Headcanons about Ben Wyatt (loml)
gets addicted to mobile puzzle games. Sometimes he'll just zone out for like 45 straight minutes when he's playing until someone (usually Leslie) has to actually tap him on the shoulder to get his attention.
Also I believe he's a legend of zelda player (like if we're thinking in terms of nintendo switch games, Leslie is the ACNH gf and Ben is the BOTW bf)
Ran cross country in high school and occasionally will run 5ks with Chris, but doesn't do it for the competition aspect, more as a way to run off steam.
i know it's canon that he wrote fanfic (gay star trek fanfic to be specific) but I also KNOW that he also probably runs like five tumblr blogs.
On that note if he ever does a q and a on one blog, he will submit asks from his other blogs to give himself questions to answer so the effort for a q and a won't be nothing
While he and his sister are friendly, it's hard with her being in Patridge, so he sort of sees April as an alternate little sister
They both have darker/drier senses of humor and also spent all that time together in DC. Ben has suggested multiple times to April that they go on another road trip, but everytime April says she only wants to go to actual haunted houses or ghost towns...so nothing has ever come out of that. maybe someday.
Ben is bi, we all knew that, he figured it out in high school (had a crush on a sweet nerdy guy from the AV club), but didn't publicly come out to friends or family until many years later for a multitude of reasons (didn't want it to interfere with his campaign for mayor and subsequently become another thing he was targeted for post ICE TOWN)
Leslie is super supportive of him (I personally think of her as vaguely queer too but to each their own) and gets him a little bi flag to keep on his desk.
Also I'm like 99.9999% sure that he's autistic, although that took him longer to figure out. For him it was a big moment as he went about reevaluating things throughout his life, and now had an answer to why things ended up that way or why he felt this way.
he's a little less open about that though
He sees Ron as a sort of father figure and takes up any opportunity to know him better (as no one can ever truly know Ron Swanson)
always has a secret aspiration to be one of those movie/game review channels which make tier lists or do game play throughs (like he's a big unraveled/overboard/dimension 20 fan)
dailybridgerton
turnnoffyourmind
gummygunk
baratheonpilled
stormborns
snowghoul
yousharknotpass
