#sam ecklund x peter maldonado

[call-me-medusa]

Summary:

There were so many moments living in Chloe Lyman's guest house where Peter and Sam became Peter-and-Sam, and Sam wanted to memorize all of them.

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Sam and Peter fell in love in Bellevue, Washington.

Words: 4,830

[chattre-kisses]

blind (even when we try to see)

Title: blind (even when we try to see)

Fandom: American Vandal

Rating: T

Pairing: Sam Ecklund/Peter Maldonado

Characters: Peter Maldonado, Sam Ecklund, Dylan Maxwell, Gabi Granger, & Brandon Galloway

Summary: “It’s ‘cause you love him, dipshit,” Dylan says.Or Peter is jealous, Sam is dense, and somehow Dylan is the smartest person in the room.

Read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20748782

Or read it below!

Gabi Granger and Brandon Galloway break up. It’s messy.

Gabi texts Sam Ecklund about it when he’s over at Peter Maldonado’s house. Sam’s scrolling through memes and Peter’s responding to an email from Netflix about them picking up American Vandal. He hasn’t told Sam about it yet. It’s early days, he doesn’t want to get Sam’s hopes up.

“Holy shit,” Peter says. He’s hanging off Peter’s bed, the blood rushing to color his cheeks. “Holy shit.”

Peter swivels in his desk chair, indulging Sam. “What’s up?”

“They broke up,” Sam says, grinning wildly, as if it explains everything.

“Am I supposed to know who you’re talking about?” Peter asks, eyebrows furrowed behind his thick glasses.

“Gabi and Brandon. They broke up. Gabi just texted me,” Sam explains. He’s sat up now, drawing one of Peter’s pillows into his lap. He’s still smiling gleefully. “Peter, the world really is good.”

Something twists in the pit of Peter’s stomach. He turns back to his computer. “Good for Gabi. Brandon’s kind of the worst.”

“He’s objectively the pits,” Sam confirms. He throws himself across Peter’s bed, shouting, “The world is good!”

The thing in Peter’s stomach twists tighter.

*

“Hey, are you busy Friday night? They’re planning that shitty rom-com you like at the Aladdin, uh… what’s it called… the one with that lady? And the rich dude and the hotel?” Peter says. He’s nervous for some reason, like he doesn’t ask Sam to hang out all the time. For some reason, this feels more charged than normal.

By some miracle, Sam knows what Peter is talking about. “Pretty Woman? Aw, fuck, that sounds amazing, Pete, but I already asked Gabi to go mini-golfing with me.”

Asked Gabi.

Peter’s heart sinks. He hadn’t even realized how stupidly hopeful he’d been until that hope is crushed. Sam’s asked Gabi out, now that she’s single. And Gabi said yes. She’d be stupid not to, Sam’s a catch. Disappointment shoots through Peter’s veins. Disappointment, and something like sorrow.

“Oh, congratulations,” Peter says, even though he doesn’t mean it. He doesn’t mean it at all.

Sam’s eyebrows pull together in vague confusion. “Um… thanks, I guess?”

Peter excuses himself. In the most dignified manner possible, he cries in the bathroom for three minutes, even though he can’t figure out why.

*

“It’s ‘cause you love him, dipshit,” Dylan says.

It’s Friday night. Peter’s at Dylan’s house, because he doesn’t want to be alone and Dylan isn’t bad company. Sam keeps sending Peter snapchats of him and Gabi, and every time Peter has to look at them smiling together, he feels more and more shattered. He tosses him phone across the room after Sam sends him a photo where he has an arm slung around Gabi’s shoulders, an easy smile on his face. “Why am I like this?” Peter mutters, mainly to himself.

Then Dylan drops the bombshell, “It’s ‘cause you love him, dipshit.”

Peter blinks. “What?”

Dylan’s smoking a joint that Peter rolled for him (every time Dylan rolled one himself it would be tapered on one end, which sent Peter’s OCD on the fritz), languidly stretched across an armchair. “You love him. Your boy.”

