TUA Sibs Tickle Headcanons
Because I decided I want to start posting since I'm preparing for tickletober. Also I've only seen season one so far don't judge me I love it but I don't have a lot of free time T_T
Luther
🏋️♂️ Ok so Luther's kind of a dick but once he gets over his dad's death and sort of realises that his siblings aren't massively incompetent or going to end the world I really headcanon that he could be a really big teddy bear
🏋️♂️ And this might be my bias toward Tom Hopper coming through BC hoo boy that boy is Wholesome with a capital W
🏋️♂️ But Luther's tickling abilities gets put into two categories: pre-serum and post-serum
🏋️♂️ Pre-serum Luther was still a ler (he's ler through and through), however he was a lot more sensitive so his siblings actually could fight back as long as they ganged up on him a lot
🏋️♂️ Sadly, I really headcanon that the serum itself took away a lot of his sensitivity. Like when he gets hurt he can feel it dully, but gentle things like tickling or even something as simple as a warm blanket can barely be felt. All a part of Reginald Hargreeves' twisted experiments to make his kids nigh-on invincible!
🏋️♂️ His most sensitive spot was his underarms and his feet, but because of his strength it took a hell of a lot to pin him down
🏋️♂️ Luther's tickly laugh is very different from his regular chuckle - it's rather wheezy and he tries to talk through it but he just can't
🏋️♂️ Little Luther was very disapproving of tickling in general though as 'dad thinks that it is childish and that we are better than this and honestly I agree'. He could always be persuaded though
🏋️♂️ Luther has always had two ler modes: 'oh my god I'm going to fucking kill you' and 'oh my god I fucking love you'
🏋️♂️ Luther's revenge tickles are to be feared. Like this man is obviously very strong, and that means that once he gets you, there's no way in hell you're escaping before he's done. He's so focused on revenge he doesn't even speak or tease!
🏋️♂️ Luther 100% will pick someone (*cough* Klaus *cough*) up by their wrists if they're being a brat and watch them squirm as they wait for the inevitable
🏋️♂️ His favourite thing to do actually is to pick up a victim, let them work themselves up into believing they're going to be tickled mercilessly without saying a word for minutes on end, before putting them down and then walking off
🏋️♂️ He once did it to Klaus daily for an entire week until a disheveled and distracted Klaus finally demanded Luther tickle him and... Well...
🏋️♂️ 'If you insist! ☺️'
🏋️♂️ But Luther can also be the sweetest cuddliest ler
🏋️♂️ Like because of his superstrength he generally tries to be really gentle
🏋️♂️ And especially post-serum because he's really touch starved and also not used to gravity and everything so like he's a bit all over the place
🏋️♂️ And let's be honest probably hella depressed and insecure after four fucking years in isolation on the moon
🏋️♂️ So very little social interaction, literally none in person, hasn't been touched for four years, not used to gravity, probably body dysmorphia due to the sudden changes he experienced... He's going through it
🏋️♂️ Like I know the community rags on him for it but at least Vanya's trauma box was, yknow, on earth. And destroyable
🏋️♂️ We don't compare and contrast trauma here these bitches all fucked up
🏋️♂️ But he's so gentle because he's so afraid he's going to break his siblings
🏋️♂️ Especially the little ones like Vanya/Viktor (I heard he's trans in S3?) and Five, and Klaus because he's so waif-like and fragile
🏋️♂️ So actually, for gentle tickles where you get held in his lap and cuddled the entire time? No one better. Especially because he'll talk quietly the entire time, and even though it's usually just babble about what's going on today and the weather it's just so soothing and feels so safe!
Diego
🔪 Stabby bastard I love he
🔪 I agree with the majority of the community: Diego is a switch
🔪 But I don't really headcanon him with a lean, he only really leans depending on the people he's fighting with?
🔪 Klaus, Vanya/Viktor, Ben? Full ler, not one of them is getting one up on him
🔪 Allison, Five (when they were kids), Eudora (rip)? More likely to go lee
🔪 Luther? He's fighting til his final shred of dignity is on the ground
🔪 When Diego goes ler he goes hard
🔪 Like only if he likes you a lot are you getting comfort tickles. This man will only break out the tickling skills if you ask him or if you wrong him
🔪 And if it's the latter you better pray it's over quickly because he can tire the most energetic of lees out thoroughly
🔪 He has very quick, darty hands and he never stays in one spot for more than a few seconds. His tactic is that there is no tactic too, so it's not even like you can defend yourself from those nimble fingers! He's a demon!
