You know those videos of fathers developing a sixth sense and sudden gymnastic levels of prowess before yanking their kid away from a big hole or catching them as they fall off a jungle gym set?
Papas doing that with their kids. They are suddenly extremely limber with fast reflexes when it comes to:
- Grabbing their kid before they get stuck in a summoning circle (Primo)
- Punching the face a rogue feral ghoul that attempted to pounce on their toddler (Secondo)
- Catching their child as they come falling off a swing set (Terzo)
- Yanking their walker-bound baby away in the nick of time when they were tugging on a table runner that had those big glass votive candles on it (Copia)
Complete with the moment of anxiety as they practically grip their child close to their chest, eyes wide at what could’ve happened if they hadn’t caught them in time. Though I think Terzo would’ve shakily tried to laugh it off (“don’t let the baby know you’re scared, it’ll scare them”, he read somewhere) and try to convince them to maybe play on something else that they can’t fall out of. But yeah, otherwise, big, wide, heterochromatic eyes and heavy, anxious breathing as they try and calm down.
Satanas, they’re too old to be pushing their hearts and blood pressures like this —
Once the little tyke is asleep, you and he are going to spend the night baby-proofing the entire abbey.