#lissa van de donk

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have you seen those pictures of when Diego Maradona brought his daughter to training, and while they were training she was on the slide lines picking flowers lol. gave them to a bunch of players and they were tucked in the top of their socks as they trained.

that’s what i imagine Emy doing while they’re training lol. and then pictures coming out of just a bunch of players running about with flowers hanging out their socks.

this definitely happens when she's been told not to interrupt (she prefers to take part)

this is also very lissa. lissa doesn't enjoy playing football so lyon players have been spotted with flowers or dodging a little spot because lissa spotted a little bug and they aren't allowed to hurt them, they also do so very happily and consider it good luck. the dutchies have also been spotted in similar situations. viv also did a whole training refusing to head a ball because lissa learnt to make flower crowns and gave her one for being the best at football

ngl i am obsessed with these photos and the fact i've never seen this before is criminal, it also reminds me of one of my fav kids from @woso-dreamzzz, conejita

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btw after quite a few arguments, lissa is in mallorca with ellie. daan wanted her to go to the netherlands to see their family, lissa wanted the sun, sea and reptiles and in the end lissa won. she visited the turtle sanctuary and turtle lake with ellie, was completely in love with the pool and daan gave her a camera to document her time and all she has gotten back is photos of geckos and photos of lissa from when ellie took the camera to break up all the reptile shots

she walked out with ellie for the match against canada and wore her shirt and then sat in the stands with steph and teagan. when ellie came off, she spent the rest of the game cuddled to her. daan managed to persuade her to take photos of the game and there are a few but they are mostly blurry but she did take a very good photo of ellie with the captain's armband before she went out

i might write a one shot about this but five failed attempts later and you are getting this headcanon until further notice

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you know what the best part of today was? i got the chance to fall in love with you all over again

part of the lissa-verse

chapter one: meeting lissa

Ellie only really knew Lissa from afar. She'd been dating Daan for almost a year but Daan had always kept her at arm's length from Lissa. Everyone knew they were dating except Daan's daughter, the person that Ellie knew was most important to her girlfriend. As far as Lissa knew, she was just her mum's friend and teammate no different from anyone else. Ellie was still sneaking out in the mornings and sneaking in in the evenings. Lissa was six now so she'd never known a time really before Daan had dated her ex, Beth, and the break-up had hit her hard. Ellie had seen a lot of it from afar so she understood Daan's position, it was just a bit awkward when Lissa was thrust towards her because everyone assumed they knew each other.

It was fine, though, she managed it. She just wanted to be with Daan and she knew that Daan would eventually tell her or she would find out. Until then, Ellie has started to make sure she took note of what Lissa liked. At school and to eat for dinner, the books she read and TV shows she watched. Daan talked about it a lot and she still had conversations with Lissa where she could learn things, Ellie figured she'd have to get her girlfriend’s daughter on side at some point and she was ready. She had brushed up on her dinosaur knowledge and some Dutch. The Dutch was hard, though, she was already struggling to learn French and it was just another complicated language.

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you know what the best part of today was?

part of the lissa-verse

chapter four: the world cup

Making it to a World Cup semi-final, the first Australians to make it to a World Cup semi-final was amazing. It was even better that after she'd done it, after all the pain, after one hundred and twenty minutes and the most stressful penalty shoot-out of her life. Even better was having Lissa back in her arms. Ellie knew she missed her but she hadn't realised quite how much until that moment when she lifted her out of the crowd and over the barrier not long after the whistle and Lissa wrapped around her. She wasn't just wearing her shirt but it seemed like her dad had gotten to her with the face paint too. A month was too long. It was just too long.

Ellie squeezed her tightly and Lissa's head was buried in her neck. "I missed you so much," she whispered to her, kissing the side of her neck. She hadn't actually managed to say anything for the first minute. All the emotions had hit her like a tonne of bricks from the whole day.

"I missed you too Ellie," Lissa's voice broke as she spoke and Ellie leaned back to look her in the eye.

