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bunnieswithknives · 3 months ago

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The idea of Dale not feeding himself for possibly days on end is terrifying when you consider that might result in him not feeding the actual newborn baby he's in charge of for similar amounts of time.

Dale is absolutely not in charge of feeding Dev. Devs primary caretakers have been au-pairs.

Dales eating disorder is just about the only trauma he's made sure Not to pass on. Even if he denies it he is aware that his eating habits are fucked, he just cant bring himself to do anything about it. If there's one thing Dale always makes sure of its that Dev at least has access to food.

#Dales problem is that he finds the act of eating straight up revolting. He hates it. everything he tastes reminds him of the basement #He lives off of like the worlds blandest granola bars. If he didnt have the Au-pairs force feeding him snacks he would be dead I think #The thing about Dale to me is that he genuinely wants to make sure Dev has a better childhood than he did #Unfortunately 'not trapped in a lemon basement for 7 years' is an extremely low bar #The other problem is that Dale is straight up not good at empathy.#He knows that hes a bad father.that he cant love his son properly. So his solution to that is being as uninvolved with Devs life as possibl #He genuinely thinks its best for dev to be raised by robots #He was separated from his own dad for so long. And then his dad was so distant that-#-I genuinely dont think he realizes how important a parent love is supposed to be for a kid

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