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[liathgray]

I just finished reading everything about the Green Screen AU. Do you have any other headcannons for this AU? How does Lou Jistu handle telling his kids the truth about where they come from?

He doesn't tell them for... a long time.

Because honestly he was very, very scared. The mystic city was the crux of a lot of his traumatic experiences. He'd be essentially held captive for 10+ years in the mystic city, escaped, and then subsequently shoved into parenthood. Parenthood, might I add, for children he had no idea how to care for and had to wrestle with the thought that Draxum or Big Mama might come looking for them. The idea of his kids experiencing, or even knowing about what he went through there makes him wanna do a tuck and roll out the nearest window and scream for an hour. Absolutely fucking not <3 they shall live in epic blissful ignorance

He doesn't tell them a thing about where they're from because, even if he's new to parenting, he knows this about kids: they're curious. If they know about the city they'll look for it. So, almost comically, he tells them that they're super special beings--ones from mythology and folklore that people think are fake, but are clearly real! They didn't come from anywhere, they just are. He doesn't use the word Yōkai often, but as far as they know, thats what they are.