#and I can't see ice placing rooster on a suicide mission just for a chance of reconciliation
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tbh hcing ice as the pushover parent to mav's stricter parent is something I'm fairly neutral towards - i think it probably can be written well without making ice ooc but personally i can't see ice being a pushover either.
the thing about ice as a parent is that well he WAS a parent in actual canon (assuming you go with the most mainstream interpretation of the family he was shown as having on screen). and there are certain things that I think ice would bring to parenting in general (to any kid) as a result of his own core personality traits and his relationship with the co-parent and I'm sceptical about if being a pushover or prone to overly spoiling his kids would be one of those traits. but i can accept if that's anyone else's interpretation of him as a parent to his kids because we don't know enough about his family and his dynamic with them either way.
but coming to bradley specifically. because I think we can't really talk about what ice would be like as a co-parent to any kid in general and apply it completely to his relationship with mav and bradley specifically. because their history with bradley's father would imo affect how they view their responsibility to him a lot and their own dynamic with each other as co-parents. as a member of that specific family unit I can absolutely see ice being the peacemaker as has been said beautifully here and providing much needed perspective to mav whose trauma and greater guilt in that regard may not always give him the space to step back and take a more detached perspective on things. but I definitely cannot see ice as being a pushover with bradley of all kids. while less severe than mav's, i think ice would bring his own sense of responsibility regarding the accident that killed goose and the need to provide him with the best male role model possible would be a lot more urgent for ice in the circumstances than with a kid without that history.
maybe unpopular opinion and I only have an opinion because i've seen a lot of fanon interpretations of what mav would have been like as a father/primary caregiver to bradley because like it's constantly in my icemav...but I don't think mav would have been an extremely permissive parent. i don't know how to put it but i see a lot of fics where mav is portrayed as a very soft, pushover sort of parent and nothing about how mav interacts with bradley in tgm, especially the training sequences, makes me think it would be true. plus he says he was trying to be the father bradley lost and I think he would take that responsibility very seriously. I'm sure he would be a fun and chill parent. but one a kid would know not to push their luck with
#ice as a parent to rooster is one of my least favourite topics#mostly because tgm doesn't work for me if ice is an integral part of rooster's life pre tgm#because to me it takes rooster from being kind of a pissy asshole to irredeemable asshole if he's cut off his cancer stricken father figure#and I can't see ice placing rooster on a suicide mission just for a chance of reconciliation#i think he'd rather rooster be safe and sound and never talk to them again#if that was his surrogate son#maybe#im now realising I don't actually have any strong opinions about ice's parenting style#except one thing#i think that in spite of being a very present and accessible parent and providing emotional stability#ice would have this inscrutability to him a sort of out of reachness to him to any kid especially to bradley#you know when your dad casually drops some insane lore about his past and youre like ??? but like you still KNOW him#and your dad view just expands to incorporate the new lore#i think with ice#from the perspective of his kid that would be not happen#and there would be glimpses of fragments outside of his role as dad which would not fit together seamlessly#maybe ill expand on this some other time#already rambled a lot here with no purpose sorry to subject you to this person i reblogged from
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