#almostcanon

✨almost canon shots✨

Thank you darling <3 I’m gonna choose Joe x Nicky because why not?

Joe x Nicky +  "Take me back to the good old days" and A timer is inbuilt into your wrist, counting down until you meet your soulmate.

Nicky looked down at his wrist, pale blue numbers shown back at him, slowly counting down.

00:00:00:00:02:25

Less than two and a half minutes to go.

It had been over 14 years since his 16th birthday when the clock had blinked to life at 14:02:12:03:07:34 and Nicky had stared down in disbelief at the length of time he would have to wait until he met his soulmate.

It was the longest of anyone he’d ever known- well, known in person at least. Apparently he had an uncle who waited 23 years for his soulmate only to have a heart attack and die mere days after meeting them. Nicky tried not to think about him too much.

Quynh thought it was fascinating. Think of all you’ll get to do and see before you have to settle down! Nicky made sure to remind her that A: she and Andy met three days after her timer had shown up, and B: they had hardly settled down. She still tried to cheer him up, or at least convince him to make the best out of it. It never really worked.

More than once he had told her I just wish I could go back. Quynh, take me back to the good old days when I didn’t have this inescapable destiny! She would just hug him and say, every second you get closer to them Nicky.

Nicky looked down again.

00:00:00:00:01:45

He glanced around the crowded subway platform. Why he had decided to take public transit on the day he was meeting his soulmate, he had no idea.

00:00:00:00:01:38

Nicky searched the crowd, even though he knew he wouldn’t be able to speed up to process. No matter how hard he looked, he would not see this mystery person until the timer zeroed out.

Nicky resisted the urge to look down at his wrist again for a few moments. This was happening, no matter if he was aware of the moment his timer zeroed out or not. He bounced on the balls of his feet and shook his hands out as if they had a cramp.

A train came screeching into the station. Nicky gave in and looked at his wrist.

00:00:00:00:01:02

He watched the minute number zero out, and the last seconds start to slowly tick down. The platform was suddenly very chaotic with people getting on and off the train. Nicky had a brief moment of panic. What if his soulmate was still on the train? What if Nicky didn’t get on and then locked eyes with his soulmate who was still sitting on the car as it pulled away.

He had just made up his mind to get on the train when the doors shut in his face. A moment later the train began to move. Nicky checked again.

00:00:00:00:00:13

Nicky took a deep breath and decided not to look at the train as it left, that way his soulmate couldn’t be on it. He heard the cacophony start to fade and whipped around to watch it anyway, just in case. But the train simply left and no one’s eyes locked with his. He looked down again- for the last time.

00:00:00:00:00:04

00:00:00:00:00:03

00:00:00:00:00:02

00:00:00:00:00:01

Nicky looked up and across the now empty track to the platform opposite his and locked eyes with the most handsome man he’d ever seen. He was holding his hand out in front of him, wrist up, just like Nicky. He had dark eyes and dark curly hair that peaked out from under a backwards cap. Nicky’s breath caught in his chest and his mouth fell open as the man across the tracks - his soulmate- smiled back at him.

Did someone say Diego Hargreeves, Team Zero founder and himbo extraordinar?

NO BUT YOU MUST UNDERSTAND, I LOVE HIM.

Obviously he is SUPER my type to start with (damaged loner who desperately wants to do good and loves so hard and is Sassy but also Angsty and needs, like Charlie Brown, to learn the True Meaning of Christmas) but also jUST

/waves hands in the air and whines

We were admiring his truly gold-plated 24 karat Stupidity in season 2, and trust me it’s glorious, but I was rewatching season 1 and laughing my ass off about how this boy does not have the good sense god gave a brick. (See: leaping through the plate glass of Leonard’s door despite it being unlocked, rushing to attack Hazel in ep 9 while circus music plays and Five sips a margarita and getting knocked out, being like “jail” when his siblings want to know where he was, his Diego-ness in general). GOD HE’S SO DUMB. HE’S SO DUMB IT’S BEAUTIFUL. (The Threatening Olga Foroga scene in season 2 was possibly my favourite because it’s so on brand for him.) Diego Hargreeves: pure of heart, DUMB. OF. ASS. He is the original Himbo. GOD BLESS HIM.

And yet he so DESPERATELY wants to do the right thing all the time, even if he is generally a disaster about doing it. He gets dropped through the time portal in the beginning of season 2 and before he knows a damn thing about what’s going on, he rushes to help a woman who’s being mugged and gets her purse back. Obviously yes, Dear Old Dad messed him up like he did with the rest of the kids, but Diego’s hero complex is just so PART of him. He is genuinely hurt if he can’t help everyone all the time, and he does it constantly, even while grumbling about how he has to do it by himself. (Shut up Diego you are incapable of not giving a shit, especially when it comes to your family, nobody believes you baby.)

He loves everyone RECKLESSLY. He loves his mom. (Catch me crying.) He LOVES his siblings (catch me crying over him and Klaus, him and Ben, him and Vanya, him and the “I know what it’s like to love dangerous people, but the difference is they love me back” line, etc). The beautiful Dumb Boi volunteers to give blood to Allison in 1x09 (after Luther and Klaus have been rejected) and then immediately faints at the sight of the needle. (YOU MUST UNDERSTAND! I LOVE HIM!!!) He loves Patch, he loves Lila, he fights to avenge and help them in different ways. (Catch me crying yet again over him passing up his chance to kill Cha-Cha in 1x10 because Five reminded him that it wouldn’t honor Patch’s memory.) Get you a man who loves you the way Diego Hargreeves loves John F. Kennedy and is like GREAT HE DOESN’T CAUSE THE APOCALYPSE NOW I CAN SAVE HIM!!! I honestly think he even still loves his dad, despite Reginald being demonstrably the Worst Father Ever. All this reckless, wild, sassy, cranky, desperate adoring love that Diego pours out on everyone. It hurts me. It hurts me deep, Shrek.

He busts out of mental hospitals in style. He would like to inform Herb that he is Diego and he has a knife. He and his brothers have absolutely not one, not one single brain cell between the lot of them (they rank collectively in the double negatives; any functional brain cells in the Hargreeves family belong to the sisters). AND YET SOMEHOW I LOVE THEM FOR IT? (Also I almost died laughing in episode 1x10 when the lady at the bowling alley comes up and mistakes Five for Klaus and Diego’s son and asks him if he wants to play “if it’s okay with your two dads” while Klaus and Diego themselves sit there in shock, shhh just go with it boys.) He’s so happy to see Ben again after years. He harnesses an entire army’s worth of bullets and throws them to the side to stop them from hurting his family. He is the softest and most heart-driven out of almost all the boys (absolutely none of them are the brains of the family, as we’ve established, but Diego does everything because he just can’t help himself from caring ALL THE TIME ABOUT EVERYONE). He is definitely a bottom and annoyed about it (see: him loving it when Lila takes charge). He is, especially with the Antonio Banderas hair, Extremely Hot (and I say this as a lesbian who only finds like.... three men attractive.) PURE OF HEART, THICC OF ASS, DUMB OF ALSO ASS, DIEGO HARGREEVES.

He is Perfect.

Thank you, friend!! I am having such a wonderful day