Also as I’ve been working in a warehouse for about a month, I’ve been thinking of a joke Destiny Warehouse AU.
Diana- used to be in IT but now is the second shift shipping manager
Drifter- Staging and shipping outbound
Eris- IT for night shift
Ikora- IT for day shift
Zavala- mid day head warehouse manager. Poor guy works 16 hour shifts bc they don’t want to hire another one of him.
Cayde- forklift manager
Shest (vex/exo titan oc)- Clerk (whatever it is they do)
Jester (hunter oc)- picker/forklift operator
The Hive Siblings- these guys own the competition warehouse and try to boast their numbers but in the grand scheme of things, they are the little guys as apposed to “Vanguard Express” (what im naming the vanguard warehouse lol)
I could keep going on. This helps me cope with second shift 😅
AUs i’m not sure that i’ll ever write, so i’ll make a post with headcanons part 2: warehouse AU!!
aka AU where y/n is fresh out of college and lands a job as an area manager at a local warehouse, only to be a total dumbass and end up dating a homra boy aka her employee. featuring S4 as the leadership team that is underpaid, overworked, and 100% done with everything
note: this is actually based on real life lol, so some things are oddly specific. also, i wasn’t able to include the hmr trio and anna in this one 😔
rockstar au
just to be clear, warehouse associate is just another title for a warehouse worker, while an area manager is someone they would report to for their shift and assignments. an area manager cannot be having any type of relationship with their associates out of the workplace, as this can be seen as a conflict of interest and cause perception of bias amongst the other associates. this still applies even if the associate doesn’t directly report to them in the warehouse. so in short, managers dating warehouse associates are a huge no-no and can lead to both parties being fired. riskier for the manager since the job markets tough and it will be hard to find another well paying job, especially if the reason for termination was due to inappropriate workplace relationships.
s4 abc boys + fushimi are the area managers along with y/n, seri is the operations manager, while munakata is the station manager who doesn’t appear unless shit really goes down
homra abc boys + yata & kamamoto are warehouse associates
hmr guys are the troublemaking associates that are the bane of s4’s existence. always coming in late smelling like cigarettes or weed, missing from their assigned locations for hours, and always arguing with the managers because they refuse to follow the rules. there is a lot of back and forth between the s4 managers and the hmr guys (obviously), and things calm down once seri gets involved
the boys are either lowkey afraid of her or just don’t believe in disrespecting women. but that doesnt stop one dumbass (either bandou or chitose) making an offhand and inappropriate comment about her. andy and hidaka once got into an argument with chitose and bandou bc they were lounging around in the breakroom instead of working. the two managers were trying to get the boys to get back to work, only for the guys to be resistant, which leads to a verbal back and forth that required seri to come over. it was during that argument where bandou blurts out that seri would be a lot cooler if she got laid more often….only for the entire breakroom to suddenly get quiet and colder than before. bandou learns that day to never make that statement ever again. and he never really got the confidence to look at seri in the eyes after that event
majority of the management team begrudgingly admits that dewa is someone they can see growing within the company, since he has strong potential. he’s less obnoxious, actually understands the business, and when he occasionally puts in effort, he pulls the highest stowing and induct metrics for the shift. his downfall is the friend group he surrounds himself with, and the fact that he doesn’t put in a lot of effort for the most part. one time, dewa actually found himself on the ‘employee of the month’ board, which got the other guys teasing him and telling him to treat them to dinner to celebrate. dewa is just confused cause he doesnt even remember taking that picture (he was high from a smoke session with chitose and kamamoto in the parking lot, when a disgruntled fushimi yanks him as soon as he enters the building and takes a picture of him for the board)
of course fushimi has told a lot of associates, including the hmr boys, that theyre a bunch of idiotic lowlives who have nothing to look forward to. of course a behavioral investigation has been initiated against fushimi, who didnt hesitate in confirming the allegations raised against him. of course munakata was able to pull some strings so that fushimi got away with a write up instead of getting fired, since he is an asset to the team. as punishment, fushimi was tasked of delivering positive feedbacks to the associates, in order to earn their trust. kamamoto and bandou were alarmed and slightly afraid for their lives when fushimi approached them with a compliment on their stow rates and how he appreciates the efforts theyve been putting in. yata, chitose, and shouhei take the opportunity to piss him off even more. yata, being the little gremlin that he is, would have a shit eating smirk on his face when he says, “what was that, saru? cant hear ya when youre mumbling and the musics all loud.” dewa and eric probably get into it with fushimi cause sassy men clash with other sassy men
in this AU, y/n’s personality is really dependent on the homra guy she gets with. so if she gets with chitose, her personality would be completely different from if she were to get with dewa
but regardless of her personality, y/n is a complete dumbass bc she risks her job (and possibly have to pay back a 10k sign on bonus for getting fired before she makes a year with the company) by getting with a homra boy, who happens to be an associate working at the same warehouse as her.
