#poly d.a.m.n.

[almost-correct-quotes]

why would you say poly damn crew when you could say polydamnory

[achios]

do any of yall have more damn polycule fics (+dear is fine too)

please i’m running out 😭🙏

[moronkyne]

More Poly!D.A.M.N (?)

Or platonic. Take them as you please. Some of these are purely just platonic in my eyes but WHO AM I TO SAY?

-> Imagine AFAB Freelancer with period cramps using Damien as a heatpad. He’s just half asleep and reading while Freelancer is snoring their ass off, cuddling him.

-> Freelancer and Lasko are the Ricky Montgomery Stan’s out of all of the Redacted characters (Maybe the exception of Elliott) so imagine them belting out ‘black fins’ or ‘line without a hook’, hell, if you know Ricky’s old band, The Honeysuckles, ‘out like a light’

-> Huxley combing through Laskos curls. They’re damp, soaked, and straighten slightly with each brush through Laskos hair just to bounce back up. Rubbing and massaging oils and conditioners into the locs :3

-> Damien and Lasko cuddling. That’s it. They’ve both had long days. Ignorant people can drain the life out of out, it’s true. Lasko tucking his head into Damien’s chest as they lay one the bed, Damien’s legs around Laskos waist.

-> Ohhh nothing just. Gavin doing Dears skincare since they’ve been so demotivated. Kissing Dear all over as he runs them a bath and holds them, telling them that he and their partners will take care of them. Huxley making popcorn and Freelancer finding a movie for all of them to watch.

-> Freelancer piercing Damien’s Septum—And then Gavin convinced Lasko to let Freelancer do his helix. One of them shed a few tears. The other definitely has piercings in other places.

[samsxowboyhat]

Random redacted headcannons pt 1

Sam doesn’t like the idea of anyone touching him, but he’d never stop Darlin from touching him, not because he doesn’t like it but because he’s still convincing himself that Darlin isn’t Alexis.

Sweetheart subconsciously cloaks without realizing it whenever they have panic attacks.

Vincent doesn’t allow Lovely to get on roller coasters (he can’t lose them either).

FL and Gavin would have a poly relationship with the D.A.M.N. crew if they ever got asked.

Avior sometimes has nightmares where he wakes up back in Aria.

David likes to hold Angel's hand that has their ring on it and just stare at it before gently kissing their hand.

Vincent has a scar from when he physically had to restrain Lovely from attacking someone and draining them during bloodlust (Lovely found out about it and felt so bad).

Sometimes Asher gets so excited that he has to grab onto something to control himself.

Milo and Sweetheart are aware of the fact that Aggro can still see Sweetheart when they’re cloaked, and Milo uses that to his advantage to find out where they are.

Lasko wouldn’t ever specifically ask if Coworker could get intimate with him and gets easily embarrassed about it (they'd never reject him).

Damien throws water on his hands whenever he gets mad or stressed because he’ll slowly heat himself, which he could easily turn into a fire if he wanted.

Gavin and FL are the most intimate couple in the D.A.M.N. crew, and that won’t change. Huxley platonically cuddles with FL whenever they’re not cuddling Gavin (they enjoy being squeezed by him).

Lasko accidentally called FL and Gavin while they were fucking and didn’t realize they were until FL moaned too loud on accident (or on purpose?).

Guy has an addiction to pizza and later got a tattoo of a cartoon character surfing on a pizza (he seems like the type to do that). Asher has a large scar going across his chest from the inversion and sometimes overthinks, sending himself into a spiral (Baabe has found him sitting in corners, zoned out).

Sam wears a cowboy hat that Darlin sometimes takes when he’s not looking, and he tells them to drop it as a joke (he lets them have it in the end).

The pack suspected Sam and Darlin were fucking when they would disappear together, but in reality, Sam would be trying to heal Darlin's injuries that they were somehow able to hide.

Milo and Darlin both hold onto each other when the pack watches horror movies. (They got taken to a horror maze when they were younger, and Darlin would grab Milo’s hand and run through it.)

