#poly shaw pack

[jasmine-loves-writing]

Sam and David who tops?

[b-127-is-the-best]

SHAW PACK POLY!HC'S:

Okay, so, starting out with the Shaw Pack, it all starts out as usual with each of the partners getting together when they did.

THOUGH!

David had a one night stand with Baaabe and Asher before he started dating Angle.

But, back to (slight) present, who starts the poly stuff first, is Sam and Darlin' they both realize that they have developed feelings for David and Angel (Sam for David first, Darlin' for Angel first, then later (for Sam), both). It takes 'em a while, like, a WHILE, to confess, which they only did when Angel confronted them because they were catching on to 'em (Angel spoke with David before confronting 'em). Durning the confrontation, Sam confessed first, the Darlin' begrudgingly also confessed. They took it slow, but eventually started dating, mostly keeping it on the DL, only really telling Asher, Milo, and their mates.

Then its Asher and Baaabe realize, hey! We still really like David! (Asher for a while because I HC that he and David had tried 'dating' in the past, but broke up when Gabe died and they had to assume new roles). Asher and Baaabe confesed eventually, maybe a few weeks so they could talk it all out, before confessing to David. After those three got together, Baaabe and Asher started to date Angle too.

Then, a bit after that, a long bit (months honestly), Baaabe started to date Darlin', and then, eventually, Darlin' started to date Asher. And soon after that Asher started to date Sam.

Then last, but not least, Milo and Sweetheart! They enter the polycule through Angle 'n Darlin', Angle and Milo, and Sweetheart and Darlin'. Then eventually, they get with EVERYONE else (tsk tsk greedy greedy ppl shm/j).

So basically (organized by when they got together):

David: Angel, Asher, Baaabe, Sam, Milo, Sweetheart.

Angel: David, Asher, Baaabe, Darlin', Sam, Milo, Sweetheart.

Asher: Baaabe, David, Angle, Sam, Darlin', Milo, Sweetheart.

Baaabe: Asher, David, Angel, Darlin', Milo, Sweetheart.

Sam: Darlin, David, Angle, Asher, Milo, Sweetheart.

Darlin': Sam, Angel, David, Baaabe, Asher, Milo, Sweetheart.

Milo: Sweetheart, Angel, David, Asher, Baaabe, Sam, Darlin'.

Sweetheart: Milo, Asher, Angel, Baaabe, David, Sam, Darlin'.

[polydamnory]

Poly Shaw Pack Headcanons

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Sometimes when David says something kind of snappy or rude to Angel (tsunderes gonna tsundere), Darlin will just come up, pick Angel up, and walk away saying “nope. Mate privileges revoked” - doesn’t matter if Angel isn’t bothered by it, he was mean

Milo HAS borrowed that choke collar from Baaabe and used it on Asher 👀👀👀

Almost all of them have tried their hand at teaching Asher how to cook - none have succeeded

Asher and Angel both keep getting caught late night gaming by the others, and David. Is. Not. Happy about it.

Sweetheart doesn’t purposefully sneak up on/startle Darlin the way they do Milo - they know that due to Darlin’s past trauma, they’re a lot more likely to lean more towards the fight part of fight or flight instincts, as well as just not wanting to accidentally trigger them in general

The non-shifter mates will go on a group date just the four of them once a month - the shifters do too but most of the time they just end up playing video games together (Asher) or spending some time in their wolf forms

Milo and Angel are both huge dorks for Aggro and baby him excessively

When Darlin gets really touch starved (which is most of the time), the rest of the polycule just kind of pile on top of them

Baaabe and David learned how to cook some of the dishes Sam’s grandmother used to make for him to help him feel better on the anniversary of her death - Darlin tried to help but got kicked out of the kitchen

Asher and Sweetheart occasionally team up to fuck with Milo (also Christian lol)

Angel moves around in their sleep a lot so whoever’s closest to them in bed have to be the ones to essentially smother them to keep them from accidentally kicking or punching somebody in their sleep

Solar Solstices are TOUGH with them all staying together, but thankfully the four non-shifters can team up to tackle it - Baaabe’s on cooking duty, Angel’s the one keeping David and Darlin from getting up out of bed (they are NOT above sitting on you, Darlin, stop it!), and Sweetheart and Sam team up to do some sleeping or healing magic - it doesn’t help much, but it’s something. They typically end up watching movies or playing some easy video games that at least keep them laying/sitting down for a majority of the day. EDIT: the lovely @darlin-collins (sorry for the at) has pointed out to me that both stealth’s AND vampires are negatively affected by the sun bound solstice so I guess Angel and Baaabe are gonna have to fight for their fucking lives lol

The mates groupchat still exists and Asher begs to be let in it like once a week

Darlin kind of wants to be included in it too but refuses to admit it

Asher and Angel can both dress like total gremlins and it physically pains Milo to have to see it

Baaabe has dommed most of the others at some point

Sam took a bit to feel comfortable asking to feed on any of them other than Darlin, and even then he still typically goes to them first if he’s feeling hungry - he doesn’t really have a favorite, it's just that in that regard he feels the most comfortable with them specifically

Asher will shift and comfort any and all of them in his wolf form like he does for Baaabe - he has to do it a lot for Sweetheart, their job has them stressed

David often feels like he’s babysitting a bunch of toddlers because even when they were just friends, the stupid shit this group would get themselves caught up in is insane - the fact that none of them have been arrested yet is a miracle in itself. No, Sam is not an exception.

Darlin, Milo and Angel are all terrible with horror movies (this is canon) and David sometimes likes to choose one he knows will particularly get them when it’s his pick for movie night just to fuck with them

I feel like some of these could technically apply outside the context of the polycule, and you know what, yeah that too

[jasmine-loves-writing]

Listened to Davids and Sams first interaction again and I'm back on my poly shaw shit

[b-127-is-the-best]

your shaw poly hcs are so cool!! do you think the dynamic between empowered and unempowered would change at all?

by that i mean, think about how protective david is over angel already, etc.

what is it like for angel and baaaabe to suddenly have six empowered partners?

I feel like it wouldn't change *too much*, but definitely David gets a protective over baaabe (or at least as protective as Baaabe lets him/hj) and then Darlin' is just overprotective over everyone now like... Damn. So I think they'll be protective but still take them seriously; what I mean is that them being unempowered isn't that important to anyone (as stated in Asher/David's audio).

THOUGH I am gonna make a list of how protective everyone is on a scale of 1-10:

David: a good solid 10 when it comes down to it, but rest at an 8.

Angle: 8 maybe 9 on a bad day?

Asher: He's usually pretty relaxed, knows his partners can handle themselves but when it comes down to it, he could be worse than David... Somehow.

Baaabe: More jealous easy than protective (they KNOW their partners are ALL hot istg), but they usually a 6

Milo: Doesn't care half the time (Cough cough, pretends not to care, cough cough), but can get up there at an 8-8.5

Sweetheart: They're like an on or off switch to me, either they don't care at all and trust that their baes can handle it, or they are in full protective mode at a 10

Darlin: Worse than David/ same lvl of protectiveness as him so an 8 and 10

Sam: a good 7,but if it comes down to it a 10 but he usually trusts the others to take care of themselves, maybe just sit and watch the drama if he's feeling frisky/hj

[b-127-is-the-best]

One of these days imma make a list or spreadsheet of my poly head cannons bc im going so insane right now (⁠╯⁠︵⁠╰⁠,⁠)

[jasmine-loves-writing]

For those of us on the poly shaw agenda I'm living for the fact that Vincent and Lovely joined the pack

[jasmine-loves-writing]

I love poly damn but I desperately wanna hear more about poly shaw pack 🥺