as mentioned before, y/n is a college hire new to the team. she joins around the time yayoi yoshino resigns, which leaves her to be the only female in the team, along with seri. a little upset about yoshino leaving the team, seri quickly takes y/n under her wing as a protege.
but unlike yoshino, y/n has a tough time adjusting to the job and some of the team members. y/n hates the job and is constantly wishing that another opportunity opens up for her.
akiyama, benzai, kamo are too strict for her, especially with kamo being a divorced father. fushimi and fuse are mean and ignore her, fuse being the nicer one. andy is too hyper for her to keep up with, and sometimes a little too blunt. goto is weird, no added commentary. hidaka started off nice, but then started getting creepy with boobs always being the main topic of a lot of his conversations. enomoto, despite being nerdy, is the only one y/n genuinely gets along with. he joined the team a little before her, so they spent a lot of time together during the onboarding process. it doesnt help that he’s clearly flustered by being friends with a pretty girl, so y/n uses it to her advantage by having him complete some of her work
on y/n’s first day, she is immediately noticed by a lot of the male associates, including the homra boys. its not that often they get a female manager joining the team, especially a very pretty female manager who seems to be more laidback than seri
bandou somehow finds her instagram page and shares it with the rest of the boys (luckily for them, her page was public). bandou and chitose shamelessly view her posts and stories, followed by shouhei and eric, who were a little hesitant at first. dewa, fujishima, kamamoto, and yata refuse to stoop to their level.
when y/n realizes that her recent ig story is being viewed by some warehouse associates, she immediately blocks them before making her page private
she is a little intimidated by the group at first, based on what she heard about them and from what she witnessed. once she was done with onboarding and training, she was especially nervous about having to work directly with them, since they seem to be mean to the other managers
the first few weeks in the job had her being tense and nervous while some of the guys would try to flirt with her. but she eventually opens up to them, when she realizes that theyre not as bad as the s4 managers described them to her (well duh, theyre not trying to get with the other managers). theyre nicer to her, listen to her instructions, and even help her out with the larger packages without her even asking. near the end of y/n’s shift, its common for her to be surrounded by some of the hmr boys at her desk while she works on her end of shift report. this pisses off some of the managers cause the boys are still on the clock, but y/n is letting them lounge around her
some of the boys start to vent to y/n, claiming how theyre always being “mistreated” and “harassed” by the other managers, that theyre probably “discriminated” for their tattoos, and that y/n is the only manager who treats them nicely and acknowledges their hard work. y/n being the dumbass that she is, starts to believe them and thinks that the managers are using their power against the boys (which is not completely wrong, but theyre using it for valid reasons okay)
she especially likes the group better when she realizes that there are other male employees who may not be rowdy, but are definitely more creepy towards her. the homra boys may or may not have beaten up those creepy guys outside of work once they heard y/n complain about feeling harassed by them
but out of the group, there is one who caught her attention. the one who tends to walk slower than the rest of the group so that he can walk and talk with her. the one who stands the closest to her at all times. the only one she accepted to share a car ride with, even though she previously rejected an offer to carpool with the entire group. and even though she resisted his advances at first, she eventually lets her guard down by letting him take her out on dates after work, where they grab a meal after a long day, before he finally drops her home. she finds herself to be a goner when she finally lets him kiss her in the privacy of his car. she secretly exchanges her number with him, and follows him on ig after unblocking him. there’s been multiple times where they both would sneak away during work to sneak in a quick makeout session in hidden areas with no cameras.
they both fail to be subtle at work, however. multiple managers slowly start to notice that one homra member always being wherever y/n is. he’s always assigned to her area, he’s always hovering near her when theyre away from the operations floor, and he’s suddenly sitting near the leadership desk where the managers are during lunch, instead of sitting with his friends. according to fuse, that guy is always hovering around y/n as if he wants everyone to know that she’s with him. hidaka follows y/n on ig, and notices that she posted a pic where she’s wearing an oversized jacket he swore he saw that homra guy wear a couple of times at work.