Darlin, FL, Baabe, and Sweetheart wear boxers no matter what gender they are; they think it’s more comfortable (they leave the waistband showing out of their pants because they think it looks cool).

FL was Gavin’s first in his eyes; they never cared about what he looked like; they never cared if he looked like a human or like an incubus. (They have a mutual agreement that Gavin can still flirt with others and do whatever he needs to get his "energy,” whether it’s with them or other people.)

Vincent would never tell Lovely about the person he rode the roller coaster with and how he suspects that they’re them. 

[lookitseddie]

save me, poly d.a.m.n. crew, save me...

[polydamnory]

Xavier in the Poly!D.A.M.N. Crew Headcanons

Did I finish writing this five days ago but wait to specifically post it on the 31st just to be a dick? Maybe so. 

While he doesn’t know how to take a genuine compliment and is very prone to getting flustered by them (he can and will respond to anything nice said to him with “no u”), he isn’t actually all that affected by flirting. Dear and Gavin have now made it a competition to see who can get him to break first strictly via come ons and pickup lines. 

He is constantly making stupid ice/snow puns, sometimes even subconsciously, and it drives Damien nuts. 

He and Lasko like teaming up to plan elaborate dates/vacations for the group and he’s gotten pretty good at preemptively preventing Lasko from spinning out about some small innocuous detail (e.g. ice, mahogany, rolls, etc.). 

Has always been on the tall side, so while he does think it’s cute when someone is shorter/smaller than him (cough cough Lasko), he thinks it’s really hot when someone is taller/bigger than him (cough cough HUXLEY). 

He’s pretty prone to dry skin so Dear - who is a skincare snob, you cannot convince me otherwise - has helped him curate a routine to help with that and is much more on top of making sure he actually keeps up with it. If that sometimes means helping apply moisturizer to his face and hands when he’s too sleepy to do it himself in the morning (he is not a morning person), that’s a sacrifice they’re willing to make. 

Just like with Damien during the winter, Lasko and Freelancer can and will cling to him during the summer to keep cool. Thankfully he and Damien are just like “affection from my partners? Who am I to complain?” and more than welcome it (although Damien is a bit more tsundere about it). 

Insert obligatory he helps cool Damien off when he gets too hot hc - you cannot use the excuse that you’re too hot to be hugged anymore, Damien, your boyfriend won’t let you get away with that anymore! 

Similar to their E&E display, Freelancer has gotten pretty into making random little things with their magic just to see what they can do, and Xavier wants all of them. They mess up and are about to destroy/throw out a failed attempt at creating some little glass tchotchke? Noooooo, let him keep it! He loves seeing them experiment with their magic and wants to witness and keep as much of their progress as they’ll let him (certified mom friend/boyfriend). 

Gavin is consistently trying to convince Xavier of new ways they could incorporate his ice into the bedroom. It doesn’t take much convincing. 

We know for a fact that mans has money and he is 100% down to splurge on his partners. He knows that most of them (if not all) wouldn’t want him to spend too much on them, so he does it a bit more strategically so they don’t feel like he’s “wasting it” on them. For example, if they all were to decide they want to go to a rollarcoaster park or something, he knows that his partners won’t just let him pay for all their tickets, but they will fight a little less harder on him splurging to get them all fast passes or something of the like. 

Exact order of him falling for the group is unclear, but make no mistake, he definitely had a crush on Huxley first, even when he didn’t know him all that well before becoming team captain.

[kinoi-lol]

REDACTED FANFIC WRITERS WRITE MORE POLY D.A.M.N FANFICS AND MY LIFE IS YOURSSSSSẞ (I've read them all so far :(( )

I'ma just randomly @ people that might make fanfics idk who ev3r shows up LOVE YALL(I ended up just picking a few people from each letter of the alphabet ) @vind3miat0r @moronkyne @cyanbugremix @comedyl0ser @everything-redacted00 @aggro-my-beloved @darling-solaire @galaxyg1204 @huxleaf @indigo-greer-collins @jamieeeeee33333 @jaetists @kasperbasper @oriarmor39 @otp-fandom-shipper @punkoverlord @qhoaaaa @romirola @thegoldenlittlerose @themeridian @vegafreakk @vegafan69 @vampire-bite @yourallgoingtohellgoodbye @zimix-whispers @zombieratt

[cant-find-a-name]

I ask because I saw lots of people talk about it, but I wanna know if that's the majority, out of curiosity.

