#winnix headcannons

[privgeorgeluz]

band of brothers • black and white

[danopdf]

i like to think that Dick is just taller enough than Nix that he sometimes has to lean against a wall (or a doorframe) for Lewis to be able to kiss him nose to nose, rather than pull him down/get on his toes, and Dick likes it when Lew slots between his legs as he’s leaning.

[kafka-ohdear]

you know, the easy company members' ages are mostly equivalent to others but some are basically a child in a grown man body. a whole squad i'd say. there are:

• skip, don, penkala, they literally have children-like behavior. who will be the child if not these three.

• and we also have luz, hoobler, tab and babe in the problematic children group.

• webgott also belongs in this squad, they argue every single minute and skinny will have to stop them.

• skinny, shifty, eugene, chuck and blithe are also children-like, but they behave perfectly well. they are basically what people mean when they talk about the polite kid.

• and don't forget john hall, the shy little child who deserves the world.

on the other hand, we have the babysitters, or mom and dad group. this group includes:

• obviously, winnix aka the parents of the company;

• and speirton the another parents of easy co. but they are a bit closer to the men of the company somehow;

• randlemartin is a requirement. bull is most certainly the cool dad who will teach you to make models and martin is the mom who will give you a 2 hour long lecture but still let you make the models with you dad (aka bull) afterwards.

we also have the cool uncles and the perosnal babysitters. the uncle squad includes:

• harry and bill, the straights amongst gays.

• dukeman is the only one who will teach you good and valuable knowledge (they are appropriate, of course). he will also bring you candies, but only the right amount. let's say he is the only uncle that can be trusted in the whole squad.

• alton is the cool uncle who will take you for a ride on his motorcycle until you get bored and will answer/teach everything if you asked him no matter if it's appropriate or not;

• and pat christenson, who will draw a literal masterpiece and give it to you if you asked him to.

• buck is the kind of uncle who will sneak you a bunch of candies that are probably enough to keep you full for a goddamn month and will get a lecture with you if you both get caught.

an example for the personal babysitter is george, his personal babysitter and boyfriend is joe toye of course. or the kid will babysits the uncle sometimes. who knows.

band of brother kindergarten/family au, give it to me.

[churchkey]

Aaah! I almost forgot to tell you guys!

I had another sighting of Old Married Winnix this week. This time I was on my bike on the converted rail line/commuter bike trail and they were probably in their 60s. Lew was walking a little white dog and Dick was - get this - picking up fucking garbage with one of those grabber sticks and putting it in a trash bag. Beautifying both the neighborhood and my soul, thanks guys.

[winnix85]

One-Lung McClung, who seemed to have an uncanny sense of smell, believed Major Winters was in fact a secret drinker. Otherwise how could you explain the trace of whiskey smell on his collar?

[nixoninc]

random domesticity headcannons that i need to get off my chest:

WINNIX

standing side-by-side with dick in front of the bathroom mirror brushing their teeth is nix's favourite part of domestic life

he never imagined it, but there's something so tender about the mundanity that makes him feel secure and stable

no matter what difficulties they faced during the day - deflecting questions about the war, pressure at work, stanhope's brutishness - they stand together every evening, casting sly smiles and glances at each other's reflections before flopping into their shared bed

dick meanwhile takes the chance to admire lew. he appreciates being able to see a different side to his partner - usually so composed, with stray flecks of toothpaste on his face. In the moment of such humanness and vulnerability, his heart can't help but swell

SPEIRTON

as a kid, lip always loved the puzzle pages of his mother's newspaper. he liked colouring in the squares of the crossword puzzle before he realised letters there were clues on to fill them properly.

growing up, he finds it peaceful to complete the mind games and crosswords - even if he doesn't always get them right

when ron comes into the picture, they sit together on rainy days solving the crossword and trivia questions whilst snuggling under blankets

as a team, these two are unbeatable. if they ever have trivia night with the guys, they're always the ones to beat. ron comes in particularly handy with the tricky history questions and lip covers anything sport and pop culture

these two have such a vibrant dynamic of almost being able to share thoughts with a look, they're unstoppable and good luck beating them

