as a drama lover, hen was sort of aware of the whole #nikolaiiskyle debate, but they didn’t look it up in depth until after they and niko were already close - and then they cried for a solid half hour before they managed to pull themselves together. they haven’t told him that they even give the theory any kind of plausibility because he doesn’t exactly appear to enjoy being quizzed about it, but the idea that anything that bad could have happened to niko is too horrible for hen to think about.
☆ - happy headcanon
consider: 2am drunk and one of them breaks out just dance. the other is horrified that they even still own a wii. they play the ra ra rasputin dance five times, never get above two stars then switch to wii sports resort and hen can’t stop laughing when niko crashes the plane (but stops when he kicks their ass at archery, bowling, and like anything else competitive bc hen 100% is a lightweight with ZERO coordination).
☮ - friendship headcanon
the inevitable fake relationship story!! ok stealing s/t linc already said but it needs to be known bc it was great: “idiot brit tabloids are like "new steamy behind the scenes romance for tunbridge?!" and he legit buys a magazine, wraps it up, and gives it to hen as a cute little 'lol' gift”. obviously it’s totally baseless and far-fetched and the picture is ridiculously blurry, but hen’s never been in a media scandal before and they’re so delighted that they frame it
♦ - quirks/hobbies headcanon
they cycle through hobbies as a throwaway kind of thing - one of them finds something online or sees a cool youtube video and suddenly the game of the week is trying to replicate parkour videos or learning to crochet. (there’s a couple of really ugly blanket squares from the crochet incident, actually).
▼ - childhood headcanon
pretty sure that neither of their childhoods would have allowed for this, but if they’d known each other as (normal, happy) kids, it would have been the kind of friendship that starts in the playground and ends with both of their parents getting called into school. i’m talking along the lines of: helena and nikolai sat on top of the monkeybars and claimed it was a strike against math class or helena and nikolai made mud pies and tried selling them to the other students or helena and nikolai pulled down the stage curtains because miss covey claimed he wouldn’t be able to climb them. it’s terrible they’re terrible
ൠ - random headcanon
hen’s got a bad habit of indulging every mildly plausible timewasting idea that niko can come up with, simply b/c they’d almost definitely been thinking along similar lines but they aren’t brave enough to carry out all their schemes alone....niko just brings our their troublemaking potential?
