LIKE ARE YOU JOKING ME LAD … the KITCHEN providing “a particular comfort” cuz misa brings dickie over to eat dinner and doesn’t want him to be alone and is like Ah Yes the place of my residence (toffoli house) is warm and welcoming…! “FAMILY chicken parm night”… about willmack playing Catan and beating toff…that’s mama and papa bro
the entire article is not about this it’s about gen-z players changing the rookie/vet dynamics of hockey but wow these snippets sure are something!!
a toffolis + little!mack drabble, cat's POV
ambiguous setting, imagine it after a tough game basically (re: blues game 03/26 i guess? that post-game mack interview was bruuutal)
bc i don't shut up, additional notes are in the reblogs this time (trying smth new). no cws afaik, mack's just sad and tired and crying a lot, but lmk if you want anything to be put here just in case
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Cat expected to see Mack's shoes in front of the door, lined up neatly next to Ty's. Especially after the past few games they had—this off-day was needed for them to rest and recuperate.
What she doesn't expect to see is Ty sitting on the couch, hunched over a lump of mass that one can only presume is Mack. He has a fluffy white throw blanket on his entire body and covering his head, one of the really soft ones they take out when it's movie night or storytime or anything of the sort. From what Cat can see, Mack is shivering hard, blanket shaking with him as he crawls in closer to Tyler's side, a strikingly loud sob escaping his mouth every few seconds. He's trying to make himself as small as possible and oh– oh. Cat gets it now.
She sets her keys down on the dining table, the noise causing Tyler to look up and over at her with a soft smile. "Didn't hear you come in, babe," he says. Macklin makes a noise underneath him, a wet, questioning whimper through his tears, to which Tyler quickly shushes him, starts stroking his back again in a sweet rhythm to calm him down.
"Is he…?"
"Yeah. We have our baby right now, isn't that right, Macky?" Cat peeks over the couch to see Mack nodding underneath the blankets at Ty's question. If she heard correctly, she thinks she heard Mack parrot "baby" as the answer, small voice croaking around the vowel.
Cat's chest tightens as the thought of her not-baby being so aware of himself, and she frowns at the sound of Mack's voice. Coupled with the way he looks, the obvious exhaustion surrounding Mack has her eyebrows furrowing with concern. "Why's he shaking so much?"
It seems like Tyler's reading her mind, and she's never been more thankful to have married such an understanding man. "Just crying it all out. We're working on trying to let ourselves go." Ty frowns, and Cat knows it's because the little baby in his arms is trying to be so quiet, trembling from the efforts of keeping his mouth shut. "Mack, don't you wanna say hi to Catcat?"
She watches as the said boy pauses, hears his breath catch on a choking cry, and walks closer to the back of the couch as he slowly turns to his right so he can look at her from where he's lying down. His eyes are teary still and bloodshot, philtrum shiny with snot and tears as he snuffles, teeth grimacing in an effort to both appear happy and hold his cries back all at once. Her hand peeks up out of her sweater to wave at him, natural sweater paws hopefully posing her as non-threatening. Macklin wipes his tears away with the back of his hand, waves a small "Hi" back, and she smiles at his efforts to try, even though he's not looking directly at her and instead at something else. Fatigue quickly takes over after he stays up for a bit too long, and he slumps back into Ty's lap, rubbing his eyes all over Tyler's shorts like the harder her rubs, the faster his tears will go away.
Cat's heart hurts. Not just at how small Macklin can make himself look next to her ever-so-kind husband, but at how much Mack is trying to stop and shut himself up. She's again so, so thankful for her Ty and the way he's silently asking Macklin to stop holding everything in. Sometimes actions speak louder than words for Macklin, especially when he's little—the Toffolis have definitely had practice with a little Mack that prefers present touch than empty praises.