WEBGOTT

these nerds love movie marathons. they take turns picking the films, but let's be honest, these two have wayy too much energy to cope with sitting in silence for hours, so the best part is the running commentary they deliver

they're hilarious and ridiculous and while their friends are scared to be around them when debating the intricacies of david fincher movies, joe's favourite part is always having someone to bounce ideas off of and someone to enjoy that with him. even if they're arguing non-stop, it makes him giddy knowing that web cares enough to listen and argue back

sometimes mid-argument, joe will just stop talking and take in web's pouting lips or impassioned eyes and completely forget what he was saying, because it doesn't matter anymore. what matters most is that david is listening to him and comfortable voicing his pretentious (see: wrong) opinions

web loves seeing joe's face illuminated by the light onscreen, hearing him laugh at david's interjections, throwing an arm around him and pulling him close. they fit together so easily, he could imagine doing this his whole life

BABEROE

babe's a softie and his favourite part of domestic life is just coming home to gene everyday. their house becomes his favourite place because the person he loves most in the world is there

he knows that when gene asks how his day went, he actually cares about the answer. babe is surrounded by strong characters who are constantly giving him advice, but when he stresses to gene, he gets a soft smile and calming, comforting words back

gene doesn't pretend to know how to fix things but is always there to reassure babe that the world isn't going to end just because he forgot to send his mother a birthday card

for gene, it's the little things like feeling seen and supported by babe when he needs to offload on how horrible his shift was. gene is a very private person so babe feels honoured to be trusted with gene's rants about stupid protocol, authorised signoffs and long hours.

gene appreciates how quickly babe picks up on his mood and puts in effort to make everything as comfortable as possible if he's wound up.

they take care of each other that's what i'm basically trying to say

[lewis-winters]

winnix dancing headcannons? bit random but who's the better dancer between Dick or Lew?

ok so like this isn't what you asked for-- it's less my own dancing headcanons but more like... a fic rec of a winnix fanfic that basically shaped what i think dancing!winnix would be like?

there's a FANTASTIC fic by fandom author Muccamukk called Blue Birds in the Moonlight and it's just. the sweetest most heartbreaking but most beautiful thing.

that's all my winnix dancing headcanons condensed into one fic HAHAHHA im sorry i hope this doesn't come off as a lazy answer. i just adore this fic so much and i think you would, too.

edit: Lew's the better dancer, tho. he knows how to cut a rug. poor Dick may be graceful in his athleticism, but he lacks musicality that Lew has in spades.

[trashbag-baby666]

How To Mess Up With A Soulmate-Webgott soul mate AU.

Based on these headcannons https://emono-omae.tumblr.com/post/161642759466/deaf-headcanons-with-hbo-bois

Since the words first showed up on Joe's wrist on his 13th birthday he was utterly confused on how he'd know.

His mother told him his skin would start to burn and it would disappear. But he was still more than scared for the day it would happen.

Joe stood in the bathroom at school with his friend group. He sighed as he bent down and pulled out the small tool kit from his backpack.

His hearing aid batteries died just as he got to school and now had to change them.

"Who knew Joe could be a handyman," George giggled and signed.

Joe turned around looking at his friends and rolled his eyes. He turned and signed a quick "shut it, Luz."

He got the batteries changed in his hearing aid and stood up to put it in when a body collided with him and he dropped it. Joe's eyes met the ground as the other boy stepped on it by accident as he tried to regain his balance.

George's eyes went wide and Eugene dropped to the ground in an attempt to fix anything.

"Oh, my word I'm so sorry!" David said quickly why he helped Joe up off the ground. Joe sighed heavily not getting a word David Webster said but his wrist began to burn and he looked down.

"Oh my god it's happening," Joe signed to George then David's eyes went wide as he noticed his words start to fade on his wrist.

"I'm just gonna back away and go call Joe's mom. Uhm Eugene Wanna play translator? Thanks, Roe." George signed and dipped out of the bathroom.

Eugene was hard of hearing but could still pick up on some words.

"Uhm can you tell him I'm really sorry?" David pleaded looking at Eugene.

"Tell him yourself," Eugene said and signed at the same time.

"But isn't he?" David started.

"Yes but he's not stupid if you speak clearly he can lip-read." Gene sighed and watched the two. David took a deep breath.

"I'm sorry, I Uh hope I can make it up to you," David spoke.

"I accept your apology," Joe signed and Eugene translated it back to David. Joe still had his face stuck in a shocked manner. His eyes gaped wide and his mouth parted slightly. Both boys were in utter shock this was the circumstances.

