#except i don’t jsut not want to work i want to Genuinely not be Alive lollllllllll

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Something else I remembered that’s still very good in AUs like family au is when people meet austin and are like okay this fucking entitled asshole is here, cool. But then meet his parents and are like wait hold on??? ????? what’s the catch?????????? Until realizing no june and oliver are actually pretty chill and friendly? Weird! But i also like how austin is with them being something that throws people off, too. Like not only is it strange that oliver and june don’t act so distant and annoyed and cold like austin does, but when they visit, austin doesn’t act so much like that either. He’s not super cheerful and friendly all of a sudden, but it’s clear he’s a bit more warm and relaxed than he normally is. You can catch a slight smile on his lips more, even if other times he’s shooting his dad unamused frowns because i’ve immediately fallen in love with the idea of oliver trying his hand at dad jokes sometimes to try and get a laugh out of austin and them only working like 1% of hte time and the rest of the time austin is just like internally ugh about it like yeah haha super funny dad T_T. There’s also that 1% though! Austin seems like he doesn’t have a sense of humor the rest of the time but sometimes his dad gets him to crack a laugh, or starts some inside joke they’ve had since austin was 10 and austin rolls his eyes but he still finishes the joke with a smh-type chuckle and he’s still gentle and doesn’t mention about how tired the joke has gotten over the years. His parents try to take care with touching him out of the blue because they know he’s not comfortable about touches, but it’s clear he’s way more comfortable with a hug from them or sitting on a couch so their arms are touching than he is with other people. I touched on that with the swap superpower/family au talk, how they may have had fights and austin may sometimes tire of how his parents are, but at the end of the day, he loves them so much, and he respects them and cares about them, more than any other person he knows. And that’s gotta be such a weird thing for anyone seeing it the first time, especially upon realizing oh that’s not him faking it like how he’ll usually fake being polite???? He just genuinely is comfortable around them.

Also, GTA au, Austin’s parents visiting one time and them having no clue he’s doing criminal shit so him having to be very secretive and very careful about their visit. Very good bonus to that is at some point while austin and kyle are at austin’s house talking to austin’s parents, ivan coming over to see kyle and austin trying very hard to get rid of ivan until the parents notice and question who it is before “Oh /you’re/ Ivan! Austin, don’t be rude; come in, please, we’re so glad we get the chance to meet you!” Because I think kyle somewhat keeps in touch with them, since they were like secondary parents who were nicer and cared about him and he super values that. Austin probably calls his parents once every week or two, it’s a scheduled thing, he’d do it much less often if it didn’t placate them on his living so far away and make it so that they are okay with only visiting rarely. Kyle calls them probably around as frequently but not as standardly; just calls them every couple weeks or so to catch up when something important happens instead of just ‘oh this is the time to do it’. let them know that he and austin are still doing good, yes that wasn’t just austin lying so they wouldn’t worry, no they’re really doing good! He def calls them more than he calls his own parents, 100%. So he’d have probably told them when he started dating someone more seriously, vaguely says they met at work and moves on to how fucking great this guy Ivan is, he really likes him! So them actually being aware ivan exists and means something to kyle and very excited to see who he is and -judge if he’s a good choice for kyle- get to know him. And i’d imagine ivan is super polite upon kyle introducing them as his aunt and uncle, “/basically/ honorary mum and dad”. once he figures out they don’t know about the crime thing, pretty respectful of that, too, though i do like ivan also playing the game of how much can i vaguely allude to their son being a criminal to freak austin out without actually revealing it and making kyle upset at my being rude and possibly outing him as a criminal too. Ivan please, austin’s never asked anything of you except that you just completely leave him and his cousin alone; be reasonable here.

