09-09-2019, 04:58 PM
Wormwood hugged Roy for a long moment, trying to Express all the love that he felt for the boy in one kind gesture, before he smiled down at the tiger as he pulled away. When Roy asked if he was to call Worm Dad, the hellhound chuckled and barked softly as his tail wagged from side to side, "You can call me Dad if you want, but you don't have too. Worm or Wormwood is still just fine, if that's what you'd rather." He didn't want to force the younger male to start thinking of him as Father, and if Roy felt uncomfortable tossing away his past and his past father figure, then Worm wasn't going to force him to call him Dad, because that would just be wrong. Worm had a suspicion that whatever father figure Roy had in the past wasn't so great, but Wormwood still didn't want to assume that he was so much better, and he was fairly sure that at this point he couldn't imagine calling anybody else Dad now either. Sure, he was older than Roy, obviously, but Roy was so mature that Worm doubted he was particularly the type to latch onto calling somebody Dad.
He couldn't read Roy's thoughts, but if he could he was sure that he would give Roy even more reassurance that his intentions were nothing but pure. He couldn't even begin to imagine how nervous Roy was about opening himself up to others with whatever trauma he had suffered in the past, and it hurt his heart to think that Roy would assume he was just trying to manipulate him. He knew that some older people put themselves in parental roles to have power over another person, and in order to make them think that they had somebody who they could count on, but the thought of doing that – or anybody doing that, really – filled him with a cold rage. After everything he had suffered at the hands of Aethelwulf and Judith, Worm couldn't imagine putting himself in a parental role just to make a child's life worse. It was almost like he was challenging the world, saying "fuck you, I'm going to make sure that kids don't grow up like I did".
He couldn't read Roy's thoughts, but if he could he was sure that he would give Roy even more reassurance that his intentions were nothing but pure. He couldn't even begin to imagine how nervous Roy was about opening himself up to others with whatever trauma he had suffered in the past, and it hurt his heart to think that Roy would assume he was just trying to manipulate him. He knew that some older people put themselves in parental roles to have power over another person, and in order to make them think that they had somebody who they could count on, but the thought of doing that – or anybody doing that, really – filled him with a cold rage. After everything he had suffered at the hands of Aethelwulf and Judith, Worm couldn't imagine putting himself in a parental role just to make a child's life worse. It was almost like he was challenging the world, saying "fuck you, I'm going to make sure that kids don't grow up like I did".
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— Reggan