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on the other side of this like. drew is similar to gary and goh in that he is an asshole introvert who doesn’t necessarily like bringing new people into his Circle but he does have may to balance him out, and i think at the end of the day all three of them have independently come to the same conclusion of like “well my daughter loves this girl and i trust my daughter completely to choose what is good for her so if she says she loves her and wants me to Try, then i will be on my best behaviour.” the important difference with that is that drew’s best behaviour is a little more. restrained i think. so the first few times lemon meets him she thinks he’s just this really stoic quiet kind of guy. which isn’t matching lime’s descriptions of him at all. i think eventually lemon’s enthusiasm for everything would start to wear him down (in an annoyed way, if we’re being honest). it’d be a thing she is famously bad at that would get him to finally just be like. oh for fucks sake. let me just help you. and she’d be like omg he talks? (i still think the Thing could be cooking. but this is like. lemon is so bad at cooking this is like an entire hayden family intervention. but it could lead to her being exposed to other things that drew enjoys that are semi-related. like gardening (she would also suck at this. no patience)) they could bond through this and lemon would learn that drew actually talks a lot when the topic is something he actually like. has an interest in. i do think in a lot of ways like. drew would remind her of her dads lol. may is a different beast, but at the end of the day i think they get along because may gets along with everyone and lemon mostly is the same way. lemon’s real issue lies in the siblings. she has no idea how to navigate that. felicity’s kind of like. just a weird youngest sibling, right. and kipper is terrified of lemon. he is convinced there’s something wrong with her (this is ironic, since he famously has the most things wrong with him in this family). lemon does realize that lime’s siblings are really important to her though so she would like, try really hard to earn their love. and lime would find this endearing but ultimately would have to be like. just be yourself for gods sake. if they dont like you thats on them, but they’ll come around eventually the longer you stick around. and lemon’s like. Oh Okay

the one in-law ofc that lemon is always gonna be beefing with is hayate, but that’s okay because hayate is not in most of the in-laws good books for a longggg time. drew spends minimum 10 years after hayate’s Character Development glaring at him every time he comes around. lime is not much better. i think felicity has enough separation from the situation to not really give a shit but they probably still share a little bit in the sentiment of like, well i care about my brother more than i care about you and you did something pretty awful to him. so youre on thin ice buddy. may is hayate’s only true ally in this family but this is also intimidating because at the end of the day kipper is a total mama’s boy and so if hayate Did fuck up again, may would be the first person to know about it and it is hard for him to say what her tolerance for him fucking up is, all things considered.

on the other side of this, i don’t think hayate’s parents have any issues with kip at all. dawn and zoey are naturally pretty overprotective but i think even they are well-aware that if anyone in this relationship is The Problem it’s hayate. but the knowledge that like, these people all Saw What Happened On TV would be very hard for kipper because like. HE doesn’t blame hayate. and also how humiliating just. in general. this is a thing he is going to have to contend with for the rest of his life. imagine your worst teenage mental breakdown being broadcast on live television. God. that would be beyond mortifying forever. so he would take a longggg time to be comfortable around them. chloe is the Knower in this situation since she was the one who got hayate on his feet and prompted him to like. put his money where his mouth is so to speak (and i strongly believe that chloe will eventually be the mediator re: lemon and hayate because like. lemon loves her aunt chloe. and to be fair. a non-zero amount of the beef DOES boil down to this childhood wound of her favourite aunt marrying into a family and suddenly having a new favourite child (chloe does not fucking play favourites between hayate and lemon. lemon will not accept that as true until she is like. solidly in her twenties. she is such an only child - and the thing is, hayate is ALSO such an only child. so. lol), and the rest of the beef is also childhood beef of like. ugh this guy was so obsessed with my girlfriend and he was weird and annoying. so like. a few conversations from the right people would straighten her out eventually lmao), so i do think chloe would be really nice and lovely to kip because she Gets It better than i think dawn and zoey would. but obviously once the awkwardness starts to fade, i think kip would get along very well with zoey. she’s kind of the anti-drew in some respects with like, her approach to contests and stuff lol (the drew zoey beef is also a Thing, ftr. drew kind of has beef with both sets of in-laws because. you know. the drew and gary fist fight at the spriteshipping wedding. drew has no problems with goh but this is frankly only because gary and goh are a set which means that there is always gonna be a guy who is worse than goh to deal with. drew might find dawn marginally annoying at times but i think like, wife’s bestie - yeah, he gets along with her fine. so zoey gets to be hayate’s mom to him. and by god does he have OPINIONS about hayate’s mom.) and i think dawn would be like SO committed to including him in everything, especially since he is like…so awkward, and shy, and anxious. dawn would try to push him out of his comfort zone in a way that i think would probably be good for him. like she’s the person (well, alongside hayate anyway) who’s going to teach kipper the evergreen life lesson of learning how to embrace getting lost and have fun with what is now a new adventure instead of being stressed about having gotten lost in the first place.

Relationship(s): Hayate Berlitz-Williams/Kipper Hayden Rating: T Chapters: 2/8 Word Count: 8.5k

Five years ago, they promised to meet on the Grand Festival stage together, in the finals.

I only realised yesterday that a contestshipping day existed. (And contestshipping week?? Since when??) Yesterday also happened to be contestshipping day, so this left me very little time to lock in and draw something for the occasion. I intended to draw Drew, but only managed to draw May... Which kinda defeats the whole purpose of the "shipping" part. Oh well.

