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(Send 👫 & I’ll write four hcs for our muse’s dynamic) || Accepting!
1. He absolutely unquestionably would follow her off a cliff, like. Probably it’s because he’s got his own good sense of direction to find his way back with, definitely the fact that he likes and trusts her is part of it, but also maybe there’s just this little bit of fae-and-human at work here because. Allie has the specific ability –and not necessarily on purpose– to just... charm him away. From whatever he was doing, wherever he was going. Call and he goes. If someone needed to kidnap or distract Henry they could be like “Allie go tell Henry to follow you to (place that isn’t here)” and it would work like... I don’t want to say without fail but in the vast majority of situations. Yes this is partially true of a lot of his relationships (if they need him, he goes) but I mean even more than that. Again, maybe it’s got a little bit to do with their natures, I don’t know, I just know that even at higher stakes or when he’s properly caught up in something and seems vaguely unreachable, Allie could go “come with me?” and make puppy eyes and unless the other matter at hand is like literal life or death/or something of that magnitude, it’s going to work. When he’s in a good mood he won’t even ask where they’re going. Doesn’t matter. He’s going somewhere with Allie, that’s all. Sometimes it’s even nowhere, they go nowhere, and they do nothing, but still he goes.
2. I think... he’s been very gently trying to lessen her phobia of the water. Pushing at it, a little bit. Not ever in a way to bully or belittle her — the ocean and lakes can be dangerous, having some level of fear around them makes sense. He’s not about to tell her that it doesn’t make sense. That would be as mean to her as it is untrue. Rather than an all-out avoidance, though, I think he’d try to frame it with due caution, and not dire fear. It doesn’t come up every time they’re together and he’d never force her into doing something that would genuinely upset her. I think he’s made it really known that, if she ever wants to push back at it more, he’d be happy to help her figure out how. He’d very happily teach her how to swim, if she wanted to learn. (Crosses his heart and pinky promises with all sincerity it wouldn’t be that “my parents threw me and expected me to figure it out” style of ““teaching”” -and in fact he plans to talk to several of the people who say shit like that and ask if they know that’s a genuinely traumatic event that happened to them.)
3. Nap buddies. That’s it that’s the whole- they just. He does A Lot in this verse and for some reason my brain insists that Allie is not only capable of slowing him down but very often does and just. Nap buddies. The way she plays with his hair makes him really sleepy.
4. The fact that some metals are harmful to fairies entered really strongly into his awareness when they started hanging out. It had always been one of those things that he knew about at least vaguely, but it did not pose any actual relevance to his daily life until then. If he had any jewelry that he knew for a fact would cause harm, he threw it out. If he kept any, it was because it had a sentimental value to it, and he keeps it separate from the rest so it doesn’t accidentally get shuffled in where he might forget and wear it and do harm.
1. Henry (did not wait for anyone to answer) because he knew the answer was no. Yes CJ does things that are dangerous, and inconvenient, and hurtful, and terrible--- we know this. She knows this. And I think at first Henry had a similar “there she goes again” that a lot of people have for when CJ... does CJ things. But then. There was something about the way people responded. That way they had of sort of ganging up on her. And it made sense, because she’s made a public enemy of herself and in fact seems to be quite proud of the fact that she has made a public enemy of herself but. Still. The way that it just had this nature of ... CJ would get the blame for things whether she had done them or not. And CJ would draw scorn for things other people do and get no attention for. All of her missteps, no matter what level they fell on (public or private) suddenly were made matters of common debate and debacle. And it just. It didn’t sit right. So, no, he did not wait for an answer, and he did not really even ask, because it didn’t sit right. No one should have to stand trial alone, much less stand trial alone for every action they’ve ever made in their life. And he doesn’t excuse her bullshit, and she doesn’t get to walk all over him, but she does get an allowance, because if the only effective language she learned was violence, that’s not her fault. ((And it’s not Harriet’s either, and Harriet needs to stop taking it all so personally.)) And she gets patience. Because Henry is only the way he is because of allowances people gave to him, because of patience people extended for him. Because of the kindness and support they gave, the how-to-be that they showed him. And he’s got it in spades. So, yeah. At his back she goes.
2. He expects she’ll stab it at some point –if only lightly, to see what happens– and it’ll be alright. To be perfectly clear, though, not for free. She can’t walk on him. He won’t let her. The nature of his allowances would shift duly, and he’d explain (in words, not just expecting her to get it) how she let him down and why what changed, changed. He’d tell her how to fix it, too, though, and give her the chance to. (This isn’t an allowance it’s just what he thinks is fair.)
EDIT: I came back because- this is not “expects” as in ‘expects her to fail’ that’s not- it’s not failure. It’s not like that. It’s expects because it’s what she knows, and what some people do when they panic. If she ever stabs him in the back it won’t be “I knew you would” in a vindictive ha-ha way, it’d be “I know this is what you know” way. I know who you are. I chose to put you at my back knowing it. I trusted you to be there, and I could, with effort on your part, trust you to be there again after this.
3. There is. A feral streak. And they are different feral streaks, I know this, but there is. A Feral Streak. And when the mood catches him just right and the mischief is high and the call to be wild is singing she can rope him into stuff that he absolutely knows better than. Dare him, CJ, dare him. You’ll be shocked what that will goad him into. (He is a pirate, you know.)
4. I don’t know if this is in any way a thing but something in me insists that CJ has to have that like, messing-with-things thing. Fiddling. Fidgeting. Busy hands. And Henry is same hat, right? And also happens to wear bracelets and necklaces with regularity, and I’m just saying that if she were to be sitting next to him and started messing with his bracelets or even his necklaces purely out of something-to-do-with-her-hands-and-he-was-nearby-and-wearing-something-shiny he would definitely just let her. Does not bother him. Wouldn’t even distract him, he can fully have a conversation while she’s just, fidgeting with his necklace. He’s also very aware of her sticky fingers though, no she cannot have the pretty blue necklace, and while they’re talking about it give the bracelet back.
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