I don’t truly know how to start with this entry besides GOD, why do people who ship these two see Nook as a Bottom™ and Redd as a Top™?
I know, haha this is just how everyone has their preferences, I can’t judge. I have to talk for myself when I say that this pairing does things for me when Nook is the one dominating, I can’t take it when it’s the other way around.
I guess my taste will always be ‘conman onahole’ instead of ‘conman bishonen killer’ (hehe, the reference there). Well I will proceed to write the many things I envision with this specific dynamic between Racoon and Fox.
As I wrote above, this is mostly my personal vision and is okay if you like this ship with a bottom Nook and top Redd.
Ok, here we go:
What I like about this ship is how extremely tense it is. You can make them lovers to enemies to not so enemies, not so lovers, the whole ex trope and shenanigans BUT ALSO you can make them be forever tense and in denial of how they feel for each other (or better said, they were never lovers or anything even tho the attraction and everything was there, they ended freeing that tension in the form of ‘hate’ and now YEARS have passed and the same sexy tension is there but it never concretes on anything).
That was really specific. Yes.
I love to think about that side. If you have read in the past this crappy blog, you know by now that I have a thing for my ships never being an actual pairing…(as I said before, once my ship is established, it feels as if it has already finished. Like when you are reading a sweet tale and ‘they lived happily ever after’ and THE END.
This is why I love slowburn, you get to explore everything between the characters before they concrete anything. It’s hella tastier for me for some reason. Kinda makes me think about how telenovelas are practically a huge slowburn, since the protagonist pairing has to go through all the drama hell before being together and happily ever after blablabla.
I think that Nook and Redd never confessing their feelings/attraction would be excellent, but spice it up with hate and sex.
Why don’t we think about Redd being the huge scammer he is but also that he would whore himself for survival/extra cash/favors.
Okay, Nook and Redd were never an established pairing, but Nook would take notice about Redd’s extra cash activities.
I love to think about Nook being polite and very calm and serious outside, but he would also have this ‘dark’ side to him. The nasty competitor, with the respective greed, anger, and the facade of the perfect and morally correct business man. Nook is a ‘goodie’ but he hides his unpleasant traits under a mask of morality and hard work.
Then we have Redd, who is sly and a scammer. He would ‘hide’ under a charming and convincing personality to attract unwary customers right where he wants them.
He won’t hide under a morality driven facade like Nook, also he wouldn’t do what we call ‘hard work’.
Another thing about this is that they have actual history together. The fact that they were actual business partners opens a window of possibilities to explore.
So if we want to spice this all up, we have two salesmen, WHO HAVE BEEN PARTNERS, that then go their separate ways for some reason (Redd being all about scamming and dirty money) while Nook was hungry for money but couldn’t bring himself to ‘cheat’ and risk it all and go to trash because of that.
Nook loves but hates Redd’s guts, the fact that he just can’t bring himself to scam others or that he doesn’t have his charm to make his path easier. Then we can throw the ‘attraction’ ingredient to the pot as well. The attraction that blooms out of jealousy. Nook would viscerally hate Redd so much that that would transform into sexual tension. All he hates he actually desires.
Redd would naturally notice the effect he has on his ‘ex partner’. He would be hurt because he actually cared for Nook and their partnership, but there lies his ‘revenge’. ‘If he hates me so much, I will make sure he hates me GOOD.’ He would be always lurking near Nook.
Nook would notice but would try to ignore as much as possible. Or on specific occasions, he would face his ‘nemesis’ and end up in a heated argument.
Their breaking point when they were partners would be Nook noticing Redd selling himself.
Imagine, they start in a very small and humble store. They don’t start ‘successfully’ at the beginning, they have rent to pay, and what does Redd do? Extra job, a blowjob or two a day after they close or in their small turn for lunch. A bit of extra cash depending on which service the client would be interested in.
Nook notices by accident one day after they close the store. He sees Redd blowing some guy in an alley behind the store.
Nook doesn’t know why his blood is boiling, he wants to punch the fuck out of Redd and the guy but he just stares in shock and anger at them. Redd doesn’t notice, but the dude kinda feels they are being watched, so he starts fucking Redd’s throat harder.
Nook turns away as fast as he can and gets to his shitty apartment, what he hadn’t noticed until then was his huge boner.
The days go by and Nook is still angry at the whole situation, he can’t bring himself to face Redd and tell him how disgraceful his ‘side job’ is.
He starts displaying a passive aggressive attitude towards Redd, while Redd is like “????”.
Nook keeps having thoughts about Redd, especially Redd under him in compromising situations. He is losing his mind because of the urge.
Why get mad at Redd if they were nothing? They were mere partners, nothing more.
Until one day all finally goes to shit.
Redd is being fucked raw in the same alley and Nook can’t take it, he punches Redd’s client and he goes away insulting them without paying.
