#dad!coco

[imagineredwood]

6. Strawberries 🍓

Summary: Just because you and Coco broke up, doesn’t mean you won’t have a Valentine. You son will make sure of that.

Pairing: Coco Cruz x female ex reader

Warnings: angst if you squint but also comfort, co parenting, breakup

Word count: 937

A/n: Dont know what it is about this trope but it just gets my feet kicking every time 😭 Took inspo from that fic I wrote a while ago about Coco and the readers son telling coco that mommy has a new ‘friend’ but made this one less toxic lol

Coco smiled as he watched his son messily spray the cool whip on top of his pancake, turning to face his dad with a proud smile.

“Look! Can you see it?”

Coco glanced down at the pancake, the cool whip placed in squiggles across the top.

“I can.”

“What is it??”

His son grinned wide, waiting for his dad to compliment his art, but Coco awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck, not knowing what the hell it was supposed to be.

“It’s a…smile face?”

The boy’s smile faded some as he looked down at his pancake before looking back at Coco with confusion.

“No, it’s a sailboat.”

Coco nodded enthusiastically, his smile bright.

“Ah. I see it now. It’s beautiful, Mijo.”

The child’s grin returned again, too young to dwell on the face that Coco didn’t see a sailboat anywhere on that pancake. His focus was on something else now as he bounced on his feet, eyes pleading up at his father.

“Can I have strawberries too?”

Coco winced, knowing he didn’t have any in the fridge. He barely ever bought produce if he was being honest. He was getting into the habit of buying more veggies now that you had been leaving your son over for the weekends more recently. He had a bag of frozen mixed vegetables and a half empty carton of blueberries that would be shriveling up any day now, but no strawberries.

“Sorry, kid. I don’t have any. I have blueberries though.”

He shrugged, smile still on his face.

“That’s ok. Blueberries are good too.”

Coco released the breath he hadn’t realized he was holding and went into the fridge to grab the berries.

“We can go shopping and get some once we finish eating. That sound ok?”

His son smiled and agreed, throwing in his own request.

“Yeah, and then we can get mommy a little teddy for Valentine’s Day! It’s tomorrow I think.”

Coco laughed and nodded, digging into his own pancake as he looked at his boy.

“It is, you’re right. You want to get mommy a teddy? What color?”

The carbon copy of Coco tilted his head back and forth as he chewed and thought.

“A white one. With a pink heart that says I love you.”

Coco smiled, knowing that your son loved you more than he loved anything else on the planet.

“I think that sounds great.”

“Me too. She doesn’t have a Valentine this year so I think that would make her happy.”

The light and fun energy dipped as a pang hit Coco’s chest. He didn’t let his son notice though, forcing his smile to stay right where it was. It was true. You hadn’t been with anyone since the split. Your focus had been on your son and work, no time for dating, at least that was what you had said. Valentine’s Day had always been one of your favorites and while it hadn’t really been Coco’s thing, he had indulged you every single one of the 6 years the two of you had been together. Your split had happened around 10 months ago now and while things were cordial and friendly, your interactions not regarding your son had been kept to a minimum. This would be the first time in years that you wouldn’t have a valentine and Coco was sure you wouldn’t be celebrating it seeing as you would be alone, this week Coco’s week. He decided then that he wouldn’t allow it and patted his hand gently on the counter.

“Hurry and finish up, then we’ll go to the store and buy a bunch of stuff for mommy, ok? We’ll surprise her tomorrow.”

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Your brows furrowed as you heard the knock on your door. It was around noon, and you weren’t expecting anyone. You picked up your phone and touched the screen, no missed calls or texts. A soft knock sounded again, and you stood, wearily going to the door and pulling it open. Your apprehension evaporated as you saw the boys there hand in hand, a bouquet of red roses in Coco’s empty hand, a fluffy white teddy bear in your son’s. Your smile was ear to ear as you bent down, your son letting go of Coco’s hand to hug you tightly.

“Happy Valentine’s Day, Mommy!”

You laughed tearfully and hugged him to your chest tight.

“Happy Valentine’s Day, baby boy.”

You stood back up and took the bear as he held it up to you excitedly.

“Here! This is from me!”

You clutched the bear to your chest and pet it’s soft fur.

“I love it very much. Thank you.”

Eyes locking with Coco’s, he cleared his throat and held out the roses to you.

“And these are from me.”

You could feel yourself swoon, heart aching in your chest, Coco’s doing the same. You took the roses from his hand and held them to your nose, taking a deep breath.  

“Thank you. They’re beautiful.”

For a moment, it was as if it was only the two of you there, eyes locked, longing and sorrowful. The breakup had been mutual, for the sake of safety, but that didn’t mean it was any easier to live with. Pushing the door open, you invited them both in, Coco carrying a grocery bag as well that your son quickly grabbed and shoved towards you excitedly.

“We also got strawberries! Daddy said we could make pancakes again but with strawberries this time.”

