imagine your shipcest f/o who’s openly affectionate, coddling you in front of people. it’s usually passed off as overly affectionate but you and only you know what those touches really mean.
Take your child to work day was usually a quiet affair. A chance to show your child what you do for a living, as the two of you work away at an office cubicle, or work station. If you were lucky, you’d be shown a trade. Mechanics, construction something other than the two of you at a computer and dealing with nosy coworkers.
But for Harry Osborn, ‘take your child to work day’ was anything but dull. His father had that look in his eyes again. That upward tug at the corner of his lips, and the bright mania that almost seemed to give his eyes a strange glow.
The Green Goblin wanted to show his boy the ropes.
For most , take your child to work day didn’t involve taking to the air , straddled against his father’s armored body, held in his arms as he locked his feet in the glider alongside his.
It didn’t involve the wind flying past his face, against a pair of spare goggles as they hurtled through the air, the only thing that could diminish the scent of sandalwood and rose from his father’s cologne as the Goblin leaned over him and against him to steer the glider over skyscrapers and the ants far below.
It didn’t involve the fire and flame of a robbed bank licking their heels as they took off laughing into the sky. And it certainly didn’t involve the post-escape relief, or the way Norman whipped off the Goblin’s cackling visage to press his lips to Harry’s in the passion of their shared adrenaline high.
Take your child to work day was another day in the life for anyone else…but not for the heir to the Green Goblin’s glider. Not for them, as they laughed together under the gleaming sun, the police sirens so far below they didn’t stand a chance in hell of catching them.
♧ – how do the characters involved in the pairing respond when asked about their romantic life (such as if they have a partner)? does the answer change depending on the asker?
In their public lives Harry and Norman are both at least somewhat obsessed with projecting the white bread image of a happy, successful nuclear family. Norman calls himself a ‘widower’ and says he’s ‘only married to his work these days’.
Harry, meanwhile, (in the 70s) describes himself as as ‘a bit of a swinger’ when he’s in college, and then ‘happily married’ (a lie) once he’s with Liz. However, when the timeline loops and Harry is a teen in the 2000s, he just says “its complicated” about his love life 😆
In their criminal lives it’s a different story, of course. I think Norman-Goblin probably just laughs, or makes an offcolor remark if you ask him. Harry-Goblin meanwhile describes actively himself as ‘a nasty degenerate pervert with daddy issues.’ 😉
