Please, pleaseeeee, give us more Kieran and Reaver headcannons? I desperatly need them! 🙏🙏🙏
One, sorry this took forever to answer. I saw this ask three days ago and then promptly proceeded to forget about it until two days ago, and then was so busy I had to type this on and off. Two, because they are my headcanons, the characters are probably going to be a little different than how they are in the book. Though with Reaver it's okay becuase we don't really know his character yet. And three.....this is going to be several paragraphs long. The following hcs are in no particular order, and sorry for any typos.
1. Kieran lives in a castle tower, not the whole thing, just the upper middle and top portion. He's sort got like a wizards tower vibe going if you know what I mean. This is perfect because Reaver doesn't like to sleep indoors. He spent so long trapped in stone that he feels a little claustraphobic inside, especially when he's sleeping. So, the solution Kieran has come up with so that they can still be near each other when they sleep is that Reaver will sleep curled up on the roof of the tower (you know, like all of those pictures you've probably seen of the dragon roaring while curled around a tower? like that except Reaver has less muderous intent). Before he started sleeping there though, Kieran made him wait for an architect to come down and inspect the roof because Kieran would not have him ruining his bedroom. Also because he cares about him, but he only admits that on very special occasions. Sometimes when Reaver is in his sleeping place getting ready to go to bed, Kieran will bring him bits of meat from his dinner (Kieran is sometimes so busy he has to eat at 10 or 11) and get Reaver to try and catch them in his mouth. Reaver loves it. Also, when Kieran is feeling lonely (which is something he won't even admit on very special occasions) he'll come out onto his balcony and make Reaver lift him up with his tail so they can sleep next to each other on the roof.
2. Kieran has extremely messy chambers. He's not naturally messy, but we've alread established that he's really busy, and he doesn't often have time to clean or deal with things that have been dumped in his room by others. So for years he basically lived in a giant shit hole of a room. Until Reaver came along of course, who likes to keep his spaces extremely clean (unless it comes to blood all over him of course, and we accept that). Reaver finds the conditions Kieran is living in unacceptable, and cleans all his rooms from top to bottom until they are spotless. Kieran is at work stressed and oblivious to all of this. Reaver is straightening the last of the rooms when Kieran comes in absolutely exhausted, bracing himself to see his horribly messy living room and be even more exhausted. Instead he finds all of his space clean and his boyfriend(?, partners maybe? idk what they would be called in Atlantia) having taken the time and care to figure out where everything went and put all his things away in the (mostly) right places. Kieran is nearly moved to tears and Reaver because he's an oblivious himbo (yes I hc Reaver as a himbo, he's blonde okay, what do you expect me to do?) is literally like "why are you crying, I just wanted your dirty room to be clean so it didn't look so godsdamn ugly whenever I walked in here". And even, though Kieran knows it's probably going to get messy again, and that Reaver may have put many things in the wrong place, it doesn't matter because just having a clean home to come back too makes him feel about 10x better than he did before he came in. (Poor Kieran is overworked).
4. When Vonetta was much younger, she would ask Kieran to style her hair. At first it was a little annoying, but he soon grew to love it. He found that the repetitive motion was relaxing, and he liked seeing how please Netta was with his work. Vonetta grew up though, and stopped wanting his help, preferring to do it herself or ask Kirha for help when she needed it. Then Reaver came along, and obvioulsy his hair was different than Netta's, but it was long and blonde and all wavy, and Kieran couldn't resist. He started messing with Reaver's hair whenever he had a chance, braiding it, and weaving decorations into it. Reaver will sometimes wake up with his hair in braids, buns or some other style because Keiran was bored waiting for him to wake up. He doesn't mind it, in fact he enjoys Kieran's fingers running through his hair, so he has never once complained about it.
5. Kieran has terrible sleep habits. He usually finds himself going to bed around 1 or 2 in the morning and waking up only 4 or 5 hours later. So, Reaver has started doing this thing where if it gets pass 11 and Kieran is still not showing a single sign of going to sleep any time soon, Reaver grabs him and wraps him in a blanket and then lays on top of him in bed until Kieran falls asleep. This usually takes a while because there's often an hour or two of kicking and threatening before any sort of settling down.
6. The height difference. Kieran is 6'3'' and Reaver is like 6'9'' because draken are famously, extremely tall. Reaver is also really strong and can pick Kieran up with no problem. This is the only reason Kieran is powerless against Reaver's method of making him sleep. On their wedding day (it's really cute in my head) Reaver carries Kieran back down the aisle bridal style, much to the amusment of Casteel. Kieran frowns the whole way.
7. Reaver is a little awkward and unused to modern social situations due to being asleep for a really long time. So, he relies on Kieran to take the lead in any interactions. Coversations with him look a little something like this:
Person: Hi Reaver, how are you doing?
Person: Did you have a good weekend?
Reaver: *looks desperately towards Kieran who is across the room*
Kieran: *sighs and walks over*
Kieran: How's it going over here?
Person: I was just asking Reaver what he did this weekend.
Kieran: Well, we went to this new resturant that opened up on North Square, you know the fancy one that's been advertising like crazy? Yeah that one. Don't believe the raving so called 'reviews' they stick on their papers around the city, the food tasted like shit...
Reaver: *slowly backs away to hide, but in a dignified way*
There are more than this so if you want something specific just ask, but others that I have would spoil my Kreaver fic that I'm working on too much, so I'm not going to share those right at this moment. I hope you like these!
