Just a quick message to say I love your blog, and that your Ed & Os smoking heacanons are 110% valid and I will die on the hill alongside you if it comes to it!
Oh my god thank you! I love your blog as well!
I have so many Thoughts about their smoking habits - and them in general:
- Oswald was a smoker even while his mother was around, but he would refuse to ever smoke in front of her or where she could see.
- Ed, on the other hand, picked it up from his parents (going off the backstory that the Riddler had shitty parents - beyond neglectful) but didn't start smoking until college. He had the Riddler in his head and college is stressful - he smoked even if he wasn't proud of it.
- Both viewed it as an activity for private / away from people. The idea of social smokers is foreign to them considering Social Smokers ONLY smoke with others.
- Oddly an intimate thing when Ed catches Oswald smoking for the first time. Even more so when Ed dared to ask for one.
- Ed knows he's fucked up when Oswald smokes after they blow up at each other. (And vice versa, but Oz is rather emotionally mature from the get-go of their friendship-then-relationship, so knows when he'll say something too harsh, thus it's much rarer).
- Like I was saying before, Ed would definitely roll his own but he'd be the person who'd have cologne / body spray + hand sanitizer after washing his hands so no one would smell it on him.
- Ed would also chain smoke during the worst times - I mean he literally took drugs and kept them going pretty consistently so I think Ed would smoke a good few when aggravated which happened more as the Riddler / Chief of Staff.
- Thus Oswald gets the expensive ones because, while they can afford it, Ed wouldn't waste something that costs so much. (In my head, Edward had money guilt - again parent issues but also because he's so thankful for Oz getting him a suit idk again possible projection on my part).
- Plus the benefit was that they'd smoke probably only one each time but they'd smoke together - a source of intimacy when maybe either or both are in a situation where physical contact just isn't The Right Thing.
