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hmmm.... maybe the FFXIV guys + stephanivien reacting to being told that they're going to be dads?? im weak for that djhsvkdjhvfd

DADS :D

Ff14 dads (ff14 boys + Stephanivien)

Thancred

Entirely shocked, and then so incredibly happy. He never really considered having any family at all, not until Ryne, but she is much more a little sister figure. A child... a child.

If you didn’t love him before, you definitely love him when he finally accepts the child from your arms, cooing over them with stars in his eyes. He handles them so gently, so delicately, and the look on his face-- he’s in love, he’s so so in love with this child it makes your heart ache.

If you thought he mellowed out with Ryne, you are entirely unprepared for how he shapes himself up as a dad. No more drinking! No more sleeping around unless you say its okay! He’s a dad now! Which somehow doesn’t stop your kid’s first word from being a curse!

Urianger

He saw this coming. Yeah. Totally. Definitely. It was written in the stars. He definitely isn’t caught on his back foot when you come to him with the news. Yeah, no. Totally.

Let him walk off his panic attack, and he’ll come back ready to tackle this together with you. He’s gonna be a good dad. He’s gonna be a great dad, doting and attentive and loving. A little overbearing, sometimes, but he is quick to make apologies and amends, and it’s quickly forgiven.

The kid is going to be a little mirror image of Urianger, though, down to the robes (thank you Tataru) and the sharp wit (Alisae and Alphinaud are going to lose babysitting privileges if this keeps up), though thankfully without the archaic language. They definitely have your sunny, world-changing, heart-breaking smile, though, and Urianger might put up a good front for a little bit, but they smile up at him like that and he can’t deny them anything.

G'raha

The first thing he does is check for the Eyes. Doesn’t matter if they’re adopted or not, he just. He has to make sure. 

He is overjoyed, of course he is. He’s a Tia, and he spent so long as the Exarch, he never ever imagined he was going to have children. This is going to be the single most educated, most spoiled child in all the realms. 

Unfortunately he doesn’t have the first idea of how to go about that. Learning how to raise a child was never really a concern for a Tia, especially not one set so apart from his clan, and after two hundred years of isolation-- he’s out of practice, okay? It’s a lot of trial and error for a while there. Yes your kid is too small to learn how to draw a bow right now but what do you mean they’re too young to learn how to throw a fireball?!

Estinien

Overjoyed and terrified in equal measure. Parenthood was never something he’d expected to reach, never something he planned for, so this catches him entirely unprepared. So too does the vicious joy-- he has a child, with you, and you with him, and that makes something primal in his chest want to chuff and purr. 

The poor man is so nervous though. The kid is so tiny. What if he drops them? What if he hurts them on accident? What if-- 

All of that goes out the window when you finally shove the child in his arms though. Support the head like this, you show him, and, hold them a little firmer, and, oh, there he goes. Absolutely starstruck as he silently stares down at the child, he is so wonderfully, terribly in love. 

(”That is too little,” Vrtra says when you two show him the child. “Put it back in the egg, it needs more time.”)

Aymeric

‘Twas always the expectation, but he’s still taken off-guard when it finally happens. Make sure he’s sitting down first because his legs definitely go out from under him. A child. A child! 

It’s finally as good an excuse as ever to begin moving his power as Lord Commander or Lord Speaker unto his successor. He will accept no protests: he has sworn to serve Ishgard, and he still will, but he refuses to be absent in his own child’s life. Distressingly, this seems to just make him even more popular: the noble Lord Commander/Speaker, as committed to his fatherhood as he is to his nation! He has to stop reading the newspapers, this is literally going to drive him insane.

He tries to be the strict dad, but your child has your eyes and has figured out your big, pleading look, and he is weak. “Go ask your other parent” is a common refrain from his mouth when he’s trying to stall to come up with a better reason-- only for you to come back, child in your arms, identical puppy-dog looks, and he crumbles like a house of cards. Yes, my dear, you can learn to ride a chocobo. A small one.

Haurchefant

Talk about fuckin smug. A kid. A kid! With you! He’s is every bit the cat with the canary when you tell him, and for days after you tell him, and every time he gets even the vaguest chance to bring it up. He has a kid! With the Warrior of Light!

Transitions seamlessly from the commander of Camp Dragonhead to his role as a father. Family has always been more important to him than Ishgard. If that means he has to step down from his post, return to his home in Foundation, of course he is willing to do so. For your child, he is more than willing to do anything.

You don’t think you’ve ever heard House Fortemps so lively as it is when Haurchefant raises his child there, though. He gets everyone involved. It takes a village, after all! It certainly took the whole House to raise him! And it helps to alleviate his own fears-- his child will be loved, by both parents and by the House. They will never want for loving and helping hands. The thought helps him sleep a little easier at night.

Sidurgu

Another one? Really? Are you serious? The last thing he needs is yet another brat to add to the collection. Trying to keep track of Rielle and Myste is already like herding cats

Even as he says this he is bullying the child from your arms, bouncing them soothingly, gauntlets already abandoned on the table so he can run a hand carefully through their soft hair. Hey, you already said this kid is his, no takebacks. 

This finally pushes him to settle down, though. It was just Rielle for a while, and Myste is... Myste, coming and going whenever your power and his whims take him. But with a third kid, he can’t well take care of all of them while bouncing from place to place. His is one of the first houses in Francel’s project. It’s Way of the Househusband: Final Fantasy 14. Have you ever had an angry xaela in a frilly apron kick your ass while bouncing a child on his hip? ‘cause you’re about to.

BONUS

Stephanivien

He can’t quite believe it at first. When-- where-- how??? Don’t get me wrong, he is so, so happy, but he just. wasn’t expecting this. Hasn’t planned for it at all. You can definitely see it on his face, that long moment when he goes “oh shit, I’m a dad now”, before he pulls himself together.

Full-on working dad. He’s got a harness and everything. Everyone at the Skysteel is familiar with the sight of him, standing on the upper floor looking over their work, though now he can’t cross his arms over his chest because there’s a baby strapped there that’s babbling happily and grabbing up at Steph’s face. It certainly improves Steph’s (already cheerful) mood at work, if not the mood in the Skysteel as a whole.

He’s always very, very careful with your child, don’t worry. earmuffs and masks and even sunglasses if need be at work. If he needs to get at the forge itself, or if the day suggests it will be particularly stressful or even dangerous, he’ll leave the child with Francel for the day instead. He can’t bear even the thought of putting your child in danger. That doesn’t stop your child from growing up to be a swashbuckling, gun-wielding troublemaker, though. He swears they get that from you.