So I inflicted the extended cut of Stripes on @antsyserpentine while he was out in orbit, and we both first saw Bill Murray and Harold Ramis in Ghostbusters, which makes Stripes at least a 1,000% funnier to us.
But also, the first time I watched it and THIS showed up??
1, I absolutely LOST ALL OF MY SHIT laughing, and 2, immediately thought of this from the IDW comics.
And then proceeded to die inside bc hjesus fucking christ in a handbag I would HIT THAT with extreme prejudice.
That floof and the aviator-style glasses is Peak 70s but also hot, no I do not take criticism.
What is the process that you headcanon Egon to go through when he realizes he's actually just into something and it's not a "normal" thing? And maybe what are some of those things you think he would be into if you're comfortable with sharing? 👉👈
So, this is a really good ask, because the concept of "normal" is relative/subjective. It all depends on the person and their perspective, experiences, life circumstances and a whole shitton of other factors.
This went long, but I promise the background is important to understanding the process I see him going through, so more and spicy headcanons under the cut!
As far as sexual orientation, I hc Egon is demisexual (and also Pan, but that's for another ask), so sexual attraction doesn't hit until romantic attraction has set in and - for him specifically - been present for a while.
I also hc that he hasn't been too lucky as far as romance or sex. Being on the spectrum, he tends to come off as weird, quiet, awkward and very intense in a way that makes most people varying degrees of uncomfortable, and he himself isn't comfortable with closeness unless he knows the other person well.
Between that and being demi, he's had maybe a handful of romances that fell apart pretty fast due to conflicts of personality; they always wanted him to change and be someone he's not capable of being (in other words, not autistic) and in one case, dropped him like a hot rock because they assumed he was packing serious pipe when really he's about at the extreme upper limit of 'average' at best.
None of these relationships ever lasted long enough for actual sexual attraction to set in, so the two or three times he was intimate, it was pretty 'meh' for him for a variety of reasons: lack of sexual attraction to his partner, partners who didn't respect him, and lack of a friendship to facilitate trust and comfort, especially wrt physical closeness. He also pursued the romance not necessarily because he truly wanted to, but because that's just what one is supposed to do, right??
His last experience in particular hurt a lot, specifically because the abrupt rejection was down to the other person only being interested in a big dick, and his worth as a partner being based on that was pretty big hit to his self-confidence. Not because of any blow to his sense of masculinity, but rather because he puts a lot of value on his intellect and they didn't even consider that facet of him. So the next time he feels that inkling of romance, he ignores it. It goes away in a week or two anyway, so in his mind, why bother if it's not gonna last?
So, by the time he meets someone with whom he forms a friendship based on mutual respect and shared interests, and later becomes genuinely attracted to, and ends up in a relationship with? He has very little direct personal experience with sex. He knows about kinks, but his knowledge comes from hearing about the well known ""wild shit"" like leather and bondage, or whatever sexual practices he learns about in the process of researching other cultures and the occult.
For Egon, learning about his kinks is a twofold process, the first part being when he realizes that something turns him on. He's annoyed for a little bit, because he got entrenched in the idea that he was pretty much who he was going to be for the rest of his life, so learning something new about himself as a person is a little surprising. But he rationalizes the things he likes scientifically, figures they must be pretty universal, and moves on.
I don't have many kinks for him and they aren't super unusual: he likes his hair very lightly tugged, being praised, and being blindfolded (only during foreplay). For the hair thing, he files that away with he fact he likes his hair played with anyway in a non-sexual way, and having light tension applied being a turn-on is just an extension of that. The praise thing is easy to write off, everyone likes being praised! For the blindfolded thing, if you remove one sense, the brain will naturally compensate by dialing up the others, so that's gotta be universal! But he doesn't think any of those count as 'kinks'.
So if/when whoever he's with sits him down to explain that he does, in fact, have kinks? Takes a good five to seven business days to process that information, and he's mostly stuck on the label. Not because he has a problem with kink, he could care less what other people are into, but rather he just always thought of himself as pretty vanilla and learning that he's not as plain as he's assumed for most of his life takes a while for him to sort of 'come to terms' with.