Tyler pats the back of Mack's head, hoping it'll do their little some good to focus on something constant, and Cat makes quick work of unpacking all of her stuff before settling down on Macklin's other side, leaning her head on his back. She caresses his back, feels the way he slowly relaxes underneath her and starts laying his full, free body weight on Tyler's lap. Ty feels it too, if the look he gives Cat is anything to go by. They all lay on the couch just like that, with Ty eventually putting a random hockey game on the TV, until Macklin falls asleep safe in their arms.
questionnnn which of the baby sharkies would really like bugs and why is it graf
he’s in the toffoli backyard on one of the big play dates just crouched in the grass looking for things until one of the guys comes out like watcha doin there bud and he’s just. laser focused. i am looking for a worm.
wait ur onto something...i see the vision...especially cuz i love thinking about graf as a little who does his own thing a lot (alone, not lonely) so this is perfect for graf. of course he's in his own little corner n watching the ants crawl through the hole in the fence or all the small little insects on the grass, the honeybee landing on the array of flowers, bumblebee sleeping in the center.
graffer worm investigation dear to me, got a magnifying glass n everything and closes one eye to focus better as he looks for long stringy worms, small little worms, worms of all kinds!! doesn't mind the caregiver watching him because he knows he's safe, knows everyone knows about his bug time after lunch. answers so short because he's so focused T_T...answers out of courtesy but that's not his main mission right now!!!
gasping soooo loud when he finally finds a worm and eeeeveryone looks over to graf because it's the first thing he's said in. hours. graf sputters a bit as he places the worm (with dirt ofc) in his hand and pockets his magnifying glass, running to show a caregiver toff his findings n no words coming out at all as he stomps his feet n just gestures to his hand again because look at it squirm n move n burrow itself in the dirt!! LOOK!!! baby bug bug graffer finding a baby bug bug!!! worms are not bugs i know ok but just go with it for the cuteness factor.
such a cute thing to think about...i support bug lover little!graffer #real
thinking about the toffoli’s adopting all the sjs littles once again and thinking sooo deeply and emotionally about misa and mackie being toffcat’s littlest babies 🥺
i can picture (with help and adoration to ur post about mis and stella, and your fic with willmack and the puppies) mis and mack being the ones who struggle the most with their physical size not matching with their brain’s perception of themselves when they’re little
like what do you mean they’re not little enough for mama cat to just pick them right up and rock them around when they’re sleepy… this makes them soooo sad!! i feel like toff would really make an effort into making sure they both feel small and safe and tiny when they’re in headspace, like those are his babies and he’ll be damned if they’re not able to feel like it
cue cat waking up at 6am to toff building a rocker on the porch big enough to sit with them on his lap, or pulling extra weight at the gym so he can carry them to bed sometimes… just sweet papa toff who is made to love these babies!!!
i just exploded into a million fucking pieces what do you mean what do you MEAN misamack being so tiny tiny but too big for mama im going to claw my eyes out oh my GOSHHH T_T i love thinking about tiny misamack as just the baby duo ohmfgggg
i know i've written a bit about how little!mack definitely feels too big for his body as seen in my puppies l!wm fic, but oh gosh babymisa would definitely struggle the same way, especially when hanging out with stella so much and cat "hi baby!"-ing stella and mis thinking it was for him but no,, mama's talking to her real baby and not misa who's too big for himself, let alone mama cat :(
misamack would both whine so fucking hard about it T_T cat's definitely Strong (re: catsharkie clip from her instagram post where she carries them) but probably not strong enough to both pick them up And rock them back n forth in one go, and they hate that they can't comfortably bury themselves into her arms no matter how much they try, limbs too gangly against her and that's not fair, she's their mama n she's supposed to carry them!!
to me, misa's definitely more of that quieter disappointment and doesn't exactly bawl about it, but you can tell he's sad because he retreats so far into himself that he basically puts himself in the corner for being Too Big T_T and it breaks cat's heart when she tries n tries to get misa to look at her and he just won't because he doesn't think he's worth it
cat using her words on mis and gently reminding him that he'll always be mama's littlest boy, it's not baby's fault that mama can't carry him right now, but she'll make the effort to, she promises
and of course kids n their selective hearing,, misa turning to her n just "little?" "yes honey, my littlest boy ever"
misa climbs into her lap and buries his face in her neck and sure his legs are sticking out weirdly and his arms wrap around her entire body and he can feel his back, but it's his mama hugging him and giving him more warmth that he knows what to do with and in that moment he feels just so at peace and calm and small knowing that mama thinks he's little, and if mama says so, misa thinks so too!