“I don’t–– Sam’s not… he’s not my boy,” Peter says, lamely.

“Nah, he is,” Dylan says, taking a drag. “Course he is. And you love him.”

“I– what? No, Dylan, I––”

“You loveeeeeeeee him,” Dylan drawls out which the classic middle-school intonation. “Love-love-love!”

“I… I have no idea how I feel about him,” Peter admits, knowing it’s the only way he’ll be able to shut Dylan up. “It doesn’t matter anyway. He asked Gabi out.”

Dylan’s eyebrows shoot up. “Gabi Granger?”

Peter wraps his arms around himself protectively. “Yeah.”

“Damn. She’s hot,” Dylan notes. “You’re sure he asked her out?”

“They’re mini-golfing now. Sam keeps sending me pictures,” Peter says. He’s watching his phone from across the room. It buzzes with a notification. Probably from Sam. “He hates mini-golf. But he looks happy.”

Dylan frowns. “Fuckin’ weird. Can’t be right–– Sam’s your boy. You’re sure it’s a date?”

“Yeah,” Peter says. Sam hadn’t said that it was a date, but context clues were a reliable informant.

“Shit,” Dylan says. “You should tell him how you feel.”

“I can’t do that,” Peter says. “I don’t even know how I feel. I just… I feel gross about the whole thing.”

“Heavy,” Dylan says. “I’d offer you a smoke, but your lungs are all fucked up, right?”

Peter nods. It’s a surprisingly touching offer for Dylan. He watches his phone from across the room. It buzzes again.

*

They’re filming for the Morning Show. Peter’s making sure all his cue cards are lined up. Madison’s doing vocal exercises next to him.

Sam’s alternating between looking at Peter and looking at his phone. He stares at Peter for a moment, texts someone, and then heads over to Peter.

Peter tries to control his heartbeat. He doesn’t know when his heart stopped registering Sam as “friend” and started seeing him as “Sam”.

“You’ve got an eyelash,” Sam whispers. He leans in and sweeps the pad of his finger under Peter’s eye. Peter’s heart thunders. He looks to Sam’s finger–– there’s no eyelash. Sam smiles. “All clean.”

Sam lingers there, in Peter’s space, Peter shivery and uncertain under Sam’s gaze until Randall, carrying a camera rig says, “Sam, we gotta start filming and you’re kind of in the shot.”

Sam apologizes and breezes away, leaving Peter to contemplate what just happened.

He pictures Sam in front of him–– his warm eyes, his dimples, his smile that makes everything brighter–– and muses to himself, how could I ever want anyone else?

*

Sam’s at Peter’s house. They’re watching a girl on YouTube explain her shaky theory on why Peter and Sam did the dicks together. It’s stupid and indulgent, but they watch videos like this together sometimes.

Peter loves it, because it always ends with them lying together on Peter’s bed, shoulders pressed together. Sam’s always warm.

An alarm goes off on Sam’s phone. “Fuck, it’s 4:30 already?” Sam exclaims. “Sorry Pete, I gotta bounce. Gabi’s waiting for me.”

And just like that, Peter’s stomach plummets. He likes Gabi, he does, which makes the whole thing worse. “Oh,” is all Peter can manage to say.

Sam clambers off the bed and starts to put his sneakers back on.

Peter sits up and shuts his computer. He feels like there’s a wall between the two of them–– something nameless and strange that only he can feel. Jealousy wells up inside him and he can’t help it, he mutters, “Don’t go.”

Sam freezes. He looks up at Peter, confused. “What?”

Peter swallows. Carefully, louder this time, he says, “Don’t go.”

“What? Peter, I… I mean, I’m supposed to meet Gabi? We were gonna get milkshakes?” Sam says.

“I know, I just…” Peter sucks in a breath. “I just don’t want you to leave.”

Sam’s finished lacing up his shoes, and he stands up. “Why?”

“I know that Gabi and Brandon broke up, and you finally got to ask Gabi out and I’m really happy for you because you’re happy and all that, but at the same time I feel really stupidly jealous?” Peter says, the words tumbling out of him.

