#coworkers polycule

[sage-is-in-fact-very-tired]

coworkers polycule angst hours - imagine how ari would have to feel. both of your partners - however you define them to be - gone, but you can't remember them. you're just left with this overwhelming sense of loss of *something* - *someone* (multiple someones?) - close, but you can't figure out what. you're left grasping at unreachable straws - grasping at memories concealed in a box you don't have the key to, and you're not even sure you want it. youre left looking for the two people that kept you whole and sane - but you don't even know these two people *existed.* you lost your partners, but you dont even know they existed in the first place. you feel their loss, but you can't understand *why.*

(And when you finally get even one of them back, you've long since moved on - mostly. you've processed the loss best you could, and now youre happy with someone else. they understand, of course, they always did. they were always good at that, despite their anger and upset and *pain* - they could understand. they don't hold it against you - and the two of you (still missing your third piece - *forever* missing your third piece) are far from distant. you make sure they don't drift too far - and in turn they make sure you're not alone when you need someone to talk to. not distant, not quite as close as you were, but friends nonetheless.)

[stars4krios]

Taking, yet another, 180 on what I'm yapping about on my blog to bring you:

Dear Headcannons!!

Office Siren Dear

Second oldest in the damn crew (Gav is the oldest & 34) at 32

When they left their old school like at least 10 of their students cried

They cried in their car on the way home after their last day

I am a "Dear is Kody's older sibling & he's been long dead to them" truther

Didn't know exactly who Kody did it to until FL told them

They found him and beat his ass (again) after

The only one Damien let's in the kitchen with him

That one sarcastic ass teacher everyone loves

Is secretly obsessed with sharks (they have what is basically a shark shrine in their house)

Is either dressed to the 9s or is in the stupidest shirt with the most hideous print pants known to man, there's no in between

Can, has, and will pick up Lasko bridal style

Took Lasko/poly DAMN crew to an underwater cave as a date once

Has an IKEA shark that ends up in damn near every cuddle pile the damn crew has

Will argue for hours about how water tastes like something and that there are different tastes

Would be a professional diver if they weren't a professor

Wears glasses even though they can see almost perfectly fine without them

[misterradio]

thinking about how some of david's moments of control over his life are simply choosing to leave a situation. getting suicide-baited by a bridge? just leave. hospital patients are creating a horrible creature? outta here. your daughter is crying? goodbye. like literally if it sucks hit the bricks

[vexedallay]

Just a silly little coworkers polycule <3. Base by mellon soup!

[mysimsyuri]

while im thinkin abt them heres a ship chart i did for funsies in ms paint

[astercontrol]

OH YEAH

I am out of quarantine and roomies brought home THE GOOD STUFF

Roy Kleinberg HEAVEN

CAN I HAVE ALL SOME OF YOUR POPCORN

....

RAM FLAVOR

[nonbinary-octopus]

the polycule infiltration fic is not set in Florida. it is set in a vague somewhere in the states that gets northern winters but has southern people. because reasons.

[sage-is-in-fact-very-tired]

coworkers polycule headcanons. brought to you by yours truly as well as all 3 of their respective cast members 100000 percent feeding into this (/lh)

- Ven absolutely makes sure everyone has at least eaten something within the day. Ari he typically doesn't have to hound on too much, but Icarus he *absolutely* does. (Ari usually helps.)

- Ari is constantly dragging a very asleep Ven away from his desk and or the main table to his bed because he fell asleep or is on the verge of it. More often than not she ends up sitting on the floor beside his bed and either reading, or she herself is asleep

- Ari and Icarus' part of the relationship is a bit more stained - mostly due to Ari's previous antagony of them. They're working through it, the best they can, but Icarus is. Having a bit of a hard time doing so considering everything.

- Despite that, the first-person Icarus breaks down in front of since the cathedral is Ari. They're constantly jumping around stuff, and at some point they just . snap. make a snarky comment they shouldn't, throw something, *something*, and it all comes crashing down - it all blows up. (But at least someone is there to pick up the pieces.)

- Cuddle piles in Icarus' nest are very common - both due to the fact Icarus' has the most comfortable bed (They're all very unsure how that one happened; but Ic is absolutely positive it's a quixis thing) and also just because. nest. (Icarus likes it to feel like the people they love.)

- While the three of them being in the nest is fairly uncommon - usually it's just Ven and Ari - due to the fact Icarus' isn't around nearly as often, when it does happen its always very fun. Ven and Ari just get smothered in fluffy wing blanket.

- Ari and Ven spend a lot of time chilling in the library and reading together - it's always fun and has more than once turned into "throwing books back and forth" kinda thing

- One of them (Ven) figured out Icarus can kinda sorta purr? it's a really low drawn-out bird trill that only happens when Icarus is *very* comfortable, but each of the other two coworkers have and will use this to their advantage

- Case and point; sometimes Ari has a really hard time relaxing after a conversation with Fable, so sometimes she will just straight up call Icarus over and drag them to their nest because bird purr trill thing is very calming.

- Icarus has started to learn how to braid by braiding Ari's hair. Both because they want to make up from lost time, and also because sometimes their hands are too shaky to make potions but they're not too shaky to braid hair - so they still have some kind of distraction for their hands.

