In honor of Throttled’s three-year anniversary, here are some Slade family head cannons!
Noah does the cooking in the house.
Maya’s responsibility is to read out the recipe he’s making.
Noah always participates in Maya’s vlogs when she asks and threatens asks everyone else with him to do it as well.
Maya realizes she gained 10K followers overnight when she posted an Instagram story with Noah walking around shirtless behind her in the frame.
Shirtless Noah is then banned in the household.
Maya’s parents favor Noah over both Santiago and Maya, and Noah never stops flaunting it.
Noah watches soap operas with his mother-in-law and does not stop talking about the plotline for days.
Whenever they fight, Maya retaliates by wearing Santiago’s number again.
Noah’s equivalent to sleeping on the couch during fights is hanging at Santi’s place till he gets kicked out to go “make up with his wife”
Occasionally, Maya is the third wheel in Noah and Santiago’s bromance.
After retiring, Noah only comes back to Bandini as Team Principal after James Mitchell retires from the post.
Having Liam and Sophie as neighbors means lots of joint dinner parties, festival celebrations, emergency midnight crisis contacts and accidental witnessing of things like -
Noah and Maya witnessing Liam and Sophie trampoline jumping into their pool from the roof.
Liam and Sophie watching Noah discuss the latest soap opera in heavy detail over barbeque with a full outline of the characters, plot twists and the villains (Sophie doesn’t know but Liam asks about the channel and the time it airs after dinner).
Because of his issues with his parents, Maya is first anxious to tell Noah that she’s pregnant.
Noah bursts into tears with happiness when she does tell him though.
Maya’s cravings make Noah a professional chef who sometimes races.
Noah tries to stop Maya from travelling with him and only allows her to do it till her second trimester.
Maya never tells Noah, but she thinks he looks hot carrying a baby bag filled with essentials.
Noah is on the podium when Maya’s water breaks.
Maya is carried by Noah to the car with Santi and Jax clearing out the way.
The two hours Maya is in labor are the most excruciating of his entire life and he hates that he agreed to let her be present at the race where so many things could have gone wrong.
Noah cries when the Doctor tells him his wife and son are both in good condition. Noah cries harder when he holds Marko for the first time.
Marko has the most loving and doting parents in the world, the best grandparents and the coolest uncle.
Marko develops a love for racing at a very early age.
Unlike his own father, Noah lets Marko take it at his own pace. He is proud of his son and even more proud that they love the same sport, but he does not want to be controlling and obsessive.
Maya loves setting up playdates with Sophie’s twins the moment she finds out about Marko’s little crush.
Initially, Marko chooses his mother’s birthday date as his car number.
He is offered a contract from Bandini at the age of 20. Noah takes a backseat from being the Team Principal, becomes a strategist instead.
Tio Santi is his go-to person for everything. When his parents come off as overbearing? Sleepover at Tio Santi’s. Love advice for a girl’s he crushed on his whole life? Tio Santi. How to bail him from trouble without letting his parents know? Tio Santi.
Marko is a vivid reader after he borrows Stephen King's books from Liam one time. He also takes suggestions from Sophie about the romance books her daughter is currently into.
When Maya finally conceives their daughter, Noah nearly passes out from hearing the news.
When Baby Slade is born, no one loves and dotes on her like Marko does. Whatever she wants, she will get.
A 12-year age difference means Marko is very protective of her.
Baby Slade is fawned over by her father and spoiled rotten by both the Slade men.
When she starts pre-school, Noah is a rare father in the hordes of mothers trying to get his wailing daughter to go inside.
Noah does not notice all the women fanning themselves when his daughter rushes into his arms but Maya having already witnessed this during Marko’s preschool does after which Papa Slade is banned never to pick his daughter up alone.
Maya sings her daughter to sleep in spanish most nights.
Baby Slade follows everything her older brother does -
Starts writing with her left hand because “Koko” does.
Wants her hair styled like Koko’s.
Wants to race as well as Koko (cue heartbroken Noah).
When her date for prom does not show up, Marko flies in on the eve of a Grand Prix to take her and flies her out for his race later the next day.
The older she gets, the more she teases her brother about his one-sided love.
They are openly proud of each other’s achievements; he posts about the school awards she’s won on his stories, and she always keeps tracks of her big brother’s races.
Maya loves how they are as close as Santi and her.
Her first boyfriend has to be escorted out of their home, sniffing and on the verge of tears, by an apologetic Maya thanks to the Slade men drilling him incessantly.
After which Noah and Marko have to earn the youngest Slade's affection back and ask for forgiveness not less than a hundred times.
Tio Santi is her favorite adult and like her older brother, she loves calling him her superhero.
Both Slade siblings are fluent in atleast 3 languages. Their motto is - Spanish, sexy and Slade.
No matter how old they get, Noah still calls Marko “monkey” and his daughter “princess”
No matter how old they get, the Slade children never not love how involved, cherished and loved their parents make them feel.
No matter how old they get, Noah and Maya still dance in the kitchen to soft music with dimmed lights constantly reminding each other how loved they are and how there is no other place they’d rather be.
THIS WAS A LOT LONGER THAN I PLANNED FOR IT TO BE AND BY THE END OF IT I DIDN’T PLAN TO GET SO EMOTIONAL. THIS SERIES MEANS SO MUCH TO ME AND I LOVE ALL THE CHARACTERS SO MUCH THAT IT IS OVERWHELMING AT TIMES