“I… what? Peter, we’re just getting milkshakes,” Sam says, like it explains everything.

“Still,” Peter says. “I kind of… I guess I want us to get milkshakes.”

Peter’s staring at Sam’s shoes now because he can’t bring himself to look into Sam’s eyes. Sam says, “Peter, do you like me?”

Peter says, “Yeah. Yeah, I think I do.”

“Oh,” Sam rubs at the back of his neck, uncertain. “Well. Okay.”

Peter feels queasy. This isn’t going as poorly as it could have, but it still isn’t going great. “Okay,” Peter says.

Sam walks up to the bed, his fingers nervously messing with the hem of his shirt. “You like me?”

Peter looks up at Sam. “Yeah, I think we already established that.”

“Yeah, okay,” Sam says. And then he climbs onto the bed, shoes and all, and then into Peter’s lap.

Peter feels like he’s been set on fire. “What a-are… what are you doing?” He asks as Sam places his hands on Peter’s shoulders.

“I’m gonna kiss you, if that’s okay,” Sam says. He’s taking off Peter’s glasses off now, folding them up neatly and then placing them on Peter’s bedside table.

Peter feels like his heart is going to beat right out of his chest. “Yeah. Yeah, that’s okay,” he says, still watching at Sam. He’s a little blurrier when Peter doesn’t have his glasses on, but Peter can still see when Sam leans in and kisses him.

It’s a messy kiss, uncoordinated and unpracticed. Both of them don’t really know what they’re doing. Their teeth click together when Peter manages to get Sam’s mouth open. Still, it’s marvelous. It's a revelry, a triumph. It’s better than Peter could have ever imagined. Sam tastes like minty gum. They kiss until Peter’s lungs can’t take it anymore, and then they rest their foreheads together, panting.

“What… what about Gabi?” Peter asks.

“For someone so smart, you’re really fucking stupid.” Sam laughs. “We were just going to get milkshakes, Peter. Just milkshakes.”

“But I thought––”

“I’m not dating Gabi,” Sam says. “We’re just friends.”

“But you were so happy when she and Brandon broke up?”

“‘Course I was,” Sam says, like it’s obvious. “Gabi’s my best friend. Brandon's a dick. She deserved better.”

Peter mulls this over. He’s about to open his both to speak, but Sam cuts him off. “How about you kiss me instead of asking another idiotic question,” Sam says.

Peter’s happy to comply.

*

Hours later, Peter calls Dylan.

“Dylan? This is Peter Maldonado.”

“Don’t be so fuckin’ weird, Peter. I know who you are, I have caller ID.”

“Sorry.” Pause. “Anyway, I was just calling to tell you that you were right.”

“Damn right I was.” Pause. “What are we talking about again?”

“Sam. He really is my boy.” Pause.

“About goddamn time, Maldonado!”

Click.

[pzrplesuns]

I really liked it... I miss them so much and seems like we don't have so many content in a while, so... Here it is! Hah.

finished: 17/11/2020.

audio cr.: @.clovdyaudios on instagram.

[pirate-bi]

it's both good and bad that there's little to no content about sam and peter from american vandal. good as in tumblr users aren't fetishizing (or however that word is spelled) every friendship between twinks in media! but bad because these two twinks do deserve more than five posts

[grasslandgirl]

concept: eldonado superhero au

Sam is a super but no one knows his secret identity is that of quiet and quirky photographer Sam Ecklund

Peter is a reporter who gets assigned to interview super!sam but doesn’t know it’s him (bc.... you know.... secret identity bullshit)

Sam, who ofc has a MASSIVE crush on Peter is like “perfect! I can Show Off and impress him!!” Which is like... inneffective bc Peter is stupidly and hopelessly in love w his BFF/coworker Sam Ecklund and Does Not have time for superhero drama, thank you very much, he has a job to do (even if the superhero in question is very cute and very funny)

Feat. Ridiculous and Overused tropes such as:

- Peter And super!sam get to be Bros and someone hurts/threatens/kidnaps peter as a way to get to super!sam (which like... imagine peter as a kidnapping victim... holy shit)

- Bad Disaster Occurs and Oh No Sam is missing and peter can’t find him and he’s Freaking Out and he like demands that super!sam find him and save him and peters like.. breaking down when faced w the possibility of losing Sam :((

- Gabi Knows. She just does. About everything. Whether or not Sam told her.