as opposed to mack who would probably tear up immediately once she says she cant. he's very frustrated and sad about it but he doesn't want her to think it's because of her and could never blame his mama for something that's so clearly his problem, so he storms off n slams the door to the guest room
cat waits to see if he's either going to sit quietly to calm himself down or start throwing things, hears a loud thud, and decides yeah, lemme go up there and make sure he doesn't hurt himself or anything around him
cue cat opening the door to find mack buried underneath blankets and shivering and trying to wrap them around himself and cat tries calling his name and is met with a mumbled "go 'way" and a quieter "...'m sorry" and his voice cracks when he apologizes because he hates making mama worried about him but he hates being too big for mama even More right now,, doesn't want to be in a bad mood but he doesn't know what to do
cat taking a seat on the bed and sitting with him and asking him yes/no questions that she gives him all the time in the world to answer, and eventually macky coming out of his blanket-shell (the blanket's still on him of course) and moving his head into her lap, letting her gently stroke his hair as she keeps asking him questions and he comes down from his big-emotion almost-tantrum
her arm reaching out to pull him closer and into a ball and into her lap and she just "see macky? mama can hold you just fine like this. naptime, baby." but mack's already out like a light
i love LOVE how you mention toffs efforts to make them feel small like oh my gosh toff would do that wouldn't he. "those are his babies and he’ll be damned if they’re not able to feel like it." like that's papa T_T
i don't think he'd even tell the baby sharks that he's doing so because he wants to surprise them with it—presenting it nonchalantly to them like he didn't work day and night to build it just for them to be comfortable
im actually crying at cat waking up to the sounds of drills and saws and hammers nailing in the seat part of the rocker, testing the swing to see if it's got a good range of motion
cat bringing her blanket out to the porch, eyes still bleary and barely-awake and just resting on the seat lying sideways and sleeping again as he builds around her so she's there while he works on it and that's how they spend the next couple of mornings together
toff building a little compartment in the back of the rocking swing seat to keep blankets and pillows and stuffies so they're easy-access whenever they need it, especially when the littles start getting emotional when they're being rocked (which is often)
cat's got littles on her lap fast asleep and while she loves watching the sun set with them, her legs are getting numb, and she quietly asks toff to lift them to the couch/their comfy mat on the ground of the living room/the bed, and he flexes a little to show how much work he's been putting it before lifting them up easy, first misa to his room where he tucks him in with his blanket, kisses mis' hand before coming back out to get macky n place him on the couch, and macky subconsciously clinging onto toff so tight that toff has no choice but to join him on the couch as well
cat regaining feeling in her legs and going back into the house to see toff hanging half-off the edge of the couch, leg and arm practically caressing the ground, mack on his arm facing the couch and mouth parted snoring softly and she snaps a pic as she goes back to her room and catches some much needed rest there too <3
poor toff subject to a crick in his neck when he wakes up but he looks over to mack who's face is so peaceful and somehow it's all alright and worth it.
cat puts in some extra time in the gym too not to fret! both cat and toff working out together and increasing their weights until cat can carry like. half a misa. and toff can carry a full misa. together they can carry one n a half misamisas!!! cat's gonna work her way up, trust me on this she told me just yesterday.
this song im listening to on loop is making me feeling all sorts of things and unfortunately its bleeding into how im answering my asks which means you get sad sad hurt n then some comfort because of course. that's what age regression is all about!! the misamack tragedy of being so oversized. oh god they're. they're-
they're like clifford. and that's mama cat as clifford's mother. i'm gonna throw UP.
brother call me yaplin celebrini the way i keep talking holy shit this is longer than i ever thought it would be. this was fun and very sad to think about all at once,, love it when littles are too big for their bodies and they dont know what to do abt it and mis n mack are the perfect boys to subject to this i fear!! apologies to them...but hey my karma is that i got choked up while writing this so alls well that ends well. :" also they sleep a lot in the above ideas i realized...naptime is important yall.