"Since we're soul mates, I hope I can make it up to you?" David sighed looking at Joe for any reassurance.

"Here I'll give you my number," Joe signed and Gene told David. David took his phone and handed it to Joe. Joe put in his number then texted a quick hey so the contact would get added. Joe's watch flashed alerting him the bell had rung and he picked up his backpack. He picked up the remainders of his hearing aid and put them in his pocket waving at David as he and Eugene left.

Since the first text, Joe couldn't stop texting David.

Joe spent the whole bus ride home texting David. He got off and pocketed his phone as he walked with his sister Laurella.

"What's with the smirk on your face?" She signed.

"I met my soul mate today," Joe signed his crooked smile growing bigger.

"Oh, Joey you did?!" She signed beyond excited for her older brother. Joe smiled and nodded as he opened the door.

Joe walked into the kitchen and put his broken hearing aid on the counter.

"Joesph, what happened?" His mom signed and walked over to him.

"I met my soul mate mama, and he uh stepped on my hearing aid," Joe signed with hesitation.

"Just this one broke?" She asked. Joe nodded and his mom hugged him tightly.

She was always scared for Joe to meet his soulmate.

But from what it looked everything was going as planned.

David:

So your mom probably assumes I bully you now, huh?

Joe:

I explained everything to her.

David:

Good, I'm glad you have supportive parents. My parents are always gone :/

Joe:

Yeah, I'm sorry about that? So why'd you move here?

David:

My dad got a huge promotion but it didn't matter because it's not like my parents are ever home. They're always on some bull shit work trip.

Joe:

Oh :( that sucks.

David:

Yeah, maybe you can come over some time while they're gone.

Joe:

I'd love to <3

From then on that day their freshman year, Joe and David were inseparable. Their friends would then meet their soulmates.

But with every long-lasting relationship, it came with fights.

Joe and David got in petty arguments a lot.

They'd both sign at each other aggressively. Most of their arguments ending in violent kissing and then them banging it out.

        "Why is George even throwing a party most of his friends are deaf." Joe signed as David drove them to George's.

"Toyes on the football team and George is the captain of the cheer squad they know people." David signs carefully as he drives.

"True," Joe nodded. They pulled up at George's and parked on the street.

Joe sighed getting out and David rushed to Joe's sighed and took Joe's hand.

Joe was used to David being clingy at social events. Where Joe was pretty open, David had to play translator. Or try the best he could.

Joe opened the door and let him and David in as they looked around.

Jocks were dancing and drinking in the living room. Joe looked over and some girls that George knew from the squad were smoking weed on the staircase. He walked to the kitchen to get drinks as he abandoned David in the crowd by accident.

"Liebgott!" Heffron signed walking over.

"What's up?" Joe signed then poured himself a drink.

"You know Eugene is playing medic for every one that falls." Babe signed and nudged Joe's shoulder, "Where's Web?"

"Lost him in the crowd," Joe giggled and took a drink of beer.

"Well you better find him before he talks someone's ear off about sharks," Heffron smiled. Joe nodded and turned into the crowd. Joe looked around trying to pick up on any sound of David's voice in the crowd of voices and music.

Joe jumped as a hand wrapped around his wrist and he turned and it was Toye.

"Hey webs looking for you," Joe signed.

"I'm looking for him, where'd you see him?" Joe signed back.

"He's upstairs in George's room," Joe signed and let Lieb return to his search. He sighed walking up the stairs and going past the cheer team girls.

He opened George's bedroom door and there was David sitting on the bed reading his book.

"You brought a book to a party? I was hoping you'd have Booz in your backpack now books." Joe signed and rolled his eyes. David set down his book and crossed his arms.

"Oh don't get pouty with me you shithead," Joe smiled as he signed and sat next to David on George's bed.

"What did you expect for me to do here?" David signed but in a quiet environment, Joe could hear soft murmurs of David's voice. Even if it sounded like they were underwater and David was speaking at him. Joe mouth David's name and shook his head.

"Come on Joey," Web sighed moving his hands.

"Your ASL is so bad," Joe shook his head.

"What you told me it was good. I've been working so hard since we met!" David defended himself.

"Maybe it's because it's all I've known my whole life but you're decent maybe not bad. But your spelling out letters need help. Maybe I'll teach you slang some time?" Joe made fun of him then held David's hands but let go of him to get one more thing out.

