stuff about Canyon’s insecurity
i will say it is nice in like a self-love way to explore Canyon’s (projected lol) insecurity around Malevola and Sonar’s interest in them, because it really can be intimidating when they’re so inexperienced sexually/dating in general compared to them
so there’s alot of bottled insecurity with certain things like:
Mal and Sonar’s extremely close (unlabelled) relationship to begin with
Canyon’s awkward “so are you two dating or…?” that second encounter during its lunch break, because it’s fishing to see what their relationship is
either way, knowing how close they both are again can be intimidating and easily make them self-conscious
Mal and Sonar’s ease with casually flirting and hooking up
“i’m…on a break” Canyon says, not disclosing the fact they’ve only ever had penetrative sex one(1) time and the rest of its hookups were just quickies for unsatisfying oral, but largely their sexual experience is just online
i’ve also thought about maybe Mal and/or Sonar are approached by a previous fling when all three of them are out at a bar/club, the previous fling being so much more in line with conventional attractiveness that deepens the inner :/ of Canyon’s insecurity
(even though Mal and Sonar are like “nah we’re with them tonight” because they aren’t even at the point of fooling around)
Canyon’s inexperience with exploring its bisexuality
Huge amount of intimidation and self-consciousness in Canyon when Malevola wants to actually mess around, considering it hasn’t gotten to experience anything with another woman (this is personal to me though so i don’t talk about it much)
The SquatRack Incident(TM)
Mal texts Canyon to help Sonar in the gym, doesn’t specify it needs to bring a handcuff key.
Brief interaction with Sonar and Canyon in there, leads to a brief exploratory almost-kiss of sorts before it’s immediately interrupted by the newest janitor Waterboy who brought a key (since the office deals with arrests and therefore has handcuffs and keys)
Canyon’s really on the fence about having let Sonar close the distance between their snouts. obviously Sonar has been flirting alot, but in that moment it’s hard to not wanna rationalize it as a really heat-of-the-moment thing because Sonar still had adrenaline and arousal from getting duped by Coupé in the first place, rather than a full desire for Canyon itself if that makes sense.
Malevola on ‘I Need A Hero’
Mal being sent on that call to go on that hero/civvie dating show, and she just offhandedly mentions she made out with a civvie who was a fantastic kisser so Canyon’s mentally drumming its fingers nervously. they’ve already been kissing at this point but again, the whole croc head thing makes them secondguess it.
meanwhile Sonar is devastated as fuck over being cut from the team, since this call is during the evening shift the day after. but he’ll still chime in with his own remark about dating civvies because they love “his bat shit”.
and it’s important to know they’re not openly saying that to make Canyon feel bad, they’re just used to openly discussing that stuff since they don’t feel any insecurity or things like that and are simply Conversing, meanwhile Canyon’s piled high self-consciousness just gets heavier, especially because they haven’t said a word about the squat rack thing.
like, Canyon doesn’t show much discomfort or uneasiness either. it KNOWS better that it shouldn’t be self-conscious about all of that, it’s not like the three of them are exclusive so it’s something they need to privately deal with. <- according to Canyon itself
sooo idk, it’s just nice to see triple threat really develop in that way where Canyon can really feel desired and appreciated by them both, it’s just naturally rocky for a bit of course