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Misa is like, worlds biggest saddest brownest eyes like, wouldn’t you want us to have a baby, I think we’d have such a cute baby and it could play with Mack and Will’s baby. They’d be friends. Dicky is like okay but we’re not dating and also we’re both guys?? So it seems like UNLIKELY we’d be having this baby.

and his “summers have always revolved around being up in [his] cottage”. He needs to get away from hockey and the city for a while during the summer.

so i imagine, now that they’re actual adults (like 19 and 20 but close enough), sam can book a cottage just for them to sneak off to before they submit themselves for Vancouver boot camp -i mean training with Mack!

(I lied youre actually not waiting days i have to cut myself off it so long already and ive had zero time to think about it and organize my thoughts this probably isnt even everthing i wanted to say)

Okay this is such a fun character study because there are so may ways to approach this, the obvious dynamics are there, willmack/samisa, i also feel like theres a pretty clear seperation with misagraff and misacherny, and i think we could put graffcherny in a smiliar dymanic grouping, im gonna apporch this from a pretty romanic standpoint and not really a smutty/sexual standpoint

I think we should start with some of the obvious, will bakes for everyone, a bat of the eyes and baby i found this recipie i think we should try and wills already pulling up grocery delivery for the imgredient before any more can be said, i think kitchen cooking/baking activites are a collin/will thing they get on the same wavelenght when it comes to pulling things outta cabnents cutting up fruits and veg, i think this is happening in a kitchen with an island where they play music and dickie and cherny sit and bully them about it, oh are sure those are cut small enough dont forget the chocolate chips, just unhelpful comments from the peanut gallery.

I think theres a standing thursday night, as long as theres no hockey, book club of sorts where will collin and cherny all pile on the couch with eachother and read their own books, while the rest of the guys play whater the video game of the week is on the tv around them, screaming, i think mees will sometimes opt to cuddle into them instead and listen to whatever whoever is reading being read outloud

I am endered by the idea of them telling cherny to speak russian around them and them trying to learn and having things labeled with post-it the translations and being able to pick up on bits and pieces of it maybe not enough but one day he asks for something like butter or milk or even tooth paste and there able to get it. And man his eyes just light up and Will who brought it to him has about 3 seconds to brace before hes wrapped in hug and being kissed because hey you got it right and whats a better reward then my love.

I think macks love language or top 3 is physical touch i mean the way he celly's goals by flinging himself into the closest teamates, mack is always toiching someone weither its having his leg against collins sitting at the island eating breakfast, currled into will on his lap on the couch, and holding misas hand in the car, back to sams chest while they are in the bathroom getting ready for bed/the day together, laying in bed with with cherny with an arm drapped over him expect for mack to be having contact with somebody, mouth too kissing make out biting/hickeys on the shoulder, soft gentle kisses across exposed skin my dude keeping some form of contact with everone all the time

Speaking of kissed, theres a lot, i mean youve got 6 guy here most teens or freshing outta teens theres a lot of hormone, lotta making out, will and collin finish a recipie and are wating for the over to beep, yup collins got will pinned against the counter, sam and mack have had there share in the bathroom on the sink during an extra touch get ready for bed evening, cherny loves to just pull anyone into a heated kiss at anymoment for any reason, misa will walk in the door after a hard pratice or game and grab whosever closest and drag them to the couch or the bed be like i just need to clear my mind after that and makeout with them

Graf the ever calm voice of reason is the mediator more often then not, arguing about dinner or if someone is taking to long in the shower or who put the empty contaier back in the fridge go to him

Dickie in my mind keeps snack and cofmort food on had hes not against doing a 2 am gas station run because they got back late from a road trip and will slept like crap om the plane a hersheys bar and bag of pretzel could really help him, or stocking up on macks favorite ice cream that isnt really in the diet plan but after a hard day training with his dad wants more than anything, just little stuff like that that no mentions but if your observant enough you just pick up

