#dad 1

Part of the set of requests for @madnessismylover!

I’m seriously probably going to be up until dawn writing cause while my muse isn’t fully back to savagely beating me with the creativity stick, she is starting to poke. I swear she’s why I have insomnia. lol

This request is where the reader accidentally calls Hosea and/or Dutch ‘dad’ and Ooh, I had fun with this one.

Hosea

So I'm like, 130% CONVINCED at least everyone in camp has called Hosea dad at some point.

With the exception of baby Jack.

He calls him grampa.

So Hosea is more or less used to it.

Wont call you out on it or make a fuss.

Though he MAY tease you a little bit at first.

If your going out on jobs with him anyway he usually calls you his son/daughter for the job you two are on.

So it's natural to forget and just call him dad.

If he's having a bad lung day, he may ask you for some tea.

You mistakenly call him dad and don't think nothin of it.

Though if you start purposely calling him dad.

OOF!

His heart just swells with joy and pride.

Bessie and him never got to have kids, and I'm pretty sure they wanted some at some point.

Buut, you know, outlaw life kind of got in the way of that.

So call this sweetie dad, and watch him just, melt.

Dutch

Dutch, is sort of used to being referred to as dad/daddy due to being the leader of the group.

Sort of like how Micah referred to him as daddy at the start of the game.

'Waiting for daddy to put food on the table'

So he's used to it in that sense.

Besides, I'm pretty sure everyone in this fandom has accepted the headcanon that he and Hosea pretty much adopt every street urchin and down-and-out body they find and manage to get into their gang.

Though if someone were to slip up and call him dad.

Oooh, boi.

Hope you like dad jokes.

Cause he's got a shit ton of them.

Not to mention RELENTLESS teasing.

And he will not let you live it down for MONTHS.

Like this man will wait with baited breath for the next slip of the tongue.

However, if you are ANYTHING like me, and you are a sassy and sarcastic little shit.

You may decide to turn it into a game, and sarcastically call him 'dad' at every given opportunity.

Just to see what would happen first, either you shoot yourself, or him, for all the dad jokes.

Or, he runs out.

sauna