Personally, I'd like to see a non canon one, because their relationships already feel completely established in canon, but I would still love to see the group's dynamic develop in a poly relationship

[grilledcheezy92]

u have playlists? 👁👁 I would love nothing more than the links 🤭

I have never built so many playlists for a series I've been into. The bug just bit.

I will preface by saying all playlists I make are best listened to in shuffle bc I have ADHD and generally don't intend for them to be listened to in a specific order.

Let's start with my pride and joy

Some general Pack Tracks

And here we start the ship playlists

I also have Guy and Honey and Elliot and Sunshine but I can't add any more links

[dizzy-n-busy]

[can (and most likely will) contain SOME poly hcs!]

« D.A.M.N Crew headcanons »

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Dams lips get dry quickly, as well as his skin - mostly durin colder months - and has a life time supply of lip balm (cool mint or classic cherry) and moisturizers (coco butter or coconut)

Completely unrelated to Dams; Hux's moms make homemade lip balm and moisturizers !! Literally from their backyard !!

Lasky has a bad center of gravity and sometimes gets himself stuck in whirlwinds when he practices his magic

Gav likes messing/doing the other's hair, he finds it therapeutic

Dams is into nail care for some reason (he feels like he has to be prim n' proper)

FL is multilingual !! Fluent in many languages and tends to switch between them frequently (esp. when stressed)

Since Lasky and FL are human-born I feel like they're genetically smaller than the other three (or those three are jus too damn big)

Gav = Princess peach, Dams = Bowser, FL = Toad(/mario/daisy?), Lasky = Shy guy(/mario) & Hux = Luigi; argue w/ the wall

Dams and Lasky can't hold their liquor, FL and Hux have a higher tolerance and Gav barely gets drunk at all

Dams wears (short) shorts a lot bc he's worried abt burnin anything longer (almost exclusively worn indoors)

Hux likes massages, esp back and scalp ones

FL is strong enough to carry all the boys at least a lil bit (Dams = firemen carry, Lasky = bridal/over the shoulder carry, Gav = koala carry & Hux = at least an inch off the ground)

Gav prolly smells like roses or eucalyptus

Hux's moms house has this SUPER big window-esque wall that opens up into the forest (in their livingroom)

(kinda poly?) FL likes cuddling Hux on his lap, laying on Dams side/next to him, resting their leg across Laskys lap and cuddling Gavs stomach

FL and Gav have convinced Hux that cropped shirts and tight/short shorts are good workout gear (they were right)

Hux has the cutest pout and head tilt

Lasky has the most ADORABLE doe-shaped eyes

Dams likes running his nails across the others backs/skin

FL ass is ALWAYS late, to literally everything - Dams: come at 10:30, FL: 1:03, got it!

Gavs eyes can glow in the dark, bc I said so

The D.A.M.N crew have matching pjs and sometimes do sleepovers

[Bouns! Coworker is invited!!]

Certified hair ruffler, no one is safe

They were relatively nervous at first but it immediately dissipated when FL and Gav asked them if they were their babysitter - free my man Dams

Hux also said they smelled like lavender and fresh laundry

Dams is the 'imma whoop yer ass if yer lil asses don't sit down' type parent and Coworker is the 'settle down guys yer stressin out ma' type parent

ALWAYS brings food, they got snacks on deck too (they needa make sure their bbys are fed)

Naturally colder body temp, scares the crew sometimes when initiating contact (in a good way)

Effusive praiser, it can't be escaped

Psych major idc

Everyone cuddles/leans on Coworker once they got into the crew shenanigans

Coworker = Yoshi (/Rosalina)

Dams #2 fav (they get mani/pedis w/by him)

Huxs fav scalp massager (esp if they grow out their nails)

Gavs #2 fav therapist (/j /lh)

FLs fav advice giver (or date idea giver)

Laskys fav (of all time)

They cried when they got their friendship bracelet and matching pj set (either in front of them or on call w/ Lasky)

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[anexistingexistence]

Outside of the d.a.m.n. polycule crew, which character/couple is most likely to become or have been poly in the past?