🔪 Most feared ler. Luther can be reasoned with. Not Diego
🔪 Diego is a very shy lee if I'm being truthful. Like it takes a lot for this big macho man to be that vulnerable with someone
🔪 Hence why he still fights tooth and nail against Luther even though Number One is no longer ticklish
🔪 His most ticklish spot, believe it or not, is his hands. Swirl your fingers ever so gently around his palms and he can't speak for giggles
🔪 Of course the rest of his spots are also decently sensitive, it's just that his palms are the only place that actually stop him from sassing his attacker
🔪 Other spots from most to least include his neck, his tummy, his ribs, his thighs, and his ears.
Allison
🔪 He quite enjoys playful tickles the most: the ones where it's not quite sure who's winning and who's losing the tickle fight but both are clearly having fun and that's what matters
🔪 His laugh is very panicked, and he does the bargaining thing of 'wait you don't wanna do this! I'll buy you something! Or I'll do your chores!' and he definitely sasses through the giggles
🤫 Just want it stated for the record that Allison is absolutely a mood and I am not accepting any criticism on this statement
🤫 Allison is and has always been 5000% a ler and it has never been up for debate
🤫 Don't get me wrong - she's been got before. However she much prefers tickling to being tickled and honestly that's fair
🤫 Young Allison definitely played dirty with her rumours. One of her favourite things to do was rumour her brothers into feeling like they were being tickled when nothing was touching them and then watching them lose their minds on the floor
🤫 Young Allison felt like a god watching that
🤫 Older Allison, however, feels terrible about it because she effectively took away their consent and also didn't listen when they said to stop or whatnot
🤫 Because since Vanya/Viktor was so heavily left out younger Allison often felt like she had to assert her dominance as the female to ensure that she didn't get overlooked/undervalued
🤫 And so she often accidentally went overboard and left her brothers in tears and wheezing and she didn't really understand that people can have limits even when it's playful
🤫 And younger Allison was very brusque about it, a bit no nonsense. Think American Hermione Granger-esque - 'Well, you're clearly alive, so it couldn't have been *that* bad, could it?'
🤫 Seriously she really likes being the reliable person who anyone can come to if they need her and that does extend to tickling
🤫 Consequently older Allison is only dealing out cuddly comforting tickles unless you really get her pissed off or playful
🤫 And stop means stop
🤫 She'll have the lee lay down with their head either in her lap or on her shoulder, while she rubs their back/strokes their hair with one hand and spiders her other hands fingers all over their sides or tummy
🤫 When she's feeling playful or revengey she likes to use her long long LONG nails to wreak absolute havoc on ticklish ribs and thighs
Klaus
🤫 Despite her lerness, she is decently ticklish. Her neck is her worst spot, but aside from that she's about average in terms of ticklishness, and in all the normal places
🤫 Her laugh is also very bright, and very different from her movie star interview giggle. Think Markiplier in the sense that she goes from giggles to full blown belly laughter
👻 My absolute favourite and I don't make the rules ok
👻 My chaotic boy I love him so much ok this man is pure lee I do not believe there is a hint of ler in this man *unless* he is specifically trying to antagonise someone into tickling him back
👻 So Klaus is very traumatised and very sad and I really think touch is a really comforting and grounding thing for him since the ghosts can't?
👻 But Klaus has been deprived of casual touch (minus sex because, yknow, prostitution is a thing some addicts do and with how desperate for drugs he is he probably did) due to his many years of drug abuse and as such he actively tries to seek it out
👻 Especially when he's in the thick of his withdrawals - the man needs a distraction and what better way than to get a cuddle or some tickles from his loving siblings?
👻 The problem is that, even though Klaus is a shameless son of a bitch, I headcanon that this is the one thing he's actively shy about
👻 Like it just feels stupid you know? He's a 30 year old man who sees the dead and is a veteran of the Vietnam War - he should not need to be reduced to a puddle of giggles to get through the day
👻 But he does, and luckily his siblings can realise the situation pretty well
👻 Like most people I headcanon that his worst spots are his hips and his belly, which is rather ironic since this fabulous man loves crop tops and low rise jeans
👻 All of his tattoos are relatively ticklish though - if you trace them while cuddling him he gets really giggly and also really really sleepy. It's a good way to soothe him into sleep and a relatively easy one at that
👻 His feet are also ticklish too although it is recommended to avoid because he will shriek and also this man walks barefoot nearly everywhere his feet are in no state to be seen until he gets an in-depth pedicure and that's only happening on Allison's wallet
👻 He is also insatiable. Once you start he will continuously give you puppy dog eyes if you try to stop before he's ready
👻 All in all, Klaus is an insatiable lee who loves being absolutely destroyed
👻 Tickling is not only a good distraction from the withdrawals though - for some reason the ghosts seem to get a bit blurry when he's right in the throes of laughter and it's actually relieving
👻 I don't actually headcanon him to have a loud obnoxious laugh like a lot of people - don't get me wrong, he can absolutely get loud, but I really really like the idea of Klaus having one of those laughs that make him squeak and idk it's just a thing so I'll always imagine him squeaking away
Five
⏳ Ok so Five is a little bastard but I love him
⏳ Pre time travel Five was an absolute gremlin about tickles ok. Like this boy would use and abuse his powers to sneaky-tickle his siblings and he got away with it because no one could ever find him
⏳ Five was also a switch pre time travel. If he got cornered by one of his siblings it would all be normal going until (I agree with the community) someone got his knees. That's when his powers started playing up
⏳ One time Luther managed to get his knees in his training and he accidentally teleported to Uruguay
⏳ The ultimate weakness
⏳ Post time travel Five is actually a bit of a party pooper, although I guess for good reason
⏳ First he obviously had the apocalypse to deal with, which takes up a lot of time obviously
⏳ Secondly he's 58 mentally and severely touch starved. Like, he can barely handle hair ruffles. You expect him to be on board with tickling?