"Just speak to me like you did that day when you broke my left hearing aid," Joe smirked.

"Okay," David spoke clearly to his soulmate. The only man he'd drop a book for. And the only man that mattered to Joe.

[himbowelsh]

I’ve been having a lot of conversations about Winnix as dads. Do you have any headcannons or fics of them with kids? I’d love to hear your thoughts ❤️

!!  i do, i do!!  winnix are dads anyways, thank you for giving me an opportunity to indulge my great interest.   my headcanons about nix’s kid will probably be of interest to you, and are 100% relevant to this!!

so, nix has a kid.  she’s the only good thing to come out of his marriage to his first wife   ---   funny, since she was an absolute accident, and neither parent was exactly thrilled when she was born.   nix didn’t think he was ready to be a dad, and kathy had little interest in being a mom...  so for most of her childhood, little madeline was left to the nannies to raise.

nix doesn’t actually get to know his kid until after the war ends.   she doesn’t come around much.  when she does, the entire nixon family dotes on her.   his parents are thrilled to be grandparents...  so nix leaves the handling of maddie up to them on her rare visits, lingering awkwardly in the background.  he doesn’t know how to interact with his own kid.

honestly, any kid nix has is going to have a lot of him in them.   maddie’s nixon genes are strong  ---  she’s got her father’s dark hair, dark eyes, sharp wit, and quiet intensity.  

lewis nixon does not know what to do with this little girl.

“you’re afraid of her,” dick remarks bluntly to him one day.  dick sees everything that goes on in his father’s company, in the nixon family, and in nix’s mess of a life.  for the first time, nix kind of regrets buying him a ticket to new jersey.

“i’m not afraid of my own daughter!”

he proves it by getting her gifts.  his own father’s solution to any parenting problem was to throw money at it — enough money that it would certainly go away.  nix doesn’t want his daughter gone, he just wants her… satisfied. comfortable. fond of him, if he can ask for that much.

he doesn’t just buy her whatever she wants.  he buys her things a little girl doesn’t rationally need.  for maddie’s seventh birthday, she gets a rolls royce.

dick is  a g h a s t .

the winters family’s parenting style couldn’t be more different from the nixons if they tried.   austere and modest, dick’s parents treated him with respect from an early age, but also gave him a great deal of responsibility.  as a child, he had a heavy load of chores; anything he wanted, he had to earn.  when he wanted new things, he bought them with his own money…  but those were more new shoes and books, maybe splurging on a camera or an ice cream cone, never a car.   when the milk bottles were empty, little dick got new bowling pins.  when the sheep were shaved, his mother would sometimes make him a new stuffed animal.  that was the extent of spoiling him.

frankly, dick wants to raise his own children the same way.

nix thinks he’s a madman.

that said, dick is also a great buffer.   where nix goes, dick tends to follow; maddie gets used to her father’s shadow.  dick doesn’t think he’s particularly good with kids, but for some reason, maddie likes him.  more than her father.  dick didn’t ask for this at all...  but nix is thrilled.

“if she likes you, we’re set!  just  ---  talk me up a bit, you know?  tell her about her old dad.  give her a good impression.  get to know her, find out what she wants, and i’ll get it for her!”

dick is skeptical, but loyal.  he takes on the task of spending more time with maddie.

however much like her father she is, the little girl also carries a strong vein of melancholy.  it doesn’t take dick long to recognize it as loneliness.

like any job, dick commits to it with his absolute all.   he takes maddie to the park, to the beach, out flying kites and racing the wind.  all maddie wants is someone to listen to her chatter, so dick does.   he’s got a peculiar way of dealing with children  ---  he doesn’t spoil them, and certainly doesn’t baby them.   he’s very respectful and encouraging, but sort of treats them like miniature adults; if they’re capable of acting, they’re capable of thinking those actions through and understanding the consequences, good or bad.   maddie loves this approach  ---  dick takes her seriously, and she adores him for it.

about two weeks into dick’s assigned babysitting detail, nix pulls him aside, absolutely stricken.      “you’re Dadding my kid,” he says.

dick doesn’t mean to adopt nix’s kid. that is absolutely, by no means what he wants, and boy is it a shock when he realizes.

by then, he’s in too deep. maddie has already started calling him “uncle dick”, and runs up every time she sees him with a broad grin on her face.  she reports her daily activities back to him diligently, beams under the modest praise he gives her, and is always ready for a new adventure.  “i think we should go to the park today,”  she’ll declare, settling into the passenger’s seat besides dick.  or, “we should go to the zoo.” “lets go the the beach and feed the seagulls.”

somehow, dick has become Interim Dad.

nix is devastated.   he feels like he’s been replaced  ---  worse, that he let it happen.   until he saw his kid being Dadded by someone else, he didn’t realize how much he wants a relationship with his daughter.  he really, really does.

