#abo jt/ebs headcanons

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Wait also have we ever discussed the first time Jordan could feel a baby kick please expand now

LOL SO YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT JORDAN BEING EMOTIONAL™️

because you said “a” baby, i’m lowkey tempted to talk about his sister giving birth to baby nephew, but i’ll refrain bc tbh it’s 10000% not the same as feeling his own babies kick the first time.

so it goes ~like this:

john’s chilling in the den, eating some Healthy Snacks, like a whole ass assortment.  he just picks up a lil half stick of celery, monches, frowns, then puts it back down.  and repeats the process with like 5 other vegetables – broccoli? meh. cauliflower? slightly better. cherry tomatoes? nO. cucumbers? Even Worse. bell peppers? mostly yes – before he gets to the baby carrots.  not only does he feel a flutter of approval, he also gets a nice, solid kick to the spleen that has him going “oof” and jordan casually reaching over to massage at the bottom of his belly –

where he then feels a Very Solid Thump.  

and he def like snaps a look up at john and john’s still crunching away on the carrot and only half watching HGTV and jordan’s just –

“…was that??”

john: “was what?”

jordan: “DID I JUST FEEL A KICK”

john: “mmmprobably. carrots are a yes, btw”

cue jordan highkey sobbing and making john finish the rest of the carrots just so he can get more happy kicks and chase them around the taut skin of john’s big round pregnant belly and he’s just “surprised you guys have enough room in there to kick” and talking to them and john’s just like…slowly chewing his carrots and probs crying a little too just watching his husband be already SO IN LOVE WITH THEIR BABIES

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And what costumes do they do when they have the other kids??

hiiii eafay, thank you for the Q ❤️

lol alright let’s say this is….Halloween 2028 which means big triplets are 7, twins are 3, and baby triplets are nearly 1:

matty, addie, and nico are PIRATES

hallie and han are def chubby lil mermaids

noé, kari, and ti are different tropical fishies

they def go all out on it too, like Letang family levels of costume/makeup 

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Can you please also tell us more about the big dumb alpha brain

HCs of things jordan’s BDAB has made him do that have not yet been discussed:

buy john a pair of UGG slippers when the temperature drops below 50 and he goes to take the trash out barefoot 

secretly (as in, john thought they were going to get gelato) take john to the doctor when he so much as gets the sniffles (and then take him to get gelato immediately afterward)

get recipes from Babcia and Vovô so that he can cook up to john’s Spiciness Standards when he’s pregnant with the big triplets and john is intensely craving is spicy things (and wonder why he didn’t think to do that sooner)

growl at the nurses (who are more than used to it) in the hospital who take the babies to get weighed and cleaned after they’re ~freed from john’s stomach~ (and feel REALLY guilty about it every time)

literally dumped out john’s dirty laundry onto the bed to wallow in for like a solid 20 minutes before taking it down to the laundry room (bc the sheets needed to be washed too so he just….balls it all up into the fitted sheet to carry it downstairs rather than use the laundry basket)

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Tell us about the first time the big triplets go trick or treating since Halloween’s in less than a week and I’m WEAK

picture this:

three Round Babies in pumpkin costumes.  jordan posts a pic of them on his insty with the caption “my lil pumpkin patch 🎃🎃🎃”

also picture this:

when they’re bigger (and old enough to ~have opinions on it~), addie insists that they all have to be dashing princes to go with her princess costume so no, matty, you can’t be a lego man. instead they turn him into a dragon – because he didn’t want to wear Fancy Clothes.  (john and jordan are knights in shining armor).  addie has the time of her life.

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Our house is freezing pls give us some Güd winter snuggle John hcs pls

john isn’t Extra Cuddly exactly, but he’s much more amenable to cuddles and he is less apt to shove jordan off of him if he’s trying to focus on something else and gets surprise snuggles

rather than actively seeking out cold time cuddles when he wants them, john will put on a hoodie (hood UP), his warmest sweatpants, and some fuzzy socks and try to look as inviting as possible without being obvious about it

jordan will literally always try to go lay on top of him because his Big Dumb Alpha brain is like “your omega is cold, GO BE HIS BLANKET” so he never actually notices that john’s working him

jordan will also try to shove his face up under john’s hoodie to scent his belly/make john laugh because stubble TICKLES

consider also: big warm snuggle piles in the den when they have at least 3/8 babies and john’s purrs lull everyone to sleep

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lmao wait a spoopy ask for Halloween: who believes in ghosts and who thinks it’s silly but endearing

Team I Want to Believe:

Jordan

MATTY

Nico

Tiago

Kari

Team I Can’t Roll My Eyes Any Harder:

John

Addie

Hallie & Han (who also use Ti’s Fear to do spoopy halloween pranks because they’re DEMONS)

Noé

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What were Jordan’s reactions each time John told him he was pregnant?

ficlets under the cut!!!!!

BIG TRIPLETS: 

They’ve only been trying for maybe five months before John realizes it.  His heat hits, low and simmering in his belly, and he drags Jordan from where he’s sunning on the back porch into the living room, pushes him down onto the couch, and works himself onto Jordan’s cock through a combination of grinding and gravity.  It’s slow, as sensual as sex on the couch can be, and John’s half-thinking about the pint of gelato sitting in the freezer as Jordan kisses his neck, nibbles at his bond-bite, and thrusts up into him.  

