he takes his coffee black, but after a couple of decades he tried cream and sugar—didn't hate it. so that's how he takes his coffee sometimes if he feels like it.
can out-drink Nile, Joe, and Nicky, but not Andy
heartbreakingly good with kids
can sleep for hours straight if not woken up by dreams/nightmares/the others
his heart sinks a little when animals run away from him
so good at the axe-throwing booths in carnivals
chain-smokes on his bad days (Joe begs him to take a bath after)
always has a book packed with him
his handwriting is writing in all caps, kind of slanted when rushed, and it makes really hard indents on the back of the paper
when sleeping on his back or a bed he hugs a second pillow. if there's no pillow, he crosses his arms.
Being a member of the Guard and having a love/hate relationship with Booker would include headcanons
anon said: hey! Can I please have some hc about being a member of the old guard and having a love and hate relationship with Booker? Something like you wrote in your other imagine. hope this is okay, thank you!
A/N: hii, love! of course it's okay! I love Booker, so it's always a pleasure to write for him! hope you like this 💖
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The thing about Booker, is that he has a talent to annoy you
Ever since you two first met, the french man showed you that temper that would just drive you crazy, unstoppably
It is as if he takes pleasure in contradicting you, and that of course, makes you want to kill him
Which you actually did, more than once
Everytime the team gets together for a job, he presents you that convinced smile of his and with irony, says how much he has missed you
You absolutely cannot work in plans together, since you always end up at each other's throats, more arguing than anything else
You do work fine together in the field, but you strongly believe that is because killing people do not require for you both to actually communicate
If you had a huge fight, you would give each other threatening looks later while sharing a meal with the others
Andy is annoyed by your bickering at each other. She is the boss and when she says so, you both stop fighting at the very same instant and do whatever she tells you to
Nicky and Nile mostly just roll their eyes at all the swearing and argument you have with each other, from time to time muttering to themselves how you both are such childs when it comes to one another
Joe finds it funny. He can't stop laughing whenever you both start screaming, shouting your lungs out because of something probably stupid, like who would get to go in first at the job
When Nicky asks him about it, he just says the fun is in the fact that you both don't see what's right in your faces
Occasionally, after a harsh job or just a bad day for both, you would allow yourselves to share a drink together in silence, just hoping for the alcohol to kick in soon
Whenever Booker spoke about his sons and all the grief he still felt after so much time, you wouldn't be able to deny to yourself how bad you felt for him and you would hug him, comfort him, even though you would later pretend that never happened
And he would pretend it either, even though that meant a lot to him. The fact that you cared
For some time, you would give yourselves a break from each other. But then, all of the sudden, the fighting and screaming would come back and in Nile's words, "everything would go back to normal"
And Joe woud laugh again at that and when it happened, Andy would be the one to ask why he was laughing, how he could find that funny. And for that, looking at his boss, he would say
"Me and Nicky were exactly like that in the beginning. Don't you remember it, boss?"
