#crewelyuu

Yuu lives with him and doesn't get enrolled as a student. They're a TA that helps Crewel with fetching materials for labs and grading tests and other such tasks

He's very much only tolerating this child he has been burdened with.

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An askal/aspin! They look like a breed indeterminable to him. Since they're only a teen, they aren't quite a puppy but neither are they a full-grown dog. Due to OB injuries they look a little mangy. Fur and skin are clean though, they're just a little patchy. They have a very soft bark and can't quite speak or understand Dog though they'd still comprehend Human pretty well.

More platonic yandere-ish stuff below, though in a different au they could have accidentally been doused by a transformation potion while cleaning up Ramshackle so he'd see how they are as a dog without any such poisoning.

Crewel might have snooped and found out there were black marlet pelt dealings but he had no obligation to take Yuu in after. But he was there and saw Yuu looking so forlornly at the scrap of their sealskin and heard how long it might take to fix things and figured he could and the only person he trusts with such delicate work is himself. If he could do the challenge of repairing a magical pelt without Yuu he'd do that but they need to be aeound for testing and traving so he had no choice than to take them in also, really.

Yuu can understand Human somewhat but struggles to speak it. Crewel learns Seal to help talk with them better. Yuu has a Human/Dog-heavy Seal accent by time they have their pelt back.

Yuu huffs and grunts and whistles and just does seal-like vocalizations a lot. They learn clapping is a thing Humans do to show joy or appreciation but they do it by slapping their hand against their stomach. On one hand Crewel would like them practicing human and trained to be more adapted to human society so they don't stand out so much while they are on land. On the other, they're supposed to be released/returned to the sea at some point and he finds it all very endearing.

Their eating habits are less endearing. He has had to pick out the fishbones from their mouth and throat several times because they keep trying to eat fish whole. Raw fish, at that.

Blase about nat geo levels of casual death/violence. Notes how Crewel has orca colors and muses about how a friend or family member died by one. Mentions missing the taste of penguins and liking to bite off the head.

Yuu talks with his dogs by barking. They join Lou and Smith in howling at the moon sometimes. This does not help Crewel's ailment of Cuteness Agressions.

Yuu keeps stealing his coat. He made them one of their own, custom, suited to their size, but they still snatch his.

When Yuu tries drawing clothing designs out if boredom, it's a mix of clothing on human stick figures and dalmatian dog-shapes and rotund seal orbs.

Once, Crewel was talking to (tolerating) some rude acquaintance that came up to him. Yuu tried to bite em.

Crewel went to NRC I think the Crewel is family is rich enough to have a seaside villa. He takes a "vacation" (he's still working) there because Yuu misses the sea. He watches them splash around with his dogs and has to jump in to save them when they try to swim longer than they can handle as a normal human.

Yuu as a selkie that gets stuck with him, because funny thing about Crewel is that despite being twisted from Cruella, he cares for animals. He loves his dogs. He takes care of Lucius during GloMas because Trein's away. He'd hate their unneeded suffering, even if he doesn't blanketly adore them all. Perhaps during a fashion show, he doubts the source of a fur piece's materials. One thing leads to another, his curiosity/snooping leads to the reveal that it was made from a selkie's pelt and now for reasons such as Fashion Knowledge and Stitching Knowledge and I Say So, even after authorities are involved, he ends up being responsible for trying to stitch the pieces back in a way that might allow their owner to use it again.

In the meantime there be a pup stuck with him, helping identify bits of themself and making sure he stitches their pelt back right. They are clumsily trying to do their best as a human and are fascinated by fashion. If he is beginning to feel reluctant about helping them get back into the sea, it is because his dear, terribly short-sighted dogs have decided Yuu is Part of the Pack, and so the boys will miss the pup. He certainly has no reason to idly imagine how it wouldn't be so terrible if even his best efforts fail, or if furs of the land would incidentally leave them stuck with him a little longer.

Or perhaps Crewel's the selkie helping this stranded little human. He may have no particular fondness for having a pup of his own, much less for humans and their hunters, but that does not mean he'd let a young human drown before his eyes. They somehow fell overboard and are barely keeping their head above water when he finds them. (Because it amuses me, and because dogs are predators but humans keep them anyway, I think it would be funny if Crewel had like, little pet spotted sharks. Maybe they led him to Yuu).