thank you for sending this ghsifgh your mind is so big i too have had really deep and reallly emotional thoughts about this so emotional that my chest Hurts so fucking bad ohmgod T_T im going to contemplate this in my dreams as i catch some zs 🏃🏃🏃
https://x.com/jjxirn/status/2052850913178714419?s=46 this clip of toff saying he was playing with will in the pool throwing him around and will was on his back oh my god little!will is everywhere for those with eyes to see…
this is literally papa and his baby play fighting in the pool i can just imagine baby smitty’s giggles and splashing around and jumping on toff’s back just to shout again again!!! directly in his ear at volume 200
replace coach seeing them through the window with cat standing watching fondly and exasperatedly… omg it’s like this picture
like that’s cat at the top with her sweet macky or misa they’re watching from inside winding down and then toff flinging will around like a ragdoll in the pool to try and tire him out before they all nap. wow
stoppp STOPPP THE CLIP IM GONNA SOB SO HARDDDD...i cant believe it's fucking gone now but i FOUND IT BECAUSE I REMEMBERED!! watch down below!
the thought of little will being giggly and messing with toff in the pool reminds me of this clip i've talked about before where he's giggling at toff roughhousing n punching him T_T one of my favorite smitty clips of all time!!
the clip is absolutely papa toff playing with his baby, tossing him around and making big splashes and will doesn't even falter he's saying "again again" before toff even has the chance to wipe his face of pool water and see where smit even is!! smitty leaping into the pool the first time he gets in and nearly drowning toff because he's attacking him from behind!! asks (yells) to play marco polo and mermaids and everything, absolutely all in toff's ear and toff winces like bud Hey buddy your voice is right next to me i can hear you i promise.
i LOVE that picture help its so perfect T_T i'm thinking of cat with mack n misa under her arms in the towels on the pool lounge chairs as they're taking a break from swimming in the pool, them both taking a nap ("closing their eyes" she has to tell them to get them to have any sort of rest, although she knows she's gonna drag them sleepily into the house whenever will decides to come up) with her and she gives them both gentle kiss and misamack are practically floating in and out of consciousness because smit's so loud (not that they'd complain, they love hearing their fellow little be so happy).
cat laughing when she looks over and tytoff can barely surface the water with how much will's leaping on him whenever he so much as Tries to, and she's just "babe you good?" and all toff can do is give her a thumbs up before being pushed down again in a breath holding competition with will (where he loses, obviously, because he was given no time to Collect a Breath, and will rubs it in his face the entire time).
i kept rewatching the clip ever since you first sent it and sobbing Especially when julie says "this literally just sounds like if you were around my little boys right now" like are you kidding me!! that's exactly what it is!! will never tiring from getting to have pool time with papa and toff trying to keep up with such a rambunctious little!! little!will is real and true and so so lovely to me!!!!! T_T thank you for this clip...im in little!will heaven T_T
I just saw the picture of Misa and Stella, and OH MY GOD!! Those are truly the babies of Tyler and CatCat, your honour!🥹
I love hearing all your ideas about all the littles, they are so cute! But I was wondering, do you have any specific ideas about how Cat and Tyler are as caregivers? Could be in general or with each little, it just made me wonder how they would tend to each of the littles in the team (Misa, Mack, Will, Eky, etc...)
I send you all the love, Sticky! I really love the many ideas and posts you have shared with us! #LongLivetheBabySharks 🩵
Muak <3
picture for reference yes!! misa and stella are toffoli twins 🥹🥹!!
that’s such an interesting thought! i feel like we talk so much abt the littles and we gotta talk abt the caregivers and their styles of caregiving too!! so here are some scattered thoughts about the toffolis as cgs. i'm going to be heavily referencing how i wrote the toffolis in my recent fics + other general observations about them!
(and also some wenny scatterings at the end because cg wenny is near and dear to my heart like So close to my heart i dont really have much of an explanation for it other than he's so soft spoken and kind and would be very good at it. i think i just like wenny.)
(also also, this doesnt mean the babysharks cant be cgs, we're just focused on the older shark primary cgs right now!)
cat:
i write cat as someone who uses her words and reasoning a lot, based on how she pulls answers out of everyone in the never offside podcast episodes. even if they're littered with inside jokes (cough willmack), everyone she interviews is almost guaranteed to give her a pretty substantial answer, at least compared to official interviews (pre/intermission/postgame interviews and other formal media) where its a lot of repackaging questions and repetitive answering
this is in part because the questions she asks herself are so substantive! they're catered to everyone she interviews (obviously, especially when they're close) and gives them room to explain more. i specifically like pinpointing her hinting at will to talk about the battle of lexington and concord reenactment as "your mom told me about this Thing you do, what is it" and letting will take center stage and explain!!
