#crosscheck fic

So I decided I’ll share some of my notes on each character of the AU so that everyone understands some things better :)

This one is for Big Dogs bc I won’t be able to fit everything in one post!

Joel Beans

He’s the team’s star player. Some people say that made him arrogant but those who know him well know that he’s always been like that.

He met Grian and Jimmy in secondary school and began calling themselves the Bad Boys. To this day nobody understands why.

He briefly dated Lizzie in college before they broke up mutually. They remain on great terms even now

He and Lizzie actually have a running joke that they’re married which started when they once claimed to be married to get a discount at Starbucks during Valentine’s day

He’s been learning hockey ever since he was 8 years old and has always loved it

Despite denying it like his life depends on it, he’s an absolute softie for animals, especially dogs. Jimmy swears he once saw Joel cry over a cute puppy he saw passing by them on the street.

Grian Moon

He and Pearl are siblings

He has 10 identical copies of his favourite red sweater

He’s been friends with Jimmy since they were 9

He calls Jimmy Timmy because he misheard Jimmy when they were introducing themselves and decided not to correct himself ever again

He once bought a whole chicken costume just to throw an egg (read: several eggs) at Pearl in it. He still has the costume and still denies it ever being him to this day

He stubborn to the point where he once didn’t talk to Jimmy for a whole week for making a joke about him being short

The moment he met Mumbo in secondary school he declared the two of them brothers and decided he would protect that little ball of anxiety with his life

Scar Times

He moved from the US to play in the Big Dogs

He’s absolutely the kind of person to break his leg during a game and say he’s fine, so Pearl drags him off anytime he falls a bit worse than she likes just in case

Only about half of the insinuations he makes are accidental. He’s very capable of making dirty jokes and he will use that skill.

People often think he’s the most oblivious put of them but if he tries, he can easily put together the pieces. He just lives with the mentality of not wanting to pry and doesn’t look too closely into things. He knows the person would tell him if they wanted him to know

He once built a throne for his cat Jellie out of cardboard. In real scale. It stays in his living room and nobody other than Jellie is allowed to touch it.

He has an older brother, Cub. Sadly, Cub lives back home in the US, meaning Scar doesn’t get to see him much

Jimmy Solidarity

He and Lizzie and siblings

He and Martyn are the Big Dog mascots

He’s known Martyn since high school

He made a YouTube channel dedicated to vlogging funny moments from the Big Dog team, for which Gem absolutely hates him because it ruins their reputation a bit. Despite the complaints of said social media manager of their team, he is not willing to take the channel down

He’s publicly dating Tango and yet to his frustration, none of his friends notice. He even got laughed off when he told Martyn he was dating Tango! They even live together.

He studied fashion

Martyn Littlewood

He’s the other Big Dogs mascot

He and Ren have a weird thing going on where nobody knows whether they’re dating, friends, or hate each other. When confronted, Martyn either laughs it off or tells the person (mainly Jimmy because it’s funny to see his reaction) that it’s a ‘mascot thing’. Everyone has given up trying to understand the two. Martyn himself doesn’t really know what he and Ren are. When he asked Ren once, Ren admitted that he didn’t know either.

Though he would never admit it, he only took the mascot job because Jimmy did and Martyn wanted to stay around his friend. He ended up loving the job anyway.

He once set a classroom on fire back in high school to get out of an exam. It worked but he got caught because he stayed at the scene of the crime laughing.

He and Scott once role-played secretly being mermaids for a week straight for no reason back in secondary school. Everyone hated them by the end for their terrible acting.

Gemini (Gem) Tay

She and Etho are cousins

She moved to the UK to pursue better career opportunities and see a new place and ended up getting a job as the social media manager of Big Dogs. She never regretted her decision.

She’s been dating Pearl for almost a year now. She forgot to tell Etho.

Everyone is unanimously terrified of her and yet delighted by her presence. It’s confusing.

She actually has a boating license. She never explains why or how to anyone. Not even Etho knows where and when she got it.

One time she literally flipped a guy who was being creepy to her onto the ground. A video of it went viral and was shown on the local small news channel.

Pearl Moon

She’s Grian’s sister

She’s the team’s physio

In secondary school, she helped Martyn light the classroom on fire. She, however, did not get caught.

Ever since the chicken costume incident, she’s been determined to find that costume and burn it. She knows Grian’s kept it just for the fun of it. And so, every time she visits Grian’s house or is at one of the parties in his house, she looks through anywhere where it could possibly be. She hasn’t found it yet but she will. One day.

Despite living in the UK all her life, she has an Australian accent. Nobody knows why, not even her.

She and BigB are childhood friends. She’s the only one who knows anything about him from their friend groups, including his real name. She also, however, doesn’t reveal any of it because she thinks it’s funny.

She and BigB also have their weird nosy neighbour traditions. Most of their friends think they were (or still are) in a cult of some kind. It’s really just them being silly.

Mumbo Jumbo

He’s the Big Dogs’ team manager

He constantly wears a suit, no matter the weather or occasion

He used to be (read: still is) a ball of anxiety back in secondary school. Grian kinda just adopted him the moment they met.

He plays around with technology and creates little devices for fun in his spare time.

