some headcanons for Anchorstar! (*๓´╰╯`๓)o (because I genuinely can't stop thinking about them, please help)
- it's confirmed that Howard is the only one actually rhyming the whole game, so I hc he started rhyming when he was younger cause he loved the books his mom would read to him and liked the challenge it gave him (gifted kid head ahh) and he just never really grew out of it
- Howard was a gifted kid, Philip was not. He buried himself in school work after his mother died to distract himself and really only ever went out to hang out with Philip. (It's also part of why he was so butt hurt about not being chosen to go to Morose's island. He'd spent his whole life studying and working only for Philip to be chosen??)
- Philip's obviously still super smart, but he grew into his brains unlike Howard who always had them. He began studying science to try and figure out a cure for his sister. She'd always been sickly ever since she was born, and had a rare disease that really just didn't have a cure yet. Philip wanted to be the first one to discover it, but, she eventually succumbed and passed away
- Phil truly was the only thing keeping Howard sane after his mother passed away, and vice versa for when Katie Lou died later on. They want you to believe the codependency is one sided but it really isn't, and honestly it just gets worse after the events of the game 😭
- speaking of, the second they start actually dating (which I hc only happens like, a month or two after the game lol) they are both SO clingy, Howard being the worse of the two. They can't stand being apart for more than a day, and when they're together they're always touching some way, even if it's just knees or shoulders touching. (It's more from trauma than anything else. Howard was a little clingy before but he gets SO much worse after they both get off the island. He would genuinely crawl into Philip's ribcage if he could)
- they constantly go back and forth from bickering over the stupidest thing imaginable and acting like two teenagers with their first love. what's worse is that they'll argue while still being clingy as hell, so Angelique has, more than once, seen the two fighting over nothing while Howard sits on Philip's lap on the break room couch (she's just gotten used to it at this point)
- Phil's the handy one of the two, always preferring to try and fix something himself. Howard always stands back and oogles his boyfriend while asking if he's having fun (he usually is, he likes feeling useful)
- The two get married after about two years of dating. Howard's the one who asks cause he's genuinely just tired of waiting (he would've gotten married way earlier, if he had his way, but Philip wanted to wait a bit). They hyphenate their last names to Plunkett-Maude :)
- Three years later, they're given a baby girl! They name her Katie Lou, after Philip's younger sister. (I need to draw a comic of them seeing Katie Lou on their doorstep for the first time...)
lmk if y'all want more of these, cause I absolutely have em. I just have to stop myself here before the post gets too long 😅