/lit/ - Literature

I wanted to write a touching scene of an outcast child flying his foster father on the end of a rope as a kite, like Kyoshi did to Kelsang in her novel, but I'm worried it's too derivative.

I wonder if there is some sort of alternative that would get the same sort of feel of an adoptive father using himself to play with the kid and making them, for a moment, feel like the coolest kid.