i need your opinions on what hybrid kindy would be and the sidgeno of it all and maybe summer training in vancouver 👀 i love your brain btw
ooooh okay yes anon thank you for allowing me to indulge in talking about my biological son ben kindel of whom i love very much
i just posted something recently about how kindy would be a common weasel. they're these tiny little rodents who are long and skinny with itty bitty faces and are also predators. they're sneaky, fast, and shockingly fierce for their size, all of which i think describes kindy very well:)
the sidgeno of it all is a little more complicated. i think in the hybrid universe he isn't their biological son. geno's a male bear and sid's a male lynx; unfortunately they don't have the proper, um, equipment to have a child together.
but no matter, because kindy- the tiny ferocious predator he is- gets scooped up by geno's massive bear paws on the first day of training camp and promptly placed into sidney's care. something in the bear's instincts grabbed onto kindy the second he saw him and sid always had a soft spot for young hybrids. so if one was in, they both were.
kindy's so stunned by the turn of events that he doesn't protest much. he doesn't even really know why he got sort of pseudo-adopted but he's definitely not questioning it.
it becomes instinctive to defer to sidney or geno, not just as a rookie to his leadership or as predator to much larger predators, but as a child to his parents too. he spends most of his time off the rink at either of their houses- eating, watching game tape or other hockey games, asking about their time in the NHL. he barely even goes to his own apartment anymore. he drives to and from games with geno and does his own, new little routine with sid during warmups.
he knows he looks like a little kid trailing after his parents because that's what he feels like. and not in a bad way; it's just the truth.
vancouver training with mack and his roster of young hockey players was interesting. kindy was hesitant to go at first because he really only knew mack, but sid and geno encouraged him. they both had summer plans already that kindy wasn't joining them for and they wanted him to have some friends in the league his own age. kindy had pouted at that slightly, but hadn't disagreed. no one on the pens was hardly even close to his age; they were jokingly called the retirement home of the league for a reason.
but once kindy got over his initial nerves and got out there, he had a lot of fun. training with mack was brutal, as always. the ragdoll didn't know how to take a break ever it seemed like. perpetually and constantly locked in. but connor and fraser were super nice, though disgustingly in love with each other. dickie and misa were fun too and commisserated with kindy about the awful training schedule mack had put together.
he does eventually join sid in halifax for training. partially because he wants to train with the great sidney crosby again and partially because he misses his kind-of dad. sid had always been a little bit less physically affectionate but apparently distance had done him in because he wrapped kindy up into a hug as soon as he saw him again. it was long and warm and comforting and kindy could feel the lynx rubbing his chin to the top of kindy's head where it rested under his jaw, scenting him deeply. he could feel the rumble of a purr in sid's chest and his own little affectionate growl respond.
his reunion with geno is somehow an even bigger deal. geno had always been the louder of the two, both in volume and affection, so kindy can't say he surprised when the big russian bear scoops him up again at training camp and basically carries him around the locker room, sid looking on from his stall with blatant affection in his eyes. he eventually softly tells geno to "put their kid down before he throws his back out before he even steps on the ice" with his tail swishing gently behind him. geno listens obediently and ruffles kindy's hair, affectionately petting at his small ears, before pressing a kiss to the top of his head and then sid's.
they'd become a little family, somehow, over the course of the season and summer. and kindy couldn't be happier about it.