[audioroleplayconfessions]

Adding on to what the recent Anon said about how characters in the Redacted Audio fandom are misinterpreted + the fandom in general:

The redacted fandom is full of creative and skilled minds (artists, writers, etc) but some can be so intense?

Like the other anon said, I've seen so many people headcanon whatever they want and get angry when people don't agree. Some even lie and say like "Erik said [headcanon]" when he never did? Not to mention, some people will passionately insist on all of the listeners being women/fem because anything other than heterosexual "doesn't fit the character" (???) despite Erik literally saying that all of the listeners are presented as gender neutral (his YouTube bio). Like headcanon whatever you want. In fact I love seeing so many of them. Erik literally said both the characters' and listeners' sexuality, appearance, etc are up to the individual audience to interpret however they want (1:25:50 and 1:49:52 from the "just hanging out stream." Not catching myself be a hypocrite thank you), but let's not get mad if people don't agree? The only canon information is what we see in the actual videos.

For example, the D.A.M.N crew. There are so many cute relationships that can be headcanoned there (and Erik even released non-canon videos between the Freelancer and the crew). And if you've known about the crew, you probably know about the D.A.M.N polycule. It's a very cute and very much "found family" relationship, but on more than a couple occasions, I've seen (on both AO3 and Tumblr) comments that bash on anyone that question it or prefer monogamous relationships. Poly is not for everyone and that's okay. It doesn't mean they hate poly, it just means poly isn't for them. Both polyamorous and monogamous relationships are valid (this ofc applies to every ship/relationship).

Also, speaking of the crew, Gavin seems so misunderstood in the fandom? Again, you can headcanon whatever you want, but I'm mentioning this because I've seen arguments/hate about how some people (Group A) find it ridiculous when other people (Group B) believe that Gavin will not continue sleeping around while with Freelancer: From what is said/shown in the videos, Gavin has said things like "I'm not just sex/pleasure," "sex is what I survive on but it's not all that I am," "I don't want to be like this/not just this (sex)" time and time again. Still, some people think it "only makes sense" for Gavin to continue sleeping with anyone for food like he used (after his confession) just because he's an Incubus. Yes he still flirts with other people for some energy, but he doesn't want to just fuck around anymore, so it's really not a ridiculous belief. His whole development was about understanding and becoming comfortable with his different values as an Incubus, about being more than what he's been told that he is just because he's an Incubus.

Overanalyzing characters is a hobby of mine apparently

Honorable mentions of other misunderstood characters: Darlin', Cutie, Porter

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[ya-boi-haru]

Me: idk if Poly D.A.M.N would be a way to go, it'd be a lot, but it'd be interesting I guess

Friends-giving 2 happens

Me: POLY D.A.M.N POLY D.A.M.N POLY D.AM.N POLY-

[mr-laveau]

"You are a breath of fresh air in my life just by virtue of being unapologetically yourself."

-Lasko Moore

"Oh I can be very pleasant, just not usually with you."

-Aaron

Allow me to be that bitch, and share with the class ANOTHER totally-not-a-self-indulgent poly Lasko/Aaron listener OC, Carter Wilde, a.k.a [Casanova], the bratty telepath.

*Just pretend I actually knew how to spell Casanova above when I first made this.

The Deets:

Carter (he/him) is a human born telepath and currently, a professor* at D.A.M.N for Advanced Telepathy Studies, Fire Elemental Magic 101, Intro to Warding, Electro Magic II and Basics of Illusory Magic.

*he used to be a part-time sub and worked with Aaron before he changed career paths and started working full-time for the academy

Carter is Afro-American/desi and grew up in Chicago before moving to Dahlia for work while getting his teaching license. Was working with Aaron before he got a full position at DAMN but as far as Aaron knew then, Carter's teaching some accounting/management classes at a college.