fuse even notices that the homra guy is even more hostile than usual to him after he scolded y/n for making a mistake at work
but shit gets crazy when the guy posts a picture of her on his ig page. he thinks he’s being smart by covering her face with an emoji, but he forgot that he has a lot of followers from work who would be able to recognize that manager, even with the emoji covering her face
you bet one of those followers showed the picture to hr because he was salty that he wasn’t the one who y/n got with
the picture soon started spreading amongst the management team. seri is stoic on the outside, but extremely disheartened. when fushimi first pulled her aside to tell her that she might wanna speak to y/n cause shes awfully close to that homra guy, she was in denial. when munakata would argue that y/n is one of the least performing managers and may need to be put in a performance improvement plan, seri defended y/n and was adamant that there was improvement, and that she just needed time. so to see that someone she put in a lot of faith on and took in as her protege violate a huge policy just like that?? she’s never trusting another person ever again.
akiyama, benzai, and kamo are disappointed, but figured that hr makes the call on what happens to y/n and the homra guy. fuse and fushimi think y/n is a dumbass and should get fired since she’s not that useful to the team anyway. andy and hidaka are betrayed, since it seems like y/n is sleeping with the enemy. goto straight out asks y/n if she’s fucking the whole group. while enomoto? he actually knew this whole time bc y/n confided in him. and was he going to snitch? hell no! sue him for not wanting to cut off the only pretty friend he has
poor enomoto tho. in general, he’s been an easy target for the hmr guys to bully since he’s visibly nervous when he confronts them on his own. but bc he’s always around y/n, he finds himself in the shitlist of y/n’s man. with ‘accidental’ shoves and hostile glares thrown his way, poor enomoto is scared and confused
during the investigation, y/n and the homra guy were both in denial, claiming that the girl in the picture could have been any other girl who had similar hair and nails to y/n. the guy states that he is dating someone else and that he doesn’t like how his privacy is being violated. y/n is the only manager who’s nice to him, but why would he put his job at risk by dating her? y/n states that she heard rumors about the guy liking her, but she would never date a coworker. they dont make it any easier when they both take the same day off after the investigation during that week.
unfortunately for the team (and fortunately for y/n and her man), the picture was not a substantial evidence due to the emoji covering her face, even if there are multiple coincidences and rumors about them. therefore, the most they can do is have y/n sign the relationship policy document, confirming that she understood the policy, and that she understood that she will be terminated if she is caught in a relationship with an associate
that doesn’t stop the two from dating though. although they keep some distance from each other in work, theyre still seeing each other outside of work and going on dates. the homra guy makes sure to unfollow everyone from work on ig, except for his boys bc they knew from the beginning and never snitched. y/n makes sure that he goes private on ig as well, and that he blocks the managers that she’s following. On the week of her bday, they both take the entire week off, which is noticed by the entire leadership team. but until they get a clear picture of the two together, they can’t do shit.
y/n once comes to work with a bandaid on her neck, which eventually falls off and reveals a fresh hickey. the managers are not impressed (“can’t you cover that shit up with makeup?” -andy)
goto once lurks around and finds that y/n has another page on ig thats filled with her posts at the gym. she doesnt have much followers, but he sees that she is following that homra guy, along with her main page. when he shares that info to the other guys, he’s immediately told to pull up the page and take screenshots. but when he pulled the account again, he noticed that she went private, so he couldnt take any screenshots.
will they ever get caught? maybe, theyre not as stealthy as they think are. but theyre both stupidly “in love” and not realizing the seriousness of their situation
Intrigue. I never really said it but the arcade fae. Separate the world continuity maybe. But how would your fae react to the little field guardian Dim. Or even the guarded supernatural forest nearby.
Fae Infero is gonna avoid the guarded forest, he knows better than to trespass a protected forest. But he’s gonna bully the fuck out of poor Dim. As an arson fae, he is the natural enemy of the poor little field guardian. He’s not going to directly burn down that field yet, but he’s gonna bully the poor thing.
Bloodlmoon investigate the disturbance. They don’t recognize Dim, but he’s an animatronic so they stick to their lambified base form as they question him. Who is he, how did he get here, is he going to take them back? They aren’t going back without a fight.