- Ari likes to make them both little flower crowns and or bouquets!

- Ven leaves them both little notes whenever he fines the sleeping in the office - small reminders to drink water or eat something, or just a little note teling them he cares

- On more than one occasion they've all found each other passed out on the floor - while it's not very common with Ven and Ari, it's rather common yo find Ic curled up on the floor *in front of* their nest/bed but not *in it*

- Ari and Icarus help take care of each other's wings. While Ari's don't technically need maintenance due to their nature, Ic still likes to look them over just a precaution. Ari in turn looks over their wings - Ari hasn't been prompted to being allowed to preen them quite yet (Icarus is very protective of who gets to do that, which is fair) but she is allowed to touch them and pick out large pieces of dirt or silt or stuff, which counts as a win in her book.

- Icarus gave them each one of his feathers. They both carry them around - though they don't openly wear them on their person. (Both because that means Fable will know, and because then *everyone else* will know, and as of right now, it's just a thing they want kept between them.)

- Speaking of Fable, they've all learned pretty well just how to comfort each other after Fable leaves after a meeting. (Icarus can *say* they're fine all they want, but the way they shrink in on themself and look ready to cry and are very shaky say. very much otherwise.)

- Ari and Ven find Icarus perched and asleep in *very weird* places in the office much more than they probably should

- Ari and Icarus run a lot colder than Ven, so more often that not Ven pulling either or both of them into a hug just leads to them melting

- They're all respectively pretty touch starved, so they've learned small little touches add up and equal and lot over time

- On that note - Icarus really likes head scratches over. Anything else. Ven is more of a hug person, and Ari doesn't really have a preference but she is rather partial to either of them falling asleep on her shoulders.

- They have a lot of conversations about being worried about hurting each other - they always lead somewhere productive but some of them start of in a rather panicky place on someone's part

- They have a lot of hidden blankets around the office due to their habits of falling asleep in random spots.

- While no one will admit they have a specific blanket they put over people, they absolutely do. Ari will usually puts this mostly white with a snowflake kinda pattern over them. (There's absolutely a couple eye blood stains on there, but no one *really* cares that much.) The one Ven most often uses is a green kind of plaid. And the one Icarus most often puts over them is a lighter baby blue one with little orchids embroidered on it.

- If one of them is really tired while someone else is awake, and especially if they're yawning a lot, their ass is *immediately* getting dragged to bed.

- All of them like to put little braids in each other's hair. Sometimes they'll just start doing it while they're laying down and fall alseep halfway through, and other times they'll only stop because their hands start cramping.

- Icarus will often be the first to get to the office, and the first to leave. Sometimes they'll fall alseep with them in the nest, and awake without them. Sometimes they'll awake with them still there.

- Ari and Ven play tic tac toe way more often than they should considering, but. they do it anyway. (Icarus does. not understand the concept of tik tac toe.)

- On top of the Icarus can kinda sorta purr thing, they've also found out Ari can make very similar sounds to the Allay's clicks and chimes. Ven and Icarus absolutely use this to their advantage.

- Case and point - Icarus cannot fall asleep literal in silence (the thoughts in their brain and their own purrs *don't count*), so most of the time they end up curled and asleep against Ari while she is a) telling a story, b) talking to herself, or c) doing little allay chimes cause she's happy and comfortable

....okay thats probably enough it's been like half an hour of typing this and my hands hurt :((

hope yall like the silly guys; they deserve to be soft. (ignore the angst I slipped in there. it doesn’t exist. totally.)

[freckliedan]

i love weed and i miss my best friend so fucking bad

[goldrogerstits]

vash/wolfwood/meryl/millie is real to me they all have 2 hands

so tru bestie<3

[stars4krios]

I need, not want, poly DAMN crew content with Co-worker!!!

[fated-normal-767]

zephyrus pays august to work for him and august gives lucifer money because he looks at him sooo sadpathetic style about it and then lucifer uses the money to buy things for zephyrus. maybe none of them have any money and it’s the same 50 dollar bill constantly forever.

[avengerphobic]

Emma and scott have been together in the Krakoa era it’s just not as prominent as jott. Much like jean was dating Logan and Scott is okay with it Scott is also with Emma. This has been the case since two x-men main titles ago

he was like babe i got dumped by my other gf can you come comfort me and shes like no but you look tasty in your little shorts

[onrainynights]

a girl I was friends with in high school is now living with her polycule and some roommates and I promise im not burning with jealousy

[catmask]

awhile ago a coworker and i were play arguing whether or not the mystery gang were all romantically a thing/polycule or just really good friends (yknow bored at work things) and knowing my bfs interest in scooby doo i texted him asking him to be the tie breaker and he responded “well it depends which canon youre going off of” and just instantly cold sweat knew i was out of my depth

[stars4krios]

Spoilers for Friendsgiving 2023

THE SILENCE FOR CO-WORKER & FL TALKING WAS SENDING ME!!

Hux's "their really hitting it off" honey, it'd be dead silence if there wasn't boom ass music playing in the background

Also, "a really destructive orgy" is now the main reason why I ship the DAMN crew as a polycule, bc joking about doing it with all of your best friends is totally something a normal friend group does(ik their not normal but still)