#kenriksson

(Basically just asking why you ship them together and not with other people. I love hearing people talk about their favorite ships!)

HELLO!!! Finally getting around to answering this,, sorry for the late response I was asleep 😭😭

Okay so the curling world, especially internationally, is pretty small so it's always the same teams going up against each other at every event. So Marc Kennedy and Oskar Eriksson have known each other for YEARS, I'd say like around 10+ maybe?? And they are both really good, so they've probably played each other hundreds of times, so they've got that rivalry. Marc has said that they would kinda chirp each other a bit and have like friendly banter on the ice, which you can see when you watch past games of them.

Fast forward to the Olympics this year, when they had that pretty viral argument about touching the rock, the media got all over it saying it was a "heated" argument (so like... if you get what I mean there hehe...), and whatever sort of relationship they had pretty much broke down there. Like in this other event that happened later, the guys on the Canadian team were pretty much giving the guys on the Swedish team the silent treatment 😭😭

Also because of that arguement blowing up so much everywhere, people (including me) were saying stuff like "its toxic yaoi" and starting to ship them, there's this one acc on tiktok @/teamkenriksson that makes all these edits of them and they have a bunch with heated rivalry sounds (and they're still actively posting), and so its kinda like they had that rivalry before, it blew up at the olympics, and now we're witnessing the breakup and lowkey the yearning (this is getting into my hcs LMAO) so we've got like the toxic relationship, as well as the internal conflict (which is in one of the fics I'm writing) because of everything that happened in the olympics - and like because they've known each other so long, that breakup had to HURTT like they're still thinking about each other for sure jfjfkfkd

Also some other stuff, Marc and Oskar are actually pretty similar in a bunch of ways: They're both left handed (and they were the only lefties curling at the olympics this year excluding Team Canada's alternate), and they both play(ed) the same position so they usually end up in the same place when they're playing each other which is why they usually have that friendly banter fjfjfkfk

Anyways that's all I can think of right now, but I'm actively in the comments of all those ship edits, like its always me there 😭😭 lmk if you wanna hear my headcanons (? is that what theyre called in rpf) etc. cos I'm writing two fics atm which I can hopefully post soon after I'm done with my exams fjjfkgkf I love my curlers and their relationship

btw im one of those sickos whos in the comments of every marc kennedy x oskar eriksson edit on tiktok so im kinda exposing myself here

Okay so here are the kenriksson hcs that I've been/plan to incorporate into my fics!!

Marc calls Oskar "Oskar" (as seen in the boopgate video + other clips of them), and Oskar almost always calls Marc "Kennedy" - if they're in like an intimate or close type of situation, Oskar will slip out the occasional "Marc" but other than that its always the last name

Oskar has had a crush on Marc for AGES, like he spends a lot of his free time watching Marc's games and basically studying his every move - also this was how he first noticed that Marc was double touching the rock - because he's spent so much time watching Marc

Adding to the boopgate stuff, Oskar's been conflicted on whether to bring up Marc's double touches up in the past because of how much he admired Marc, and he struggles between wanting to address the issue or keep his good relationship with Marc

Marc is pretty much in denial about his feelings for Oskar, like he's enjoyed the banter they've had for years but he only realised he felt something for Oskar after the boopgate argument, which makes him extra frustrated about the whole thing

Both of them are still kinda mad at each other, most of that comes from the fact that they think they are in the right and the other is in the wrong, but they're also mad that they can't stop the attraction they feel for each other

If there's anything else I've missed here they'll probably be in future fics