#winter olympics AU

[vexing-imogen]

since summer is almost here (in the northern hemisphere), let's play around with some Winter Olympics headcanons for The Bad Kids

Adaine and Fabian are a pairs figure skating team, and Fabian choreographed their current program

Adaine and Aelwyn both used to compete solo, but some shit went down, resulting in a lifelong ban from the sport for Aelwyn and prison time for their parents

Riz does skeleton like his dad, and Sklonda hates it. she's terrified he's going to crash and break his neck

Gorgug and Ragh are both on the men's hockey team. Ragh is the goalie, with Gorgug on defense

Fig is that snowboarder from a couple of years ago that slept in, said fuck on live tv, and then won a gold medal

was having some trouble figuring out something for Kristen, but them I remembered that the biathlon exists (a race that combines cross country skiing and rifle shooting, for those who don't know)

Fabian does worry that his papa will be disappointed that he didn't choose a more "masculine" sport, but Bill is genuinely just happy to be there cheering for his darling boy

on the other end of the spectrum, Mac and Donna definitely tried to push Kristen towards something more traditionally feminine (she suspects they didn't put up as much of a fuss about her chosen sport because it involves a gun)

[slyvester101]

@alpha-churchrvb140 reminded me about a winter olympics au I had stewing up a while ago.

It’s an ice hockey/figure skater au where the reds and blues are big hockey players and the Freelancers are very strict figure skaters.

The director is that couch who pushes for perfection over the health and wellbeing of his athletes and it leads to a lot of injuries among his skaters. Wash ends up hurting his ankle really bad during a competition where he tried to pull a move he was not even close to trying to perform and has been permanently benched by the director even though he can still skate after he heals.

Tex is the one to leave first and dump figure skating for ice hockey because she loves skating and being on the ice but she truly cannot handle being a performer anymore because of what the director has done. She and Kai kick ass on the women’s olympic ice hockey team.

Carolina ditches the director but stays in figure skating with Kimball as her new couch. It’s much more fun being able to build up her own routines to music she actually enjoys.

Wash is very insecure about his skating ability because of the director and is honestly terrified to get back on the ice, but it’s Tucker who encourages him to step back out and try. They spend a lot of time messing around and teaching each other tricks from their profession. Wash ends up staying in figure skating, but he and Tucker always come to the other’s events to cheer them on.

Whether the other freelancers retire, keep figure skating, or switch to another sport is up in the air, but they all end up ditching the director at some point.

(The Chorus kids do snowboarding, skiing, or maybe the bobsled. Palomo really wants to go into skating and Tucker has been teaching him on the side)

[aufgrundlagedeinerlikes]

That's bob

[kevinsdsy]

all for the game social media au — summer olympics edition (pt. 4): let the shenanigans and silliness consume me now before the olympics end and i will most likely stop doing these posts too 🫣🏃🏻‍♀️💨

[die-auster]

A:tLA Olympics AU – Katara

Winter and ice. Katara always gave me figure skating vibes; she is graceful and very strong. She also likes to dress up, so I guess all these pretty costumes she can wear for competitions make her happy.

Other ideas were surfing and swimming - sort of a cliché, but of course I wanted to keep Katara in touch with her element.

Other characters appear in my "atla olympics au" tag.

Id in ALT

Another figure skater Katara by mandasafiera on Instagram

Bonus:

my very old sketches (2016) of figure skater Katara. And Peter Wartman's concept art for "Imbalance" that inspired her costume.

[goddesspharo]

Now what?