- that being said, Dylan just assumes that everyone knows Sam is super!sam and Also that he and peter are dating and is Baffled when not everyone is as galaxy brain as he is

I’m so sorry

[iamtherealjamesdean]

a good day is when someone actually posts in the american vandal or sampeter tag. i see you and i appreciate you

[yuraimi-lee-bunny]

Oh gosh now I'm interested in Peter x Sean now. Got any headcanons for them?

OH! Really !? That’s great! 8′D *crying*

Look, I have two versions of headcanon: “in-game” “and out-of-game”.I will give you my headcanons out of the game. If you want to know the story “American Vandal meet Life is Strange 2” then you can send me another ask asking and I will gladly tell you!

So, here are my headcanons of Peter and Sean are boyfriends where the Diaz family is happy, calm and nothing bad happens to them!

Sean didn’t know how to tell his dad that he’s bisexual and his first relationship is with a boy named Peter Maldonado. Peter asked him to let be with him and both talk to Esteban. Esteban took it well, he was surprised, but he was happy. First he hugged Peter to make him feel welcome to the family, and then Sean to reassure him and congratulate him. Sean cried a little in relief in that hug.

Sean began to like Peter because he admires all his work in “American Vandal” thought something like “He’s 18 years old and has already made a documentary that is on Netflix. DAMN This’s so fucking cool man.” But he also loves Peter because he’s determined, loyal, ethical, modest and wise as a person and professional. Sean wants to be very dedicated to his work as his boyfriend does. Sean also loves his innocent side and that when he can, know how to defend himself and be badass.

Peter has always been surprised that he liked a boy. But Sean won his heart by noticing that he’s a relaxed, loyal, funny, cute, shy, artistic and honest boy. Who isn’t afraid to be him and confront people. Peter wants to be much braver and less innocent. But he knows that in the end, the personality of both complement each other perfectly.

They use beanies, they exchange them as a way to “remember you” Peter sometimes smells Sean’s beanie because according to him, it smells like Sean and he smells really good.

Esteban lets Peter sleep at his home. His confidence in Peter is so big that he lets both of them sleep in Sean’s room. They like to sleep together embraced. But just that. The sex issue is something that makes them uncomfortable to talk and they prefer to go step by step. Hugs and kisses are enough.

Peter likes to make breakfast for Sean when they sleep together. Sean loves Peter’s food, says he has his touch. Which Peter doesn’t believe and only think that he’s joking. But it isn’t, according to Sean. Even so, Peter is happy to know that Sean enjoys his food.

Sean tries to return the favor and tries to cook for Peter. It’s a total failure, Sean doesn’t know how to cook. He asks his dad cook for Peter while he learns to really cook.

Esteban teaches both of them to cook. Daniel sometimes also helps (and licks the spoon or eats secretly) Sean loves these family moments with his boyfriend.

The two speak Spanish fluently. They speak Spanish when they don’t want someone to understand them, as if it were their own form of secure communication. 

Peter calls Sean “Eduardo” or “Lalo” affectionately to Sean (Lalo is Eduardo’s diminutive in Spanish ”)

Sean calls “Pete” or “Pedro” affectionately to Peter (Pedro is the Spanish name for “Peter”)

Both love to hug too much. It’s weird not to see them hugging or holding hands when they can. 

Peter has asthma (canon). Sean always charges with an inhaler in case Pete runs out of his.

Upon learning of Peter’s asthma, Sean began investigating everything about asthma. In order to know how to deal with this condition. Peter is grateful for such attention.

Sean started wanting to quit smoking so he wouldn’t affect to Pete’s asthma. But Peter tells Sean that he doesn’t want him to stop doing something he likes because of him. Sean thanks him, which ends up deciding that he won’t smoke in front of him.

