NSFW Headcanon #4
⋮ ⌗ ┆ What it would be like to be taken care of by your favorite synthetic during your menstrual cycle.
CW/TW for the following: blood, menstruation, AFAB Reader
RE: this post.
Long post under the cut.
「 ✦ Ash ✦ 」 & 「 ✦ Rook ✦ 」
Ash, is on you in an instant the moment his internal sensors register the scent of blood in the air. It hits his systems so sharply that if he were anything but synthetic, he’s sure he’d be gagging from it.
At first his hands are on you, desperately searching for any wound on you and that's when it clicks - embarrassingly slow enough to have surprised even him. He's usually quicker than this!
Once he realizes it's just your menstrual cycle and you're not actually dying, he can breathe a physical sigh of relief. When your cramps start to hit you, he's got the strongest dose of painkillers he can legally give you without accidentally killing you in the process. However, if they don't relent and you're left in stiff awkward positions that'll cause more pain and complications later down the line? He'll have you hooked up to an IV drip of painkillers and fluid - hoping to kill two birds with one stone at once.
Expect heating pads on rotation once they start to cool off, snacks nearby, water within reach and all of your favorite movies and/or TV shows on standby. Literally. Anything you need, he'll be there ready to provide.
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Rook, on the other hand, never has to guess. He's been quietly charting the rhythm of your hormones for months - not out of intrusion, but because monitoring your wellbeing gives him a reason to hover without apology. When the first microscopic shift hits your system, he already knows exactly what’s coming.
He takes menstrual pain seriously - deadly seriously - like it's an enemy he intends to outmaneuver. So, he prepares in advance, not with the clinical efficiency of Ash, but with a strange, almost ritualistic precision. A painkiller is placed in your hand nearly an hour before the ache dares to bloom - his version of preemptive strike. By the time the cramps fully settle, the battlefield is already arranged: heating pad warmed, your preferred pillows fluffed into a nest, your comfort snacks lined up.
You don't just rest during your cycle. You are restricted to quarters, his orders - though his tone when he says it makes it feel more like he's placing you somewhere safe than issuing a command. For the next five to seven days, he devotes himself entirely to your comfort, moving with that silent, watchful intensity unique to him. Rook doesn’t simply care for you - he patrols your wellbeing like it’s a perimeter that must not be breached. And gods help anyone who tries to disturb you during that time.
「 ✦ Walter ✦ 」
Walter was very much aware of your menstrual cycle before it began, much like Roo, he too was following the fluctuations in your hormones and signs your body was giving before it arrived (sore/tender breasts, a sharp mood change, change in sex drive, etc...)
Once it hits, he handles it with grace, keeping you laying down and in strict recovery mode if their especially bad - and if not? Yeah, you bet he's got his eyes on you.
He makes sure that you're constantly hydrated, always have heating pads on hand and rotated/reheated.
And if you ever get especially emotional (snappy, crying, angry...) he doesn't take offense to any of it. He understands that your hormones are all out of synch, its psychological torture for your brain - something you've been dealing with for a large portion of your life up until you met him (and something you'll continue to experience until you reach menopause.)
He'll even offer complimentary massages on your abdomen - with your explicit and enthusiastic consent of course - as you watch your favorite shows to help you relax.
「 ✦ Christopher Samuels ✦ 」
Honestly? Ditto, he's the same as the others previously mentioned; having sensed it long before it arrives. However, he's far more subtle in his approach of this. He'll have your favorite snacks prepped in advance, a blanket already waiting on the couch, the heating adjusted to whatever temperature you find comforting.
He won't mention why he's doing it unless you bring it up. Instead, he'll hover just close enough to be helpful without crowding you -quiet, observant, always ready with a gentle; "Let me know if you need anything."
If you look tired, he'll dim the lights. If you wince, he'll wordlessly offer a pain reliever and a glass of water. And when you finally settle beside him, he'll sit with that perfectly patient stillness he's known for, a steady presence at your side until the worst of it passes.
Supportive without fussing, intuitive without assuming Samuels is the type to make the entire day feel easier without ever calling attention to the fact that he’s doing it.
「 ✦ Kirsh ✦ 」
Much like those before him, he too is aware of your menstrual cycle; however, unlike those before him. He'd been unable to see you, far too busy and pulled away from both personal projects and your person to deal with yet another one of Kavalier's tantrums.
By the time he gets back to you, he sees you hunched over the table of the science lab, and he acts with quick delicate movements. Straightening you upright with gentle hands and soft words of reassurance even as you try to fight him with broken sobs.
He's angry beyond belief - not at you, no, never at you - but at how today has gone. He feels as though he's failed you as both a partner and as a friend. Seeing you crying and in pain as him heartbroken.
Once he gets you into bed, he's set up a quick IV drip of painkillers and fluid for your system and sits with you as you ride out the waves of pain. Your hand clasped in his own as he rubs circles over your knuckles.
Once your pain subsides, dulling as he watched you relax, he'll hand you your item of comfort (a stuffed animal perhaps) and grab anything else he knows you like and setting it up. Once done, he'll join you in bed and ask you which show you'd like to watch first.
The next 5-7 days are all about you and you alone. The rest of the cosmos can die so long as you're smiling.
❤︎