Jordan pops his knot and the simmering stops.

“…was that it?” he asks.  “Are you –”

John just sighs, blissed out and boneless.  He goes with it when Jordan tumbles them over and purrs when he gets pressed into the corner of the couch, even though the knot tugs at where they’re tied together.  Jordan sniffs his neck, across his throat, up to his chin and back down to the bond-bite.

“Johnny,” he says.

John keeps purring for a few beats, clears his throat, then says, “Hmm?”

“Your heat’s over?”

“Mhmm.”

Even though his eyes are closed, John can tell that Jordan’s frowning, confusion seeping through to sharpen up the vanilla of his scent.  “But if that was it, then…”

“Probably.”

“Johnny, does that mean–”

John sighs, stretching as much as he can beneath the stretch and weight of his alpha.  He kind of regrets not trying this out on the back porch; it would’ve been nice to nap, knotted in the sunlight.  Eventually, he says, “…we’re gonna wait for confirmation, but.  I think that’s a pretty solid yes.”

Jordan, disbelieving – or maybe trying to verify, to keep himself from getting his hopes dashed – asks, point blank, “Are you pregnant?”

Huffing a laugh, John finally opens his eyes to look, muzzy and dazed, up at his alpha’s searching eyes.  He runs a hand through Jordan’s fluffy hair, pulls him down by the back of the neck for a kiss, before pushing Jordan’s head to the crook of his neck.  “Mhmm.  Think so.”

As expected, Jordan’s scent bursts bright and sweet as he makes a wordless noise of excitement. He shakes, trembles, and clutches at John, saying, “Holy shit!” over and over again as he laughs, tears streaming down his cheeks.  He kisses John breathless as soon as he’s able to, radiant with joy at the culmination of everything he’s wanted with John since day one.

TWINS: passable excuse 

BABY TRIPLETS: 

John’s had a few concussions in his life, but there’s nothing quite like the whooshing feeling of the floor dropping from beneath his feet, of buoyant dizziness and roiling nausea, of first trimester morning sickness.  He braces himself against the edge of Hallie and Han’s crib and prays that the sudden acridity of his scent won’t startle them right back awake.

They’re hell to put down nowadays.

He breathes through it, waits for the world to right itself, and then pushes slowly across the hall toward his own bedroom.

As soon as he’s horizontal, the gross spinning-feeling of vertigo slowly dissipates and he’s able to note that Jordan’s in the bathroom, brushing his teeth and going through his typical bedtime ablutions.  He doesn’t say a word – mostly due to the fact that Jordan will scent his nausea soon enough – and instead opts to lie back with his arm thrown over his eyes, praying that it doesn’t return at that full-force intensity. 

“Baby?” Jordan asks.  His hand comes to rest on John’s thigh, a warm weight.  

John takes a couple of steadying breaths, moving his arm so that he can watch the way mirth morphs his expression when he says, “I think I’m pregnant.”

Jordan doesn’t say, “Really?!” doesn’t say, “Are you sure?!” but he does twist and lean in, pushing up John’s t-shirt to scent at his belly, pressing stubbly, smiley kisses into every square inch of John’s skin that he can.  He pulls back to grin at John, uncaring of the tears pooled in his eyes, and then leans in to press a kiss to his mouth.  He keeps rubbing at John’s stomach until the nausea finally wanes and his scent rounds back out.

“Guess it’s good we didn’t make playoffs then, eh?”

John cracks a smile, gives a half-shrug.  “You guys would’ve been fine without me.”

“Yeah, yeah,” Jordan says.  Soft and sweet, he nuzzles into the crook of John’s neck, smearing his happy tears into John’s skin.  “Looks like we’ll have to manage without you for a few months this next season.”

Humming a happy noise, John wraps his arms around Jordan’s back and finds that, for the first time, he really doesn’t mind.

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Lol what if just John literally complaining to Jordan like “I can literally see how much Marner wants Matthews from here, what the hell, poor guy, Alphas are so clueless” while watching leafs games

lmfaoooooo i’m not saying JT keeps tabs on the other omegas in the league (because that’s more a ~sid~ thing to do) but it’s def possible that there will be a handful of lines that denote ships or dynamics of other players.

also i highkey see auston as being the Aware one and mitch being clueless lmfao like. auston’s focused on his hockey/proving himself (i mean look at his season so far, holy shit) and mitch is Distracting bc wow what a great scent and also he’s just….a good guy, even if he makes auston take pics of him for his fucking ads, but…eh, they’ll work themselves out eventually. 

tbh i love mitch/auston as a ship but i don’t have confidence in writing their voices so i probs won’t expand it to include them  😩

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Which kid is the most like John and who is the most like Jordan?

oh looooord this is tough because i’ve def written the babies to have characteristics from both of them???????? and they’re also Unique, so it’s not going to be an exact match. but if we’re talking which one has the most similarities HMMMMM