Very much the professor with a fun but unorthodox way of teaching*–he once made his class write up and direct a short film to teach them how to consider different variables in manipulating their illusions properly with magic like they did when making their films. His time with Aaron taught him to be more relaxed about his students.

*Damien "strongly disliked" his ass for a while because he didn't like his methods, and Carter fed into it to mess with him before he arranged a separate syllabus plan for Damien to tackle while the class did their thing. They get along now but Carter will sometimes subtly remind Damien about the MANY "nicknames" he overheard Damien calling him during class.

Did not handle inversion well, his magic was a bitch to maintain inside the ward and everyone's thoughts didn't make the situation any better. Had to tell Aaron about his magical status a little bit after since keeping it all in didn't make things better and it was the only way to really explain what happened then after he initially told Aaron he'd been handling a trip out of the city. The conversation pretty sad but they made it and wrangler Lasko after his Aftershock vid w FL for a group care session. They're all in therapy :)

"Could you tell this was the first cutie design?"*.

*This isn't a lie, this was the first Cutie design and Carter was initially going to be a journalist who worked with Sama and dared Geordi, however I scrapped it and moved onto another design I liked. This was also the first Smartass design but as Lexi can attest, I found something else I liked.

Met Lasko when he first started subbing for Intro to Warding (very early in the timeline). Their dynamic fits the non-canon listener dynamic he seems to have with them in BAs/HBWs/HBSs. Carter loves to tease him just to poke a reaction out of him but is entirely sweet about taking care of Lasko otherwise since he doesn't often do it for himself. Will often drop in before Lasko's classes to give him sweets/gum/mints.

Very much the personification of "crackhead" energy outside of work. Aaron keeps him on a leash but will act on the first devious-not-so-devious thought that crosses his mind. To his benefit, Carter does know how to restrain himself for the sake of not pushing buttons, but more often than not will poke at people just for fun.

Will sometimes read Aaron's thoughts just to peek at what annoys him that day in order to turn it around and get him to laugh. It works despite how much Aaron thinks it doesn't.

Aaron and Lasko are also dating each other in addition to dating Carter. Aaron was initially rough around the edges when it came to interacting with Lasko and getting to know him but with a good conversation, they both managed to work things out between them. Now they both take turns making sure Carter doesn't burn something down on a whim.

That's all folks!🧡

[lancerthatisntfree]

this is gonna be a grossly long post because i think about this all the time and i finally have an excuse to feed into my thoughts and ramble

in a realistic world, i don’t think id pull any of them.

however i like to believe id pull david with enough mental willpower to talk to that man without crying. i have a bad issue with staring and following people i think are cool, so i imagine id meet him kinda the same way he met angel

honestly same with asher! he’s so casual in his first audio and i think if we met that way it could totally work albeit awkwardly but yeah.

GAVIN DEFINITELY because im literally freelancer and he’s the love of my life and um like we’re fated for eachother soo idk guys whattt���.. i think we’d meet differently though, im not sure how, but the 7/11 sex thing doesn’t cut it for me i’m afraid. i’d cry in that situation

i think i could pull the whole damn crew (sounds ambitious), but i just think they’re neat. i am a twink magnet (lasko, he matches my energy so well), and huxley and damien are like?? my baes?? huxley ground pound me hello so um.

(poly d.a.m.n type situation)

also geordi. he’s cute i like him and he reminds me a lot of myself which i tend to look for in friends (in this case, partners). i imagine id meet him the same way as cutie did, maybe with a little less magic

guy too i guess, but i don’t really listen to him. he’s casual enough though, so i think it’ll workout the same way with honey.