Theres a shared phone calendar that they use to keep track of everything games/pratices/date night so they know long its been since theres been some 1 on 1 or 1 on 1 on 1 time with eachother, that misa started once he realized that him and will dont really spend one on one time with each other as much as they like, and they agreeded if they were gonna do this they were gonna be all in so will needs to spend time with someone whos not mack, even if its once every two months and they do is go to the batting cages or get dinner, "we dont have to go on date we can just hang out"

Shoutout our woke vets who dont really understand it but do at the same time and are always willing to lend an ear (when will wants to complain to toff that sam attempted another tiktok recipie failed, burnt the food didnt do the dished and left all the ingredients out) or give advice (cherny going to mukh or asky because asking for romantic advice on how to fit in better with a bunch of loud outgoing extroverts is both easier and less embarassing when he can do it in russian when hes asking and getting the point across exactly how he means instead of trying to ask toff or wenny or keifer in english and accidently saying to much or phrasing things wrong)

I know i said i wasnt gonna get super smutty, but theres some hella kinky bitches in this poly so there is a designated sex toy location and it is over flowing, its something misa always digs into wither it be something as simple as cuffs or a blindfold or something more intense like a plug or a cockring, Mack meanwhile only goes in there to get a new bottle of lube if theyve run, thats anther thing i have opinions on these boys are over run with lube its on bedrooms its in bathrooms in travel bags and cars and the living room, if they ever briefly walk past it in a grocery store needed or not sam will amd collin are all buying it they are a more is more out look nobodys ending up on IR woth a "lower body" injury because they were careless during sex, and of you do thats their own fault because the responsable (or the horny) have tried their best.

Mack and Sam do intense mornings at the gym together meanwhile Mack and Misa do slow run/jog mornings together that involve shared much playlist and stoping at the diner near by the trail to grab everybody breaks. Mack and colin dont work out together but instead go om late night drives together when colin can tell mack needs to clear his head in ways putting on skates and got until his on the brink of passing out from exaustion can help, and Mack always takes Cherny to this little russian bakery all the way across town theyre probably not in san jose any more that asky reccomend him when he was looking for deserts for tabeas birthday back when he was looking to pick some up for her birthday when he was still billetijg with the thoretons when he can tell chernys feeling homesic qk as well as researching tiktok/asking the guys for any russian food in the cities they are going to on roadies incase he needs it because they had one bad flight chernys rookies season and thats where asky and mukh took him to recover from that flight "it was gonna happen soomer or later but some good food will settle your stomach" i dont feel the need to expand on the willmack dynamic here nothing i rpf will be more insane then the dynamic they already have

At this pont i dont believe theyre all living together, theres leases they gotta wait out and jumping to all of them living together seems like a harsh adjustment so they kinda just hang out where ever and with this the laundry situation is nonexistant its all mixed together theres no seperation of whos whos, Misa does get excited when he got to grab a sharks hoodie and it is infact not his but wills or cherny or sams and hes swimming in it, same when he can find a sagnaw branded sweatpants and has to roll up the ankles because they actually arent his, (idk how taller cherny is but we all agree that misa wants to be smaller then everyone so im making him)

there’s the ones misa finds really funny, like sam’s pregame dance with reavo which one could argue is not really a bit but misa just laughing at sam. whatever. it’s all the stuff that makes misa bowl over laughing, cracks his face in half and lets sam see his pointy fangs as he cackles, gets some tears in the corner of his eyes if sam does a real good job. it’s sam trying to fling himself over the hood of his car to open the door for misa, it’s sam getting fake (debatable) jealous over stella cuddling with misa, it’s sam pretending to fight off a guy just out of frame of the facetime camera, or even better yet just behind misa’s door frame.

the second tier are all the ones misa finds mildly entertaining, snort out a single laugh funny. sam shaking his head gravely and saying they found me when they hear sirens. sam yawning and saying sorry, i was up late last night michael-ing my misa. sam self aggrandizing. sam kissing his muscles when he lifts something light, sam singing badly, sam making bunny ears behind toff’s head. a lot of things fall into this category.

