#ootc

[strwbrryagcd]

🏒 out of the cold

chapter three: is this entertaining?

by strwbrryfox | E | Chapter 3/? | 7k | T: 21K

tags: hockey au, rivals to teammates to lovers, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, hockeyplayer!alex, hockey player!henry

summary:

Never in his eight-year career in this league had Alex witnessed such an intense and melodramatic reaction to a trade. In theory, he knew that Henry Fox was considered a big deal, but that didn’t mean that he understood why. The fact of the matter was that he knew exactly who Henry Fox was. Henry Fox, Son of Hockey Royalty. Henry Fox, the bane of Alex’s existence.

or, a professional hockey au where nhl superstars alex and henry have been rivals since they were sixteen years old. eleven years later, in a move that completely rocks the entire NHL and its fanbase, they become teammates. alex swears to himself that he just wants to keep his head down, stay in his own lane and play hockey. but, well, alex has never been good at doing either of those things when it comes to henry fox. a few mishaps and a round of damage control later force them to put their differences aside for the sake of their team, and if it also has alex reconsidering his stance on fox quite substantially, that’s no one’s business but his own, right?

start from the beginning: here

read chapter two here

[hom3land3r]

//Sup guys! 👋

Just a lil FYI: Homie and I are going on a mini vacation! I’m visiting family for the weekend and won’t be home till sometime Sunday afternoon.

Course, someone couldn’t leave without seeing himself off first (in more ways than one…). Ahem.

So yeah, replies will be slow till we get back. I did my best to reply to everything I owed as of tonight (28th Sep), which are queued to filter out during Friday. For threads, I’m up to date. If you don’t get a reply on Friday, it means that tumblr hasn’t notified me you replied. In which case just tag me in your post and I’ll get to it when I’m back.

Try and not miss us too much. ✌️😜💙🇺🇸

[hom3land3r]

//He SAW it!!!!

The fact that Homie and Zeus have been Ant approved is so incredible. I’m so, so happy he saw your gorgeous work. 💙🇺🇸

When I tell you I squealed

[discount-kirishima]

gege writing "i'll keep doing my best on my next work!" on that last chapter is so funny to me, like bestie you weren't even doing your best on this one don't fucking lie you're literally never writing again after how badly jjk ended

[nyxi-pixie]

thinking abt how christies ability could have been based off marple or poirot and be an investigative type ability or something like that. but instead its and then there were none.

in which everyone dies due to their unpunished crimes.

[basedtater]

I feel like I should go hunt down the 616 fics that I've read over the years and make a recommendation list for 616 winterhawkies bc it's such a difficult thing to find those kinds of fics bc so many people mistag marvel fics

[flowerpersephone]

when the wine isnt even good you just want to get tipsy bc the weather is shitty and you're 700 km from all your loved ones

[belicotruth]

Rate his ootc (outfit of the cycle)

[hom3land3r]

//Yeah, I reported your bitch ass.

// I re-read some of the shit Aurelia says to @hom3land3r and I think I know why her old Twitter got suspended, LMAO.

[hom3land3r]

This is purely just out of my own curiosity. I absolutely would not take any offence whatsoever with regard to any answers given. I’m just fascinated to see how my writing comes across. ✌️😁💙

[synthshenanigans]

I'm curious as to peoples idea for what he'd do for the next power hour so

[These all being popular ideas or ppl he's mentioned]

This was all just a ploy to get you to read my info dump theory on the concept of a Chonny Jash Power Hour loser HAHAHA

Im joking tho. Not about my CJPH theory, that is very much real but I'm not forcing you to read it lol

However if you're curious, my inane rambles are further down :}

[Long Rant Post Below]

Okay so I'm gonna start with the basic idea I got it from; that being Nerd. Nerd already foreshadowed the THDPH & the WWPH [Even down to the last song for each of them] Not only that, but he references the stuff hes done in the past as well with a break/pause inbetween.

[This is what I mean]

The first three being all stuff he already did. BDG with Pocket, Tally Hall with Vol.1 & then Cage by Tim Minchin being the start the power hours.

The next two being the power hours he would do after this song [Memento Mori & Charlie's Inferno-Will Wood & That Handsome Devil]. But those are the only songs he would reference in Nerd, leaving no more clues as to what the last one would be. The only thing left in it is the video game references & Stairway to Heaven in the ending. [Which oddly enough also fit the pattern in a way. StH being about dying and the afterlife like Memento Mori & Chonny's Inferno and the video game references being all covers he made on his old channel]

While the VG refs could be a hint at a Videogame or Toby Fox Power Hour, I think at most, if its a clue at all, hinting at the next thing he does is recovering old songs.

