Beetlejuice Headcanons - Him Reacting To The First Time You Say ‘I Love You’
So I’m in the a Beetlejuice rabbit hole atm and have been talking to @trelaney about things and yeah these headcanons were born as a result. I’m hoping to have more out later this week and maybe a NSFW and SFW alphabet by tomorrow morning if I get time tonight but for now, enjoy this. I might also do some Dewey Finn ones if I feel up to it, I gotta watch the SOR musical first. Also, a conversation with @snake-cadaver about what Beetleboi would call his dick lead to a line in this headcanon - my aim is to later write a fic about it but ya never know.
Also warnings for sadness and Soft Boi!Beetlebug because he needs love.
You had been dating Beetlejuice 🐞 for maybe three months before it happened, but you had known since the third ‘date’ that you loved him
He wasn’t the easiest person to date, even to get him just to wash his fucking hands was a nightmare but you made do
Your declaration of love just happened by accident
You were eating dinner and watching TV, Beetlejuice providing a running commentary which had you in stitches and it just slipped out
It killed the mood in less than a second as Beetlejuice when from his usual, upbeat and somewhat cocky self to something you didn’t even recognise
He goes quiet, and almost seems to want to curl into himself
His voice seems broken, nothing you’d ever heard from him before
When you look up to see him properly, you realise that his hair is mostly pink with faint streaks of blue – your boyfriend was like a friggin mood ring. Blue was not a good colour for his hair to be
“B, you constantly go around calling your dick your Beetlebulge and I still let it stick it in me. If that’s not love, I don’t know what is.”
His usual cocky sell returns as his chest puffs out.
“Of course you do! I’m the best in the Netherworld, babes, and don’t you forget it!”
It didn’t escape your attention that he didn’t say that he loved you back but that’s ok
It hurt, but maybe he wasn’t ready for that yet
Two weeks later, you both collapsed into bed, drunker than you thought was physically possible
And suddenly, the insecurity from that event two weeks prior reared its ugly head as you and Beetlejuice 🐞 just stare at each other’s faces, him with a stupid grin on his face that was either an effect of the alcohol or simply the fact that he had a stupid pun coming up in his head
You ruined that smile with one question
His face scrunches up in confusion.
“Of course I do baby!” You wince as he shouts his overexcited answer followed by him putting a finger to his lips and continuing his sentence in an overdramatic whisper. “Shhh babes, people outside, don’t yell.”
You giggle which makes him smile again. “I’ve loved you since day dot, dollface.” He goes to kiss your nose but misses and lands face down on the bed, where you can hear a faintly muffled ‘shit’ against the covers before he pulls back to look at you again
You smile at your very cute (and very very drunk) boyfriend and move to put your chin to his chest. “That’s good, because I love you.”
You hear him hum and when you look up, he looks like he’s about to drift off to sleep. But you still wanted answers.
“Why didn’t you say anything before?” Beetlejuice hums as a hand moves up to trace faint patterns on your back (you are 99% sure he’s tracing dicks, but you’re too tired and drunk to really care)
“Well, sugar tits,” – you roll your eyes at the nickname – “it was the first time someone’s ever said that to me. I wasn’t sure how to feel about that.”
Everything seems to pause as you sit up to look down at your boyfriend. “No one has ever said to you that they love you?”
“Nope.” He pops the ‘p’ as he squints to look up at you. “It’s too late, let’s go back to sleep babes.”
He scoffs. “She called me an annoying little shit, does that count?” He shrugs. “Babes, its no issue, really. Everyone thought I was annoying and painful, even when I was alive. I was a hard breather to love, even harder dead guy too I guess.” He pulls you down closer so you’re lying down again, but you slide to the side so you can still look at his face, hair still green but with the tips faintly blue. “Go to sleep babes.” He finally whispers
You can feel your heart break as you realise Beetlejuice 🐞 hadn’t been loved in a very, very long time. You weren’t really sure how to make the situation better. You finally resolve to say the only thing that came to your mind
“Hey. Hey. Hey Bug. I love you.”
His face breaks out into another large, dopey ass smile as he turns to you. “I love you too.”
He reaches over to kiss you, but somehow manages to miss epically and, with a loud crash, fall onto the floor beside your bed
You look over the edge in a hurry, seeing him currently face planted to the wooden floor, laying flat with his arms splayed out comically
“Uh….Beetlebug? Are you ok?”
His response is a loud snore so you figure, he’s ok
You quickly get a pillow under him and a blanket over him before climbing back into your own bed and mentally preparing for the massive hangover you no doubt will receive in the morning
Hey, Beetlejuice is too heavy for your drunk ass to lift and you don’t want a bad back in the morning. You love him, but you’re not stupid
In the morning, you wake up with a searing headache, limbs wrapped tightly around your body, pulling you close to a relatively cool body and loud snoring echoing through your head as Beetlejuice’s snores continue to grumble out his body and into your ear, his head firmly pressed against your shoulder
You groan and try to move with no success, so you pull out your phone and start scrolling through your various social media
You hear a grumble next to you and your boyfriend’s head moves so his eyes are buried in the crook of your neck
“Is too early babes, go back to sleep.”
“I can’t, I have a pest snoring in my ear.” You tease as he huffs a small laugh and kisses your neck gently
“You love it.” You hum in agreement as he shifts again. “Ugh, it’s too bright.”
You roll your eyes and dim your phone which leads to a content sigh before more snoring
When you finally do manage to get out of Beetlejuice’s grasp and set out on your quest for coffee and painkillers, it’s not long until two arms wrap their way around your shin
“Babe, come back to bed?” Came the pathetic whine, large eyes trying to convince you to pity the man attached to them and to return to the bed
“I need coffee.” You wince as your own voice echoes in your skull. “And Tylenol.”
Beetlejuice 🐞 refuses to let go and you end up dragging a (very heavy, clingy) demon out of your room and into the kitchen to get the coffee going
You weren’t even going to look behind you to the destruction his body being dragged behind you left until after you were awake
As you brew the coffee, Beetlejuice stands and quickly makes his way to rest behind you, arms wrapped around your waist as he continues just to lazily hold you and kiss random parts of your skin that he can reach
Whenever he went to cop a feel, you’d slap his hand away. Too early for that bullshit
Your headache clears as Beetlejuice shuffles in closer, ignoring the cup you made for him that sits there in the sandworm mug you managed to commission for him
His voice returns to the same emotionally unsure and vulnerable one that he had three weeks ago
You move to run your fingers over his arms as you start to sway
“Never, Beej. I’m not going anywhere.”
Slaps Beetlejuice’s 🐞 ass This bad boy can fit so much abandonment issues in it.