⏳ However, that doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy watching his siblings destroy each other
⏳ Does he enjoy being in the thick of it? No, but watching as Diego gets tag teamed by Luther and Allison is amazing hands down
⏳ Currently he doesn't mind sort of gentle tickles. The ones that don't quite make you laugh yet but are there. They're quite nice and not too overwhelming for his hypersensitive time-travelling body
⏳ And obviously everyone really respects his boundaries and not only because he threatened to murder them but because they do realise that people can not like being tickled heavily and that's ok and people might just need to get used to it again
⏳ Also Five's laughter is just cackles. He straight up cackles like a traditional witch and it's so infectious
Ben
🐙 The Best Boy™ I don't make the rules here
🐙 Ok so Benny boy is, quite obviously, dead, so a lot of these headcanons are going to be for little Ben
🐙 And little Ben was the switchiest switch to ever switch
🐙 So Ben was quite a quiet child and quite studious, but that doesn't mean that he couldn't be a mischievous little shit at times
🐙 When Ben was in ler mode, Ben was a goddamn beast. His teases are deadly and hit their mark every time, and couple that with his quick fingers and witty responses to whatever retort his victim could come up with and it's just a recipe for total destruction of the lee
🐙 In terms of lee mode, Ben is relatively easy to subdue as long as you get him where he's weak. Like the rest of the community says, the area around his portal is extremely sensitive but his other weakest point is his back
🐙 However, with Ben you had to be careful because if you weren't The Horror would believe the body was under attack and start creeping out to fight
🐙 Also, speaking of The Horror, before Ben started becoming scared of it he and them actually got on relatively well and sometimes The Horror would... Assist in restraining some of his more fighty siblings if needed
🐙 As it is, ghostly Ben can't do any of that until Klaus learns to manifest him properly and not just when his emotions are extremely heightened
🐙 That doesn't, however, mean that Ben can't tease Klaus into a flustered blushing mess when the ghost is feel a bit vindictive
🐙 His favourite time to do it is when Klaus is in public (well, in front of his siblings). There is just something so funny about watching his face go redder and redder while no one is any the wiser
🐙 One time Allison felt his forehead, convinced he had a fever, and Ben nearly died again from laughing
🐙 Klaus is going to exorcise him (not really)
Vanya/Viktor
🎻 Ok so apparently Vanya becomes Viktor in S3 but I've only seen S1 so I'm not sure if it's true or not? So I'll just refer to them as V for now. Neutral.
🎻 Ok so little V used to be close with their siblings until The Rumour™. Consequently, before they thought they were powerless, they were easily included in the fold. And as such, they knew exactly where they were ticklish and where everyone else was
🎻 So before The Rumour little V was a massive switch. As a ler they weren't quite as ruthless as some of their other siblings, definitely more on the gentler side but still fun and playful. V could never really tease either without their own face going kinda pink, so they tended to avoid that by making commentary on the tickle spots of the others in a weird mockery of Reginald. It worked like a charm.
🎻 As a lee little V wasn't very squirmy. They more just... Curled up and accepted their fate. And considering they were already the littlest of the bunch that just made them even littler and cuter
🎻 V also never really had a big belly laugh, it was always more... Giggles? Idk it never gets above giggle level and it's just so interesting
🎻 After The Rumour though V was constantly excluded except by a few of their siblings and as such tickle fights and stuff just sort of... Faded into the background
🎻 Especially when she started becoming their dad's 'assistant' and accomplice in their abuse
🎻 So because big V hasn't actually seen their family like that in ages it's no surprise that they forgot how ticklish they actually are and is constantly surprised by their sensitivity
🎻 They still only really giggle, but they definitely don't remember their neck and ears being *that* ticklish, nor do they remember being absolutely decimated by Diego like that before
🎻 As a ler big V is still rather timid - they take a lot of cajoling and they always start out soft and gentle. After a lot of encouragement from their lee though they can really get into it and even instinctively make jokes that give both deja vu, even if they don't quite know where it's from