For the warehouse AU, please tell us about Scepter 4 as the managers! How they interact with the homra boys, how they interact and what kind of relationships they have with the reader, all and any headcanons you have for this would be great! Is there any manager/homra worker boy duos that really can’t ever get along and cause ruckuses at work? Do any of the boys ever go to HR about the managers or vice versa?
Let me just tell you that they’re 100% done with everything.
like I mentioned on the post, munakata is the senior station manager aka the big boss. he spends most of this days in meetings, but when he does have some free time, he comes down to bother check in with his team. seri is the operations manager who runs the entire shift, while fushimi, the alphabet squad, and y/n are the area managers who report to her. Fushimi, akiyama, benzai, kamo, and fuse are the more strict managers, whereas doumyouji, goto, and hidaka are the more laidback managers (doesn’t stop doumyouji and hidaka from arguing with some of the homra guys though). Enomoto is the most timid, having a tough time to confront the homra guys on his own. Doumyouji has been in trouble a couple of times for showing favoritism toward some associates while hidaka had a stern coaching bc he was caught flirting with some of the female associates.
The s4 abc squad is already overworked and underpaid, having to deal with the homra boys just makes the job even more dreadful. everyday, these delinquents come in late, walking as they own the place. it takes a 15 minute back and forth conversation just to tell these guys to do their jobs aka what they’re being paid to do. they sometimes come in smelling like some questionable substances but theyre able to get away with it since they’re not acting any different from usual, and are not considered as a risk to themselves or the operations. Its pretty obvious that fushimi and yata are that one duo that should be kept separate at all times. despite the loud music blaring in the background, the entire warehouse can hear yata yelling and cursing as fushimi taunts and provokes him. after these two, i think doumyouji and bandou would clash the most. theyre both the designated jackass of their respective group, theyre super opinionated, and they’re both easy to anger. i think their similarities is what make them clash the most. there was one time where doumyouji was successfully able to write bandou up, without landing in trouble himself! he was all cocky and in high spirits until the next day he comes across his face plastered in “wanted” posters for being the most disrespectful and authoritative manager in the warehouse (yes, bandou was petty enough to take the time out of his day and make posters on photoshop). *and yes, this happened in real life*
as for the s4 team with y/n. munakata has the least interaction with her since he’s a busy station manager, except for their introductory 1:1 during her first day. but despite their lack of interaction, munakata knows everything that is going on thanks to the human resouces team, aka the silver clan. seri was ready to coach and mentor her, genuinely happy to have another woman on the team after yoshino resigned. but she was disappointed to find out that unlike yoshino, y/n did not have the same drive and passion for the job, and certainly did not mind hanging around those homra boys. y/n is the most distant from fushimi and fuse, since both are pretty cold and not interested in being friendly with her. they both arent shy about making it known that they think she’s an idiot, especially after they get a whiff of her dating one of the homra guys). while theyre not exactly cold, akiyama, benzai, and kamo are also not very close with y/n. at most, theyre polite and cordial (and theyre not impressed with her work ethic). Goto is just there and tries to make some convo with y/n which ends up failing bc he ends up creeping her out. Hidaka and y/n get along pretty well and he did flirt with her pretty hard at first, but y/n learns about how perverted he can be when it comes to women with big boobs, and soon keeps some distance from him. Enomoto is truly the only one that y/n feels comfortable with, which explains why they were able to get so close during their onboarding. Enomoto is a little smarter than he looks, purposely concealing his love for h*ntai and p*rn so that y/n doesn’t get creeped out. He picks up a good chunk of y/n’s workload so that she can go home early, just so he can earn more of her trust. he may or may not have known about y/n’s budding relationship with the homra guy, but was he going to snitch? hell no! even though it sucks he’s not the one y/n is dating, at least he can still be her friend. look, he never really spoke to a pretty girl before, let alone become friends with one. so don’t blame him for not wanting to lose out on this rare opportunity, ok?
and yes i just had to put the silver clan as the hr team lmaoo. idk why but it feels fitting. but lets be real, both the s4 managers and the hmr associates think the silver clan suck at their job as hr. while they do think kuroh is the more competent one, shiro ends making most of the calls since he’s the head hr, and shiro is not the best decision maker out there. most of shiro’s decisions end with hmr getting away with disrespecting the managers and not following their job, which got him to lose respect from the s4 team. shiro later finds himself to be on hmr’s shitlist when he finally does his job and writes them all up for cursing at a manager, not falling for their excuses this time. everyone wonders how neko is part of the hr team, cause she barely does her job. all she does is eat, sleep on the desk, and run around the warehouse. neko is more of the engagement coordinator, but kuroh ends up picking up a lot of her slack, especially when she fails to schedule a meal event which ended up with a lot of angry and hungry warehouse associates
So, for the warehouse AU, I’d love to hear more about the reader character you imagine? What’s she like? How seriously does she actually take her job? Of course Shohei is end game with her, but does she ever feel attracted to any of the other boys or flirt with them? How does she deal with them hitting on her if not? And, of course, tell me all about the cute little headcanons you have for her and Shouhei please!
