"Yeah but it's a good point." Tony ruffles his hair. "Don't spend time trying to be 'normal', Jamie." He says softly in his dad voice. "You don't need to be. Everything from your super strength to your sexuality...you're perfect the way you are, kiddo."
Scowling, he bats Tony's hands away from his hair, brows furrowed in a show of mock frustration. "Keep it between you and mum." There's a pause. "I don't want to be normal. I just don't want my sexuality to be the defined of ht I'm different." He sighs, shrugging and pulling a face. "I just hope you and mum aren't the only people who think that."
He lets his hand be batted away and he chuckles a little. "Look, Jamie...if your mother and I's relationship has shown anything then it's shown that there is someone for everyone out there." It's really the truth and she had to come seventy years into the future. "You'll find someone to share yourself with. We all do."
"I just worry, y'know? That me not wanting what most people want. Or hell, even my strength or my intelligence. I worry that it'll turn people off." He shrugs again, suddenly worried that he sounded absolutely ridiculous, and a frown crossed his face.
He nods. "It will with some people. I won't lie but you'll find someone, Jamie. And they'll like you for your smarts and strength and your smile and all that. You just need to give it time." He smiles a little.
Jamie offers a smile then, because there was a right thing to say, and his dad had just nailed it. He'd always been aware that there were some people that would be turned away by all the things he'd listed. But he needed the reaffirmation that someone would be accepting. "Thanks dad."
It's taken Tony a long time to become a decent father and most the time he doesn't even think he's doing that good a job. He still tries his best and when moments like this happen he can't help but feel good about it all. "Any time, son."
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