“you have to listen to her,”    dick tells him.    “she likes to argue  ---  not to be bullheaded, but just for the sake of it.   it’s how her brain works.   she doesn’t like being left alone.  when she asks questions, she expects a serious answer.  she doesn’t like dolls.”

there’s a brand new, $1000 dollhouse sitting in the back of nix’s renault.  he feels faint.

charitably, dick invites him to the park the next day.

maddie doesn’t quite know why her father is with them  ---   he always seems very busy doing absolutely nothing  ---   but she adjusts quickly.   nix has been to this exact park drunk on multiple occasions, so he does too.

it’s a sight to see  ---   nix and his daughter, swinging side by side, seeing who can go the highest.   when nix gets a cramp in his leg, maddie laughs so hard she nearly tumbles off the swing.   standing by, dick grins.

they end up double-teaming as dads for the rest of maddie’s childhood.   it gets easier when they move away from nix’s family, and nix gets his own life in order.   maddie gets her own bedroom at their house whenever they come to visit; nix fills it with books on animals and egyptian curses, chess boards and astronomy sets.   she rides horses with dick all afternoon, and comes home to help nix put together dinner.   she shows her father how to braid hair, and “uncle dick” learns ballet lifts while she’s practicing for her upcoming recital.    though dick is the stern parent, he’s weak to maddie’s puppy dog eyes, because her father has the exact same pair.

they never tell her outright, but by the time she’s old enough, maddie’s figured out what’s going on between them.   she never questions it.  a part of her knew all along, and dick’s been her family long before he and her father held hands at the dinner table.

they haven’t raised a child together, not exactly...   but when they look at the young woman their daughter has become, dick and nix couldn’t be prouder of her.

[anthrobrat]

Top 5 Winnix Anything (series moments, looks, takes, headcannons, reasons to love them, body parts... Anything 😍)

1. The look they give each other in Carentan when the brass are being particularly ridiculous. 2. Dick’s sass face when he says “you want a job?/are you just here to gloat?” 3. Nixon responding to the sass by inserting himself further into the room.  4. “Going my way” becoming an ongoing inside joke even after they’re married and living on a farm where they take naps on Sundays. 5. Dick’s thighs in PT gear and Nix’s beard in Belgium. Okay... this is nowhere near an exhaustive list, but it’s what I came up with a month ago so I’ll run with it. This is nothing new, these are popular favorites, I don’t care. Also, I’ll tag @churchkey because I’m pretty sure you requested this <3 <3 

[goldenapollos]

Hi! I love your headcannons, they’re absolutely adorable and make me smile. If you have time could you do some winnix and/ or speirsgrant ones? Whichever ones you like!

hello! thank you so much, you’ve made my day!!

i hope you don’t mind that i’ve done winnix headcanons, i’m not too familiar with speirsgrant aha.

we all know that dick is literally the dad friend to everyone. but lew was equally as caring, he just showed it in different ways.

some of these included: making sure dick drank enough water throughout the day (he would always forget unless lew reminded him), going to bed at a reasonable hour and to put himself above others sometimes because he was just as important as everyone else.

although dick didn’t drink, he found it a little entertaining when nix would get completely shitfaced and ramble to anyone who would listen about how much he loved his boyfriend and how thoughtful and kind he was.

after nights out with the easy boys, dick would often be the one to call everyone a cab home and make sure nix was in bed and not asleep on their kitchen floor.

dick sometimes mumbled things in his sleep. one night nix swore he heard him say something about how pretty he thought he was, but he kept that little secret to himself.

when the two of them finally announced their engagement to the boys, they were beyond excited. perconte & luz got so hype they almost threw nix out the window (don’t ask, it’s a long story. they picked him up, he was near a window, you get the rest).

honestly, nix is a bit of a mess but he’s dick’s mess and he wouldn’t have it any other way.