Ohhh thank you @chickadeedeedeedee for the asks! You know i love talking about my AUs!
For this AU, the endgame can actually be any guy of your choice! So for me personally, I’d have Shouhei as endgame, but anyone can else imagine the endgame as chitose, fuji, kamamoto, etc.
I think anyone can self insert into y/n and imagine her with any kind of personality, but for me, i think the personality of y/n depends on the boy she gets with. For example, i imagine y/n to be on the soft and sweet side if she gets with shouhei or fuji. for chitose, i imagine y/n to be a reckless party girl. for dewa, y/n is actually a bit more strict, but slowly lets her guard down when she gets closer with the boys. But regardless of personality, y/n is a complete dumbass here because she risks everything for a delinquent she met on the job. Safe to say that she doesn’t take the job too seriously, despite the fact that its her first big girl job. But to be fair, y/n hated the job even before she got with her man due to the crazy hours, the amount of workload and stress, the crazy and weird warehouse associates she has to deal with, and not getting along with some of her coworkers and leadership team.
When y/n first saw the gang, she was intimated sure, but she did think that a good chunk of the guys were very attractive. so while she was a little creeped out at the lengths they would go (i.e. finding her ig on her first week of the job), she is lowkey flattered at how this group of roguish boys who normally disobey the other managers, are ready to do whatever she asks them to do because they want a chance with her. it also boosts her ego when she finds herself surrounded by most of the guys trying to chat her up, while she works on her end of shift report. But i don’t think she flirts with any of them (other than a giggle and some teasing comments), cause she’s aware that can get her into trouble (the little common sense y/n had before she throws it all away to get with her man lol).
Here are some general headcanons i have for y/n and her man when they finally get together:
they definitely start driving together to and from work. it originally started off with the whole gang asking y/n if she wanted to carpool with them, but y/n immediately rejects bc she just knows nothing good will come out of that. But when she gets closer to that one homra guy, she finds herself saying yes when he offers her a ride home, thinking that it’d be nice to save money on commute for one day, and how its not like she’s gonna be sharing a ride with him all the time. When she’s in his car, she’s surprised to see how clean his car was (she was mentally preparing to be grossed out). He turns on the radio, playing a song from one of his favorite bands (that y/n actually finds catchy), when he casually offers to take her out for a meal since theyre both starving after a long day. She tries to deny at first, but finds herself being swayed when he gently grabs her wrist and strokes the inside with his thumb, telling her that grabbing one bite is not the end of the world. They get to know each other even more during the little date, and she is happy when he pays for their meal. Once they get together, it’s common for him to linger around the warehouse once his shift ends. He only leaves the building when she’s getting ready to leave, so that they can go to his car together.
y/n is very pretty, her man knows that, and thats why he is so crazy about her. but other guys in the warehouse also knows that, which is a problem. to make sure those clowns don’t try to flirt with his girl, he’s always hovering around her, trying to make it known that she’s with him. y/n finds it romantic, the idea of her strong boyfriend being protective over her. but sometimes it can be taken too far, especially when it comes to the point where he’s angrily telling her off for speaking to some guy he doesnt like (even though thats literally part of her job). i think chitose, dewa, and eric are more likely to do this compared to the other guys. maybe even bandou.
They sometimes sneak away to a more isolated area of the building during their lunch break so that they can makeout and spend more time together. Best believe the other boys are making a ruckus and distracting the other managers so that they dont get caught.
He’s always staring at her, even from a far, and she gets flustered whenever he does. too bad she’s not the only one who notices him staring at her
they both definitely sexted once during break when she was sitting with the other managers and he was sitting at a table near them. Hidaka swears he saw them both look up from their phones to glance at each other
He once fought another male associate bc that creep was making y/n uncomfortable. Luckily he was able to get away with a write up instead of a termination bc y/n confirmed to that guy sexually harassing her at work
