#wpr rambles

But imagine if Alfred's team is suddenly losing and it bothers him so much that he decides to pull off a parent trap move and swaps with Mattie. No one notices the change except for Ivan who, at the faceoff, sees a more focused pair of eyes staring fiercely back at him.

In the meantime, what’s going on with The Detangler? That sounds fun XD

Ooh~! The Detangler is a lot tamer than it sounds. Haha.

It’s a short, domestic, slice-of-life snippet of EngUkr and their daughter, Amelia* (who I personally just love including in their little family when Alfred is not around) interacting on a random afternoon when everyone is home. From simple things like pulling apart knots in a string his daughter brought to him to more complex things like unraveling the mystery behind his wife’s woes, Arthur tackles the tasks of detangling things in his family, hence his title of “The Detangler”.

In my mind, Arthur is a natural over-thinker and terribly harsh self-critic, however I think he can have his moments where making sure his girls are alright takes priority. I like to believe that he can remain level-headed enough to help untangle his family’s worries before they fester and become his worries. And this snippet is just that. It’s meant to show his caring side, but also a side of him where he’s going to tackle a problem as soon as he spots it. He’s a fixer upper, but he’s also the fixer-upper… If that makes sense.

Now I’m curious to know what you expected from a title like “The Detangler” 😉

Inspired by @lavender-long-stories's asks, I decided to expand a bit on some of my headcanons for RusPan.

🍑 [Reposted from here] Kiku always loved how Ivan smelled: something warm and woodsy, yet crisp like a soft, wintery night. (I imagine wintery line-dry clothing with a hint of vetiver.) So, when Ivan and Kiku first started doing laundry together, Kiku would sneak in a bit of his cologne onto his wrist so that he would be able to smell Ivan’s presence wherever he went. (Unfortunately, I also believe that Kiku’s skin is sensitive to the specific “clean-scented” detergent Ivan used in the laundry, which is why they had to switch to more sensitivity-friendly alternatives.)

🍑 Ivan's job is usually very hands on. I imagine him to be an engineer or a nurse, but if he's living somewhere peacefully with Kiku in the middle of nowhere, he's carving things out of wood.

🍑 Kiku sleeps with a large amount of plushies surrounding him. Some of them are of Pokemon, some of them are from his favorite anime/manga series, but the biggest one is his personal teddy bear, Ivan. If Ivan wakes up later in the morning, he makes sure all the plushies are all neat, tucked in, and accounted for. He secretly hates them all.

🍑 They are secretly unhinged together. Publicly, they are both sort of mild and reserved as they tend to put their best face forward. Minimal PDA and private exchanges. In private, I think these two love to really challenge one another while still maintaining a level of professionalism. Basically, if Ivan is the more weird of the two in public, Kiku is the weirder one in private and vice versa. So, things balance out between them.

I'll definitely do the ask game, later in the week! Thank you for the tag!

I got youuuu~

Side Effects, my beloved, is a EngUkr story (mostly) that showcases Arthur and Kat's domestic life together. (Another EngUkr family fic? Shocker. I know. 😉)

In this story, Arthur and Kat are trying to start a family of their own. After some unfavorable outcomes, they grow disheartened with every doctor's visit, especially Kat who doubts that it will ever happen. Arthur sees how much of a toll it takes on Kat and wishes to "ease the burden for her". When Kat does become pregnant, there are some... side effects that they experience.

Essentially, the way I think of this story is that there is a side effect to love, whether it is romantic, platonic, familial, or even fake altogether. Sometimes you fall deeply and fall hard, sometimes it breaks you and makes you stronger.

Side Effects may include: headaches, nausea, heartburn, inexplicable soreness, loss of appetite, anxiety from reuniting with estranged family, heart palpitations, depression, thoughts of suicide, and possible death.

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