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you know what the best part of today was?

part of the lissa-verse

chapter three: the proposal

They were going to the Maldives again for New Year’s. It had become their little thing when they had that little gap of time off and Lissa loved it. Though Ellie was a little intimidated by her willingness to swim towards sharks and somehow she was always the one who had to chase her. Towards the sharks. Lissa swore that they wouldn't hurt her but, as Ellie would point out as she herded her back to the shallows, how could she be sure?

This New Year, Ellie had a plan though. The ring box and ring had been hidden in the Lego collection that she and Lissa had built up that Daan hated and she said going to propose. They'd talked about it, they both wanted to get married, just one of them needed to propose. Ellie decided that she was going to do it. There was just one thing in the way.

She looked over at Lissa who was doing her homework at the kitchen table. It was just the two of them home, Daan had some extra rehab. It had been three weeks so trying to talk to Lissa about it and every time she'd talked herself out of it. What if Lissa said that she didn't want Ellie in her life? She loved Lissa as much as she loved Daan and she was almost more scared of Lissa's reaction. Ellie had talked about it with Daan but not once with Lissa. She had no idea what she would say.

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i haven't posted something for a while so it's time for an update that i am working on things

missing pieces:

evie in rome: 1,297 words of 3,000-5,000 words

a fight (request): 1,916 words of an estimated 4,000 words

world cup 2019 (fulfillng the wonze requests): 289 words of a mostly half-formed idea with no plan

reactions (request): 658 words of (an estimated) 1,500 words

is forever enough?:

emy's third month: 2,091 words of at least 10,000 words

keira and g meet emy: not started it but i know what i will write

lissa-verse:

the proposal: 1,173 words of 3,000-5,000 words

daan is injured (request): 1,856 words of (an estimated) 3,000 words

hope this makes people happy to see what i am working on and that i am constantly being cursed by my complete inability to write a short fic and only writing incredibly long fics. the evie at spain camp chapter of missing pieces was meant to be 5,000 words long and it was like 15,000 words long

i also have some other ideas that i want to do including a mapi/ingrid kid!fic and maybe something to do with lia walti and mariona caldentey but i haven't decided what yet :))

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you know what the best part of today was? i got the chance to fall in love with you all over again

part of the lissa-verse

chapter two: luuk

It had been two days since Ellie had done her ACL in the Champions League final and she was refusing to talk to anyone, not her parents, not her friends, not her family. She’d essentially just holed herself up in their bedroom and stubbornly refused to deal with any of it. She was pretending football didn’t exist. Daan watched Lissa eat her breakfast, she was a lot quieter than usual, and the whole place was a lot quieter than usual.

“Can I go take Ellie her breakfast?” Lissa broke the silence and Daan looked over at her, “I miss her.”

“She’s hurting a little bit at the moment, schatje,” Daan ruffled her hair, “Maybe in a few days.”

“Please, please, please,” Lissa begged, “I can be careful and I want to give her Luuk so she hurts less.”

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Yes, this is, of course, a personal opinion, but I kind of gives me the ick when children are so overexposed or even used with sponsors an things like that.

That’s why I love how Irene and her wife do it. Their child goes to matches, he may appear on TV, and he is an active participant in that part of his mum’s life, but they don’t really show his face in social media. It’s like an extra layer of security, and also respecting how he may want to show himself in social media when he is older.

In Evie’s case, she is old enough to consent if she wants to hacer her picture posted.

i personally i am very close to this as someone who learnt my mum was posting me on Facebook when someone i didn't like said they saw a photo of me. the account was private but my mum was friends with them but i didn't know and that hurt me. i banned her from posting me and she was upset and refused for a year but i refused to have my photo taken until she agreed and passive aggressive comments were made for four years until i snapped and i said she could post them as long as she asked me first. i was around seven/eight at the time. social media is permanent and i am very happy the photos aren't out there especially since my transition

i am not a huge fan at all of how harper and koby's faces are shown on social media, there's also photos of them naked in baths as babies and things are on show and that's just not it. i get where katrina is coming from sometimes with raising awareness of mums in sport but i think players like alex morgan, crystal dunn, tameka yallop and ali krieger/ashlyn harris just generally strike that balance a lot better if not perfectly. i think lina and lisa hurtig do it the best

