i personally need luca haas to end up with a controversially older man that he outfreaks to a bewildering level. bonus points if that older man is cliff marleau
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i personally need luca haas to end up with a controversially older man that he outfreaks to a bewildering level. bonus points if that older man is cliff marleau
luca haas deserves to be a controversially young boyfriend
the thing about cliff marleau is he has zero thoughts in his head. is he gay, now he's fucking Luca? uhhh probably not he still likes women. bisexual? fuck man who cares he's a hot piece of ass same as the chicks. guess I'm branching out now what bar we going to
impossible to give this man an existential crisis he doesn't have enough going on up there and honestly I love that for him
*lets myself into your house like i live there* okay so the vampire marleau, right? fakes his death with shane and ilya’s help after he’s turned. gets smuggled into canada when ilya moves to ottawa to make things easier. gets a job at the censplex as a nighttime security guard under his new fake identity. and that’s when he spots luca haas practicing alone after hours on the ice, yeah?
*rifling through your fridge for leftovers* so they start talking. and cliff likes him. LIKES him likes him. it’s bad. he knows he shouldn’t act on it bc he’s a VAMPIRE and luca is sweet and young and ALIVE but he wants him!!! sue the guy!!! and they both go to one of bood’s bbqs and luca seems tense and cliff doesn’t eat or drink anything bc he can’t so he offers to drive luca home early and luca says yes.
*sprawling on your couch with a tub of ice cream* and he’s a gentleman, my idiot baby vampire cliff, so he walks luca to his door. and luca decides to be brave and takes his hand. and tells him “oh, your hands are cold.” and holds them. and holds them. and they lean closer. little by little. and finally luca stops and says “can i tell you something?” and cliff says “yeah, i uh, i need to tell you something too.” and luca takes a deep breath, and finally spits it out: “im trans. and gay. and i like you a lot.”
*absolutely demolishing this ice cream* and cliff doesn’t NEED to breathe anymore but he lets out this weird deflating noise and kinda laughs and is like “thank you for telling me. i love that. i like you a lot too. my thing is. different.” and that’s how they go upstairs to luca’s apartment and he has to explicitly invite cliff in and then he gets to come out as a vampire. and luca isn’t even mad, he just POINTS at cliff and screams I FUCKING KNEW YOU LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE CLIFF MARLEAU. I FUCKING KNEW IT WAS YOU. and they have sex and live happily ever after. yay ❤️ btw you got any more of this ice cream or
A scenario just popped into my head and now I’m obsessed with the idea.
Cliff Marleau goes to visit Ilya in Ottawa after he’s been with the Centaurs for a while because he’s missing his friend. When he gets to Ottawa he has just enough time to get to the rink to meet Ilya’s new teammates before they have to go practice for their game that night. When he arrives at the arena he texts Ilya letting him know he’s there. Ilya is excited to introduce Cliff to everyone. They meet the team in the hallway outside the locker room. The team is so nice to Cliff and excited to meet him after all the great stories that Ilya has shared with them. The last teammate Cliff meets is Luca. After saying hello to everyone else suddenly Cliff is speechless thinking there’s a beautiful angel in front of him. Luca is just barely able to say hello before he too is struck speechless with the thoughts “Beautiful man. Beautiful hair” on a loop. They both just stand there staring at each other for a good long while until Ilya has to literally shake Luca to remind him to finish getting ready for practice. Luca and Ilya go back into the locker room leaving Cliff standing there alone having registered none of that exchange. Cliff has always thought himself to be straight since he’s never felt attracted to a man before. So this is brand new territory for him. He’s standing there contemplating his entire existence as the Centaurs are getting ready for practice. Several minutes later as the team files out and heads for the ice Cliff is still standing in the same spot. Ilya comes up to him and has to shake him as well asking if he’s going to watch them practice. Cliff says that he’ll find a seat and wanders off making Ilya grin.
marleau sends a picture of his dick to the group chat he has with shane, luca, and ilya at 7:09 in the morning
everyone is impressed that he could get hard that early. ilya sends one of his own because he will not be one upped by cliff marleau. shane gets so annoyed and is like “it’s 7:45 in the morning, ilya. put your dick away 🙄.” and ilya is like “you are in next room. come here and tell me to my face that you do not want it out”
luca is just dead silent for awhile before he sends one of his bulge in his gray sweatpants. the other three guys go absolutely feral. shane’s like “wow. that’s really nice, luca.” marleau is like “hell yeah! i have the hottest boyfriend in the world.” ilya is like “show us more. take off your pants. 😏🤤”
and that’s how the group chat turned into an absolute wild shitshow for two hours on a random thursday morning
Cliff Marlow x Luca Haas Getting Together Thoughts
1. Centaurs and Bears go out after games and eventually end up at a Caribbean nightclub. Cue to Cliff and Ilya being waist warriors (yes absolutely inspired by jewel's tictok ). Luca doesn't know what happened but suddenly Marlow is multiple drinks deep and is wining against Luca.
