hey, gorgeous! i was curious on your thoughts of leo x athlete!reader? my tryouts are quickly approaching and as i’ve been preparing, i’ve been thinking about how i’m taller and buffer (ew, hate that word) than leo is in canon.
don’t mind me pushing my agenda but all the ladies love leo and there’s nothing he loves more than a muscle mommy (biased)
HELL YESSSSSS!!!!! LEO LOVES HIS MUSCLE MOMMY GIRLFRIEND.
honestly the thing you can't wrap your head around is that Leo adores you exactly as you are. like right now right this second. He's obsessed. he's bursting into flames. he somehow has struck the perfect balance of being jaw droppingly balls to the wall down bad for you without having it be like... weird. Because some guys get weird when they see a girl who's taller or buffer than them. Leo is not among them, because he's too busy listening to you tell him all about the drama on your team, about the new drills your coach is running. He's too busy helping you stretch and work the lactic acid out of your muscles before your next practice, too busy helping you get your hair out of your face the way you like.
truly babes, push this agenda ALL DAY LONG. as a follow up, I have an extra thought for your consideration, so allow me to push my personal favorite agenda. Leo Valdez has a fucking sleeper build, and he's only described as "short" because Jason and Piper are both tall as fuck, he was 15 and not done growing yet truther hours. I could go into heavy detail, but I'll save the lecture for another post and summarize simply. DISCLAIMER!!!! HEADCANON WHAT YOU WILL!!!! LIVE AND LET HEADCANON!!!!! my thoughts on Leo's height and build DO NOT invalidate anyone elses thoughts!!!! we work together to attack our man with kisses in this house!!!!!!!
anyway after enough time in the forges, and getting to finish out his teenage years without being in a state of radically instable active trauma and survival mode, Leo gets a couple inches taller before he's done growing (I personally hc him to be about 5'7 in the books and about 5'9 as an adult) and ends up with the most DELICIOUS sleeper build.
Like Leo will be out here one minute looking like this
and then the next minute you blink and see this
(collective pause for us to process and calm ourselves by looking at aquarium fish and saying affirmations)
anyway all this to say that YES Leo hypes you the hell up at all your practices and meets and sporting events. He's bragging to EVERYONE at home depot about his girl and all her accomplishments and stats every time he's at home depot which is like 7 or 8 times a day. he's making some BANGER home recipes to keep you and your team well fed. he's packing protein shakes and electrolytes and fuckin orange slices idk I am SO sorry I genuinely know nothing about sports
and years down the line when you're in college and you're still together and you're a college athlete??? not only is he still hyping you the hell up, but guess what?? all those times when he's come with you to the gym for moral support, all his time spent working with big heavy pieces of metal and wood and shit, that means he can easily PICK YOU UP AND SPIN YOU AROUND after you win!!!! or even when you don't!!!! he'll just do it because he wants to and he's proud of you!!!! AS HE SHOULD BE!!!!!!! (also safe to say your coach or trainer or whoever LOVES him. And all your teammates are lowkey jelly, which is funny if they ever try to flirt with him at all because he is all cartoonishly heart eyed at you. that shit is LOCKED IN.)