lastly are all the bits misa really really fucking hates and sam does anyway because he’s a nuisance, and finds himself amusing. sam pretending to run into traffic, sam threatening to ask for the secret menu at the drive thru, sam telling people that misa has a really great impression of xyz character but he’s just shy (there’s no impression!!!), sam’s ongoing obsession with misa being cold.

sam doesn’t get it, because there are way more interesting things about mike than how agreeable is. but he also does get it, thinks about how it could be... fun in other situations. okay, sam just maybe doesn’t really care. he doesn’t mind actually, that mike doesn’t make every single thing into a whole production. after spending his whole life around hockey guys who have their heads up their own asses, it’s kinda nice. except then he starts noticing that mike doesn’t just go with the flow. he goes with it like he has no bones. like if someone else creates enough momentum, he’ll just get carried along by it and disappear.

it gets pretty bad. toff asks him to come to home depot after practice, needs to get some shit for the dog run he’s building, and mike says yeah even though he’s standing there with wet hair and that dead-eyed expression he gets when he wants to be horizontal for the next eight hours. delly asks him to come to the pga superstore and sit around while he gets his clubs regripped and mike says okay even though it’s so nice out and he really wants to hit the links. someone from the social media team asks if he can “just stop by for a bit” and mike is like i guess so even though sam can tell from across the room that he would rather eat glass. every other guy asks him to do a favour that is not technically huge but is definitely annoying and mike says sure before he’s even thought about whether he can.

sam doesn’t get that, because it’s not like mike is a pushover. on the ice, he’ll skate through 195cm tall dmen like it’s nothing. he’ll take a hit and come up skating harder. but off the ice, if someone hands him a next step, he takes it, and that’s insane to sam, who says no to stuff all the time. poorly, usually. rudely, definitely. but still. no is a thing sam can just say and then the world keeps spinning. sometimes people get mad, and then sam gets to be not doing the thing and they get to be mad. pretty simple.

mike doesn’t seem to know that the same is true for himself, or he knows it in theory but not in practice. like if you asked him can you say no to stuff? he’d get all offended and be like obviously. but then someone actually asks him for something and he immediately starts building a little prison out of yeah, maybe, for sure, it’s fine, whatever.

so sam starts getting involved.

not in a soft way. not in a “hey man, you should advocate for yourself” way. it’s more like mike will be sitting there staring at his phone, thumb hovering over some text where someone has asked him to do something he very clearly doesn’t want to do, and sam will look over and go, “say no.”

mike rolls his eyes and says “it’s not a big deal.”

“if it’s not a big deal then say no.”

and the first few times mike is terrible at it. genuinely brutal. he’ll write like so sorry i don’t think i can make it. maybe tomorrow?, and sam is like, “what are you apologizing for?” and mike gets pissed and goes, “i’m being super normal,” but it works, is the thing. eventually. baby steps.

sam makes him delete the sorry. makes him take out the possibility of another time. makes him stop giving a fake reason when the real reason is he doesn’t want to. mike sits there acting like sam is waterboarding him, but he does it. types no, can’t tonight. sends it. then immediately throws his phone facedown on the couch like it’s going to explode.

and sam’s like, “see? easy.”

mike says, “i hated that.”

“yeah, but you’re not going.”

and mike doesn’t have a comeback for that, which is how sam knows he won.

the hookup thing is where sam gets actually weird about it. actually gets mad, and it’s not because he’s jealous. he’s just looking out for his friend. his dumb little friend who could get blown over by the wind. just looking out. promise.

because it’s one thing when toff’s asking mike to do some bs chore he could definitely pay another person to do, or his agent is asking him to come to dinner with some wack ass brand. arby’s or something. it’s another thing when this girl mike’s hooked up with maybe twice before is texting him like come overrrr, and mike’s sitting there looking at his phone with that blank, delayed expression. sam knows that look now. unfortunately. humiliatingly. against his will, he has become fluent all the different faces mike makes.

so he goes, “do you wanna?”

mike shrugs. “she’s nice.”

sam just stares at him, because what the fuck does that have to do with anything. lots of people are nice. the guy at chipotle is nice. that doesn’t mean mike has to go let him put his tongue in his mouth because he asked politely.