[auroralightsthesky]

Oblivious Dick anon pt2 lol: there with that look on his face where his lips are parted and he looks like he just figured out quantum physics. And Nix is thinking “i thought you kept straight but maybe you need my help as much as i need yours, you big oblivious idiot”…sorry just a random scenario/headcanon lol 😂

You're fine hon it's all good, I have at least ten a day when I'm at work. If ever you want this done as a set of headcannons I could try my best. I'm still trying to challenge myself with the Winnix, Webgott, Sledgefu and BradxRay pairings and it's a little bit tough cuz I've never really written for them before but if ever, ya'll ask and zee genie shall do her best to grant you the wish. 😁😁😁

[churchkey]

Yeah, I mean, I might as well start plotting a modern au Winnix in which they:

💜 Have two daughters conceived via IVF and carried/delivered by a surrogate, aged somewhere around 9 and 6, the oldest biologically Lew's and the youngest Dick's

💛 Are having pretty significant marriage problems that result in them deciding that getting divorced is best for everyone

💚 Try to be the best single dads they can but it's hard and the tensions and old wounds still linger even after they're not living together

💙...then something dramatic happens...

❤️ And they figure out they're still very deeply in love with each other and want to give it another try, not just for the girls but because they really just can't understand a future without each other

Would anyone read that?

[churchkey]

Apparently I can’t do anything else today until I get these headcannons out. This story has really got its hooks in me and I am now going to do something insane, which is put my thinking process on display for all of you to see in the hopes that it will keep me both organized and accountable. So here's what I’ve got so far on the Untitled Epic Winnix Modern AU (the one with the kids). 

Chapter One: How We Got Here

Interior. Car. Evening.

We open on heavy silence. DICK WINTERS (early 40s, athletic, attractive) sits in the driver’s seat, looking down at his hands on the steering wheel as though they are alien to him. His breath is slow and even; he is trying hard to control his emotions. In the passenger seat is his husband, LEWIS NIXON (early 40s, attractive in a rumpled, disheveled professor sort of way). He is holding his head in his hands, slowly rubbing the pads of his fingers over his forehead, eyebrows, temples, like he has a very bad headache. Outside, it is dusk and a light snow has begun to fall.

LEWIS (defeated) So that’s it.

DICK (hollow) Yeah. I think so.

They’re both quiet, at a loss for words as they struggle to understand the decision they’ve just made.

LEWIS We’ll have to tell girls.

Dick begins to nod and then exhales shakily, his entire face wrinkled in anguish as he drops his head and begins to cry silently. Lewis folds his arms across his chest and does not reach out to comfort Dick.

(Okay, I’ll stop pretending I’m writing a screenplay now, since I can’t even figure out how to center the text)

As it’s taking shape in my head right now, Chapter One is going to start in the moment they decide to get divorced and then flashback to how they met and fell in love and got married and all that stuff. And here’s where I’m at on all of THAT:

Dick is a first year graduate student at some TBD business school (I was thinking maybe Wharton since it’s in Philadelphia but maybe I’ll put them at Dartmouth since it would be somewhere unfamiliar for both of them and have that “we’re so far away from our real lives at home” magic/freedom that the war gave them in the canonverse) where he meets Lew in class and they become friends and study together and stuff but even though they start sleeping together, their relationship doesn’t really go beyond that because Lew is married and Dick is sort of like “this has no future anyway” but he falls in love nonetheless.

Lew is on his last chance with his family after flunking out of Yale and trust-funding his way around Europe for a couple years, ostensibly for school but he didn’t go to any classes and has no degree to prove he’s been up to anything meaningful or constructive, aside from rebellion and nihilism. He married the daughter of old family friends in a game of chicken with his father that went horribly wrong. When Dick meets him, Lew and Katharine are virtually estranged. The plan is to start over once he’s earned his MBA and is settled into his role as heir apparent to the family business, but he knows he can’t wait that long and has given up any hope of having a healthy marriage, not that he had any to begin with. But he’s too immature to tear off the bandaid himself, so he’s basically just waiting for her to get tired of him and file for divorce. To make matters even more complicated, he just went ahead and fell in love with this cute, serious, introspective and freakishly smart guy he met in his Econ class. No one saw THAT coming.

