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dad!mike headcanons —
being as tall as he is means that his kids always, always, alwayssss wanted him to carry them and sit them on his shoulders. made them feel real tall. he very quickly mastered the art of doing things one-handed, too.
mike used to wear his hair down a majority of the time and thought it was cute when his kid played with his hair until they gripped onto a clump of it once and YANKED that shit out with no goddamn warning using all of their herculean little kid strength. he started wearing it in a ponytail or bun after that. 😭
will of course kept that clump of hair and put it in one of their photo albums next to the clump from their kid's first haircut. massaged mike's scalp and gave him plenty of kisses to make up for it later, too.
mike has a day job and a part time job as a tax collector, which is to say you already know he's reaching that hand back while driving to collect his rightful dad tax aka a handful of whatever treat his munchkins are eating in the backseat. when they get older, they wise up and start whining about how it's unfair, given that his hands are so big, so maybe they should be using will's hand instead. will sides with his husband, unfortunately for them.
he loves when he and his kid are twinning it up, wearing matching fits. he also passes on some t-shirts he doesn't like so much on to them so they can wear them as pjs. just makes him happy. :)
speaking of clothes, mike isn't so particular about his own style, but he's definitely more hands-on with his kids. they may fuck his hair all the way up the way that they play with it, but he'll be damned if he lets them walk out the door looking like little hooligans. they can come home from school looking crazy, but they're at least going to start the day with their hair combed and done in whatever style they prefer.
when mike reads to them at night, he makes sure to do all sorts of different voices for the characters and really gives it his all, putting on a five-star show.