Redd is angry at Nook, they scream at each other. Nook spitting all kinds of insults to Redd, about how a cheap whore he is, and how easy he would open his legs for anyone, that all he cared for was easy cash, how much of a bad image he was giving THEM, etc.
Redd feels hurt, even tho it was pretty much the truth. He wasn’t ashamed of what he was doing. Everyone fucks, so why not take advantage on the money side?.
Nook gives Redd a month to find another place and get the fuck out of HIS business, he wouldn’t tolerate their place becoming a whore house.
In this discussion Nook was fully ‘don’t look at my boner while we fight’.
Redd didn’t understand at first why Nook would be so angry at him for something so tame as fucking (selling fake shit was worse, since it involved 3rd parties getting him the merch and also getting shady contacts and even shadier cash.). Sucking a dick or two or a quick fuck was nothing compared (legally talking).
In that month, Nook split their profits so Redd could go away.
The tension was worse than ever in that hellish month.
It would be months later that Redd would come to the conclusion that this wasn’t about ‘looks’ or morals or whatever shit Nook loved to take part in.
There was always a certain kind of tension between both of them, a tension they never talked about even if they could almost physically grasp it.
Redd now knew it wasn’t just him and his naturally teasing personality, Nook was feeling stuff too and he was jealeous. That was the only logical conclusion to that stupid confrontation.
A year passed, Redd got himself a tent and wandered, he would sell shady artworks and objects, but the money was never enough. Also he would try to scam some questionable individuals and get in trouble….
Nook kept the little shop and pulled all nighters and started to expand his business, hiring people and lending cash. All legal of course. Might look shady but none of that, everything was absolutely in order.
One day, Redd went to Nook’s. He needed the cash. He had nothing more to offer than himself. Nook was on edge. He denied Redd’s proposal many times until Redd broke, begging him on his knees, crying.
Nook gave him the cash, telling him he didn’t need to do anything, but Redd inisted.
Right there on the shop’s floor, on his knees he just took Nook and Nook just froze.
He had never come as hard as that moment.
Redd went away and that sealed their little ‘game’ of sorts through the years.
Nook was successful, he was showering in cash, he was in the real estate business after all while maintaining his shop plus franchises.
Redd was still a wandering seller/conman. He got used to that life. He would come and go to Nook for his ‘cash loans’ from time to time.
Nook always showed him his ‘I despise you so much’ attitude. Redd always played the charming slut part.
The first years their deal only consisted of blowjobs. The first time Redd suggested they actually fucked (the amount of cash was worth a fuck and more), Nook just stared at him, whipped his hand on his face and told him “On one condition”.
Nook took Redd’s old work outfit, made him wear it as he used to those years ago, and then proceeded to do what he had always been longing for even though he still refused to acknowledge it.
Nook would always fuck him in that attire if it was possible, Whenever they were finished, Redd would get it off, dress up and go away leaking cum out of his ass, with a ‘See you next time Nookie!’
Nook would hold the old uniform and smell Redd’s escence before washing it for another ‘loan’.
Their dynamic would always be that. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Nook would move from one place to another, and Redd would follow near.
In the years between, Nook meets Isabelle and they start working together. Nook found the twins and raised them as well.
He kept Redd away from them, he didn't want them to know he had business with such a questionable being.
Isabelle soon found out about Nook and Redd. She tried to hide the fact that she knew but then it slipped out of her when she was having a discussion with Nook about something business related.
Nook was shut in an instant and asked her to not disclose that information to anyone else.
Years passed and Nook got into the island business and started a new more relaxing life there. Redd followed.
Nook would always be incredibly angry at Redd’s constant presence in his life. But then he would fuck him for money and after that both were civilized again. Post nut clarity made them go all professional.
At least in this last phase of their lives, they struck a deal. Redd would be able to be on the place selling his art to fill the museum in exchange of the usual plus a bit more….he would have to spend more time with Nook on certain occasions and pose as a reliable citizen...he would fuck Redd’s brains out after.
Being on the island and also being older helps Nook to be a bit softer on Redd. He won’t be so self aware of who sees them together and who doesn’t.
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And that’s it. That’s my headcanon story of them and how I envision their relationship.
I want them to not be actually together and acknowledge their feelings, I want them to suffer so their tension never ends. I don’t want lovey dovey, I want them to be angry and passionate in their hate. Nook always had a certain regret at getting so mad at Redd. Redd ending up like some type of object to be bought. Waiting to be actually appreciated but not getting it because of Nook’s stubbornness, thinking that money and fucks are the only way they can actually be a thing and can stand each other….
Sorry in advance but I am no writer and also English isn’t my 1st language, so, there will be many repeated words and stuff, excuse the lack of vocabulary.
Kinda wanted to get it out in words and then try to put them in drawings so I can explain myself better.
These are the last gijinka redesign I did of them last year and the ones I'm drawing this year.