I adore dilatorywriting's Hero vs Villain series! The NRC staff one has a focus on Crewel vs twst versions of the Radcliffes. It also has a fun side story!

telephonii has this where Crewel be judging the potential of the NRC boys as a partner like a dad vetting suitors haha

Parental Divus Crewel is a neat tag on ao3. I like this series by LogicWriter from that tag. Crewel's not the focus, but he's nice to Deuce.

If you don't mind some Platonic Yandere, Kimium also has a Crewel segment in Bystanders !

I already have the headcanon that Crewel's descended from twst Mr. Dalmatia to cause his fangs, which is to say, he is distantlydescended from a dog turned into a human (don't think too deep about it, magical fairytale world stuff) so if you squint he's a little based off Pongo and something something the Radcliffes had a nanny help with their dalmatians, so Crewel had a nanny growing up maybe references that idk I'm having fun.

She is named Nanette Dearly (the 101 Dalmatians book had the Dearlys [Radcliffe equivalent]have two nannies, Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler [those are their names yes] and the film's Radcliffe's also had a lady named Nanny Cook). She's sweet little old lady who invites everyone to call her Nanny.

Anyway Crewel's fond of her. She's basically a second mother to him. She visited him at Sage Island before because she has a relative who lives there, saw him by surprise and they reconnected, had a nice chat, he gave her his number and address in case she'd visit again. She surprise visits one Saturday with the sweets he used to love when little and some gifts for his puppies, all smiles and sugar, bustling through the door with her armload of gifts the moment it's opened for her. Crewel frantically gestures at Yuu to stay in their room but-

"Divus! You didn't tell me you had a child!" She has some magic in her. Not enough to enter any academies but enough to sense it, and how Yuu is postively draped in dear Divus's.

"They're not mine," Crewel replies on reflex, amd maybe that's perhaps the worse thing to say because he can see the gears turning in her head, the look she gives him because if he's not some single father who had secret rakish encounter in his youth but is now taking responsibility for like a good man, then perhaps he is a bachelor living with an unrelated child, a student likely, half his age at most which is odd at the best of circumstances-

Yuu cuts in before misunderstandings can spiral. They explain the situation of some accident with the Dark Mirror and the housing issue and that the Professor has been very kind to let them stay with him until it's all resolved. That calms things down.

They end up chatting over some tea and sweets. Yuu thought she was his mother? Oh you'll make her blush! She was just about a grandmother when she was hired on to look after him all those years ago. She asks how Divus's dogs are doing and how his classes are going. She hears things you know, about how rowdy those Night Raven boys can get- they haven't been too much trouble have they? How nice to hear that Divus is handling things just fine, she's certain Yuu has nothing to worry about either then! You know Divvy here was a bit of a rascal himself growing up. Why, he painted spots all over his father's study once! See, he was upset with his papa for being short-tempered with his mummy and- oh no Divus darling, her cup's quite full. Where was she? Hmm. . .oh, has dear Divus gotten ill recently? He was always such a hardy boy, until he wasn't. He's not slacking off on taking care of himself now that he's all alone, is he? Don't you think she can't see the shadows under his eyes just because she doesn't have her spectacles! Now that she thinks of it, Yuu's got them too! Divvy, you ought to be a good role model! Tsk tsk, he was always staying up late with those fashion magazines and alchemical journals. There's a time and place for everything, even something as good as reading- oh Yuu has he shown you his awards? Yes, yes, he got some- some outstanding honor for fashion or something of the sort- she cut it out of the news paper and kept the clippings somewhere. Oh she has the pictures on her phone! How could she have forgotten? And she has some lovely snapshots of him as a child too- the Crewels invited her over not so long ago, see, and his mother was quite happy to pull open the photo albums and share some treasured memories to reminisce over- oh Divvy, come closer now, how will you see the photographs from all the way there? A phone call? Well alright, but don't take too long now!

(Don't tell anyone, Yuu dear, she oughtn't have favorites, but he's hers. He's grown up so well, and she's always so, so proud of him! You know he sends her a card every birthday and winter too? He even made her this fabulous coat she's wearing! He loves a lot and loves deeply, even if he doesn't say it. )

Yuu feels like they've gotten a grandma as cups run dry and plates are left with only crumbs. She's got to get to the ferry on time, so Nanny gives them both hugs and kisses. Yuu heads off to store the gifts and clean up,they have some research and schoolwork to catch up on, and Divus escorts her to the dock.