transferring that into more agere centric things,, i think cat would always ask the babysharks what they're up to and what they're doing. and prompt them to explain themselves so that they feel heard!! she loves giving them the room to feel Heard!!!
shes always inquiring about their day and their interests and what they'd like to eat and what they want to do, and loves babytalking all the littles--especially when it comes to the quieter ones (misamack), she'll ask questions as they babble behind their pacis and respond just as engaged as if she got a non-babbly answer
idea: imagining will and wille facing off mack and dickie in a roleplaying scenario with some nerf guns, and dickiemack hiding behind some couch pillows as they try not to get "shot" by will^2, and cat crouches beside them whispering "tell me your status, commander dickinson" and dickie whispers back "supplies low, not doing good, its either retreat or die trying" as mack nods his head in agreement n cat whips out emergency ammo from behind her and just shhhhh and backs away as will^2 launch a surprise attack on dickiemack but guess what! they just reloaded wablam!
i think she'd also know when to be stern and when some things can't go unaddressed, like if will^2 tussle with e/o too much to the point it gets dangerous, yknow? she very much knows how to wrangle them back (the shoes at the front door being very neatly lined up), scolding them with a low voice whenever any of the littles try n test their limits with her
because its not only a space for them to relax and let go, but also a space for the littles to make mistakes without major repercussions!
i think some people might think of toff as the sterner one which has the potential to not be wrong, but i think mama cat lays down the rules in the first place and any type of talking-to is a responsibility she takes on. a scarier than the other parent when mad type of situation. be careful what you wish for when you misbehave with mama cat.
i had another idea here but i lost it. it will come back to me one day.
toff:
as we've all seen evidence of, toff would be much more physical with the littles, whether that be aggressive roughhousing or grounding touches. in "these hands" he's the one that's holding mack so tight ,, while cat's the one talking him down from his cry and that was very very deliberate because although i love cat so so much, toff's size makes it much easier for mack to immediately feel that smallness and blanket of comfort
same with my drabble where toff n mack are having physical quiet time before cat comes in and joins them: toff encompassing all of mack, mack getting to Feel Small, yknow?
it'd be the same way for other littles as well: he's able to toss around a lot of them or give them big bear hugs as necessary
he's a lot more playful and in tune with how much roughness the littles need from him/a caregiver. like: slam will onto the couch a couple times, he'll be alright, probably giggle and ask for it again, but keep misa on his hip, set him down gently, hold misa's hand when he turns to get something and misa cant see his face so the baby knows he's not leaving. let mack and graf have their quiet alone time and check up on them and provide soft rocking regulating hugs if necessary
toff would probably also be a much more solution-oriented caregiver (as seen in my first fic). oh, you miss your mama? lets call her and say hello, let her know you're okay. rough game? let's watch a show and take our minds off of it.
that doesn't mean he wouldnt be a great emotional comforter, but i just see him taking direct and concrete approaches first before getting to the emotional aspects of the issue
big big emphasis on doing things together. what i mean by this is that, contrary to cat, he likes being involved in a lot of the littles' activities, makes sure he's an active participant when they're doing their obstacle courses, reads to the kiddos before bedtime. super duper hands on to the point that its like Toff let's let them solve the puzzle instead of you doing it for them😭😭 dont worry when he gets into the swing of things he learns how to balance that
i think i kinda just write toff as being equally playful when they're big as he is when they're little, just a bit more Appropriate for their age. his tone in the rapid fire video is so like monotone because he is being serious, but you can also kinda tell he's being super duper serious about these silly questions as a joke (because the questions are meant to be silly) and its hilarious, and he'd play around with the littles in the same way!
"okay dickie, let's think: can penguins fly?"
"like sidney crosby?"
"sure, like sidney crosby."
"yes!"
"...well, no, they cannot."
