#No sudden fireworks or mindblowing epiphanies or sudden wildfire romance

[yukipri]

YOI Future!Verse ABO AU - How Chris joined the family

Chris is Yuuri’s 5th husband in our big polyamorous family, and back in November when I was doing the family portraits, I also typed out some text headcanons explaining how they joined which I posted on my Patreon.

For Chris’s birthday, I’m sharing Chris’s headcanons publicly today!

Long, under cut, Chris x Yuuri-centric!

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IF YOU ARE NEW TO THIS AU: It’s a Yuri!!! on Ice AU, Yuuri-centric with end-game polyamory in an ABO setting, Yuuri gets married to six mates and they have OC kids.

BASICS and timeline of this AU

OTHER POSTS (comics + illustrations) in the Future!Verse ABO section of my YOI Masterpost.

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Here's some headcanons for how Chris ends up in this family:

In general, it goes much like this: Victor and Chris have always been BFFs with a LOT of benefits, and while they've never been romantically in love they're very platonically in love, as well as sexually and they did a lot of their sexual exploration together.

Chris has always been very attracted to Yuuri and has been pretty open about it (especially his fondness for his ass LOL) but he's also never been interested in looking for a committed relationship. He likes being very open and having fun with a variety of people who're also interested in the same. He's an extremely experienced lover who always makes sure that his partner(s) are having a great time, but he just never wanted all the additional emotional stuff and makes sure his partners are always aware of this.

Yuuri in this AU is pretty demi--he's quite oblivious about romance/sexual attraction for the most part, and can't really feel sexual attraction towards anyone he's not emotionally attracted to first. He's definitely the wrong partner for a one night stand or a casual open relationship, and Chris figured this out pretty early (while they were still Juniors), and was content to admire from afar and tease once in a while, occasionally quietly scaring off people who didn't get it from the shadows.

Then comes college and Phichit, then comes along Victor and Yurio, and while Chris has always been a friend/friendly acquaintance? with Yuuri, with Victor comes a closer position to Yuuri. Then comes marriage and Chris was like whelp, he had fun with Victor and it's gonna be weird (and honestly a bit lonely) never seeing him in the bedroom again because that's something they've always had, but it was bound to end one day...but Victor was like that's stupid, if Yuuri's alright with it and Chris wants to continue their open sexual-platonic relationship, then that's something Victor wants too because while not essential to their friendship, it's still part of them and what they share.

And Yuuri's okay with it, he genuinely really likes Chris and more importantly knows and trusts Chris, has honestly known him (however from a distance) the longest out of all of them? And while Chris is very firm on his lack of interest in a committed relationship, he's also honest about his attraction to Yuuri, and Victor's pretty happy because his relationship with Chris is something he'd like to share with Yuuri too. Given his experience now with Phichit, Victor, and Yurio, Yuuri feels a bit more confident and honestly if he's gonna trust anyone else it's gonna be Chris and he'd be lying if he said he didn't find Chris attractive, so...

...is all it was supposed to be. Chris comes to hang out a lot because he's still Victor's BFF and Victor has a sweet house, he was already friends with Phichit but he's getting along better and better with the others (and for some reason often ends up coordinating with Otabek), of course he's delighted to share any time with Yuuri, the sexytimes are fun and flexible, and the kids are adorable and Chris doesn't see himself wanting his own so all the more reason to get attached to your best mate's, right?

And sure, when he gets a temp job in Asia he sorta more or less moves in (semi?) permanently (like why would you ever even think about a hotel if your friend lives in an ice rink-hot springs palace?), and sure he sorta gets his own personal room, and sure he sorta helps Yuuri train the lil ones at the rink and then helps Minami tutor the kids in schoolwork and yeah he just went grocery shopping so Yurio can make dinner but like, that's normal right???

Another thing that's sorta been on going with him and Yuuri that was supposed to be entirely a joke is that they call each other really disgustingly cheesy pet names. Like Yuuri in general isn't very fond of super coupley pet names and sure he'll throw around a "Yes dear," once in a while, he honestly cringes a bit at "Honey," "Baby," "Babe," etc. But with Chris it's always been nothing but play-pretend so they toss these around very casually without batting an eye along with the mutual ass gropes that have just become part of daily routine, and Victor finds it endlessly amusing because anyone uses those pet names and Yuuri'll make the Face of mild disgust.

And then there's Yuuji. This is going to be the topic of one the upcoming Yuuji-centric 4Komas, but Yuuji goes through a phase when he was younger and just starting to talk where he just calls EVERYONE "Papa." Because he likes the word, because there's a lot of Papas and the parents assume he's just trying to figure out who he can apply it to, there's a lot of people and it can get confusing so it's fine if he takes his time. Yuuji gets bored of calling everyone other than his actual dads Papa within a few months, but for some reason has NEVER stopped calling Chris and Otabek this. Even when he, like the other kids, learns to call the dads by first name when talking about them in 3rd person and there's a need to distinguish them, he still goes back to calling them "Papa" in 2nd person.

Yuuri's terribly flustered that Yuuji refuses to stop calling Otabek this even though Otabek says he doesn't mind, it's quite an honor really, and Yurio thinks it's hilarious, and Yuuji looks so smug Yuuri throws up his hands and goes fine! whatever.

With Chris though, it sorta very naturally falls in place with their Honey-Darling mock relationship, and whenever Yuuji says, "Papa," Chris always returns "Yes, son?" without batting an eye. They're pretty sure Yuuji knows that's not the case at this point but whatever, what's the harm?

...So one day Chris wakes up as usual in the Katsuki household with Victor snoring on one arm and Yuuri on the other, and Yuuri mumbles, "Good morning, Babe," and Chris automatically responds, "Morning Honey," and they kiss with nasty morning breath, and Yuuji pokes his head in the room and sees that Chris is awake and says, "Papa, the dogs want to poo," or some shit, and Chris is like alright son let's let the dogs go poo.

And while he's watching the dogs prance around in the back yard with Yuuji dangling from his back, drinking coffee that Phichit had made, Chris sorta thinks--what the fuck am I doing? And how long have I been doing this? Is it just me or has this been going on for more than a decade? When was the last time I had some fun (or even wanted to) with anyone outside this family?

...Is it just me or am I already more than committed?

........and then when Victor finally crawls downstairs and has his coffee too and Yuuri's still sleeping in with Yurio and Minami, Chris is like, so uh, mind sharing Yuuri's ring size...

And Victor may or may not have spat out his coffee before ringing Phichit down from his office and they may or may not have exchanged money because the fucks had apparently been betting on him and Chris just sorta groans because his friends are terrible but this is apparently his life now.

....is basically what I have planned at the moment ^ ^;;;;;