at last, my love has come along | being roy harperās love interest headcannons Ėļ½”ā ąØą§
āā· cat got your tongue?
surprisingly, roy doesnāt come straight to you when he first realizes heās attracted to you. you see, my manās been unlucky when it comes to love for as long as he can remember, so at first all he does is look at you from a distance. not in a creepy way, but roy knows he can be a handful at times.
it really doesnāt matter if youāre a civillian or a vigilante, he thinks of himself as too much of a mess most of the time, so that prevents him from making a move for a while.
it does not, however, prevent him from desperately trying to make you laugh.
āā· joking is his love language
roy is aways teasing and spewing jokes like his like depends on it. mostly because he wants to see you laugh. even on the most inconvenient moments.
If a joke does land? as soon as you turn the other way, heās doing a tiny air pump of triumph like he just won the superbowl. he thinks you donāt notice. you definitely caught him doing it a couple of times.
heāll love it if you tease him back. your jokes will sometimes be met with a ācareful or Iāll make you carry my gearā and a big smug grin across his face.
āā· calls you by nicknames.
it doesnāt take long before he gives you a nickname and runs with it. i can definitely picture him calling his partner angel, dove, pretty bird, hotshot.
after the day he gives you a nickname, your name will only be used when heās talking about a serious subject.
he probably makes a move after one of his friends (itās probably either lilith, jason or donna) knocks sense into his head. not that they convince him to ask you out, god knows how much he wanted to, but they give him that final push he needed.
it hits him like a train. what could he be possibly be waiting for? heās been pining forever but never actually crossing that line.
āokay, screw it! i canāt keep dancing around this. go out with me. please.ā itās not suave. itās not a line. itās raw, nervous. he immediately shoves a hand through his hair and mutters, āgod, that was so lameā but heās already smiling, wide and crooked, and you already accepted.
āā· stuck to your side.
physical touch is a must for roy, doesnāt have to be sexual, he just likes touching you.
he likes kissing your whole face. kisses your nose to say good morning, kisses your shoulder when hugs you from behind, nuzzles his face on the crook of your neck when youāre embracing after a long mission.
if youāre laying down in bed minding your business, sometimes he will lay on top of you, laughing as you curse at him and try to push his deadweight off you with no sucess.
āā· dad of the year award.
youād have to spend time with lian. he is definitely beaming when you get along well.
when he sees you two laughing together, heās practically glowing. like, heāll lean against a wall, arms crossed, watching with a grin that says, āyep, my two favorite people in the same room.ā
heās giddy when you and lian team up to roast him. āoh, great, now itās two against one.ā (but secretly? he lives for it.)
āā· a future? and Iām in it?
when heās really comfortable, he lets slip little wishes for the future, like little plans about āwhen we get out of this messā or āmaybe one day.ā
āmaybe one day we⦠i dunno⦠take a real vacation somewhere not on fire or under threat. just⦠us.ā heāll say it so casually, like heās joking, but thereās that tiny tremble in his voice that betrays how much he means it.
roy melts when you share with him that you have plans that include him. heāll love hearing about them even if theyāre casual plans like going out, but it makes him specially happy, and honestly surprised when theyāre long term plans. like wait ⦠you mean⦠you actually see him in the future?
heāll tease you about it like āaw, look at you making plans with meā, but inside heās replaying it over and over, thinking holy crap, Iām part of someoneās life plans.