Most like John 

probs Nico or Tiago. john’s a sweetheart, right??? like sweet and loves to snuggle and purr and take care of people in that vastly omega way of his, and nico’s all of that x1000.  tiago takes after the more stoic, grumpy side, and is LITERALLY only happy if he’s snuggling either john or the other two in his brood.  (but then again, matty has that hockey focus, and addie’s the more articulate of the kids, and noé’s super gregarious, so??????? lmao) 

Most like Jordan 

honestly it’s a toss up between Matty and Han, i think.  matty’s literally the epitome of goofy and loves to tell awful jokes that earn groans/eye rolls and han’s sassy af (though not quite as Ready To Serve Chirps as hallie).  (and of course addie has his protective/borderline possessive streak, nico his compassion, and kari his musical ear)

i have…..so much planned and i realize i’ve barely scratched the surface with their kids, but i’m still lowkey trying to convince myself that anyone cares about  the verse but ESPECIALLY the OCs, so 🤷🏽‍♀️ we’ll see how much actually gets done!!!!!

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What is something Jordan does with the kids that John can’t help but roll his eyes at and be endeared by?

WRESTLING

god, jordan’s notorious for starting the roughhousing.  john thinks it’s the cutest thing when all the toddlers pile onto him and he staggers as if they’re all too heavy for him to handle, actually strong enough to take him down.  it gets less cute as they get older and more prone to actually hurting themselves/others and john’s warning, “hey, now,” becomes the signal that fun time’s over.

(thank you for sending this, anon!!! sorry you caught me during a brief hiatus where i was focusing on finishing out my 2nd term of grad school!!!!! it was MURDER)

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And ALSO in the vein of purrs being different for everyone please grace us with a differentiation between (adult) Nico and John’s purrs pls thank I love u

sooooooo okay not gonna look up sound theory just for fic bc i’ve been down enough rabbit holes lately but like it’s all half in the pitch and half in the timbre?????? like EVEN IF there is no discernible difference in pitch or volume, you can just tell when it’s nico versus when it’s john. because each voice/purr has a unique quality that makes you go “oh, that’s john.”  but then real talk there ARE differences in pitch.  john’s voice is deep af (which always surprises me wOW) so his purrs are actually lower in pitch than nico’s.  nico, even as an adult, has a voice closer to jordan’s in pitch, so his purrs reflect that

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heeeeeeeere’s the most recent update, my dudes ❤️

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Happy Birthday!!! Do you have any set dates for the babies birthdays???

thank you!!!!!!! I DO! and they are as follows:

Matty, Addie, and Nico are born on January 2, 2021. 

Hallie and Han are born on September 18, 2025.

Noé, Tiago, and Karina are born on November 13, 2027.

unfortunately i’m not going to be writing any of their ~births~ but i do have one bday party fic planned for the youngest triplets’ first birthday!

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john tavares got married today and now i have ALL the headcanons

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Recently saw the pictures of John playing with puppies...obviously Jordan’s a sappy mess when he sees John with their kids but does this apply to puppies too?

hi, anon!  great question! it sure does!

in fact, i’d go so far as to say that it’s part of why jordan fell in love in the first place!!!!!! so the “2018 pucks n paws” calendar (of which i am a proud owner) features john as Mr. January and jordan as Mr. June, and according to this article, as well as my own memory, it seems like it was shot some time in september during pre-season (esp because my boy ho-sang is in it).  

tbh as far as the fic goes, jordan’s slightly allergic – just like watery eyes and gets sniffly if he’s in the presence of a dog for too long – but he passes that on down to baby nico who is much much more allergic.  as in.  lil guy can’t be in the same room as a dog because his throat starts closing up and he gets hives when he’s in contact with any dog (or hair, dander, etc).  which is super unfortunate because he loves dogs.  

but for real, in regards to JT?????  even cal clutterbuck isn’t unaffected, and he’s sick of these two bozos always making heart-eyes at each other (even though he takes full responsibility for getting them together).  jordan spends the day with teary eyes, and luckily he can just blame it on his allergies.

(https://www.nhl.com/islanders/news/islanders-puppy-shoot/c-291444652 

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I loved that lastest a/b/o fic!!! Jordan is such a good alpha. Does John ever worry that he isn't a good Omega? (Which is silly because Jordan thinks he's perfect)

hi!!!!! thank you so much for reading and for sending this message

so, it’s pretty normal for everyone to have their doubts, right?  and with the way this universe is set up, john’s a pretty non-traditional omega in society’s perspective.  he doesn’t completely melt at pet names, doesn’t like to be overly affectionate in public (definitely doesn’t purr in public), and holds a position of authority at his job (over a team made entirely of alphas).  but the thing is, with john, he’s never been one to be too overly concerned with what others think about him and his sub-gender is secondary to who he is as a person.  he’d probably like it if more people had the same M.O., and it’s probably the fact that jordan does is what drew them together.  sometimes he’ll snap at jordan – just snarky little comments or telling him to stop doing something – and have a twinge of “wow, that wasn’t very omega of me” but it’s easy for him to shrug it off.  it’s more important to him to be a good boyfriend/mate/husband/whatever to jordan than to live up to society’s standards of what being an omega means