Went to a comic con with my family, including my dad. This man is an old-school Star Wars nerd, I'm talking one of those dads with the Chewbacca shirt and cargo pants combo, his favorite movie is Empire Strikes Back and he literally has never interacted with Tumblr fandom culture a day in his life, or any fandom culture unless you count talking in person with other 50s-60s aged dads about how cool they think Han Solo and Boba Fett are. The only reason he knows about things like shipping is because of me (his daughter) routinely purchasing fanart at comic cons since she was twelve years old.
I'm buying merch at Artist's Alley, and my dad is looking at some of the other booths, and when I'm done buying, he points to some art at the booth next door. "Isn't that from Rebels?". I expect to see Chopper, his favorite character, maybe Sabine, at most maybe some Kanera fanart. It's Zeb and Kallus. Specifically, it is Kalluzeb fanart.
Now, my father, despite looking pretty much like every former-punk-turned-middle-aged-dad, is a very leftist man. However, he also does not understand the concept of why shipping exists, especially for two characters who aren't "technically" together. So I am trying desperately to pretend like I don't know exactly why this ship exists, that I don't know it has an online following, and that I haven't liked posts and reblogged fanart. I vaguely respond that yes I have heard of people shipping them, and I've seen posts about them. He doesn't seem to care, and is only a little surprised, so I don't think much of it.
Until a few months later, and Zeb is in the Mandalorian and Grogu trailer, which after sending the trailer to my dad, I casually mention that it would be cool if Kallus was in the movie. To which he replied:
"Well, he has to be there. Because he's married to Zeb."
And that's how I found out my middle-aged nerdy dad legitimately ships Kalluzeb.
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