#3 HCs the fanbase seems to agree on about David:

[callmegaith]

have this lil shitpost before I get back to the DTRH requests

[babybluebex]

hc: jimercury having a baby

ok so nobody requested this but i need to write this and it’s a hc format Sorry not sorry also this is so long so sorry about that 

ok so today’s topic is: freddie and jim having a kid

so i think the talk would come around pretty soon after they got “married” (i use quotes bc it was never legal but let’s be honest they were married)

and john’s just had ANOTHER kid and rog had a kid and mary had a kid and he’s surrounded by babies and bABY FEVER hits hard and even jim who’s pretty stoic melts when he thinks about raising a kid with freddie

so the couple applies for a surrogate under fake names and meet with several women who would all be wonderful candidates and they each make sure to compliment them and make them feel good and comfortable

and finally they meet The One and she’s young but she’s chill with freddie and jim’s relationship and for legal and medical reasons, Freddie has to disclose his illness and she’s okay with it and even gives him a hug

(which is a big deal bc people didn’t even want to be in the same room as HIV+ people bc they thought they would catch it so freddie tears up and is like “yeah this is her”)

anyway jim is the father and nine months pass like nothing and finally freddie and jim return to garden lodge with an extra passenger

the cats are all curious and investigate the small, wriggling thing, and they all seem pretty unimpressed

except for delilah

no, no, delly loves the baby

she sleeps next to his crib every night and protects him every moment of the day

freddie is never seen without the baby in his arms, always singing to him and bouncing him and kissing his soft little forehead

but neither can come up with a good name

jim and freddie are PROS at coming up with names for cats but that’s a cat, not a human person who could/will be made fun of for whatever name they get bc they decided his last name would be mercury bc who the fuck doesn’t want the last name mercury let’s be real that would be dope

anyway i digress

but they call the baby “baba” for the time being bc that’s what freddie’s dad called him but they both know that he needs a more formal name

so they try out different names around the house

“darling, can you get phoebe to run out to get more nappies for william… ugh, no, not that.”

“fred, dear, benjamin needs to be burped, would you mind?” and freddie pulls a face and jim is like “yeah that’s no good”

and when the band comes over to meet baba, roger suggests that that be his legal name

“you guys already call him that. why not?”

in exchange, rog agrees to let freddie name his next baby (and that’s how rog’s son rufus ended up with the middle name tiger) ((and that’s an actual true story))

and so baba mercury became a star

freddie and jim agreed that they didn’t want baba to grow up in the public eye but freddie also didn’t want to alienate his fanbase from an important part of his life so they meet in the middle and make little home videos of baby baba that he can release when he’s old enough to decide that for himself

when freddie gets very sick later on, he’ll watch those videos for hours and smile at his little boy as he chewed his fingers and smiled at the camera

baba was born with an overbite like freddie, and he had the biggest smile in the world

freddie loves when baba is a squirming little thing but he prefers it when baba starts to talk

he always had a little personality before he could even speak, and the invention of spoken language did not slow down the babe at all

“dada!’ he’d call, and freddie would peek into the playroom to see baba tying a bow around delilah’s neck and the queen herself would be fluffing her fur and totally content “pwetty pwincess, dada!”

when baba is about 3, queen is asked to perform at what could be the biggest concert of their career, and freddie hesitates to agree 

“if this live aid thing goes the way it’s supposed to... things will change, jim. you think there’s a lot of press now?”

“fred, love, i think if you want to, you should. i can bring baba and we can make a day of it.”

so on that july day freddie had baba on his back, the little boy jabbering a mile a minute

baba picked up jim’s accent more than he did freddie’s, but freddie loved listening to a little carbon copy of his husband 

some of freddie’s close friends are either performing live aid or there for support, and baba meets freddie’s friends elton and david

baba likes elton immediately bc he has a flashly little earring in and he likes david a lot because his eyes are different colors and baba had never seen that before and quickly declared “uncwe davey” to be an alien bc of it

and then freddie is told that their gig starts soon so he hugs jim and baba and says “see you out there, lovies”

baba had never known anything other than cheers when his father went to work

it’s just what his dad did, like how his friend carol’s dad was a tailor or sam’s dad worked in television

but he covered his ears with his hands when dada stepped out in front of the crowd

it was way too loud for him

jim pulled baba up onto his shoulders to give him a better view and baba quickly adjusts to the volume of the crowd and the piano

he was little but he had his favorite songs, and he started bouncing like mad when radio gaga started playing 

jim pulled him to the floor to let the little rascal dance better, and baba was grinning from ear to ear

he wanted a hug and nothing would stop this child

baba mercury was freddie’s son through and through bc when he wanted something, he did what he could to get it 

even if that meant running onstage in front of nearly 100,00 people to hug dada’s leg

and freddie looks down at the munchkin attached to him and smiles offstage to jim, and he picks him up “wanna help me sing this next song?” freddie asked baba “it’s your favorite, the hammer song” 

and baba leans into the microphone and babbles for a minute before saying something that he had heard dada sing around the house hundreds of times when he was being silly “ayoooo!”

the crowd yells back to him, and freddie smiles and nuzzles baba’s nose with his and continued the iconic call-and-response that he would perform many times after that that he called “baba’s song”

and life was perfect and everything was good and happy 

and maybe i’ll add more to this later but ugh babies