#now i'm imagining lottie settling just long enough to inform him it's not really that he has a real name. it's that his real name is KARL.

[crowtrobotx]

What does karl do when Lottie is being a shit? Like I'm talking 2 year old tantrum over a problem that cannot be solved? This is assuming Kris is not there to be the #adult

Now, see, this is an interesting question. Because on the one hand, I think he himself is also a little shit and prone to tantrums. Like I truly think that in spite of his unhinged "we can use your baby as a weapon" moment he would actually get along with little kids very well, whether he intends to or not. On the other, I can also see him fumbling this situation so damn hard lol. I think his gut reaction in almost every scenario would be to try and fix it, even if it is one of those unsolvable problems you described. He's a fixer! A mechanic! An engineer! He solves things! Not enough live bodies to recruit into your revenge army? Reanimate them! Easy! And when it turns out he can't? Sit on the floor and scream with her! (They both tucker themselves out and fall asleep.) In all seriousness, though, I think the first few times it happens he probably doesn't react well. He's probably in her face unintentionally yelling like "WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO ABOUT IT" which only makes her freak out harder. I'm not so far gone into my Heisendad delusions to think he wouldn't have a learning curve to get over, like any parent. It's just that in his case it's less a learning curve with specific regard to children and more just... general human interaction, lol. He doesn't like seeing her sad/upset at all, and once he thoroughly fucks it up a few times he starts getting a better hang of it. He starts being goofy and trying to make her laugh, or he just lets her wail it out (I can see him being one of those 'she's EXPRESSING HERSELF!' dads who refuses to intervene in truly unhinged behavior) bc frankly he likes to yell and swear when he's upset and he always feels better for it! However, in one of those ridiculous "reasons my toddler is crying" situations where she becomes like, inconsolable because he informs her that he has a real name other than Papa lol I think he'd probably. Panic. As I said, his natural urge is to invent/fix, and as the hysteria over not being Lottie's favorite person for even a moment mounts he'd start doing utterly wild shit. He goes around the village demanding everyone start referring to him only as Papa, not Karl or Heisenberg or even Lord Heisenberg. (Everyone thinks it's a freaky sex thing but in reality he's just desperate for a 2 year old's approval.)