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happy macklin celebrini day 🎂

(6.13.2025)

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just genuinely wondering — i feel like in fics mack is sooo often characterized as being difficult/moody/a lot to handle and i’m wondering where that stems from? i’m just getting into the sharks so idk them that well so really the only thing i’ve seen that reflects that is the never offside podcast with the whole windshield punching story and toff even says that mack is known to ‘spaz out’ but idk if there’s any other specific instances that fans get that vibe from

anon!! sorry for letting this ask sit for so long, i wasn’t sure how to go about this post at first! but yes certainly, let's delve into the question:

is mack actually moody/bratty/difficult/a lot to handle? 👀🩵

i certainly know what you mean when it comes to this being included in fics!! i think we definitely saw a sharp increase in this mack characterisation post windshield-incident reveal (mack getting frustrated waiting for will in his car and punching the inside of his windshield) as the story kind of puts a highlight on this aspect of mack's personality lol. full story from cat's podcast in the vid below (12:20-15:00).

firstly, soooo much could be said about their bickering and mack's little protests throughout the whole story because obviously will's telling it wrong despite mack prompting him to tell the story in the first place (shoutout to the part of this amazing post about how mack waits for will's cues on a lot of things to gauge how he should react himself - like in the emergency contact vid!).

for me one of the main parts of this story that stands out is the fact that will says mack didn't even say 'sorry' because 'why would i say sorry? i'm gonna pay for it'. you just know mack felt super embarrassed about breaking will's windshield with his little outburst, hence the lack of a sorry because that would mean mack would have to admit it's his fault and that he did something wrong which are not macklin celebrini traits in his eyes. obviously it was the windshield's fault!! ('it was an unsafe windshield', 'it was a soft windshield')

and as you said, toff said mack is known to 'spaz out' a little (likely meaning he gets in a mood about things/gets worked up easily, which the team obviously finds funny - will's 'you THINK?!' agreement lol). so i think it's safe to say that mack struggles to control/process his emotions sometimes, leading to his moodiness/making him 'difficult'. some amazing exploration as for why (and why will helps this) in this post again!!

another moment that definitely built on this narrative was the awards given out by the sharks media admin. of course mack wasn’t happy with his the first time (his whiny ‘… idk i’m disappointed…’)

so the admin tried again (‘are you serious?’ *turns to will for moral support* ‘i don’t like this one either’☹️) and AGAIN (‘okay… this one’s better…’🫤) and AGAIN, until mack was finally satisfied (‘this one i can get behind☺️’ *proceeds to happily bicker with will about it*) bless the patience of the sharks admin staff fr <3

anyway, my main point here is that the admin printed out THREE extra awards for mack because they already knew he’d be picky and difficult about it, so they thought ahead to bypass the system lol. not to mention that will was given a jokey award too and just accepted it, y’know, like a normal person.

of course this all leads to the 'bratty' characterisation we see in a lot of fics, mainly because will is constantly letting him get away with it!! no, worse than that. he's DELIGHTED by it!!

mack straight up broke his windshield and will thinks it's the funniest thing in the world despite it happening literally on the way to them filming the podcast and looks at mack like this whilst he's telling the story:

will, who watches mack whine about the awards he's getting and looks at him like this when mack's finally happy with one and he gets to rib him over it...

so in conclusion, YES, mack sometimes has trouble processing his emotions (he's an 18 year old kid thrust into super-ultra-mega nhl stardom with an overbearing performance coach father and is expected to save an entire franchise, i think we can cut him some slack), and YES, this sometimes means he comes across as a bit moody/difficult to deal with. but my main point here is:

WSH you 🫵 are an enabler !!!

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Hehe I did! It’s called Everlong. I’m not the best writer but I’m learning!!! <3

So do I drop the 24k willmack abo fic or is that not the vibe

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this is still so crazy to me

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The redacted words are “high five” btw

Call me Will Smith Hockey the way I wanna [redacted] Macklin Celebrini

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Call me Will Smith Hockey the way I wanna [redacted] Macklin Celebrini

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Me, selecting filters on Ao3

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Macklin is like those anxious cheetahs and Will is like the emotional support dogs that zoos give them. I said what I said.

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who else is in vancouver for macks bday…? who is behind the camera… hmmmm

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I know I made this but I am obsessed with it. Will is just so fond and soft whenever he talks about Mack. And he’s so open and loud about how much he likes Mack. Crazy stuff.

Extended version of Will Smith Hockey actin a fool…

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LEON DRAISAITL

Stanley Cup Finals • Game 3 • Florida • 6.9.25

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I was born in McDavid’s hometown so I’m obligated to cheer for the Oilers. Go Oilers go!! Pls no one stalk me for releasing this personal info (I don’t even live there anymore) LMAO

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cat: what shows have you been watching together?

mack: tires! shane gillis…we’ve been watching that. Yea

mack (whispering to will): not really (??)

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how much of a praise kink do you think Mack has and what is Will reaction to it?

bc for me Mack gives such a vibe of a perfectionist brat who likes to be praised, someone who is obsessed with doing things the right way and gets bitchy when something doesn’t go like he planned because that means he isn’t going to get the soft words, the proud smiles and all conditional affection that comes with being good.

then comes Will who likes to indulge his pretty best boyfriend and will give him all the praise in the world the instant he finds out how much Mack craves for praise and attention.

Oh his praise kink is the size of the SUN. Most of the time it’s not even so much of a kink as just a necessity for him. He needs reassurance, kindness, to make his friends and family proud. If someone doesn’t tell him he did a good job, he feels like he didn’t do it right.

Lucky for him Will is naturally a complimenter, and he picks up on Mack’s anxiousness and always tries to comfort him. He gets in the habit of tapping Mack on the butt with his stick, or giving him head pats when they’re playing. Off the ice he naturally reassures Mack without realizing it, like when he was so sure about calling Mack his emergency contact, telling everyone how close they are, how special it is to have Mack by his side.

When they finally get together, Will genuinely enjoys their first time together so much that he keeps telling Mack how good it feels, how well Mack is doing, how special Mack is to him. The words make it even better/hotter for Mack, which is how he finally realizes how desperately he needs the praise.

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omega mack who always smells really sweet to will like even more than he's used to smelling on other omega's so he brings it up to toff like 'is he sick??' and toff looks like him like he's an idiot bcs 'do you not know what slick and aroused omega smell like' and will fully stands there with toff in silence for like 5 minutes before freaking tf out

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bitch omega mack until he's around will, then he's a purring sickly sweet smelling perfectly docile omega