#mark duplass

BABY EDITION!

Leading up to the birth Billy is increasingly calm while Ray is increasingly anxious. The birth goes textbook well and Ray ends up breaking down once he realizes the worst is over and Billy and the baby are safe.

After, when Ray asks Billy, "how were you so calm?" Billy just says, "because I had you with me." and that's how Ray says "I love you" first.

they obviously don't have any baby clothes, so part of Billy's nesting (which mega ramped up after the storm) he has both of them go through all their clothes to see what they can salvage and makes (very poorly sewn) baby clothes.

Billy makes a (very jenky) teddy bear from fabric scraps. Ray asks him "what is it supposed to be?" and Billy yells at him for half an hour before crying about it.

Her first word is "Dada" (Ray) and Billy doesn't speak to Ray for the rest of the day after it happens.

Their movie selection is very GenX so there's not a lot of kid friendly options. Ray and Billy get very good at reenacting movies a la "reign of fire" to her delight.

Billy is her comfort parent, but Ray is who she asks questions first.

Billy is much better at make believe and "yes, and"ing. He and their daughter can play for hours and hours.

When Ray starts to teach her simple stuff, she finds sit-down school really boring and hard so Ray and Billy make learning into a game/a puzzle and it works really well

Yes! I have so many! Pre-Dome edition:

They met when they started first grade and immediately got little 6-year-old crushes on each other. Billy told his mom he wanted to marry Ray and she blew it out of proportion, forbidding Billy to ever talk to Ray again, even threatening to call Ray's parents. Billy got so upset that he started a fight with Ray at school and their parents got called. Oddly enough, this display of "manliness" calmed their parents down and they were allowed to stay friends.

Ray got his first girlfriend when they were in 6th grade. Billy immediately hated her (what he thought at the time) for taking up all of Ray's time. In reality he was super jealous and couldn't identify the feeling.

Until he graduated college (undergraduate), Ray always had a girlfriend. The longest lasted a year and a half in college. The most common complaint when they break up is he spends too much time/talks too much about Billy (when she breaks up with him) OR that they are too controlling about how he spends his free time, i.e. hanging out with Billy (when he breaks up with her).

Billy lost his virginity when he was a sophomore in college (canon). when he told Ray (super excited), Ray had a stomachache for the rest of the day. When Billy broke up with her two months later, Ray had to bite back a smile the whole time he was comforting Billy.

The drifted apart after college (Billy got a job working for a Lobbyist and Ray went on to graduate school). Meeting every weekend went down to meeting once a month went down to a few times a year. Daily calls went from weekly to monthly to a few times a year. They were both severely depressed during this time.

Ray joining Billy's campaign made both of them happier and boosted Billy's confidence a ton which helped him win the election.