got my neurons quaking a little with this one mittens, iwl.

just imagining german-shepherd-hybrid chan who's really protective over minho, aggresive even, sometimes, being gently but firmly swatted on his nose when he growls at minho's friends. chan tucking his ears and tail back, giving minho the most lethal puppy-dog eyes, whining bc he's sorry, he didn't mean to growl at minho's friends, he just doesn't like it when other people's scent clings to minho bc only chan's scent should do that-

and minho being like, "puppy, i've trained you better than this, i thought you wanted to be a good boy for me?" and chan is devastated, he doesn't want minho think that he's a bad boy bc he isn't, he's a good boy, the best boy, so he tries to deal with all of minho's stinky friends when they go over for an outdoor bbq.

chan doesn't growl when they hug minho bc he's minho's good boy. chan doesn't even make a face when the other dog-hybrid, seungmin, cheekily rubs his face aaall over minho, his stupid golden ears flopping everywhere, his matching fluffy tail wagging a mile a minute while he grins at chan over minho's shoulder.

chan even lets the snow-leaopard hybrid hyunjin play with his tail bc minho likes hyunjin, thinks that he's cute (not as cute as chan, though, minho promised and minho never lied to chan, ever) and obediently allows the ragdoll hybrid - felix - groom the snarls out of his furry black tail after hyunjin's done with it.

and minho, who's been watching chan, looks so proud of him. proud of chan being a good boy, for getting along with the other hybrids, for not trying to bite - gently though, always gently bc he knows humans are fragile - changbin when he holds minho's hand for too long and chan only gets one of minho's hands to pet his hair and stroke his pointy ears.

chan's so happy, emboldened even, by minho's pride he can practically smell. chan shares some of the meat he'd gotten from minho with jisung who coos and ruffles his hair. chan doesn't try to tackle jeongin when he teases chan for getting sauce on his chin (it's on purpose anyway, minho always looks so pretty when he's helping chan clean up silly messes).

by the end of the day, chan is floating on cloud nine, being called good boy by minho so many times chan thinks that he could die happy. he even ends up in a pile of sleeping, satiated hybrids while their humans clean up around them, and bears with it when felix chews on chan's ear in his sleep.

when they go home, minho tells him that he did so well, that chan was the best puppy there ever was. and then he tells chan that since he was such a perfectly behaved hybrid, minho's going to take him out on even more outings with his friends so that chan can get used to being in front of others and chan barely holds back the whine bc he was so well-behaved just for minho so that he could see that chan could and not to encourage minho to spend even more time with his smelly friends when he could be spending time with chan instead :((