Even so, Sean tries not to smoke as much as he can. Since he said “I want to be his inhaler”

Their dates aren’t the big deal: Walks in the park hand in hand. Go to the movies, to the library. At home watching TV, talking, drawing and recording, videogames. Or rides in the car just circling. Watching a sunset. Simple dates, but it’s enough since they only care about being together.

They like to listen to music. Sharing a headset, sometimes they fall asleep together.

Peter tends to fall asleep on Sean’s shoulder. Before waking him up, Sean looks at him for a moment, thinks he looks cute when he sleeps.

They can’t kiss in public. Not even in front of Esteban, Daniel, Lyla, Sam, whoever. They can’t it. They are so shy. As I said: they go step by step. But when they’re alone, they like to kiss, be it short or long kisses. (kisses with tongue are a topic that gives them a lot shy but they like to practice a lot)

Both like art. Sean teaches Pete about urban art, comics, illustration, tattoos. Peter teaches him about cinema, documentaries, social issues treated in an audiovisual way. Both share their pations and try to combine them.

Peter tends to record Sean when he draws, thinks he looks cute when he’s focused. He also records when Sean competes in athletics and when he skates. Peter records excellently making Sean look great. He edits it and gives it to Sean. He’s very grateful to him, he loves to see boyfriend’s work, but he is ashamed when his father and brother watch it, watch it over and over and another and they don’t stop praising Sean and Peter.

Sean has drawing to Peter several times. Flattered for taking time to draw him, he loves boyfriend’s talent. Peter frames the drawings and hangs them in his room.

From there, Peter takes some of Sean’s work and frames them, so that Sean values his work more. Sean is amazed by such an act and is very grateful. Esteban loving the idea starts hanging them in Sean’s room and living room.

Daniel asks in an enthusiastic (and tantrum)  way to also frame his drawings. Peter does it, although Sean tells him not to do it, but for Peter it’s no problem.

Daniel likes Peter so much. He looks him as an older brother much more responsible than Sean. But he also plays jokes, abusing his disbelief. That bothers Sean and sometimes scolds Daniel, but Peter always calms him down, he likes Daniel very much.He understands that he’s a child.

Lyla Park and Sam Ecklund: Sean and Peter’s best friends respectively. Loyal to their friends but they both get together to annoy Peter and Sean with couple jokes. They both get mad at them sometimes. Complaints and laughs are many.

Lyla loves Peter very much. He considers him perfect for Sean and also protects him a lot because she knows how incredulous and innocent he becomes.

Sam really likes Sean. Both are relaxed, share memes, jokes, conversation topics. Sean teaches Sam to skate.

Sometimes Sam joins Daniel. Both enjoy making jokes, talk about topics that are necessary. Both also play jokes to Sean and Peter. Sean scolds both, Peter only to Sam.

Although it looks that Peter “spoiled” to Daniel. He really talks to him when he can, he notes that Daniel is an intelligent child and Daniel notes that Peter is a boy in which he can trust and ask for advice on how to be more close to Sean.

Daniel sometimes wants hang out with Sean and Peter. Sean complains, Peter talks to Sean and convinces him. The 3 walks together become the park or the cinema. Daniel always wins an ice cream.

And that’s it! They are many! 8’D SO SORRY!!! Sorry because it’s a lot! I hope you liked it! And if you want more headcanons, or any special topic, tell me! Thank you for your ask! Greetings!

[lucy-vanpelt]

SX for the meme! (i didn't mean for that to be vaguely suggestive but i'm not mad about it)

lmao ilu jess! (from the fandom ask meme)

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon

HMM, i feel like all my rpf headcanons are sex-related so this is a good themed ask, lmao. there is no way emily has not pegged jon before!!! [erin ryan voice] this is the hill that i will die on!! relatedly, jon and tommy definitely fooled around in the early aughts, thank you, case closed, good night. umm, what else. jon in general doesn’t read 100% submissive to me, but that praise kink is something else and he always comes across as extremely earnest and extremely eager to please. (jon favreau as a service top? SOLD.) i guess those are all more characterization notes than strict ~headcanons~ but whatever, i do what i want.

