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When Link, Normal, Scary, Taylor and Hermie got married, not only did they each gain four spouses each, but a boat load of in-laws.
While none of the Swallow-Oaks-Garcia-Swift-Marlowe-Li-Wilson-the-Unworthies were quite sure how legal a space marriage officiated by a demon from hell was, it hadn’t come back to bite them (yet anyways).
As Link once put it, there were no rules in this marriage, and it mostly just became a joke among the five teens referring to each other with pet names such as “my husband” or “my darling wife” or “honey” to get under each other’s skin when the situation warranted it.
This also extended to calling each other's respective parents / siblings "mom", "dad" or "sis".
But far and above, everyone's (except Taylor’s) favourite annual tradition, was Mother’s Day.
Normal had once jokingly called Cassandra “mom” and Taylor lost his shit, shrieking “NO” like a banshee.
Of course, this meant more than anything that Link, Normal, Scary and Hermie were legally and morally obligated to refer to Cassandra as mom as much as possible.
Every time there was a sleepover at the Swift household, Cassandra was suddenly barraged by “hi mom!” or “how’s it going mom?”
Taylor despised it and loudly complained every time.
But the pièce de résistance was Mother’s Day.
Every year Taylor made a Mother’s Day card for his mom and somehow every year without fail, Normal, Hermie, Scary and Link would sneak their signatures onto the card.
The first time it happened, Cassandra was really confused by the four extra signatures on her Mother’s Day card. Taylor was outraged, but the same thing happened the following year despite his best efforts.
Cassandra got over her confusion quickly and actually looked forward to her annual Mother’s Day card from her “five kiddos”.
After all, she just figured Taylor had finally succeeded in building one of those “harems” he always talked about.
