#especially since a lot of bobby's issues would not be handled well by loboto directly after camp or whatnot

[mirchloe]

dadboto / bobby is loboto's kid is darkly comedic to me in the manner of bobby finding himself in a stable place as an adult, and loboto is doing well in life, too, but finding out they're father and son immediately sends them back a decade in terms of character development.

side-eyeing each other. expressions pinched. loboto is noticing bobby's grip on that chair is prrretty tense. this is not at all what they wanted to learn as neither have any strong ties to "family." they don't want to be "family" or "father and son" as both of them have been harmed by familial ties.

i don't use the theory in my fics as i think bobby having an absentee father fits him really well, and it could be loboto for all i know canon-wise, but the person simply doesn't matter. what does matter is the absence, forcing bobby to fend for himself, as no adult was ever in his corner (or if they were, bobby thoroughly rejected them). for loboto, the issues he has with his parents and traumatic childhood are intense. he had only dealt with them relatively recently (say about fifteen years ago, which includes unpacking growing up, his young adult years to include his twenties and thirties, etc, and everything happening through it), and loboto wants to move on from it, continue with his new lease on life. raising a child, or even being in a child's life, was never for him as his grip with relationships was tenuous at best or cemented in the workplace.

bobby, to me, would never want his "father" in his life. loboto has no interest in being a "father" in general. but the baggage is there, and the truth can't be forgotten, so when they're both in a break room at the motherlobe going for the bubbler, they look like they're in incredible agony.