You grinned and happily took the carton of strawberries, not bothering to mention that you already had one in the fridge. These were a thousand times better already.”

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[proselles]

the start of witch hat atelier before u realize how fucked the whole thing is is funny because you'll be reading and coco and agathe and tetia and riche are so cute and the world is so beautiful with so much lore and symbolism and they'll be going on adventures and learning and making new spells and having fun and making magic and smiling and playing pretend and all. They deal with some big issues, but ultimately, friendship prevails, they cook they clean olruggio's there yes there's a big conspiracy but coco's gonna figure it out! everything's gonna be okay!!!

And then you glance out of the corner of your eye. And qifrey is over there and he's like. Having a manic episode

[whafangirl19]

Love this picture of qifrey and the girls

[stonesparrow]

I made a post a while back about a no-petrification world where Senku and Yuzuriha are both famous and known for their respective successes while Taiju is a happy stay-at-home dad but I just realized there’s so much comedic potential in the trio’s friendship not being widely known by the general public.

Professor Ishigami is always wearing the nicest suits from the Haute Couture Yuzuriha brand and everyone thinks it’s just because he has expensive tastes but then someone spots him chatting with the millionaire CEO herself in the university parking lot and she HUGS HIM GOODBYE and they’re like ???!?!?

Yuzuriha’s employees think she’s the sweetest person ever and she has tons of pictures of her husband and kids on her desk like any family oriented person but then her new assistant takes a peek and realizes that there’s a Nobel prize winning astrophysicist just. Hanging out in the photos also.

Taiju is a beloved member of his kids’ school PTA and some random mean mom at the bake sale tries to make a comment about how it isn’t becoming for a man to take care of the house and there’s no way they can pull off what they promised, only for the foremost leading scientist in JAXA and the eleventh richest woman in the region to stroll in like they own the place with the kids between them carefully carrying the most beautiful goddamn cupcake tower mankind has ever known.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

It's been a long, strange year...

[fruitsbasketcase]

"Don't bow to that one! He bows to us! Idiot!"

[colscortex]

[saintfelina]

girls who look like their dads deserve purple hearts bc ppl are always so mean to us growing up saying we’re ugly 😭

[rissas]

drew a little coco to make a charm out of :]

[glitchven]

I headcanon that Solus lets Coco do this sometimes

[ok-ko-lets-be-a-side-blog]

Au designs! I was reminded that I should talk about my au on this blog haha.

I'll go in depth later, but the basic idea is that KO was raised by Venomous but still wants to be a hero despite her upbringing. And yeah! KO and TKO use she/her in this au [they're both trans fem], as a nod to this au's origin as a genderswap au way back in 2019 [if you know, you know]. I like to call the au "let's live with dad", but I also might change it later on down the line. I'm not sure

Something else to note: they get their own special tags since I instinctively call them Coco and Minty, as those were the nicknames I used when interacting with other aus and are the names their OC counterparts got.

I have waaaaay too many sketches with these two, you don't even know. I'll try and post about them more soon :>

[tohruies]

sobbles i very much love that sousuke's animal motif is a whale shark (iirc....) he really is a gentle giant!!!!! 🥺🥺🥺

[naithegiraffe]

latenightseth: You know him, you love him, the legendary Conan O’Brien is back at 30 Rock!

[monstrousproductions]

Re my last reblog of the post about the MA line about a little punk growing up fierce and proud, it reminded me of this artist's rendition I did a few years ago of the memory of being about 5 years old, sitting in the front of my dad's Ford Escort, wearing his sunglasses and chewing juicy fruit gum (which we weren't allowed at mum's house 🫨) with my elbow up on the window as The Clash blasted from the tape deck

[dragons1re]

Started reading Witch Hat Atelier today. This is what I’ve got so far:

Is this anything??

[therealcocoshady]

Even if Marshall only has one biological daughter, for having other two daughters, and having Lily in 8 Mile, everyone agrees this man can only make girls, right? /hj

He just has Girl Dad vibes. Can I explain it in a way that is rational ? No. But the vibes are there.

And there is something so pure and sweet about the idea of him, the lyrical genius who can spit nasty bars, being the quintessential girl dad. I’m sure he’d be a great dad to a baby boy. But just imagine him embracing all things girly and princess-y for the sake of his baby girl. Choosing extra pretty outfits. Trying to master some hairdressing skills as she grows up. Learning much more than anyone needs to about Disney princesses, Barbies and whatnot. Being driven to a state of insanity because he’s got Disney song lyrics stuck in his mind. Attending an embarrassing amount of teddy bear tea parties…?

I know boys like that stuff too. But I’m sorry, the « Girl Dad » thing just adds an extra layer of softness, witch a touch of insane devotion. I’m sure he’d be a great father to a son, but you know a daughter would have him wrapped around her finger in a special way. And it’s even worse if she reminds him of her mama.