X - 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms

is this one otp from each of the three fandoms??? or three from three? i guess i’ll make it harder on myself and just pick one from each: jonjon for podsa, zach werenski/dylan larkin from hockey, and (a new one!) peter maldonado/sam ecklund from american vandal. I’M EXCITED FOR YULETIDE, GIVE ME FIC

[blacknerdproblems]

First and foremost, American Vandal is the first world problems “Who did it?” thriller we deserve. The truest American drama of our generation. Secondly, lemme shout out fellow staff / Hufflepuff gang member, Izetta Nicole for putting me on American Vandal. I’ma tell you like she told me, “So, it’s a doc in the style of Making A Murderer but it’s all about this kid being accused of drawing 27 dicks on the fa–.” Off the strength, I said, “say no more.” I looked at the trailer and instantly I was with the dicks shits. I am a huge fan of humor and committing to the joke. For American Vandal to take something as simple as graffiti dick vandalism as its main premise, I had to see how this would pay off in a mockumentary format, how seriously they would take themselves, and most importantly, how long would they commit to the joke of the dicks?

American Vandal places immediately places us on the scene of Hanover High School’s faculty parking lot in the aftermath of what appears to be a school prank. We see news reporters on the scene, teachers in shock, students laughing, and then an overhead view of twenty-seven cars with dicks drawn on’em. Fam, somebody Sistine Chapel’d dicks all over the teacher’s cars? I mean, that shit is funny to me only because whoever was able to draw twenty-seven dicks then erased the security tape of the time the crime was committed, clearly had a plan. Whoever did this shit was a Black-Ops Seal Team Six cadet in training with a vendetta or very specific sense of humor. But ain’t shit funny when this gets filed as a felony vandalism charge with $100,000.00 worth of property damage. Dylan Maxwell (Jimmy Tatro) most definitely ain’t laughing since he’s the one being charged. Dylan fits the profile of the person you would expect to have done this (“you can tell just by lookin’ at’em” becomes a theme) but the main case against him? They’ve got a witness, Alex Trimboli (Calum Worthy) placing Dylan at the crime, motive, conflicting testimonies, and the fact that… Dude’s a known serial dick-drawer.

This should be an open and shut issue but there are some noticeable inconsistencies. That’s where documentarian in training, Peter Maldonado (Tyler Alverez) and future forensics specialist, Sam Ecklund (Griffin Gluck) come in. They’ve been documenting the case against Dylan and they noticed that–I honestly can’t even say this with a straight face– All the dicks Dylan drew have hair on the balls (ball hairs), the ones made by the vandal on the cars don’t. Plus, the tips of the dicks are different too, the vandal’s are more heart-shaped, where as Dylan’s are narrower/simpler. Dude… I. Was. Fucking. Dying. At. This. This is the key discrepancy that opens the floodgates for more questions.

The funniest shit is seeing Peter trying to use those facts as evidence to cast doubt on Dylan as a suspect and teacher’s lookin’ at him like, “you serious with this ball hairs argument?” Peter is tho, he really is. That’s what makes this mockumentary work. There’s no “Jim stare” into the camera no matter how ridiculous things get for this case. American Vandal takes itself seriously (just enough) and it’s this factor that changes your thinking from “alright, this is going to get old” to being four episodes in and shouting at the screen “He re-enacted that dick drawing too well. THIS IS A SETUP!”

Read on here. [x]

[pzrplesuns]

I did it... It's not so good but whatever. I miss them.

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[pzrplesuns]

Just testing header styles, maybe I'll do more like this. Any suggestions? :)

Btw, their names looks so good in this!

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so... who's gonna say that?

Bonus:

both in grey, looking at each other.

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invading each other's space

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Peter: Wait, you like me?

Peter: For my personality?

Sam: Yeah, I was surprised too.