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Next, a couple of his songs reference his past stuff. Fine, I'm Fine has a good amount of lines that vaguely refer back to songs from the before [heres a post that goes more into it that's pretty cool!!]. And more importantly Dear Machine references Pocket, Dream (Outro from Calamity) & wings of wax. Pocket being later used in Nerd & the mention of Icarus coming back in Art. Not only that, but the voice in the very end Thermodynamic Lawyer is the exact same [if not very close to] voice filter/effect he uses in Dear Machine. Even down to the British accent he does in it. [Tho it is fairly normal for a music artist to reference their older songs in their music so it could be nothing]

Speaking of Dear Machine tho, quick thing to add about it is that it shows he not against covering his own songs. While yea technically its just a different version of Ode of the Cog, DM,HtC in a way counts as a cover of OotC. Same goes for bargaining/compromise & The Ballad of Dr. Jekyll.

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Another idea with a CJPH is that in the CJFS discord theres a "Question of the Day" Channel. Where, as the name says, a Mod or Helper will ask a CJ related question & everyone can give their idea/imput on it. For Day 100, as a special fun lil thing, they asked Chonny if he wanted to give a question for that day. His question being:

And yes he does say that he doesnt plan on doing anything like that in future [if he even were to do it]. I fully believe he wasn't lying there & honestly I never saw him redoing any song ever until I had the idea of a CJPH [aside from stuff like Spring and a Storm & Storm and a Spring obviously]. But this is the best idea I could ever see him doing that. Also that question was from early August so a fair amount of time has passed. Whether thats enough time to equal "at least in the near future at all" I have no clue, but it is a thought.

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One of my last points [that I remember atm lol] is on how he would end the power hours. Cos like, while yea he does whatever he wants & doesn't rlly follow what anyone says or asks [which I 100% agree with & is completely valid btw], I'd imagine he'd still want to end the PHs with a bang. Which is why I originally didnt think the recent one would be Will Wood.

He's stated a couple of time that hes one of his favorite artist & he definitely knows that a huge chunk of his fan base listen to WW as well. So why not end with that? Why not end with one of the most requested artist people wanted him to cover? Why wouldn't he end with a power hour of the artist that was his #1 on his Spotify Wrapped? What else could he do after that? Well maybe he'd go with his #2 artist? WHICH IS JUST HIMSELF BBYYYY

Plus, the name Power Hour already comes from this:

So it's very likely he's had himself play multiple times in a row & had a "Chonny Jash Power Hour".

Of course theories are just theories so there's always the chance I'm wrong & just insane. And again he does whatever he wants whenever he wants so who knows what it'll be. I just think id be an interesting idea for him to do.

As for how a Chonny Jash Power Hour would look? Maybe each song being a cover of a song from a past album or single? I'd imagine one from the before. & Covered in Discontent [maybe Gothic Whore?]. Like remake Pocket since its been referenced so much, tho that's still just a BDG cover so who knows. the before. would be interesting just to see how his perspective has changed since he originally wrote those songs. Gothic Whore he already has 2 songs that have a story version & a him version so I can see him doing another.

I HIGHLY doubt he'd do anything related to Vol.1 as its his completely separate thing & he doesn't rlly wanna touch any song that's TH/HMS related until whenever he feels like starting Vol.2 [which is valid lol]. If anything I could maybe see like TWWAY, Special or maybe Greener? Or go a different route with the og I'm Gonna Win or like a more outta the box one with like Just a Friend [only cos be did a 20 second "cover" of it in Mucka Blucka]. Again, I do not see him touching anything Vol.1 related but still something to entertain ig? [4th TME cover; The Chonny Electric when/j]

Tho maybe he'd just remake songs that he he fully made [like the before. or Gothic Whore], since those are more of actual Chonny Jash songs rather than the others just being covers. Would be very cool to maybe see a remake of some of his Majora's Mask song tho [no this isn't me coping over HEAL not being on spotify shush]. Or maybe he'd do songs from his old stuff like Don't Take it Personally? [also not me coping over wanting that song on Spotify too]

Idk these are just my thoughts on the idea of a CJPH [or even a Can of Soup Power Hour/j]. Either way I am gonna say idc what he'd do, BDG or Streetlight Manifesto are my other guesses, but anything he makes is always rll good & fun so I'll be interested to see whatever it is.

But ya know considering I typed all this out in the span of an hour & a half I kinda hope im not wrong PFFT

[osarina]

i’m actually so interested in how wykyk will end because i genuinely can’t see pmreader leaving the port mafia any time soon nor can i see mori letting her go. pmreader is so loyal to mori and regardless of moris fondness for her, with dazai gone, he needs someone else to fill in the role that he made for dazai. as much as i want dazai and pmreader to have a happily ever after i just can’t see it happening unless mori DOES let her go for some reason or the pm and ada come to a truce after doa arc

actually you know what nonnie, let's talk about this. LET'S talk about this. bc this kind of gets into what i want to see in the manga too and ive been itching to talk about this with you guys. eventually i'm going to write this, i don't know if it'll end up being a series concluding wykyk bc i dont think it'll fit in a one-shot but it will be written.

anyway, after the doa arc, yokohama is naturally going to be in shambles. lots of deaths, lots of destruction, the city is not in a good spot right now. if you've been on my blog for a while, you know that after the doa arc i very highly anticipate an order of the clocktower arc which i think should be the final arc. i see the order of the clocktower (OOTC) swooping in while yokohama is in shambles to "help them" rebuild - maybe they came in earlier to "assist" with the tri-polar singularity to gain a foothold in the city already, or maybe they come afterwards, but one way or another they're going to come and they're going to use "helping the city" as a guise for being able to get their hands on atsushi and look for the book.

and i have this going back and forth with how this will turn out. i think either way, it'll end with the port mafia and ada having to completely work together to get rid of the threat and protect the book from the OOTC, but it's a matter of whether they'll keep this conflict on a low scale or if it's going to escalate into a second great war.