"oh..."
toff also feels like. really observant to me. there's a drabble/wip? that i have which expands a little more on this idea, but i think he's just really in-tune with a lot of the team and that transfers to 1. his leadership (and why he's alternate captain) and 2. the way he takes care of the littles—he's the one that notices when any of them are about to drop, when any of them need a little extra care some nights, when he needs to pull them away before they drop into regression in front of everyone else.
some wenny sprinklings because apparently im wenny fan #21:
im a big believer in gift-giver wenny like he loves spoiling his kiddos all of them truly and it comes from getting to provide for his own actual kids. he's always got something for all the littles whenever its his turn to take care of them or whenever they come over and he loves seeing them light up when he buys them something they mentioned like. a week or two ago or something
obviously a little!eky-specific cg!wenny thing is that he speaks swedish to eky and very unintentionally babytalks to eky :]] i just think it'd be so cute for eky to just talk n talk n talk about his adventures with the other littles in a language that comes so naturally and wenny's very gentle with his answers, always prompting eky to show him that he's engaged yk
i just like knowing wenny is as sweet and sugar and that the kindness would absolutely extend to the littles T_T like he would talk to them in such quiet voices, gather them around for storytime with big voices and invite them to read with him and chose their own characters and has them raising their hands to speak and listens to their responses very intently
a kindergarten teacher. im essentially thinking of cg!wenny as a preschool or kindergarten teacher. hey, whatever works, works!
i lowkey dont know why i had so much to say about cat when as an audience we see her the least, but i think it's because of how Large her online presence is yk? there's a lot of things we can infer about her n how much she loves the baby sharks simply because of how much she posts n talks about them!!
i think one day i will make a separate post for some little-specific things the cgs do (like how cat would be with mack vs dickie, how toff is with eky vs misa, etcetc), but i decided to choose the option of describing their caregiving styles in general for this ask! hope this makes sense!! take what you want!!
thank you for all the love angie and i return it tenfold!! so happy to provide, #longlivethebabysharks!!!!!!!!!!!
clawing at the walls chomping at the bit foaming at the mouth for some baby!sharks play date hcs… like all the babies in one place… soooo cutieful beyond belief.
after deep scouring and re-reading of many of ur baby!sharks asks the image of them all in my mind is sooooooo adorable i need to unleash it upon the world and upon You 🫵 specifically
thinking of course of team mama y papa the toffoli’s hosting… talking to sweet misamisa about how all his friends are coming to see him and it might be a little loud but he’s always got them to go to or his quiet corner in his room… oh toffoli parents and their sweet shy baby…
picturing misa and macky playing sweetly in the corner… both feeling very little and soft and quiet with each other, macky slipping down a little further after seeing misa with his paci happily playing with his stuffie on the playmat in the corner of the living room… bringing his bunny lovey over shyly to introduce them… cat sitting a little ways away so she can keep a watchful eye and be there with soft voices and kind gentle hands whenever she needs but mostly just loving watching her babies whisper and bounce their stuffies on an imaginary adventure… oh wow
also having big thoughts about baby cherny and all you said about his latching on to others and also the reminder of that guinea pig video.. such a sweet boy i think he is on the floor with stella because he loves just holding her in his hands and feeling the little noises she makes ☹️ joined of course here by big brothers dicky and graf, dicky who cherny finds so hilarious and lets him let go a little and laugh a bit louder, and then graffer who’s still a calm enough presence to balance it out and keep him in a perfect bubble… dicky and graf feeling like such good big brothers seeing cherny babble away with them and laugh and ohhhhh
will and willeky having some sort of mashup game of mini sticks / football / wwe wrestling in the garden with wenny and delly as umpires / fond onlookers, occasionally jumping in with a reminder to not be too rough and mind where those elbows are catching please… them roughhousing is so important to me personally
all the cg’s just hanging out watching and sometimes joining in playing but mostly just all feeling warm and happy and oh my god try not to say family challenge FAILED.
i swear my asks get longer every time… can’t control myself… inside you there are two wolves and one of them cares too much about the san jose sharks… anyways enjoy and would as always luuuuuuuvvvv ur thoughts and musings!!!!!!!
my heart hurts my chest aches so bad at . all of this oh mygidfhfg iluvjam are you KIDDING me? yes yes unleash them for everyone to see and gosh specifically ME i feel so honored,,
so happy you've put them all together and gave us a glimpse of what it'd be like at the toffoli house with all the littles together im sick cat n ty would love hosting them T_T
thinking about tycat going on a grocery run with mis to stock up for their big playdate oh my heart,, asking mis about each snack they take off the shelf and mis either nodding or shaking his head, listening attentively when he points out something his fellow littles would enjoy (yogurt puffs/melts for macky, goldfish for will, assorted fruit that cat brings home and cuts up into little stars and other shapes for graf, relatively obscure swedish candies for wille, sour candies for dickie...the list goes on)
(now that i think about it i think little!dickie would have so much fun with bean boozled 😭😭 boy would love the mystery and spontaneity of it!)