“do you want to go?” sam says again, slower this time, because apparently they’re doing a remedial lesson in growing a backbone.

“she’s pretty hot.”

“not what i asked.”

“dickie.”

“not what i asked.”

mike deflates, finally gives in, says “whatever. no, i wanna play cod with you and reavo.”

and sam is like, “then don’t go.”

“it’s rude.”

“oh my god, mis.”

“what?”

“nothing. type no.”

so mike does. badly. he types like four different versions of no and deletes them all and gets increasingly furious, and sam sits there beside him on the couch feeling completely insane because this should not be doing anything for him. it’s literally just mike learning how to send a text. it’s not hot. except it is, because mike is mad and embarrassed and listening so well, and sam is sitting there telling him what to do and mike keeps doing it.

finally mike sends no, not tonight.

then, because he is apparently trying to punish sam for being so kind, he looks up, puppy eyes, forcing a scowl, and goes, “happy?”

and sam has to take a second.

because yes. obviously yes. offensively yes. mike said no to something he didn’t want, and he did it because sam told him to, and now he’s sitting there all flushed and cranky with his thigh pressed into sam’s. and sam is proud of him, maybe. or something adjacent to proud that is worse and lower in his body.

“yeah,” sam says. “happy.”

mike tells him to shut up, but he doesn’t sound mad enough. 'cause, haha, sam likes when there's a little fight in 'em.

ths is probably where the whole thing should end, lesson learned, whatever, except sam makes one huge, fatal mistake, which is thinking this is a skill mike will only use on other people.

because once mike figures out no is a thing he can say, once he realizes the world does not actually split open and swallow him if he disappoints someone, he starts getting a little too good at it. comfortable. dangerously self-satisfied for a guy who needed sam to bully him through a two-word text a week ago.

sam will be like, “arms up,” fingers curled in the hem of mike’s pullover, and mike will look at him and go, “no.”

that stops sam in his tracks because. sorry?

mike is standing there with his chin tipped up a little, eyes all glassy, brat mode, smirking like he has discovered a new button and is about to press again and again and again. still wearing the hoodie, cheeks all ruddy, sweat dampening his hairline, still clearly too warm, still very much needing sam to get it off him, except now he knows he does not have to be easy about it. just for fun!

sam says, “no?”

mike says, bites his bottom lip. (is that a move?) “you told me to say no.”

“not to me.”

“you didn’t say that.”

this is technically sam’s fault. he gets that. he wanted mike to stop going along with things he didn’t wanna do. he wanted him to have a spine. he wanted him to mean it when he said yes, which unfortunately means he also has to deal with mike meaning it when he says no.

except mike is not moving away.

that’s the thing. he says no and then just stands there. waiting. mouth doing this barely-there smug thing. letting sam look at him. letting sam figure out whether no means no, or whether no means make me, or whether mike has become the most annoying person alive because sam personally taught him how.

sam dickinson evil confirmed. go play video games with your boybestfriend!!! what could possibly be more important?

one of my fave headcannons is that sam is actually really bad at most video games. this does not stop his competitive streak or him getting pissy when he loses over and over again to misa, hence the refusing to get his own console. yet sam is so happy to beat misa in pool, or ping pong, or words with friends (which misa proclaims doesn’t count as a video game, and sam’s wins don’t count bc ekky beats both of him and english wasn’t even his first language). the misa puppy eyes are strong though so sam caves frequent enough to be embarrassed in cod, and carried in rocket league, and lose miserably in mariokart (beerio kart not withstanding), and bottom frag in cs2. very endearing to me that misa still wants to play with sam even if he’s a sore loser, and also is actively tanking misa’s rank across every game.