How is Five as an uncle in the make me your bomb verse? Does he bond with Claire, Harlan, and Diego & Lila’s child? Do they like him? Does he blink around sometimes just to amuse them? :)))
So, eventually there are many cousins. (I should just share my notes as an ao3 chapter I swear)
Allison has Claire, but also a second daughter with Ray they name Ada.
Diego and Lila have Stan. Stanford vs Stanley, but still, Stan.
Luther and Sloane end up having three kids, but much later. Ada is five by the time Sloane has her first.
Five is the grumpy uncle, and actually the least favorite. Diego and Luther help each other a lot, they're not a far drive, and Klaus&Dave are favorite babysitters. (Klaus is the type to ignore bedtimes, while Dave announces breakfast for dinner). The kids like the farm, but only go a few times a year and so have limited exposure to Viktor. (Who Stan loves, because he picks on Diego). Ben is also great with the kids, though Harlan is a little scared of him at first. The Horror came out too soon for that kid.
While not the uncle they see the least, Five is just...not a kid person and they pick up on that. Part of it comes from little interaction and exposure to kids (apocalypse trauma) and also a wrong expectation of their capabilities. He figured out the equation to time travel at 13, and Claire can't balance a chemical equation? Children frustrate him, but he's not mean. Just aloof.
He's also usually the one to blink around to round them up for any activity that's not a game, so there's that.
Five's better with Luther&Sloane's kids, but again, that's years later so he's had time to adjust. It helps that they get Sloane's smarts. Five can relate to them more and is always down for a science experiment.
