Brandon "Mouse" McHolland
(for @highclasstrashposts, who did most of this worldbuilding, honestly)
In the summer of 1985, a basket was left in front of Firehouse 51. Inside, there was a baby, and a blanket, and a note pinned to the fleece. There was no explanation, no number to call, no indication that whoever had left him there would return.
take care of Brandon for me
There weren't many people to take care of him - between Herrmann's new marriage and Boden's crumbling one, the number of homes he could go to was slim. But it would be worse if he was put into the system, being passed from one foster home to another without any kind of stability. If they wanted to follow the single instruction left in the note, and take care of the child that was left in their care, he needed a good life, someone constant in it, a support system he could always rely on no matter where life took him.
So, even if Mouch was the one who took him in, gave him food and a roof, it really did take a village to raise a child. While his name legally became Brandon McHolland, he had an entire firehouse to call family. He had uncles and cousins, even if none of them were related to him by blood. He had as many people to go to for advice as he could imagine, and plenty of space to roam around the firehouse when he started walking and saying more than babbled syllables.
When he still had trouble repeating a few names he heard around the firehouse, with the ch coming out closer to sh, he got his own silly nickname that wasn't far off from his adopted father's. By the time his age reached double digits, he answered to Mouse more than he answered to Brandon, and he almost preferred it that way. Even if they weren't family biologically, having a name, no matter how silly, that could be easily mistaken for another felt important to him. It gave him a connection to the most important person in his life beyond the same address and last name.
"No one cares more about abandoned babies than me."
The bracket has been seeded and organized and built a few hours early, which means you get to see it a few hours early!
Round one will start tomorrow, Sunday, April 2nd - also a little bit ahead of schedule. Eight polls - four from each side of the bracket - will be posted at 6am pacific and run for 24 hours, and will be considered round 1A. The other eight polls, round 1B, will be posted at 6am on Monday, April 3rd.
All polls, once posted will be tagged as #polls, as well as #round 1 for easy access.
The rules are pretty self explanatory:
Don't be rude. It's a silly tumblr poll, not a judgement of character. If there is any threats or tomfoolery in the notes, the block button exists and I'll use it.
A continuation of the first rule: don't. be. rude. For now, anon messages are turned on, and they will stay on for as long as it's reasonable. If I get hate or rude messages, that privilege will get taken away. Don't be the reason everyone else loses anonymity.
Have fun! This was created for exactly that reason, so we should all enjoy it!
After someone mentions Kelly gets to "play doctor" all the time with his actual doctor boyfriend, he takes that as a sign to try out actually playing doctor. And it goes.... better than expected.
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Rewatching CFire and never realized how cute Brian/Otis is before 😩
I feel like i go through this a lot too! Like when I rewatch there’s details or people i might have missed the first time that have grown on me or will grow on me! Otis is one of the characters that grew on me when i did a rewatch honestly!!!
Kelly Severide, exhausted and burnt out from his 9-to-5 and feeling like a failure as a father, has to take a break. He rents a small cottage on the beach somewhere warm, packs up his four year old daughter, and drives down so they can spend the summer away from the rush of city life. And it's exactly what they needed. What he didn't expect was their next door neighbor, Will Halstead.
Will Halstead is tired of losing, and failing, and grieving. He fled his own wedding after kissing his best friend at his bachelor party. His father died only later, and the beach house he and Jay had grown up visiting every summer was left to him. So, he left Chicago. He left Chicago, and he didn't regret it. Jay was pissed, but Jay hadn't been anything but pissed at him since they were teenagers. Now, he works at the local cafe and bookstore in this little beach town, which thrives in the summer and survives the rest of the year, and he lives with his dog he rescued from a kill shelter, and he doesn't hate his life. Except, he does miss having someone to come home to.
Cue Kelly Severide. He's only there for the summer, and Will shouldn't get attached, but he's the cutest father, to the most perfect little girl. He watches the two of them in the sand out back of their houses in the afternoons, the little girl, Mara, is loud and excitable and whip smart. Will offers to share dinners with them, since he always makes too much, coming from a big Catholic family, and somehow that leads to Kelly and Mara bringing over cookies they'd made, and then staying to eat them together, and Will brewing coffee for the adults, and cocoa for Mara, while they watched a movie in his living room. It leads to getting ice cream together, and going swimming in the ocean, and building sandcastles, and maybe, while Mara is sleeping one night after a long day playing in the sun and sand, they might slip into the outdoor shower together for long kisses and hot touches.
At the end of summer, they have to decide what to do. Is this just a summer romance? A fling in the bright, hot sun? Does Will leave the small beach town he'd settled into? Does Kelly stay, leaving behind the fast-paced life he'd thought he'd grown tired of, for a man he could see raising his daughter with? What's next for them when the heat starts to fade and be replaced with turning leaves and the town slowing down?
I'm so annoyed by CF right now b/c they could've done anything else as a plotline. I'm so tired.
ikr??? it's so clear that they just don't have any valid, logical ideas omg I mean, can't Stellaride be the happy boring couple instead of having them act totally ooc just bc they want drama (which is the only thing they think they can truly rely on as of now, being the couple™ of the show)
I know they'll give them (us) their happy ending, so what is the reason behind all this unecessary drama? they've been through so much already, let. them. be. happy.