I had a lot of trouble picturing Lalli with kids of his own, it just didn't... seem right, you know? And then, with a little introspection I discovered that, in my headcanon, Lalli just doesn't have kids. Lalli can't handle kids (at least not in this phase of his life). Stop.
Then, I couldn't help imagining him visiting his nephews... a total derp!
"Tuuriiii!!!! What am I supposed to do with him??!??!"
"Ugh, just hand him to Onni!"
Onni, in the other hand, is a wonderful uncle and adores his nephews ^^ Lalli loves them too, but doesn't know what to do hehe
Oh, and Starfallz, those are some seriously great watercolors
I love your crew-as-parents pictures SO. MUCH. Especially Tuuri (who looks to still have a bit of a post-partum belly) with two adorable flaxen-haired babies. But I'm hard-put to think who's good enough for Our Little Tuuri to settle down with!
One question -- you refer to Tuuri's two children as Lalli's and Onni's "nephews," although the bigger one looks like a girl to me. Am I just being overly dependent on outdated gender stereotypes to assume the toddler in pink is a girl?
Or is "nephews" a translation error? English doesn't have a non-gender-specific term for your sibling's children (parallel to "cousins"), so we have to say "nephews
and nieces."
(Also, to get really picky and pedantic, Lalli and Tuuri's children are "first cousins once removed" to each other, but that's only for genealogy fusses like me. But in everyday usage, it's fine to consider them "uncle/aunt" and "niece/nephew" to each other. I am Auntie Sunflower to my cousins' children.)This particular portrait of Lalli reminds me of a picture Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri posted on Twitter for Father's Day -- and yes, the brown stuff under her father's right hand is exactly what you think it is.
https://twitter.com/petridishes/status/612687506660827137P.S. Will there be a picture of Onni as a father? Because he'd be the biggest helicopter parent there ever was. He will wrap up his children VERY protectively.
[youtube width=500]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW4IZ0Flh3M[/youtube]