#Chrissy and tank lore

[latenightsleeper]

Fellow Darlin’-Chrissy Truther here, you can’t NOT tell me what this storyline for them is! I have one of my own as well, but I’m always intrigued by other ways of viewing the same story!!! (Sorry to bother, but I’m so psyched that someone else agrees about this!)

A WILLING SACRIFICE—(*grabs you*) okay so, I’m so happy you asked!!!!! I have a lot to say about them so I’m very excited to tell you

Okay some basic info about my version of Tank is that their humanborn, hence why they have a harder time connecting with the pack. They don’t understand the magical world and by proxy, the Shaw pack as well someone who wasn’t a humanborn would. I mean, I think we all known how biased the empowered world is to humanborns (cough cough DAMN cough DUMP cough cough) their parents were a bit…late to understand their needs as a shifter and even later to fully grasp what was happening, let alone accept it. The scare on their cheek was a testament to that

So, here’s teen Tank, with a very messed up attitude about themselves and feeling isolated within minutes of being introduced to the pack. Once again, the pack kids already have an understanding of the world around them so they do things very much differently than Tank is used to. Things Tank has no idea how to do or even understand, it’s been said before Tank wasn’t close to David or Asher growing up but even then. I’d imagine someone would try and help tank get used to and understand their new life. It didn’t alway work and the questions they asked were hard to answer or know why they asked.

Enter Christian, born into an empowered family and taught everything Tank wanted/needed to know since he was a baby, just as much as a loner as Tank was since he wasn’t a legacy kid like David or Asher as well as having a decently bad attitude… he was a huge dick to Tank when they first came, like full on asshole the way teens are when a new kid who doesn’t understand what you think is basic knowledge shows up. Chris was relentless in his teasing and childish jokes, always laughing at their innocent questions and chiding their attempts.

Tank didn’t take it laying down tho.

They fought, a lot. Verbally, physically, pranks and tricks. They were at each other’s throats from the second they woke up, to the second they went to bed. Rinse, cycle, repeat. Like clock work, some of the older pack members had some bets they’d kill each other before they got along.

Surprisingly they do start to get along, but not in the way people thought they would. My personal HC is that Christians parents weren’t the…best, this feeling coming from Chris sisters specifically using “ if you didn’t help raise him “ when the Asher and Milo tease him about Amanda and call him Chrissy(which seems to be a family nickname?). Maybe I’m reading into it a bit much, maybe I’m not. I’ll keep on rolling with it till Erik proves me wrong (not likely tho with how much he writes parental problems with his characters)

Both Christian and Tank have that in common and big places gossip, people talk and the walls have eyes. They started to see each other as something like kindred spirits, bad attitudes and shitty parents with more than a few people willing to let them dig a big hole for them to throw themselves down. They still fought and shit but it was more like a game to them both, some way to keep active and to have fun. Bloody noises and complaints from local law enforcement aside.

Things changed tho, Tank and Chrissy were still close but it was harder and harder for Tank to take the isolation from the pack. They had Christian, they’d always have him but he started to find his place, hell he even started to see Amanda. Tank? Nothing, just..an outsider.

Enter Quinn, I don’t really think I need to explain what happened with him.

Being with Quinn just drives a bigger wedge between Tank and the pack, even Christian. They start making excuses and excuses, they still showed up when he needed or asked them but there was something wrong. Just something off, maybe it was this new guy Tank was seeing, maybe it was how Tank was hiding something from him. But Tank never showed so he never asked.

Then he gets a call that Tanks in the healers, something about a rough Vamp and them being hurt. He was the only one they could think of for Tank, their parents are gone and aren’t even on the list for emergency contacts.

He leaves hours later with a promise to catch up next time when their more healed and rested, not knowing right after he left. That be the last he’d see of Tank.

Tank lies as we know to David about heading to their parents to heal and they lie to Christian about catching up. Both for the same reason, to keep the pack and most importantly-to keep Christian safe. Tank just hopes the hurt from them leaving will keep him off their trail.

Christian doesn’t know their gone till they don’t show at the pack meeting and David tells everybody the news. Christian immediately knows something is wrong and is deeply hurt, but he knows tank better than anyone else. He didn’t look for them bc he knew they didn’t want to be found-not now at least and he wanted to trust Tank at least told the truth about them just leaving to heal.

And then a month passes, then another and then it becomes close to a year. (Ten months to be precise, I counted )

Contact with Tank is minimal before drying out on everyone but David and that’s just checking in to see if their alive.

Then David finds out a full year later (once again did the math, tank was actually hunting Quinn outside of Daliha for about 10 months and then showed up, it took David a full 3-4 months after that to realize something was up) and gives Tank a rightful talking too and tells them to show up to the next meeting. so who would show up to the next pack meeting?

Tanker and they look very different than anyone saw them, especially Christian. More scars than he remembers and a haunted, sad, angry look in those eyes.

This is just general lore, don’t have all the kinks worked out but man lemme tell you! There is a lot to Tanker and Chrissy’s relationship, lots of emotions and stuff

[latenightsleeper]

“ Tanker..? “

“ Chrissy.. “

There’s always so much to say when you see an old friend, especially when the old friend is someone you left in the dark about what happened. It’s a bittersweet thing, hopefully it’s more sweet than bitter

Frames under here!

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27-28 feels right for Darlin’, but I also have always thought of the boys as being around 26ish. I think in my head, it’s always been Asher as the youngest, and Darlin’/Tank as the oldest.

Oh! On the subject of the Pack Outsiders, what’s your feelings on the Imperium? I’ve always wondered if maybe there was a reason Chrissy wasn’t there, but maybe that’s just the Imperium’s “dark side”. Idk, I hc that Imp!Christian is the only one who ever mourned Darlin’. Thoughts?

Oooo idk, just Tank with the accidental forgotten youngest child energy bc all the other wolf boys are in their 30s? Unsure of far into the 30s they are but I saw someone do the math.

Oh man, the darkest timeline. Ima be honest I haven’t touched touched IMP!au. I do have some basic knowledge and watched like a few of the first ones. But I do be kinda running from angst lore, which is kinda funny. I am soft now, I crave soft love 😔

HOWEVER—one of the imp videos was the “ caught by a cruel would pack “ which actually answers the “ where was Christian “ question!

He was getting with Amanda instead of being on protrol which in turn let Tank go after Quinn which made David follow and we know the rest

You can already guess the guilt he’s under for David being gone with Asher always reminding him, it’s pretty much times 20 for Tank. I mean, we already know no one even mentions Tank other than ‘ that other pack member ‘. Their death just brushed to the side for the tragedy of David, which is fair but damn.

So here’s Christian, guilty and condemned already by the new Alpha and his pack and now. He’s to only one there to morn the loss of his best friend and practically soulmate.

He’s the only one who knows their name, who cares too even, who knows their favorite color, show, how they liked their food. How even if they were mad at him, they’d alway make sure to give him food. How he was the only person to know they liked their back scratched as when get hugged. Who knows how pretty their smile was and how nice it looked with the little gap in their teeth.

The only one who stayed for their service and sat in-front of their grave.

Christian is so so sad and so so angry, at himself at Asher for never letting him have a moment where he isn’t reminded of what he let happen. At the others for not caring enough about his Tank to get close. So angry and so fucking sad that he can’t help but ask if that’s how his Tanker felt, what they never said to him.

He misses them, so god damn much and he griefs and morns every day. Like it’s still the same day he found them on that forest floor.