all of the head canons for dana scully
☾ - sleep headcanon) Scully sleeps in a sideways half-fetalposition, usually curled around a deflated pillow. she prefers the cottonyjersey material sheets because they’re less cold when she climbs into bed, andScully is always cold.
★ - sad headcanon) @talkwordytome and I had a whole debate aboutwhat these prompts were really asking for, but I’ve decided to interpret it asa headcanon of what the character does when they’re sad rather than a headcanonthat is itself sad, so here: when Scully is sad she takes long hot showers andplays her music so loud she can’t hear her neighbors banging on the floortelling her to turn it down.
☆ - happy headcanon) when Scully is happy, she puts on somethingupbeat and dances around her apartment watering the plants and tidying thingsup. You can tell when she’s having a particularly shitty week or month becausethe plants in her living room start dying.
☠ - angry/violent headcanon) angry Scully issteely and resolute, the dangerously silent type, right up until you threatento really fuck with her or with Mulder at which point she does some sort of invisibleHulk thing and grows a single inch {is this too cracky? do I care?}
✿ - Sex headcanon) Scully is wildly multi-orgasmic. That is all.
■ - Bedroom/house/living quarters headcanon) Scully has neverreally understood interior design; her apartment is mostly just furniture shegot from her mom’s place and from discount stores, impersonal and slightlymismatched stuff that looks more dowdy than vintage. The wall art is what givesher space a personal touch: she hangs up too many posters of artworks and bandsand everything else she finds fascinating, and has at least three differentcork boards in her bedroom devoted each to different subcategories ofscientific research
♡ - romantic headcanon) Scully findshumor, wit, and remembering the details romantic. {oh, that makes Mulderperfect for her, you say? I hadn’t noticed}
♥ - family headcanon) she always wanted to have a little boy and a littlegirl so she could raise the boy to be polite and respectful of women and thegirl to kick ass and stand up to men
☮ - friendship headcanon) she and Skinnerkeep a running word document of the most absurd things Mulder says; it’s on hiscomputer, and she emails him at the end of every work week with updates
♦ - quirks/hobbies headcanon) Scully absolutely loves doing jigsaw puzzles.Her ideal Winter Break Nothing Day includes her, a vhs with 6 hours of The WestWing reruns, a bottle of rose and a good quality 1000-piece.
☯ - likes/dislikes headcanon) she hates gettingher hair cut; the small talk, the boredom, the stranger touching her head, theuncertain results
▼ - childhood headcanon) when she was little and she was sickher mom always let her lie on the couch and watch tv all day and her favoriteshows were Marcus Welby M.D. and Hawaii Five-O {actually her favorite showswere Star Trek and Bewitched but she'd never tell Mulder that and also she wasa child, for god's sake}
∇ - old age/aging headcanon) Dana Scully spenther entire adolescence and young adulthood trying desperately not to look sovery much like a precocious kid playing dress up in her work attire, so shefeels she’s well earned her Mulder-termed “reverse-aging voodoo”
♒ - cooking/food headcanon) she loves bakingfancy pastries; madeleines, croissants, etc.
☼ - appearance headcanon) she loves her hair; it’s herfavorite thing about her body
ൠ - randomheadcanon) for this I’m gonna go seasonal and do a Christmas headcanon: every yearScully stays up until midnight on November 30th to wait for it tochange over to December 1st, at which point she listens to HaveYourself A Merry Little Christmas for at least an hour to ring in the season
◉ - Any other question of your choosing) {becauseI know you v well, even though you didn’t put one in for this, I’m gonna do theone I know you’d ask for: a hurt/comfort headcanon.} if she's ever home sickfor more than a day at a time, Mulder insists on showing up at her apartmentand surprising her with his "proven Mulder family remedy" which isjust him rubbing her feet half-heartedly and occasionally making her suck on acreme saver while they watch paranormal encounter shows which he claims is anecessary part of the restorative process