@JustMichaelKK thanks so much for reading it! I'm working on the next chapter atm, so I might be publishing it soon!
with Sid x Grilzly's relationship, I'm going a little less father/son, and a bit more for mentor/mentee thing. Grilzly is also very outside of what a conventional parent figure would be anyhow, and him and Sid have a lot of trust between them, so it sort of plays into Grilzly letting him go so easily. he trusts him to make good choices and stay safe,
I'm also sort of modelling them after me x my dad a bit. I don't think he'd let me go if I said "hey, can I do a country-wide roadtrip!" but there's the same "if I want to ask something, I ask, and we talk honestly about it"
haha, hope that superlong essay explains it a bit!