making sure everything is wiped down, table corners have little sticky bumper things so no one gets hurt on them if they run around (cough will n wille cough), obstacle course in the backyard (for will and wille cough), enough kid-safe cups and plates and bowls to go around for everyone
sobbing so hard at tycat giving mis a primer and assuring him that he's always got his safe and quiet spaces in the house just in case, accommodating to his needs :(
if mis was to use that offer, he quietly excuses himself from playtime and taps on cat's shoulder behind her and cups his hand to whisper in her ear about going to his room for a little bit so he can have some quiet time, blinds closed and just sitting with his mama :( she lets him roll a small little fidget ball in his hands and the soft clicks being the only sound resonating throughout the room :""
mis and macky together oh the littlest babies T_T taking comfort in their similar vibes when regressed and how they regress
i love how mack got so comfortable with mis and lets himself slip all the way to babyspace after seeing mis with a paci T_T quietly requests one too from cat and she of course gives it to him, helps him clip it on his shoulder because he's still in the in-between, half wants it in his mouth but doesn't so the clip lets him keep it close
kinda implies that when he came regressed, he kinda was teeter-tottering in that toddler range because he doesn't really know how far he can regress when there's other littles around (which is more of a product of his nerves than anything else) vs. misa knowing he's safe at home so he's comfortably very small
them introducing their stuffies n loveys to each other i feel so sick, mack making his lovey hold up a little gift box velcro sticker and bringing it to misa's stuffie's toy house as a housewarming gift, mis' eyes light up and he ushers macky's lovey inside
the plushies going on a little adventure has me T_T like the path they take is the couch and they just bounce the plushies and misa's plush is leading with mack's as second hand and they're both humming a little adventure song together...misa's plush has a little totem with a mini sjs flag at the top!!!
and cat hovering yes yes T_T always there to point out little details about their plushies: "ah, bunny has a helmet now? oh, to protect from the rain? that's a smart idea, macky." "that's very nice of big bear to let mack's bunny into his home. i'm sure bunny is going to love it in there, you've prepared a lot for it mis!"
cat sitting on the seat so she can look down at them play, makes her seem so big and them so small and they love love love feeling small with mama :(
are you joking me baby cherns with dickie and graffer oh gosh
baby cherny with stella. that visual has me so dead. she'd be so tiny in his hands and he'd be so tiny rocking her back and forth in an armchair in the living room, petting her gently as he watches a russian show the toffolis put on the tv for him :" he giggles when she yips at him, cradles her so softly when he feels her fall asleep and places his palm on her chest to feel her breathing :(
dickie coming up from behind and startling cherny a bit, making sure to use his inside voice when cherns shushes him and points at a sleeping stella
cherny moving to sit next to dickie on the couch so he can lay down on dickie's lap, curling his body around stella, and dickie calls to ty like "toff TOFF look cherny looks like stella! take a picture QUICK" and cherny giggles because dickie's being sooo sillyyy and igor cant be a puppy, that doesnt make sense!! and toff, of course, gets his camera and gives it to dickie so dickie can snap a pic of his baby brother
graf would So listen to cherny just babble about everything, it's like cherny's narrating a storybook right before his very eyes, doing his part when he gets handed a cut-fruit bowl by cat and feeds cherny every so often to make sure he has his energy up oh big brother graf you mean something to me...
by the end of the playdate when they're all napping, cherny's got a mean grip on graf's shirt and he's being cuddled by dickie behind him, who pats igor's stomach like he would to a round little baby :((
toff setting up an obstacle course for the wills in their backyard with literally every sport you just said, the most active of the littles just having a free for all run-around-fest right in toff's backyard ❤️🩹 them roughhousing is also important to me ☝️ crucial part of their relationship actually!!
