You know what gives me major ick in sp x reader stuff? When the author makes them call reader some dumb fucking nickname like “darling” “doll” “sweetheart” or the WORST “love” ok so they’re british now cool. LIKE THEY WOULD NOT FUCKING SAY THATTRTR I literally will stop reading because of this. In fact, I would not like it if a guy said any of those to me in real life, CRINGE!! “babe” and “honey” is fine I guess because Stan and Cartman have referred to their girlfriends that way in canon but still, thin fucking ice. Here is what they would actually call their partners, because I know everything.
Stan: Babe, Dude. Mostly dude, babe for when he fucked up and is trying to do damage control
Kyle: Dude, Honey but IRONICALLY
Kenny: Babe/Baby, probably some of those corny silly ones but again, it’s in a joking way not serious
Cartman: Really over the top and cringy ones at first because lovebombing. Babe, Bitch (affectionate?)
oh my god i know right? it’s so awful, lmfao
kyle wouldn’t be caught dead calling his S/O baby or doll. kenny is too creative for that basic as shit. stan is too awkward for pet names and cartman comes up with those weird ass pet names like pooh bear or whatever.
i can MAYBE see stan saying ‘baby’ but that’s about it. MAYBE. he sticks with dude. like you said. or he’ll just use his partner’s name.
kyle thinks nicknames like that are dumb. he’ll shorten the person’s name at best. he maybe lets a ‘sweetie’ or ‘honey’ slip through but he would have to be balckout drunk in order to say doll or baby or whatever
kenny sticks with baby. he’s not into pet names. he honestly is the kind of guy to make up a nickname. even for friends. like he calls kyle big red or smth. that’s all i can think of as an example though.
the only thing that’s worse is ‘princess mom i swear i gag a bug reading that.