anyway for the headcanons on the kids level of privacy of social media please read below

evie: her face is shown occasionally but lucy has always let her approve it and it's rarely a photo of her when she's not playing football or she's on the pitch/supporting her family. the occasionally when the rule is broken is a photo of her not showing her face walking narla or a couple of photos of her playing football in lockdown

lissa: she rarely appears on daan and ellie's feed especially during the season. she can be seen in a couple of their stories maybe once a month and more often on international breaks. her face isn't hidden but it's never a photo of just her, it's more often a family photo. daan and the dutch team much prefer to do photos from her point of view, lissa has always loved a camera so they have a little series sometimes where they post photos/videos that lissa has taken. it's always cute and keeps lissa's privacy

emy, sienna and matteo: no face on social media or anywhere intentional until she and sienna make their senior debut then it's pretty hard to avoid. even then no public social media until they are 16. matteo rarely if ever appears online even as an adult

élia and lluc: you would have to work hard to find any photos of them anywhere until they turn around 5 or 6 and then there are a few alexia posts of them playing football. their faces are never out there but they will reference their existence in posts or in the media occasionally when talking about their life. they also posted a photo of their feet when they were born but nothing more. however, jenni and alexia's entire storage is filled with photos they will willing show to anyone who says so much of a single word about their kids

frøya: the world doesn't ever even know her birthday. but there are some photos of her back and feet where you can appreciate her stylish shoe collection and ingrid's ability to style her hair. when she's on a pitch with them, ingrid has her wear sunglasses that she's labelled as special to hide her eyes. frøya thinks it's funny to not see that well so she doesn't mind

tilde and elvy: they pop up occasionally, more often on their stories but only in family photos and only when the kids agree to it. they are also spotted on the pitch and on denmark and sweden socials in their constant competition about where they have more fun and which country is better but only ever with permission and it's often the back of their heads and on their stories. they often make use of their close friends story to post about them to just a select few people especially their former chelsea teammates

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Do any of the kids ever get into trouble with the police? If so how do their parents react

oooo this is a good question

lissa needs to be bailed out one time for trespassing, she was 16, saw a dog tied up and clearly not in good shape and tried to free them. the owner called the police and lissa called ellie from jail. she tries to swear ellie to secrecy but she frames the mugshot and tells lissa not to get caught next time before letting daan do the majority of the telling off

sienna gets in trouble for sneaking into a club underage (17), she calls emy who bails her out and leah and alessia don't find out until matteo rubs it in her face in an argument a year later. they demand the whole story and tell both sienna and emy off for keeping it from them

elvy gets in trouble a couple of times for underage drinking (around 16) but she is never arrested, just runs from the police and calls her parents in a panic to pick her up. she's told off and despite picking her up at 2am, magda decides a 6am walk is the best solution for her hangover, it was a very specific form of torture that had elvy regretting ever going anywhere near alcohol

lluc also gets in trouble a couple of times out with his mates drinking and calls jenni instead of alexia but alexia susses it out and waits in the dark for them to get back and scares the shit out of both of them before telling lluc off

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international break check in with all the kids

frøya: stayed with mapi while ingrid went to puma in germany. the two of them then soaked up the barcelona sun for a few days before flying out to norway after the finland game and being very supportive in the stands against the netherlands

lissa: we know all about her mallorca antics, she's got a nice tan and thinks koby is very cute

evie: hated the norwich weather and questioned how hempo ever survived living there but enjoyed sweden. she predicted that spain would win 2-1 before the euros final and being right has softened the england loss for her unfortunately everyone else is being constantly reminded england lost while evie brags about being right. she's currently loving the euros celebrations but a little bit constructive criticism for the team is they could've done it while scoring a goal. still she got frido's shirt after the match and england are having to print her a new one because she took the trading a little too seriously and frido found it too funny not to accept (she also thinks it'll be worth a lot someday)

