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is it bad that i have no interest in Sylus being my parent? - ChicletPrime - 01-16-2026
I'm starting to feel vaguely hunted.
This has to be a vocal minority thing or something, but man, it just feels like every time I check out a Sylus fic, I'm slapped in the face with the daddy kink like a wet fish that I did not order.
I don't need a sexy parent to handle my apartment expenses for me. I need a guy to calmly reload my gun before handing it back to me during a fire fight.
Maybe its a sign of the current times. Maybe I'm just feeling a little sensitive recently. Maybe the Venn diagram of people who write fiction and people who think Sylus' thing is babysitting is more broadly overlapping than previously known.
RE: is it bad that i have no interest in Sylus being my parent? - Coldsaturn - 01-17-2026
Oof yeah I can see how that would be not nice!
To be honest I think you're not that far off with what might be happening. Ao3 by nature will draw the kinkier fics on its side, so you might be more likely to find explicit daddy kink there than Tumblr or X. Sylus canonically calling MC kitten and playing on the image of the older man with grey/white hair also doesn't help. As much as MC is a strong and independent hunter, you easily see that being pushed to the side in 1st and 2nd person fanfictions because the self-insert characterization is more prominent.
Personally, I have found more fics where the daddydom wasn't as present in nonMC fics (those usually go two ways: either nonMC needs to win the rivalry with MC so she's written as "stronger" or it's the complete opposite because the writer is playing on the insecurity of competing against someone perceived as better).
You might have more luck filtering the "badass MC" tag?