if I left again, my other dad would just come after me and probably be all sad and then I'd feel guilty and come back. And he's a really a good dad, who's never hurt me. He's always just tried to make me happy.
He adopted me when Avocato was out of the picture for a while.
[He has his own "The guy who took him in afterwards." But who's done so much right.]
It's just... it's hard because I think he still wants to be parents with my fat - with the guy who raised me, together.
[He doesn't even know if Gary knew Avocato's big secret, or for how long. He's been trying not to think about it, to take refuge in the fact the human side of the family is separate, different.]
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[That's one problem with your entire social circle - your entire world - essentially being one group of people.]
[For instance, he doesn't know how he can talk to Gary about it when Avocato is his best friend, when he's dedicated himself to being a co-parent, and when Gary has issues with grief over losing his own really cool dad. A grandpa Little Cato had only seen through a magical viewing window to the past - a man who he wishes he could've gotten to know. He seemed like a great guy and he understands how Gary had nursed that grief his whole life]
[When he talks next, it's not the tea. He's forthcoming because it's a chance to talk to someone outside his crew that maybe actually understands something similar.]
Can't help it. Same crew, same ship. And the whole saving-the-universe thing was starting to look pretty bad. If I went off to try to become a bounty hunter again, I wouldn't be able to help fight it.
[And he had helped, he had been a valuable member of the crew, he'd sometimes pulled things off that they needed someone to. He wanted the agency of being there, so that even if it all ended, at least he could say he tried.]
Besides, if I left again, my other dad would just come after me and probably be all sad and then I'd feel guilty and come back. And he's a really a good dad, who's never hurt me. He's always just tried to make me happy.
He adopted me when Avocato was out of the picture for a while.
[He has his own "The guy who took him in afterwards." But who's done so much right.]
It's just... it's hard because I think he still wants to be parents with my fat - with the guy who raised me, together.
[He doesn't even know if Gary knew Avocato's big secret, or for how long. He's been trying not to think about it, to take refuge in the fact the human side of the family is separate, different.]