2. Luca might blush easy but he isn't embarrassed. He always reciprocates Cliff's strange flirty behavior because he thinks the older man is super hot. Luca absolutely would, if Cliff offered but Cliff just fucks off into the sunset after each successful "flirty" interaction.
3. Cliff is bisexual in theory but the theory is barely fleshed out and has very little supporting evidence since the ladies ate Cliff up at every club or bar he stepped into. Cliff is bisexual in the same way Hayden is - a sus vibe that has Roz giving him a side eye from time to time.
4. Cliff flirts the way that he does with Luca because he is actually very much out of his depth on how to proposition the guy (or any guy really). Cliff just hopes Luca will take the step himself or tell him to fuck off. Neither of those things happen and so Cliff is just happy to keep indulging (and holy shit was indulging fun...especially in that Caribbean club).
5. Luca decides to throw caution to the wind after getting his personal record of points during a road trip. If Cliff freaks out, Roz will have his back somewhat. (Luca knows that Roz knows that Cliff gets a bit weird because of multiple cryptic consent conversations that have been brought up on the bus. Roz knows Luca is fine but it might just be a way for Roz to give Luca a chance to air out his grievances if he had any) So...Luca corners Cliff at the bar and point blank asks the guy if he wanted to take Luca home.
6. Cliff is too nonchalant to have any sort of sexuality crisis the morning after - he has made peace with himself a long time ago. "It is what it is" type shit. What he does have trouble with is Ilya calling his cell and telling him that the team flight got pushed to later so Cliff has plenty of time to show Luca the benefits of an in-home sauna. (Ilya has been on a mission of in-home sauna propaganda since he joined the Raiders...it worked on Cliff and now it seems Luca is the next target).
7. Luca gave Cliff his number for the next time Cliff is in Ottawa. It's a clear roster situation...except that Cliff asks Luca out to Dinner after the game (yes they are tired but lets pretend). They have dinner. Cliff stares at Luca the whole time with sparkles in his eyes and asks him about his home and his hobbies and his favorite things.
8. Luca thinks Marlow likes him and he is pretty sure Cliff has been taking him on dates. Twitter thinks they have been going on dates (based on all of the fan photos that leaked). Drama youtube thinks they have been going on dates. Luca's mom is convinced he is hiding a boyfriend. Roz thinks its hilarious and declines to comment. Luca is too scared to ask because he is enjoying the thing that's between them. Its low stakes where he isn't worried about his schedule getting in the way of a relationship...but it is also just involved enough that it makes him feel warm on the inside.
9. Marlow meanwhile spirals because he is waiting for Luca to draw the boundary...even if that is the last thing Cliff wants.
10. Cliff is the one to take the leap. He is 34 and at this point he feels like things with Luca can work out long term. If Luca and him are not one the same page then it is nothing to get upset over - its life and Cliff can just kick himself for being an idiot for a few months and move on...maybe. Cliff calls Luca and asks him if he wants to come with him to his family Thanksgiving...as his boyfriend. Luca immediately starts to ask logistics questions and making plans...before he hangs up he says "and also yes I will absolutely be your boyfriend Cliff."
Personal Haasleau hcs
Luca absolutely acts like he’s the emotionally unavailable one in the relationship until someone flirts with Cliff for too long and suddenly he’s standing way too close with an arm over the back of Cliff’s chair like he pays rent there.
Cliff learns very early that Luca gets quieter when he’s upset, not louder. The worse Luca feels, the softer he talks. So now Cliff notices immediately. “What happened?” “Nothing.” “Baby.” “Don’t ‘baby’ me right now.” “Okay. What happened?”
Cliff’s petnames are lethal because he uses them casually. “Move, sweetheart.” “You’re impossible, pretty boy.” “C’mere, darlin’.” And Luca hates how much those work on him.
Luca pretends he doesn’t like domestic shit but secretly loves it. Loves grocery shopping at midnight. Loves laying on the hotel bed while Cliff watches terrible reality TV. Loves when Cliff cooks and hands him little taste tests without looking up.
Cliff is weirdly smug about being one of the only people who can get Luca to apologize sincerely. Not often. But genuinely.
Luca acts like he’s immune to romance but one time Cliff absentmindedly kisses the top of his head while half asleep and Luca thinks about it for like three weeks.
They have a running argument over who fell first. Cliff says Luca did because he was “obsessed from day one.” Luca says Cliff did because he “looked at me like a Victorian widow after one hookup.” Neither of them are correct. It was simultaneous and catastrophic.
Luca will never admit this out loud, but hearing Cliff laugh from another room immediately calms him down. Doesn’t matter how angry or stressed he is. Something in him just settles.