^ i dont know if asagiri will go the second route, but I MAY go the second route with my fics because i think it'll be very interesting to explore the characters in a setting like that. and i don't think it would be necessarily too far off the mark to say that it's kind of been hanging over our heads. the great war in general has been such a driving force behind the characters in the present: mori, yosano, verlaine, chuuya, probably countless more that i can't think of off the top of my head. we don't know much about it but we know that it's been one of the biggest factors building the bsd universe.

+ the OOTC is a british state organization. they're NOT a mafia or a secret society like the doa and the guild. they're a GOVERNMENT agency. so if they start making a move in a foreign country and it escalates into a conflict ... it could very easily blow up into a war.

+ i would really like to explore the characters in this setting, especially yosano & pmreader because they both have SEVERE trauma from the first great war so it would be a really good setting to explore their development. but i'm not sure, i'm not set on anything—i think it would be a really neat route for the bsd universe coming full circle to the event that's been the foundation for the series in general but it would also be a HUGE project for me to tackle if i go about it that way in pmreader universe.

[hom3land3r]

I do. Nice to know it’s mostly all about me.

Hey Homelander, you jackshit, what's good? I know you read my blog, fucker.

[klausie]

ootd? no. ootw. ootm. ooty. ootc.

[nyxi-pixie]

agatha art making me think abt the ootc......... ASGR PLS!!! WHEN IS IT THEIR TURN TO SERVE.

[as-thoughts]

which bobbi morse comic runs r ur fave? :-)

I’m not going to claim to be The authority on Bobbi or anything (that would be @ootcs, who probably has an infinitely better list), I started doing a chronological completionist read of Bobbi’s 616 appearances a while back that I need to get back to, but she’s super fun even in the 70s when she’s stuck in some boring Ka-Zar comics.

The unfortunate thing about Bobbi is that she only has the one solo run (which has problems despite the fact that the first few issues are solid), and a lot of her stories are tied to Clint. Part of why I'm always complaining about Bobbi being excluded from modern comics is because we've already lost so much time with her; she was dead for 15 years of publication time.

(I told myself I was going to make a neat little list but I can't stop myself from making my little comments on everything.)

New Avengers: The Reunion, Hawkeye & Mockingbird, Widowmaker: These three series were all made by the same creative team, McCann/Lopez, and they were also my first introduction to comics altogether. They're very focused on her and Clint's 616 history, but I don't remember having any problems understanding it? Bobbi is dealing with a lot of trauma here, but she starts up her own spy agency and her costume is perfect. Also Lopez draws the buffest Bobbi, which is wild because this is all before she gets the supersoldier serum. They also have a D-story in a one-shot called Enter the Heroic Age, that is like peak Clint/Bobbi battle couple dynamics. (I'm listing these first because it was my entry point but everything after this is chronological).

Hawkeye vol.1: this is secretly Bobbi's solo. I love her here and I love Gruenwald's decision to bring her into Clint's life. She's fun and impulsive in her own way and just an all-around proactive character, whether that's taking down this sketchy security firm or macking on Clint ten minutes after her apartment exploded.

West Coast Avengers vol. 1: I love Bobbi's dynamic on teams, I wish we saw more of it in modern comics. Sure, Clint's the official leader but Bobbi truly understands how to actually support the members of the team off the field. Love whenever she and Greer are together. It’s four issues and it’s just good plain superhero fun. We’re getting the gang together! Whacky disguises and hijinks abound! The literal second line on the first page is Bobbi making cunnilingus innuendo!

West Coast Avengers vol. 2: So the first 30 or so issues are pretty similar to that first mini, then...Well, I'd have to devote like 1000+ words to parsing my thoughts on everything else, but suffice it to say I'm a fan of what Bobbi did and you should stop reading around #37 if you don't want to see all of the shit that Clint puts her through. Then the comic gets progressively worse until she dies (though there are a few issues where she and Greer form a splinter team with Marc, those are fun).

New Avengers (2010): Yeah it's Bendis but Bobbi's back! Can't remember which issue it is that introduces her.

Unstoppable Wasp: We get more of a focus on Bobbi as a biologist and we get to see her as a mentor. Her dynamic with Jan is fun <3

Honestly, I'm still missing a ton of her modern stuff because I just haven't read many modern comics in general. I read anything with her in it as it comes out but I still need to go back and read a lot of 2012-2020 stuff. I need to finish Silk (2016) still, but she's good in what I've read. Secret Empire is a terrible event but she has a pretty decent role in that and gets to interact with characters she rarely gets to be around, like Hercules, which is a nice change of pace.