Do you have a random bridgerchuk headcanon you’re dying to share?
OOH god i love this bc there's so much floating around my heaaaaaaad for this verse
i was trying to go Specific but actually imma just throw a list out for vibes
Ash slept with Spencer Knight during the cup win celebrations and no Matthew does not know and she will not be telling him (the only one who knows is Lena)
During Ciaran's first few years in the league, whilst he and Lily were long distance, they do a version of The Last Five Years back and forth via video just for them. His team get really into it by the end, which he was NOT expecting, but definitely appreciates
Maddie obviously acted as camera person for all of Lily's vids for this (they go to UMich together, although on v different tracks lol)
Lena is Kendall Jenner in my head, she's my fave Kardashian and she showed up in my brain for her fc so I'm just rolling with it
Xander is The Tallest of all of them, but his posture is the worst so you need to poke him with a stick to tell
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Title: doin’ what comes naturally
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Men's Hockey RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Leon Draisaitl/Matthew Tkachuk
Characters: Matthew Tkachuk, Brady Tkachuk, Tkachuk Family (Hockey RPF), including a whole load of OCs, Leon Draisaitl
Additional Tags: Family Bonding, not NOT a bridgerton au, but also definitely not a regency era fic, 5+1 in a trenchcoat, Non-Linear Narrative, self-indulgent nonsense
Summary:
“And you weren’t just all named alphabetically… why?”
“They definitely weren’t planning eight of us, buddy.”
in which there’s more tkachuks than anybody ever asked for, but the amount that everyone needs
🎀give yourself a compliment about your own writing
i think i really nail getting into a character's mind, but also being a pretty omnipresent narrator. i will cut you deep but i will do it to everyone, i promise
💌share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited!
omg omg omg this is the best one you could have asked my friend and i could go on for HOURS
i'm currently working on a hockey rpf fic (series? there's more planned that won't fit into the og fic lol) that asks "what if there were more tkachuk siblings". basically i thought too hard about matthew tkachuk being an eldest sibling and then also thought about bridgerton and decided i should make a load of ocs and make matthew the eldest of eight
and i love every single one of them. and if anyone wants to ask me about the bridgerchuks please do!! i will answer anything!! (also yes it is mattdrai but that's,,, very much NOT the point of the fic. at least not the initial one. part two will probably be him first meeting the entire fam tho lol)
💌share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited!
🌿how does creating make you feel?
i answered this one in words already so have some emojis: ✨🥰🙌🤗🫶🎉
💎why is writing important to you?
creative release outside of my day job is VERY important to me and writing and d&d are my favourite types!!
💌share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited!
ria ty for letting me gush about my current wip. let's talk about the bridgerchuks. under the read more bc l o l
✨ fic writer asks meme ✨
ok so i mentioned in a previous reply that i'm writing a fic where matthew tkachuk is the eldest of eight so like.... here's a list of all my tkachuks, in age order, including all the ocs bc i love them:
Matthew - my son, not much different to canon but turn that Big Brother Energy up another, oh, 5 notches
Braeden (Brady) - brady also isn't much different, really, i'm not here to change too much up
Aisling (Ash) - here the changes start!! ash is two years younger than brady and was born the summer the family moved to st louis. she's loud and sure of herself and athletic to an extent but not into team sports - she goes to school in california and likes to surf and she's going to be a lawyer
Olena (Lena) - lena came two years later - the summer keith ended up reporting to training camp overweight which like. good reason. so many kids buddy. she's the quiet tkachuk. she likes her alone time more than any of the others and she will carve it out for herself, but she still loves them all fiercely even if she wishes they'd shut the fuck up. she watches everything so she knows a lot about hockey even though she never plays (and eventually will become a hockey scout bc of this)
Ciaran - Twin #1 - ciaran did the thing all the other boys did and went "hockey? ok!" but he did it different and went "shouldn't one of us play d though?" so he's a defenceman. i realised during the draft this year it would have been his year to get drafted to based the team he plays for off the teams who took d men in the higher pick so ya boy's a hab! and excited about it! he loves attention, and did theatre in high school (which is where he met his long term girlfriend who will follow him to montreal after college) and he's passionate and not afraid to speak his mind and stand up for minorities
Madison (Maddie) - Twin #2 - maddie saw her twin playing hockey and went "me too!" and then saw him switch to d and went "erm, no?". matthew and brady will be the first to tell you she's got the best slapshot in the family. she's playing collegiate but we'll see what happens with all the pwhl stuff before i decide what happens with her.
worth noting kieth had a vasectomy after the twins which, erm, did not stick. sorry buddy.
Oleksander (Xander) - xander was a suprise and i realised after building the spreadsheet (of course there's a spreadsheet) that his conception would have been when keith got home after being a playoff rental to the trashers LOL. he plays hockey as a kid bc he feels like he has to, and he's so nervous to admit he doesn't want to but everyone's like.. literally do what you want. why would you play professionally if you don't enjoy it!! so he's gonna go to college and do something DIFFERENT and be so much happier for it
Taryn - taryn is still taryn!! just much younger!! she is born in 2009, so keith's last playing year as he retired post 09-10 season. she's still the baby, still perfect in everyone's eyes. still highly competitive and will go into field hockey.
i went OFF and i'm not even sorry but i love them its nice to release them into the world a little after so long of them living in mine and @puckthisshift's head lol