[foursaints]

saw your ask post about figure skater regulus and was thinking... PLEASE consider skater evan x hockey barty WAITWAITWAIT!!!

they have sex, but. not in the icebreaker way. in the good way.

evan is a skater duo with pandora (their name is something something siamese cats pun) and hes like highly competitive, like he'll do anything to win. long story short barty catches him in the changing rooms highkey torturing his competition and is like,,, i need to fuck that NOW!..

i apologise

okay i've given 2018 pyeongchang winter olympics!AU rosekiller a truly immense amount of thought, and these are my options:

figure skater x hockey player (like you said), but in REVERSE. barty is as much of a disheveled carefree wreck as usual but his figure skating is technical & vicious & PRECISE. he has an Adidas campaign. evan is a wispy little tim-burton-looking scrap of a thing that is also an alarmingly violent hockey player. he's broken his nose in three separate places.

neither of them are actually even in the olympics because they're sports journalists. evan is the reporter for CNN & barty has an obnoxious but wildly popular radio show & and they’re paired together as the official announcers. they spend the entire time arguing (on and off camera), sharing mittens, and drinking the free hot chocolate from those tiny styrofoam cups

they are sworn life-or-death rivals but over some niche unpopular sport that nobody cares about, like skeet-shooting or curling, but their rivalry is SO intense and public that it actually overshadows most of the other sports. they've got the entire international community tuning into skeet. it is treated with a level of seriousness akin to the trojan war.

[buckbuckb]

runnnn to read LANE LINES ON AO3 ohhhhh my god. it hurts, it HURTS

OLYMPIC SWIMMING AU, childhood friends to enemies to friends to lovers AND it has multiple parts!!! part 1 is 132k, part 2 and 3 are 5k and part 4 is 274k! its currently killing me ❤️

[drgrlfriend]

Okay, how did I just now realize that I never posted this amazing commission from @quicksillver? I asked for a scene from Freedom's Reach, not realizing in my non-artist head that the scene I chose would be a technical *nightmare* what with mirrors being little bastards and all, but Misha came through like an absolute CHAMP. Definitely stop by their blog and give them all the love!

“Penny for your thoughts?” Bucky says.  Clint looks up, startled, to find Bucky standing in front of him, collar up and a tie looped around his neck.

Clint clears his throat a little, sure that he must be blushing.  There’s a standing mirror in the corner and Clint guides Bucky over to it, crowding in behind him to knot the tie.  “I’ll tell you about them later,” he growls, deep and low into Bucky’s ear, just to make him shiver.  “Or else we’ll never get there in time.”  

Clint takes note of how Bucky’s eyes in the mirror go dark and hot, and he presses a little closer than necessary, letting Bucky feel every inch of him along his back.  He reaches out a hand and snags Bucky’s jacket where it’s waiting on the back of a chair, watching in the mirror as he helps Bucky into it and smooths his palms down the front, the gold ring on his left hand gleaming in the lamplight.  The left arm of Bucky’s jacket is pinned up neatly, the dark blue wool skimming Bucky’s lean frame and making his eyes glow an icy blue.

“You look beautiful,” Clint can’t help but murmur.

Bucky turns, hand sliding inside Clint’s jacket to cradle his ribs through the thin linen of his shirt, his own ring cool and hard in contrast to the warm press of his fingers.  “That’s the pot calling the kettle black,” he says, cutting off Clint’s retort with a hungry kiss.

By the time they tear themselves apart they are running a bit late, and have to take a few more moments to straighten up their clothes anew.  Clint’s skin is still buzzing as he and Bucky descend the grand staircase to the main lobby, hand-in-hand.  Bucky gives Clint’s fingers a squeeze and Clint squeezes back, their rings clinking together as they head toward the dining room.

[noneedtoamputate]

Hear me out: Five Easy Company men as the US Men's Olympic Gymnastics Team.

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

I heard someone absolutely roast Ice Breaker (figure skater/hockey guy romance), and now I wanna do something that does figure skating justice. Like, I legit googled "good figure skating novels" and got bupkis. So the market is wholly underpopulated, so it could hit with the right audience.

Obvs Lena would be the figure skater and Kara would be the hockey player. But like. Better.

[slyvester101]

Drabble for the winter olympics au with a focus on tuckington

The first time Tucker met Wash, Tucker had been teaching Junior an easy hockey trick when he spotted movement coming from the bleachers.