tilde & elvy: they considered their options and to go on denmark camp. they've been preferring denmark camp in the euro qualifiers because there's a little less group of death based stress and general rain in the countries they visit. it also had absolutely nothing to do with the possibility of belgian chocolate when denmark played belgium. magda was happy to let them chose where to go and let pernille dig her on grave with a chocolate spade. she got to say 'i told you so' when pernille couldn't get either of them to sleep and elvy was complaining about a stomach ache (but only after comforting elvy, she's not horrible). elvy walked out with pernille for the match against czechia and didn't like the shorts so wore a red tutu instead, it was very cute. both of them loved the celebrations when denmark qualified, stayed up far past their bedtime and danced to the music

emy, sienna & matteo: just beginning to become a concept being considered by leah and alessia as they panic plan their late july/early august wedding and try not to clash if with all the lionesses wedding happening that summer

élia & lluc: not even being thought about as a concept yet but their mums are celebrating 100 caps about two years too late

[lucawrites11]

Oh , it's just my opinion but how about frøya become a footballer , would love her to play for norway and have engen in her shirt and mapi's number on her back... I have read all your fics and your writing just warms my heart and make me happy so much...but frøya literally made me have baby fever....

Alexia and frøya new favourite tia and niece

okay one team footballer already... i am personally leaning that way but like out of all eight kids i've created, three are ballers and four are athletes so is another one too many? evie bronze-walsh in full back, élia putellas i hermoso and emy russo-williamson in the attack/midfield. that's halfway to a five-a-side team. they don't exist in the same universe but yeah.

(if anyone is curious sienna russo-williamson plays netball for england and gb, matteo russo-williamson is a music producer, lluc putellas i hermoso becomes a teacher and plays football for fun as a hobby, lissa van de donk flies around the world as one of the best vets to exotic animals especially lizards and there's talk of more bronze and putellas i hermoso kids in the future)

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pls drop some ellie - lissa headcannons 🙏

ellie is determined to turn lissa into a true blue. she teaches her aussie slang and also makes her try vegemite. she goes tactical, spreads it so thin at first that lissa can barely taste and slowly builds her up as she says she likes it each time. daan now stares at them enjoying their vegemite toast in horror. lissa also loves fairy bread and milo but daan argues that doesn't make her australian because what kid doesn't like sugar and chocolate

she starts to except she might have lost her when lissa look outside one day and says "i don't need my sunnies, i need my brolly, there's heaps of rain outside" and then later on "ugh, it's really horrible, can i just pull a sickie?" and daan is glaring at ellie like why did you teach my child to speak like that

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lissa did just make the tv with ellie's dad because he painted her face as well and she had green and yellow ribbons in her hair. she was sitting in between ellie's dad and daan

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daan’s bday is next week, what are lissa and ellie planning ?

it's the 5th August, the day before the Olympics semi final so no real plans right now, it all depends how far Ellie and the Aussies get at the Olympics. no one wants to jinx it or make assumptions but they have some presents bought already and she will be spoiled all day but they don't know where yet. if the tillies go out early it might be on a spontaneous holiday or back at home in lyon

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lissa is in the window seat pulling a silly face and teagan is poking her head over the seats from behind. lissa has been trying to give everyone a crash course in french all day but "they learn slower than you, ellie, and that's impressive". they are meeting daan in paris, she's already there

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Incase nobody ask yet: pls write a oneshot with leah, alessia and emy at glastonbury

Also wanted to ask if any of the kids exist in the same universe? Oblously emy and evie dont, but freya, lissa and magda and p's kids could easily all exist in the same world.

i haven't decided but at the moment, they are all in different universes. lissa and magda and p's kids can't be in the same universe tho because ellie won the wwc 2023 bronze in the lissa-verse but magda won in the harderrsson universe

also lissa and emy in the same universe would not make much sense because otherwise leah may have referenced a previous arsenal kiddo because lissa would've been around since before daan was at arsenal

frøya would also not make sense in the hardersson universe because it would mean a wolfsburg kiddo before frøya (also frøya and evie don't make sense)

most likely shared universes could be evie and the putellas i hermoso kids, evie and lissa, emy and the hardersson kids, frøya and emy