Also i think this being another thing where it makes it obvious that even if he’s very distant on surface level from family, it’s still one of the few points he gets stubborn on, because even if it’s a 3 or 4 on the scale of importance to him, his scale usually only goes up to 5 anyway compared to everyone else being 1-10. Again, if you watch him with his parents, it’s clear he’s a little tired of them but he still loves them very much and appreciates them genuinely in a way he doesn’t with most people. He does care about them, it’s just muted compared to others, especially compared to kyle. I think it took them a little while to get that too and for a while during his teen years when he first started getting like this, they just kind of assumed okay so maybe our son hates us??? I’m not sure why since we’re trying to be super nice to him but our nephew expresses more love for us than our own son so like. Maybe he jsut doesn’t like us anymore, oh no. and that was also partially because austin was most exhausted with his parents during his teen years when he was trying to pull away and they were pulling him closer in an attempt to keep from losing him, but eventually enough time around him + finally talking it out a couple times helped them see like no, he still loves them the most, it’s just his most is not as high or visible as would be expected. Anyway, back to point, up until now the only thing that could get austin to really make any attempt at a stand against ivan was kyle. And even then, it’s not austin threatening ivan to keep kyle safe, he’s not a fool. He probably tries to talk to ivan once, but it’s not a threat thing, just hey. At this point he gets he can’t break them up. He couldn’t tell kyle what to do if he tried, and he frequently does, and if he can’t get kyle to do something he doesn’t want to, of course he couldn’t get ivan to. But he wants to make sure ivan knows that like, sure, austin can’t come kick his ass if kyle dies thanks to ivan, but austin won’t just let it slide if ivan gets kyle killed and he can find other ways to make it less worth it to ivan than if he’d just kept kyle alive. Also i like ivan, a little amused because thank god /you’re/ trying to intimidate /me/ to keep /my/ boyfriend alive, asking austin flat out if he’s threatening him, but austin just dismissing it with a simple, “of course not” as kyle comes back into the room. And that being mirrored after the meeting with his parents (i keep wanting to call them oliver and june here but they’re not named that in this au because oliver’s already jaws breakers crew ugh) and ivan. Ivan and kyle planning to leave and austin excusing himself from the room as well, saying he’ll see the two out, be right back mum and dad. Makes an additional excuse for kyle to go ahead to the car, maybe insisting he just had something related to an upcoming job to discuss with ivan, which kyle doesn’t know for sure isn’t true but ivan does because he’s not doing any jobs with anyone in oliver’s crew right now. So once everyone’s out of earshot, austin actually thanking ivan for playing nice and keeping the secret with his parents. He could have done without the occasional ‘oops, almost let the cat out of the bag’ jokes, but ultimately he appreciates it. /that being said though/, he wants to make it crystal clear his parents are off limits. And when he says that, it’s with a firmness he didn’t even have when talking about kyle. Because kyle’s a wreck, but he makes his own decisions to live in this life that puts him at risk and honestly, there’s just as much of a chance he gets himself killed as ivan gets him killed, probably more so. But his parents are outside of this world, they did not agree to be put in danger by it and he won’t have them put at risk just because kyle can’t keep his mouth shut for five seconds or because ivan has the worst timing in the world. Basically like. If this makes any sense, austin would avenge kyle, but defend his parents, y’know? And again, austin isn’t normally threatening in appearance, but he steps close to ivan as if he somehow has as much intimidation power as the other blond. And he makes it clear this isn’t about not letting things slide or whatever. He’d be upset if kyle died, sure. He’d be frustrated, he’d even be mad to a point. But if either of his parents were hurt, he wouldn’t /just/ be upset or frustrated or mad. He’d be /furious/. He doesn’t let himself get /truly furious/ very often and there’s a reason for that, one that he’d really rather not have to come up between them, so he wants to ask ivan very nicely to leave things at this. They had a nice meeting, ivan got to talk to kyle’s family, got to even impress them. austin knows his parents and they weren’t lying when they said it was a pleasure to meet him as ivan started to leave. But that’s it. He doesn’t go near them or even look at them again, and once they leave the city, he forgets they even exist. And again, ivan tilts his head with a wide grin, asking to confirm if austin’s trying to threaten him here? And austin, making the most direct eye contact he’s probably ever made with ivan, says of course not. But this time, he follows that up to instead insist he’s /promising/ ivan. And admitting he gets how this goes, he’s sure this means nothing to ivan. That ivan is probably inwardly laughing at austin right, so austin hopes ivan will at least listen to the fact that kyle would be angry if either his aunt or uncle got hurt while visiting, too, since kyle keeps trying to reassure austin that ivan wouldn’t do anything to make kyle upset. But he just… he feels it’s only right that he make it clear that upsetting kyle really isn’t the thing to worry about this time around. That’s all. Thanks ivan again for being pleasant enough as kyle pulls the car up, inwardly a little relieved so that kyle being there makes it less likely for ivan to try pushing back so much on austin after that.

God the worst fucking part is like, yeah, again, ivan probably takes this threat with a grain of salt, very amused if not offended after he was already /so polite/, how rude can you /be/, austin? But also we’ve touched with toni and mads that they both became interesting to ivan when he saw first hand that edge in them. Mads had a bad day and got violent, and suddenly she’s fun despite her not wanting to be to him. Toni accidentally shows ivan he’s way into knife and blood play underneath that mask of his and ivan wants to crack it so he can see what else toni’s hiding under there. Again, I think ivan wouldn’t be that impressed with austin’s threat, he knows whatever happens, he can break austin in two when it comes down to it, but there’d probably have to be something intriguing of austin telling him ‘i don’t let myself get exceptionally mad for a reason’ because oh??? Hey austin, what’s that reason??? Hey austin tell me what hte reason is. I assume it’s you think you’re more dangerous/violent past a point you’re comfortable with but how far past that point are we talking here??? Hey, hey austin~? 

Like he probably still won’t hurt the two i’d suspect? Austin’s not wrong that kyle’d also be upset if they were hurt, Ivan could tell during the convo how much kyle cares about them and there were a number of stories of either of the two looking out for kyle in a way his own parents never did which is nice. + i imagine ivan leaving that convo really liking the boys’ family as people and like they’re not exceptionally special to him but they were nice and friendly and he probably would have left them alone on his own even if austin hadn’t said anything, he likes fucking with austin but he’s not as just randomly dangerous as austin seems to think he is, he’d probably want a reason beyond ‘it’ll fuck with austin’ before just killing a couple innocent people that mean something to kyle. And ivan still can’t totally touch austin because kyle will be mad if ivan hurts or kills austin and again, ivan doesn’t want kyle to be mad. He’s willing to let doug keep living to keep kyle from getting too upset, so obvi austin’s pretty much off limits unless it becomes way more worth it in the end. But him trying to figure out okay what could i get at that would poke at austin enough to really set him off without crossing a line that sets /kyle/ off. Which prolly just puts him into testing grounds and man ivan is good at stress testing people. Austin elects himself as the new toy so ivan can figure out how legit his warning of making him mad is, whoops!

On a brighter note tho, speaking of family visiting, blake visiting during breaks in school and meeting ivan. at first iffy but eventually warming up to ivan well enough. Ivan probably at least somewhat amused by the time he spends with them, too; didn’t realize so much sass could fit into such a short person but they pull it off and it’s spectacular. Ivan telling blake stories of times he fucked with austin and blake loving it and giving approval of ivan at that point. Wants to keep you alive and keep austin on his toes? I like him! Also, ivan starting to lie about the crime stuff to blake when tehy first meet and kyle stepping in oh no no no they know i’m a crime guy and ivan like oh good, hi i’m a crime guy as well, nice to meet you.