So they’re kind of friends with benefits, each knowing deep down that it’s a hell of a lot more than that, and then after finals that first year Lew just basically disappears and Dick doesn’t see or hear from him again until the following October, when he’s working his job in the Bursar's Office, tracking down people who are late on their tuition payments, and up pops Lew’s name. So they get reacquainted and Lew explains why the hell he dropped off the map like he did and THEN things really pick up speed and they’re spending every weekend together and then Dick asks Lew to be his date to his friend Harry’s wedding and that’s the night he tells Lew that he loves him and it’s also the night that he realizes maybe he’d actually like to spend the rest of his life with Lew.

They get married (maybe Dick wants something really small, like a courthouse and an intimate little family dinner after but Lew is like “oh fuck THAT, we’re having a party, the more people to witness my father’s great shame, the better, HA!”) and Dick gets his first job… working for his new father-in-law, and they buy a house that is WAY too big for just the two of them, which Dick keeps pointing out as Lew keeps insisting he look at the size of that bathroom! He’s pretty much against that extravagance and Lew is too, Dick reminds him, and then Lew drops the bomb on him: But doesn't Dick want a family someday?

He does. He really really does. End Chapter 1.

I am ALWAYS open to suggestions so if you have any, lay ‘em on me!

[churchkey]

Hello, I adore your writing and always look forward to your stories. I'm wondering if you think there's ever a way the Winters family would accept Nix. Fanon usually has Blanche in on the secret, but what would the conservative Winters family think? Does the answer change if it's a mod AU? Is the family split on gender or age lines?

Oh wow, thank you! That’s so kind of you, thank you for reading!

And what a great question. I think about this quite a bit. In a canon/post-war au world, I kinda see Dick’s family as doing that thing where they all just pretend not to know what’s going on and never talk about it and Dick and Lew sleep in their separate bedrooms when they go to visit and everyone gets along. I wrote Dick’s mom as being like this in A Spell of Riot, and it being a source of angst for him (for obvious reasons) and just getting so tired of the charade. My source on this is my grandparents, (who were actually Dick’s generation, not his parents’), and watching them come around eventually to accepting - kinda - my cousin and his husband. The closest they ever got was “well, I don’t understand it and I wouldn’t have chosen this life for you, but I like Stuart and you two seem happy, so... live and let live”. 

So basically, I think they would all come to love Lew and be fine with having him around for holidays and stuff, but they still wouldn’t acknowledge what he and Dick are to each other and they wouldn’t ever feel like they can be themselves around Dick’s family, and the thing about separate beds would probably be a big confrontation eventually (except not because they’d be super passive aggressive about it and Dick would just stop talking to them/going home for a while, until Lew was like “I can’t take this any more, call your mother”). But before each of his parents pass away, I would hope there would be some kind of understanding/acceptance because I feel like for Dick - who just wants to be a good son and brother and craves that validation - well, it would break his heart a little if he never got that. 

Now in a modern AU, I fully see them as the family who are accepting in theory but not really in practice, assuming they’ll never have to be, and then when their son comes out it’s like a whole educational process for them. They say the wrong thing and make dumb and offensive assumptions, and it’s probably pretty exhausting for Dick to have to explain what being gay means all the time, but their hearts would be in the right place and eventually it would become incredibly normal and they’d laugh at now naive they used to be. They’d even be cool with Dick and Lew being affectionate and do that thing when they’re taking a photo of them when one parent is like “oh come on, get closer, pretend like you like each other”. 

Ann would of course think it’s awesome at first and then realize “oh, you’re still my annoying big brother who tries to tell me what to do, now you just have a sidekick who’s just as bossy but in a sneakier, sort of mindfuck-y way, terrific, I’ll be in my room.”

[churchkey]

I don't know why this amuses me so much, but the thought of Winnix doing their grocery shopping, like

1. They go early on Saturday mornings before it gets too crowded

2. Lew makes 2 lists organized by the route they'll each take around the store

3. At first Dick was on the perimeter and Lew took the aisles but Dick hemmed and hawed too much over the produce and Lew demoted him

4. They meet at the check-out in a very specific line and if that kid isn't working that day, they have a contingency line

5. The whole thing takes like 15 minutes and they're both so turned on at their own efficiency and how well they still work together as a team that they have sex immediately upon arriving home (after putting the ice cream in the freezer of course, you only make that mistake once)

HAPPY WEEKEND MY LOVES!!