#jackholster

OKAY BUT WHERE DO I BEGIN.

So like, let’s start with their backstories, and the sort of common ground they have to build on there.  

They’re the oldest 2 guys on the SMH team since they both played Major Junior hockey (or a form of junior hockey) and started college super late.  I’m not sure what made Holster choose to go to college when he was 21, if he wasn’t drafted out of juniors, or if he just didn’t want to go and play in the AHL right away.  Maybe he also thought that college hockey was the right detour to playing in the NHL.  Or maybe he decided finally that he didn’t want to pursue major hockey.  Either way, I feel like that’d be a really meaningful connection for them.  Obviously the rest of the team also played hockey their whole lives but I think Holster and Jack’s experiences would be really distinct.

Now let’s talk about where they’re opposites:

Holster has 4″ on Jack.  Jack being shorter partner does things to me.  Imagine him having to lean up to kiss Holster. 

They both have the biggest fucking hearts but they show it in absolutely different, but complimentary ways, Holster is loud and brash and over the top, and Jack tends to the little things.  They’d work so well together, and for each other.

Jack’s history documentaries, and Holster’s love of 30 Rock.  I’m not saying they’d rock Netflix and Chill, but.. oh hold up wait, that’s exactly what I’m saying.  They may not always like watching the same things on Netflix but actually that works in their favor ;)

Holster is loud, and he can be pushy, but in the comics you never ever see Holster pushing Jack to be anything other than who he is.. I feel like they’d be the perfect Introvert/Extrovert relationship. Holster would understand when Jack needed alone time, and he’d go out with friends and enjoy himself, and would never make Jack feel bad or inadequate for needing space to recharge.

Assorted important headcanons:

I absolutely 100% believe that Holster made up the myth of the “Zimmermann puck bunnies” to cover for Jack when he didn’t want to come to parties, or when he’d get overwhelmed and skulk off to his room to be alone.  Like, normally Holster can be kind of pushy but when he followed Jack up to his room the first time and Jack just said he wanted to be alone, Holster didn’t press the issue, he took it as his responsibility to make sure Jack got his alone time.

I don’t think Holster knows anything about Kent, but I think if he did Kent would need to watch his back.  (and I say that as someone who loves Kent, but who also knows Holster takes overprotective to a whole new level)

They’re both ultra competitive (remember when they played Settlers of Catan and got board games banned from the Haus?)

But just imagine how the winner could make things up to the other when they do compete in something.

Imagine them tryinG TO COOK TOGETHER.  THEY’D BE SUCH BROS ABOUT IT.  JACK WOULD BE AN UTTER FAILURE AND HOLSTER WOULD JUST SLAP SOMETHING TOGETHER AND FORCE JACK TO EAT IT WHILE HE SULKS.

Jack knocking Holster’s backwards snapback off his head bc he’s a little shit and Holster is already too damn tall.

Imagine the two of them trying to cuddle in a twin sized bed.

Jack and Holster bonding over hockey:

They’re the only ones who played in Juniors and both (possibly) dreamed of being in the NHL.  Maybe one night during a late night confession Holster tells Jack he had dreamed of beign in the NHL and Jack hesitates bc he doesn’t want another Kent situation where he & Holster bank on getting signed together but then he remembers that Holster is Ransom’s D-Man partner, and not one of his wingers, and the parallel doesn’t fit.

Holster assures Jack that the dream changed for him, but he just wanted Jack to know that he related.

Jack and Holster bonding over being the oldest guys on the SMH team:

By the time they got to Samwell they could both legally drink in the U.S. and Holster still loved to party & get smashed but he also was already familiar w/ his limits and so he & Jack spend the morning after the first kegster bitching about “these stupid kids”.  Jack tells Holster about Shitty getting shitfaced the year before at his first epikegster and holding his hair back while Shitty puked in the toilet (thankfully it was before the mustache otherwise that could’ve been really gross), and Holster talks about Ransom essentially black-out drunk, demanding cuddles, and refusing to be the little spoon even though they didn’t fit quite right.

Jack being the shorter partner (!!!!!!!!!)

He hadn’t dated a guy since Kent (who was pretty much the epitome of his type, although that was a bit of a Chicken/Egg scenario.  He couldn’t tell if he was attracted to Kent bc he was shorter and blonde, or if he was attracted to shorter blondes bc Kent ruined him for all future relationships. 

He’d dated a girl almost as tall as him sophomore year.  But looking up 4 inches to someone is certainly an adjustment.