Parent's Day
Ghosts didn't have a father's or mother's day as such, but they did have a day where they combined both. A day to celebrate your guardians. Humans, Yetis, Amazons or Gods, it was a quiet day to thank them for your ghost adoption.
Dan and Ellie had spent a few years under the halfa's care but at the end of the day they considered him their guardian (although Dan did it reluctantly), so when they heard about Parent's Day they panicked.
They wanted to show Danny that they really appreciated him but a mug or coupons were not enough. In the end after some brainstorming they decided to give him the closest thing to a mug that was in the Realms: Constantine's complete soul.
John Contantine was a very annoying human, they knew this because they heard Danny complain about his paperwork many times. Apparently their father had 99% of his soul but couldn't do anything until he had 100%, and what better gift than to help him get rid of the paperwork? He hated paperwork! It was perfect!
With some help from Clockwork they traveled to DC's dimension, determined to take the last of the hellblazer's soul. Dan wondered if he should steal a star from the dimension while they were there (Danny liked space didn't he?), as an extra gift.
John Constantine was in the middle of explaining the holes in reality to the Justice League when a shiver ran through his body. He had an instant bad feeling.
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thinking about how quill used music as his only reminder of his mother, to the point that he would risk his own life to save it and keep part of her alive, and how we're introduced to him as the one who dances while everyone around him rolls their eyes, and how he raises baby groot to be the first of the team to dance as openly and joyfully as him, and how this groot is the first one to dance during the last scene, and how rocket – who hums tunelessly while he works until he's building stereos to play tunes while fighting until his favorite song is "come and get your love" – joins him without any self-consciousness, and how quill left rocket his zune and team leadership but the first gift he ever gave him was a name for what he was: raccoon, and how drax overcomes his stubborn adherence to never dancing because what matters more to him than being a stoic destroyer is being a father, who makes the hundreds of children that look up to him laugh with delight, and who gets to watch mantis (whose innocence reminded him of his daughter) set off into the world with her own purpose the way his own child never got to, and how nebula dances along with them, no longer holding herself to the second-best status that thanos forced on her, instead at home as a leader who can fight with her family without having to compete with them, and how she stills talks to gamora, who is able to accept that she once meant the world to the guardians, once spoke their language and joined in their hugs and was part of their fun, but that she doesn't owe it to them to join in the dance and be that same person, and returns to the adoptive family that she feels at home with, and the lyric "leave all your love and your longing behind / you can't carry it with you if you want to survive," and how in order to go forward the guardians can't all stay together, but how that doesn't mean they aren't still a team and a family because how do you truly leave the people who have dragged you, doubting and kicking and screaming, toward comfort and security and happiness? for the hottest, slowest, laziest days to end, the ones where you lost best friends and spouses and children and siblings and years of your life and memories with someone, the ones where you run from your past and pretend you were never in pain, never loved anyone, you have to let that hope catch up with you (“happiness hit her / like a bullet in the back”). anyway i think this was a pretty good series like this post if you also had a laugh or two over cosmo the space dog's telekinetic hijinks!!
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The Wayne boys first father's day with Bruce Wayne
Dick Grayson
Dick Grayson, 8: Happy Father's Day!
Dick passes Bruce a father's day card he made. Bruce takes it surprised, he opens the card and finds a sweet message and a few slips of paper.
Dick: There father's day coupons! Yeah, one of them is for a free hug.
Bruce, unsure how to react: Oh God.
Alfred chuckles, takes the coupon and passes it to the young boy.
Alfred: He'll use this one early.
Dick Grayson nods and hugs his father. Bruce isn't sure how to react at first, but then hugs the young boy with a half-smile, half-not sure how to handle love like this since his parents died.
Bruce: Can I reuse these coupons?
Dick: Yeah.
Bruce: Best father's day ever then.
...
Jason Todd, 13 at the time.
Jason: Um, here you go.
Jason passes Bruce a father's day mug labeled 'World's Okayest Dad'.
Jason: Thanks for taking me in, you're better than my dad. There you go, I'm going to walk away now.
Jason hurriedly leaves the room.
Bruce: Why do they keep giving me good gifts?
Bruce slams his head on his desk. Alfred, who has been dusting a painting rolls his eyes. He walks over to the man and pats him on the back.
Alfred: Means you're doing a good job... 80 percent of the time.
Bruce: I'm doing that well! Oh God, I can't handle these emotions.
Alfred: I know, just let it out sir.
...
Tim Drake, 15 after losing both parents
Tim rushes into Bruce's office with two gift baskets he made.
Tim: I tried to buy like two gifts, but you've done so much for me... Especially at this time and I couldn't... I didn't feel right getting one or two small gifts. I made these instead. With lots of gifts... Because I love you so much.
Bruce, blinking: Oh goodie... Can you leave so I can survey what you got me?
Tim, wiping his eyes and smiles. He leaves quickly.
Bruce: After three kids, how do I struggle with accepting these gifts? Why do all of these look like he put a lot of thought into them too?
Alfred, sitting next to Bruce, drinking his tea.
Alfred: He did. I watched him spend weeks doing so.
Bruce: Weeks?! I love the gifts they've given me over th years, but what do I say other than thank you?
Alfred: Thank you is the proper response, but as emotionless as you can be, and trust me you can, they know you love them.
Bruce: Sometimes I doubt it, but I appreciate you saying that.
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Damian Wayne, 10 years old
Damian enters his father's room with a gift in his hand.
Damian: Here is your father's day gift. I painted it myself and it's something you'd love.
Bruce takes the painted canvas and is shocked how well done it is.
Bruce: You painted this?!
Damian: Yes, I watched one of those Bob Ross videos where he teaches a colorblind man to paint. I know you love blacks and greys so there you go. Do you like it? If not, I can-
Bruce hugs the canvas.
Bruce: Nope, this is amazing. Thank you.
Damian: You think it's amazing?
Damian smiles, holding his head down.
Damian: Father, I care about you. Happy Father's day.
Damian sits on his father's bed and hugs him.
Damian: The others are here, but I wanted to give you my gift early because I'm your favorite, right?
Bruce: You're all my favorite.
Damian: I'm going to tell them you said I was. Enjoy the painting.
Damian runs off calling for his brothers. Bruce chuckles, looking at the painting.
Bruce: Oh right, I forgot!
Bruce gets out of bed, reaches under his bed and pulls out a wrapped present.
Bruce: Oh Alfred, father's gift!
Alfred: You got me one again? I'm just the butler.
Bruce: Nah, you're my dad when my own dad died. Here you go, it's a tea set this time. I got it custom made. I... Happy Father's day.
Bruce hands Alfred the gift and walks off. Alfred smiles and takes the gift back to his room.
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