random smerry headcannons!
ellyse doesn't like valentine's day and asks smriti not to make a big deal of it. the whole day, both of their teams bug them about it, until eventually ellyse loses it, saying it's a capitalistic holiday that should not define anyone's relationship, much less her own. everybody leaves her alone after that. but when she comes home, she finds a package waiting for her, her favorite dark chocolate and a book she's been meaning to get for a while now. she calls smriti up, starting the call with "i thought we agreed not to do anything for valentine's day?" "i didn't do it cause of valentine's day, i did it cause i love you. actually that was supposed to show up two days ago." (ellyse tries to act annoyed but she was tearing up too much to fake it.)
jemi finds out that smriti and ellyse are dating because moli texts her about the bet they set up that first year in rcb. jemi is DISTRAUGHT, because what do you mean ellyse told moli, but smriti didn't tell her own best friend? she kicks down smriti doors, accusing her of keeping her relationship from her. smriti just cocks an eyebrow and goes, "how did you even find out?" jemi immediately gets sheepish and admits moli told her, and when smriti asks why jemi was on a texting basis with the australian captain, she admits to the bet. this ends in another tom-and-jerry-esque chase across field.
when ellyse is in india, smriti always makes she to get her the best chai she can find to take with her.
smriti kind of expects ellyse to shy away from tranditional indian food, but turns out ellyse is the biggest indian food fan (like we're talking dal, bhagan barta, sabzi, not paneer tikka masala here) because she likes that the vegetables are actually seasoned. she even eats with her hands. smriti is staring at her like, okay damn white girl.
they work because they can be quiet together. their favorite way to end the day is with smriti watching some new film on the tv as ellyse reads next to her. like this bly manor moment. when the movie's over, smriti asks ellyse to read out loud, and ellyse usually only gets through one page before smriti wrapped around her, out cold.
shreyanka #1 smerry shipper, loved to drop increasingly obvious hints before they got together, which smriti and ellyse always brushed off as harmless teasing and didn't take seriously. (smriti finally said something to shreyanka after she submitted a question in a public interview, a would you rather have chai with pez, or dinner with your family that made smriti pause for longer than she should have. after smriti scolds her, shreyanka just sighs and says "if you could see the way you two look at each other, you would do the same thing." smriti stays up all night thinking about that after.) once they finally got together, you can bet she was absolutely insufferable about it. and she most definitely sent them all the smerry edits she had saved.
smriti calls ellyse "ellie" when she wants to annoy her. pez knows this, but still gets annoyed by how well it works on her.
ellyse can tell you firsthand how difficult it is to wake up when you've got india's best batter wrapped around you, holding on like you were her favorite bat. she has tried to slip out, but smriti would just scrunch her nose, hold on even tighter, and mutter "too early" like a 70 year old man. eventually she cracked the code. turns out a morning make out sesh and an invitation to join her in the shower is enough to make smriti mandhana change her ways.
when smriti watches an england vs new zealand match with ellyse for the first time, she realizes she found the one person who hates the english more than her. (pez, my england hating QUEEN)
pez cooks breakfast/lunch, smriti cooks dinner, and they argue about who has to do the dishes every time.
smriti had ellyse sign her bat for luck, which ellyse not only did, she also added a heart to it. smriti scored 80 off 51 that day.
they love to play random sports together. tennis, basketball, badminton, just anything and everything. they get super competitive about it. ellyse destroys smriti in football, obviously, but smriti puts up a real fight. smriti returns the favor when they play pingpong. ellyse likes to win cause, number one, she's a competitor, and, number two, she likes to kiss the pout off of smriti's face.
ellyse tries her best to learn hindi in secret so she could surprise smriti's parents (and smriti) with it
the following is smriti x ellyse: black cat x white cat, always cold x runs warm, drives everywhere x passenger princess, messy x likes to clean when she's stressed
i love these two gay idiots. :) if anybody wants to add to it, please do. my cricket yuri partner in crime, @fortuna-majoris, have any thoughts?
