i’ve been thinking a lot about how yes coshayphine is great as an amalgamation, but they have to share interests and hobbies that maybe not all of them share. like if shayphine has a date night they’ll wanna do something that cosima doesn’t like like they do etc. like when you’re a kid and your sibling is at a sleepover so your parents let you pick what’s for dinner. (was that just me? bc my brother got invited to way more sleepovers than me?? anYWayY)
shayphine: - definitely trying new foods. like foodie kind of stuff. like weird new concept restaurants and popups. and cooking. a new recipe is definitely a thing they do together. hello holding up a spoon for the other to taste test??? also wine pairing. trying to one up each other with wackier and wackier wines to pair with their recipes.
- jogging? swimming? exercise stuff. cosima does it, but like. as a necessity. shay and delphine enjoy it and seek it out. they jog with the dog every day, who loves it. (i have new dog headcanons peep those on a different post.) at first delphine can only do a little and shay is a pseudo trainer, but then delphine’s adolescence spent playing soccer and running track kick in and shay gets kind of competitive. do they run charity 5ks? maybe that is something i’ll think about. (also just. they like seeing each other in gym clothes)
shaysima: - carly rae jepsen music. cosima scream sings it. cut to the feeling cured shay’s depression (seriously just like. stop what you’re doing for 3 minutes and 25 seconds, put on your best headphones, turn it up a little louder than is advisable, and listen.) i feel like shaysima’s first date after canon in s5 fix it is a crj concert. i think i’m gonna make it happen. shay is not a fan of fireworks or thunder so on hot summer nights when she can’t get to sleep before the racket, cosima will blast some crj and crj adjacent music and dance around like an idiot to distract shay.
- philosophy. like they discuss things. cosima’s read enough bc of school and shay reads poetry and more modern stuff. they like to talk big brain humanity stuff sometimes. like science and ethics and holistic healing stuff. cosima has a lot of feelings having been part of a science experiment (like the stuff that came out of dyad and leda had huge impacts that could save lives, but she suffered as a subject and she has conflicting feelings about that.) in her practice, shay views people as wholes from their work life to their deepest innermost lives. lots of economic philosophies don’t and she’s Heated.
cophine: - animals. delphine’s entire social media presence is just pictures of her animals and cute animal videos she finds on her feed. cosima also loves animals and like knows wayy too much about them bc of her studies in evolution. she and delphine geek out about behaviors and traits and stuff. training their dog they geek out about how it’s even possible. (i used to know so much gonna study some more evolutionary biology where tf are my notes?) also cosima has a very chaotic tik tok and when delphine is stressed she’ll pull delphine to her chest and just search dogs on there and let her watch. half of her favorited videos are to show delphine later.
- video games. cosima has been playing hardcore since her first gameboy and her love has grown with the medium. delphine, being trans and perceived as a teenage boy in the 90′s, was the target audience. she had so much pokemon merch as a kid. she had some early nintendo stuff, then school happened and she got swamped and is now getting back into games. cosima lets her play on her consoles at first then she gets into it a lot more than anticipated so they both have their own switches and possibly ps4s (i have no idea what games except minecraft and pokemon but that’s a pretty good start. probably some star wars for delphine and way more of the newer stuff like tlou and red dead redemption. movie ish games with heavy story for cosima. delphine loves portal bc puzzles cosima hates it bc where is the LORE)