It wasn’t unusual for someone to be hanging around this time of day, often just an athlete getting ready for practice or a worker checking in to make sure everything was okay on the ice, but Tucker knew basically everyone who rented out a spot for the rink and the blonde who perched himself in the front row was definitely a new comer.

But the confusing thing is that he looks familiar even though Tucker knows he doesn’t skate here. He just can’t put his finger on it until he skates over to say hello and clocks him as that figure skater Junior was obsessed with when he first got into skating. Wash recognizes Tucker too since he’s an olympian who’s currently holding gold for ice hockey. (Tucker may or may not drop a couple lines on Wash. He’s pretty. Sue him.)

Obviously, Junior is ecstatic to meet the Wash and geeks out about all the moves Wash has pulled off over the years and asks if he can show off one of his routines maybe?

Wash is hesitant since he hasn’t been on the ice since he messed up his ankle and got permanently benched by the director (who told him he’d never make up for the time he lost healing so he might as well just stop trying), but Tucker eases the pressure off of him by, rather badly, copying the moves he’s seen on tv and gets Junior giggling on the floor which has Wash cracking a laugh or two and relaxing at the very unserious air Tucker has set up for him.

When he finally gets on the floor, Tucker pulls him aside for a second to say that he doesn’t have to do this if he’s not ready or doesn’t want to, but Wash looks back at the bright, hopeful face of Junior and says that he’d be honored to give Junior a show.

Junior puts on a song from Wash’s early skating days, before he met the director, before he fucked up his ankle, before his love for skating got tainted with toxicity and stress. Of course he spins beautifully around the rink, graceful and gorgeous and not at all worried about perfection or difficulty or impressing judges.

For the first time in a long time, Wash has fun on the ice.

He gets a two-man standing novation from Tucker and Junior and if that doesn’t have him grinning like a maniac, what else will?

And if he gets roped into coming back to skate with them (Tucker always sending him off with a wink, a grin and a line about getting Wash to keep coming), well. Wash isn’t gonna complain about it.

[aufgrundlagedeinerlikes]

... So.... I got hit by motivation again?

[kevinsdsy]

hi!! i hope this ask finds you in good spirits. I don’t know if you do requests or not, and if you don’t then I sincerely apologize. but if you do, I was wondering if you would consider doing a few Trojans socmed au posts that take place during the summer Olympics and the Trojans decided to go and watch because they’re in Paris. thank you for taking the time to read this and I love your posts so much!! 🩷

THIS IS SUCH A FUN IDEA!!! took a break off my thesis today, so i had time to immediately work on this hehe <3333 these are just the pre-texts (no tweets yet) but i think imma add a special series for this to my masterlist, so i can keep it updated throughout the summer :)) i was also planning to tune into the olympics this year since i’m not going on vacation anyways and will be inbetween jobs too so i’ll have loads of time to kill and i think it’d be fun to have the trojans watch & live tweet some other sports too (if i decide to commit to that) but for now please enjoy an unexpected second update of the day hehe <333 thank u so much for this ily

[die-auster]

A:tLA Olympics AU – Suki

Suki needed a team. And an aggressive "masculine" game. And some object in place of a weapon. And since Kyoshi island is close to the south pole it should be a winter game.

Ice hockey it is.

Other options for her were judo or taekwondo or curling (this one mostly as a joke). And I thought about baseball which is very popular in Japan ('cause Kyoshi island is the most japanese-inspired place in this universe - and Suki would look so badass with a baseball bat!) but baseball was not included in Olympics program the last time I've checked.

Judo was saved for another character.

Other characters appear in my "atla olympics au" tag.

Id in ALT

Another (not mine) hockey player Suki from Pinterest

[vulpixsworld]

Weekend Update!

No new chapters this weekend but I will try to get ch. 12 of Enchanted posted the day after Thanksgiving. After that, I am excited to start on Reach (Winter Olympics hellcheer).