Could have fit this with family, but future works better for fanchild talk.

So I think that they would have a child. May felt that having a child was important, and while Drew was less interested in being a father, he has the confidence in his ability to be a parent.

So I headcanon May as being something of a geek. Normally this is out of it being fun to give blorbo my hobbies, but I actually have a mix of teraleak stuff and, more importantly, an episode that explicitly shows May enjoying a sci-fi romance.

Luckily, Drew is also something of a geek. During the Contestshipping day watch party earlier, there was a lot of conversation about Drew acting like an anime character and how he probably is into anime himself.

Important context: I had a look at Canal Vorfeed's design and thought "she kinda looks like a Contestshipping child" and so I got a really funny idea.

They learn they will be having a daughter. May's first thought was "wow our daughter could look like Canal Vorfeed from Lost Universe" and she naturally suggests that's what they name the daughter.

Drew isn't against the idea of naming a character after a fictional character. However, Canal is a silly name, and he makes it clear.

They do come to a compromise. They agree to name the daughter Lina.

While I more often see the other way around, I tend to view Drew's family relationships as being much closer than May's.

So in Shining Justice, Drew's father is Scott. I have mentioned this before, and during the watch party earlier today I even made a joke about how my headcanon actually made sense.

The reality is that I made it up to actually have Scott be a dismissive father to Drew, but since Scott is familiar enough with contests to analyze them, this didn't really hold up.

Drew's mom's hair is green. That's all I have.

I also like to think that Wally is Drew's cousin or something if he exists in Shining Justice*. As you may know, Drew is sort of based on Wally. See, the earliest forms of what I'd call Shining Justice from around 2018 or so was effectively more a fusion between the anime and the games, and when I got the ancient ass fanfics involved to make the first of modern Shining Justice, that part didn't exactly go away. So therefore Wally exists, and I felt it made sense to make the two related. I was initially thinking brother, but I realized that didn't add up earlier this week while writing about LaRousse.

As for May's family? It's actually more dysfunctional.

I do think there was a focus on Pokémon versus other aspects of life in May's family. While it's a common belief to attribute May's dislike of Pokémon early on to the Tentacool when she had the incident with them, I personally think it's more that May learned a grim lesson either following the incident over a longer period of time: that her parents care more about Pokémon than about her. Thus she associated Pokémon with the lack of parental love she felt.

I also headcanon there is parental favoritism at play. Max is more interested in Pokémon than May is. Therefore her Pokémaniac parents probably gave Max more affection which further reinforced May not caring for Pokémon.

As for Max? Well we all know Max. However I actually have a similar age gap between me and my younger brother and thought Max was a year younger than he was in canon because when I was 10 my brother was 6. Or rather he was 7 for like two weeks and then I turned 11.

Hmm, maybe should write something about this.

Both meeting each other's parents would go rather smoothly.

With May's family, in canon Caroline definitely approves of Drew, and even teases them about romance. I see no good reason why Senri** wouldn't approve of Drew either. Senri is definitely less observant about romance than his wife, however.

In Shining Justice, she likely would meet Scott under very different circumstances. I don't want to get into it without major spoilers for ideas I might not follow through on. However, I do think Scott would think May is a pretty cool girl.

*He probably does tbh but I'm not 100% certain on it and his narrative role really overlaps heavily with May in Shining Justice.

happy contestshipping day everyone! i couldnt finish the prompts for day 5 and 6 due to personal issues, but i had this prepared, so this is my final entry for cs week this took me quite a while to make. enjoy regular video + thumbnail below

Drew 💖: At the grocery store. Is there anything you want me to pick up?

May was really craving a Durin Smoothie. Then she thought about how that was a weird craving, even for her. Then she thought: could it be a pregnancy craving?

She quickly did the mental math. Her last period was just over a month ago, so the timing worked out. Were pregnancy cravings even a symptom you could get at this stage? Despite all the research and preparation they had been doing, May had no clue.

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For the Contestshipping ask game! Thank you so much for sending an ask in, and apologies for the delay in answering!

🎇 What are some of your favorite CS art/fanfic/headcanons by somebody else that you'd like to share?

I'll take this time to shoutout the original curators of Contestshipping Week (@contestshipping-week): @toasty-coconut , @kasuria , and @pkmncoordinators ! I had heard of them all before, but I only got to actually appreciate their content when I began curating @contestshipping-catalog and seeing all their old posts. All 3 of them put out some amazing work (fanfic, headcanons, AND fanart), and they also did a great job organizing community events back then. They were major inspirations for me.

There are so many good CS artists on Pixiv, but if I browse for too long then I'll remember I have unopened DMs from artists responding to my requests for permission and I simply have too many tasks to open more messages rn , but I'll highlight 咖灰酱! They have two CS pieces (here) and (here), and they're both so stunning and atmospheric.

@blorbologist wrote an amazing fic about May and Drew competing in the bug catching contest, highly recommend Catch you later!

💖 What's a fluffy headcanon / AU you have?

I think that these two can be sooo obnoxious about the fact they're childhood sweethearts who met their soulmate at age 10 sometimes. Like, not on purpose.

(Well, sometimes Drew does it on purpose, but only to fuck with Harley and make him feel bad about his own romantic life. Normally Drew isn't the type who thinks people should feel bad if they have struggles with romance, obviously, but nothing is normal about Harley.)

a lil late to the party so I incorporated most of the Contestshipping Week themes into one heh

and i swear the wordcount wasn't intentional lmfaoo