For this chapter, here are the old and new jersey designs of both teams in the story that I drew :D

UNDERCURRENT HAS BEEN UPDATED WOOOO!!!

My asks are open if you have any questions regarding this, by the way!

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I’m back yet again with the final part! This is the extra characters that don’t belong to any team (though some of them will probably only be mentioned sometimes) This might get updated in the future with more characters.

Lizzie Solidarity

She’s Jimmy’s older sister

She’s a figure skater and has done it since she was seven years old

When Scott dyed his hair blue, she dyed hers pink in support

She met Oli through a music club in her secondary school and immediately dragged him around to introduce him to all of her friends

When she found out Jimmy and Tango were dating, she tried to give Tango the shovel talk. It didn’t really work because she was just too nice

She’s the only one who isn’t even slightly oblivious in the friend group

She briefly dated Joel in college

Oli Orion

He owns a milkshake bar

He makes music in his spare time

He met Lizzie and most of the group in secondary school

Big B (nickname)

He’s been friends with Pearl since their childhood and they have their bizarre Nosy Neighbour traditions

Nobody (except Pearl) knows anything about him, not even his real name. Nobody even knows where the nickname came from

Cub Times

He’s Scar’s older brother

He still lives in the US

He’s the manager of a local small office

I’m back with the second part! This time I’ll be going over the members of the Shadows team :)

Etho Slab

He and Gem are cousins but he really considers her more of a younger sister

He’s from Canada

When he lived in Canada, he was stuck in one of the lower hockey leagues and was having difficulties getting anywhere in his career, which is one of the reasons he accepted the offer to play in Shadows (the other being that Gem was there)

He sometimes wears a mask in public when he’s more self-conscious

He started playing hockey when he was 7 years old

He’s terrified of planes and dislikes going in taxis

He’s interested in engineering and considered it a possible future career path if hockey didn’t work out

He built himself a drone once and proceeded to accidentally fly it into a lake

He never met his father, which is partially why his family was around Gem’s so much (his mother needed some support from them)

Bdubs Owon

Moved from the US to play in Shadows

He has absolutely no cooking skills. He once burnt water.

He regularly tries to convince Skizz of increasing more ridiculous things. It works most of the time

He likes to get meddle in things that are none of his business for his own entertainment (see: literally the matchmaker group chat)

Lives with Impulse and Skizz in an apartment (in Crosscheck the apartment is being renovated which is why they stay in the hotel)

When asked by a reporter what he thought about a team that had just beaten them by two points in a match, he cursed the team (and the reporter) out for five whole minutes before their pr manager had to literally drag him away. He got in quite a bit of trouble for that one but still proceeded to do the same thing about two weeks later

He knows Impulse since high school

Impulse Esvee

Moved from the US along with Bdubs to play in Shadows

He used to repair electronics as a side job to support his hockey career

Though he’s subtle about it, he often helps Bdubs in any mischief

When he was in middle school, he released his class’s pet frog into the local forest after seeing a nature documentary and thinking the frog belonged outside

Lives in an apartment with Skizz and Bdubs

Skizz Man

Moved from the US to play in Shadows

In high school he crashed his parents’ car into a stop sign before even having his drivers license

He was actually quite popular in high school just because of his surname

During the first match he had in the Shadows, he scored four goals

When asked by a reporter what drove him to play hockey once, he asked her what hockey was (he didn’t understand her properly because of her accent) The interview went quite viral for a few days and their pr manager, who at first scolded him for it, was very happy with the attention it got them

Because of Bdubs, he is now fully convinced that unicorns used to exist

Tango Tek

Moved from the US to study mechanical engineering London and stayed in the UK since

He used to repair cars as a full job, now he buys old cars and restores and fixes them to be resold

He’s dating Jimmy and even lives with him

When he was a child, he had an imaginary friend called Torchy. It was literally just a torch. His parents were a bit worried for him at the time.

He’s the Shadow team’s photographer

Ren Dog

The Shadows team’s mascot (he’s basically dressed as a king, aka the ‘Shadow King’)

Has a weird thing with Martyn where nobody knows what they are, not even them

He was a theatre kid

He plays in the local tiny theatre sometimes just for fun

He regularly donates to school to support their art and theatre departments

He met Martyn in college (the uk college) (and yes, they have done their theatrical weirdness since then)

Scott Major

The Shadow team’s manager

He has known Cleo since secondary school

He’s the kind of person who knows everyone

He met Lizzie and Jimmy when he was 15 through their parents

He dyed his hair his classical blue when he was a teen as an act of rebellion to his parents, only for them to compliment it and for him to love it. He never changed it back since

He was always very involved in the art department when he used to go to school. He ended up painting a mural for the school in his final year of secondary school. He still paints sometimes in his spare time

Cleo Zombie

The Shadow team’s coach

She knows Scott since secondary school

People never believe their real surname is really ‘Zombie’ until they show them their drivers license. She considered changing it once but decided they like it too much

They tutor kids in their spare time for free. They’re much nicer to them than they are to the Shadow players

When a reporter once asked her if she’s sure she’s a good fit to coach hockey players as a woman, she punched him. The team’s pr manager didn’t even get mad at them for that one.