// completely forgot, but elliott too. i’m sorry that man is right up my alley. i have ptsd, i got nightmares, call me fucking sunshine because ??? we’d get along wonderfully. also he matches my freak so yknow um yeah

treading into me lying to myself i could totally pull sam and vincent guys. porter is iffy because i don’t really fuck strangers but yknow maybe i can try.

tldr. david (with willpower i don’t usually have), asher, gavin and d.a.m.n crew by extension, geordi, guy, elliott. and if i’m insane or have enough charm; sam and vincent with a side of porter

guys what redacted character do you think you could pull if you were in the redactedverse and why (be a little delulu here, i don’t wanna hear ‘oh but i’m ugly’)

would you meet them the same way their listeners did or could you imagine a different scenario

[polydamnory]

Poly D.A.M.N. Crew Headcanons (because I’m legally required to)

Once again, some of these could also apply outside the context of them being in a polycule and that works too lol

Freelancer will paint any of the others nails if they’ll let them (Hux and Gavin let them do it the most) 

Dear and Gavin made it a weekly thing to have lunch together on campus 

In the event that they were to all live together, Damien is usually the one in charge of  grocery shopping - mainly because of all of them, he’s the most particular about what brands they use for certain products/foods. Also you can’t tell me this man isn’t a master at budgeting/couponing. 

Damien and Huxley aren’t allowed to team up when they do chicken fights in the pool anymore - they’re both arguably some of the strongest of the group (they’re constantly working out after all) and after winning literally every time except against Gavin, the rest of them declared the rule that they have to team up with the others to make it fair. Hux just rolled with it but Damien still acts all cocky about it whenever it gets brought up. 

They try to do a movie night every two weeks and cycle through who gets to pick what they watch each time. Lasko made a chart to track it and everything. Lasko has also tried and succeeded only once in getting everyone to agree to a full on Lord of the Rings extended edition marathon despite trying again several times afterwards. Dear has been the only one to agree to do it again afterwards - not that the rest don’t like the movies, they just don’t think they’ll be willing to marathon them like that again. 

Gavin and Freelancer are the resident “distractors” and get kicked out of the kitchen fairly frequently because half the time they’re helping cook they end up “doing things” with the other person in there 👀

Huxley likes playing with the others hair if they’ve given the okay for it - he already knew how to braid and the like, but at some point he began learning how to do more complicated hairstyles and likes doing them for his partners 

Dear and Damien end up having to team up and ensure everyone else is wearing sunblock - Damien does not listen to Gavin when he says that as a demon he doesn’t need it, he has to put some on 

When struggling to find someone or something out in public, especially in large crowd, Huxley has gotten into the habit of just kind of grabbing one of his partners and putting them on his shoulder so they can get a higher vantage point 

Huxley came up with the idea that they should all show Gavin stuff they enjoyed from growing up, whether that be shows, movies, or going places typically meant for youths, because “just because you didn’t actually have a childhood doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get to experience one.” They took him to a bouncy castle park and got a good laugh at how uncharacteristically ungraceful he was. 

They all had to basically flee an ice skating rink when they all tried to go together. Gavin wouldn’t stop teasing/flustering Damien and he accidentally melted a portion of the rink. It was an unempowered run rink so the chance of them getting caught/blamed wasn’t too high but they all still ended up fleeing like their lives depended on it. 

They are all constantly stealing Huxley’s clothes to wear. It’d bother him if he didn’t think it was really hot to see them in it.

They've been trying to branch out in the types of games they play together and one genre they’ve been experimenting with is survival games. They’ve tried a few but the one they all seem to like the most is Raft and it gets chaotic. It’s not a strict rule or anything but they’ve also all sort of fell into their own unspoken roles for it: Huxley is always the go to for gathering supplies on islands, Damien’s typically either doing home defense or off trying to kill one of the hostile mobs (the poison-puffer always drives him crazy), Dear’s gathering the underwater supplies because obviously, Freelancer is in charge of gardening and cooking the food, Lasko’s on a hundred different websites and wikis making sure they don’t miss anything/actually know what they’re doing as well as navigation, and while Gavin spends most of his time pretty evenly helping everybody else out, he most often is gathering the supplies from the water, or, on occasion, fishing. (Sorry not sorry that this one only really makes sense to those who also play Raft/watch others play it lol)