i love the idea of will and willeky being so physically close with each other oh im sick, eky letting will push n shove him during ministicks because hes just so adoring of will trying to be aggressive enough to shove will like that and it kinda comes off like a kitten trying to push a door open but will's trying nonetheless!!
the wills playing football and will throwing it smack into wille's forehead and wenny and delly gotta step in when tears brim in eky's eyes and will's so apologetic and blubbering apologies and about to cry too and doesn't know whether eky needs space or if he should go and hug eky, and this is where wenny n delly gotta step in
wenny goes to eky, talks to him so sweetly in swedish and asks if he's alright, lets eky sniffle a little bit as he gathers his thoughts and speaks back to wenny in swedish because it's just so nice to have someone that can make him feel so comfortable especially if he's tiny
delly goes to will and wipes his tears and will's trying to explain something that literally everyone saw happen ("i- i- hit eks, on the, on th-the he- head" *bawls*) and delly just being like eky is going to forgive you, there's no worries, he'll be up an at 'em in no time
eky holds out a thumbs up once he's finally calmed down. everyting's okay! the two of them come back to themselves fairly quickly and they, of course, start up football again like all that didn't even happen
i love the idea of them wrestling wait T_T especially when eky's got will pinned down and will starts tapping out and wenny just "eky, will tapping out means you have to let him up, it's not your choice whether to keep him down or not" and eky pouts and points an accusing finger at will's face "but willy is laughing! he's fine and lying and tapping out because he's a liar!"
"will are you okay for real bud?" delly asks just in case and will, sweet sweet boy he is, "i'm okay! i just like tapping the ground!" "willy thats...that's not what the signal is used for 😭😭 that's not how this works"
the little obstacle course toff builds and wenny/delly say "ready set go!" as they zig zag through cones and have to score three goals in ministicks and a touchdown through the little bars toff set up for football and have to jump over a set of blocks, just having so much fun racing each other and wenny has to remind the both of them to not cheat LMAO like "eky you can't just throw the cones at will to make him go slower bud, that's not how this works 😭😭 play fair"
not to mention they'd have mealtimes and cat n wenny wrangling all the littles into the dining table as toff gets out some mac n cheese with some broccoli cheddar soup and pieces of bread and specific snacks (the ones that mis picked!) for each one of the littles and sure they start at the dining table but all the littles have their own little eating places in the toffoli house (babies mack n mis stay at the table to get fed by the toffolis, graf's in the armchair with his legs criss-crossed, etc etc.) so they work with what they got and the cgs have a check in system to make sure all of their babies are fed and finished, that both the meals and the little dessert snacks are eaten
my family my family i feel so sick THEY'RE FAMILY SO FAMILY they love that this gets to be a chance for the littles to have fun together in such a low stress environment and they really do just love taking care of the littles too n seeing them so happy T_T it's also a chance for the cgs to get out any sad thoughts that the littles still might have brewing in their heads T_T love them so much
your asks may get longer but i'll happily read them no matter the length! never feel the need to control yourself when it comes to the baby sharks and my askbox!!!! the wolf thing is so true and my san jose sharks wolf is currently mauling my regular wolf.
thank you so so much always for sending in such lovely asks and scenarios (i'll get to your other ones soon im so so T_T about all of them!) and i really enjoyed just putting them all together in a house (my specialty and favorite thing to do btw) and all the different interactions between them T_T i hope my ideas have done this concept justice, i very much enjoyed thinking about them and i wanted to give them the same amt of love you gave them <33 ack reading this ask was like shot after shot to my heart i remember getting this ask in the midst of finals (which are over now!) and awwing so hard i lost track of time deadass </3 #therewasahealing
roadies are lowkey a content farm half my wips are set before/during roadies i gotta start placing them at people's houses and especially emphasize the importance of the Toffoli Third Space because its so important for these guys to not just have work and home but also a place where they can relax with Each Other
like are you fucking kidding me all of their shoes lined up neatly behind the door and. not a Foot Astray or anything like that even. and then having us try and guess who's who. and then will's 21st birthday bash continuation where instead of getting whitegirlwasted like we all presumed (let's be honest he still probably got whitegirlwasted his bday lasted the entire week basically) he's hanging with his bros at the toffoli house and exploring the Depths of Podcasting with macklin. this is the magic of the Toffoli Third Space.