So I wrote a bit for my college AU, Carbon Dating. In which a 24-25yo Egon learns something about himself and strips a gear during a lecture.
Victoria is my OC bc I have no shame, she and Egon have been classmates at MIT for about a year, and he's got the floof and the aviator style glasses, and are both getting their PhDs in Nuclear Engineering and there may or may not be some hidden feels at play.
Tagged with my NSFW tag for brief mention of spicy things.
Once he and Victoria found their usual spot at the back of the hall, they settled in together and went over notes from the last lecture. But as the professor was getting ready to start, Victoria put a hand on his shoulder.
"Hold still, there's something stuck in your hair," she said quietly.
He felt a slight, quick tug on the left side of his head, above his ear. Whatever was stuck there must have been stubborn, because Victoria tugged on his hair again; this time the tension was accompanied by an odd, not-unpleasant, hot sensation that seemed to bleed through him like ink on blotting paper.
His heart was pounding and his face felt warm, and another tug made him inhale sharply at the sudden rush of...something.
"Oh, sorry! I didn't mean to pull!" She whispered.
"S'fine."
The breathless way he responded surprised him, and as he tried to figure out what was going on, there was another gentle pull. He pressed his lips together as something seemed to tighten pleasantly in his lower abdomen. He tried to place the feeling, figure out what was happening to him. But his mind was suddenly foggy and he was having a hard time focusing on anything except the sensations themselves. It was both soft and sharp at once, almost adjacent to something like pain, and yet most definitely not that. This was without a doubt a pleasant feeling, one he wanted more of. He wanted to chase it, to seek more, to push somehow, and as he felt the muscles of his thighs and lower back tense in tandem to change the angle of his hips ever so slightly, the realization hit him; this was sexual arousal.
That's very new...and awkward... he thought to himself.
At least it couldn't get any worse, and as long as he didn't say anything, Victoria would never know.
"Dammit..!" She swore quietly.
Just when he thought things would stop at 'slightly uncomfortable', he felt her fingers gently run through his hair at the spot she'd been tugging at, and that gentle tension became constant as she continued her efforts.
His left hand clenched into a fist, and it took a surprising amount of self-control to keep his face neutral at the warmth that bloomed in his chest and burst of almost electric pleasure between his -
Oh shit.
He'd been somewhat tense to begin with, but now every muscle in his body had gone taut. His face also was burning from more than just arousal now, even though he knew it was just an involuntary physical reaction. But he was reacting to a stimulus he hadn't even known would elicit that specific response.
In the middle of a classroom, no less. At least he was sitting down...
"Almost got it."
The tension released, but as he was about to let out a metaphorical sigh of relief, there was another soft, almost sensual pull on his hair.
He bit the inside of his upper lip when he felt what would have likely been a very...horny noise rise in his throat as his erection throbbed against his leg. He wanted to drop through the floor or otherwise somehow vanish, especially when he realized that if she kept this up long enough, he was going to -
"Got it!" The light tension on his scalp vanished with her hand, and he could have passed out with relief.
"Huh, piece of masking tape. No wonder it was so fucking stubborn," Victoria groused in a low voice.
"Hwa?" Was all the response he could manage.
how do you always manage to come up with the nsfw stuff bc when i do i get embarrassed LMAO
(also i love all the headcanons you come up with <33)
idk man, my brain sorta does what it wants most of the time? And I get embarassed too, there have been times I could physically feel my face go red and I wanna crawl into a hole bc holy shit what the hell was I thinking.
nsfw under the cut!
I also like to have some variation to reflect the multitude of shapes humans have, so like for dick size and shape I'll compare new ideas to ones I already have and then tweak things if I need to. Sometimes though I just get a flash of an idea that makes me go 'that's hot' or otherwise sparks an idea.
God I can't believe I'm gonna say this but Egon and Ziskey. Same size and shape, but Egon leans slightly left, Ziskey slightly right. I also thought it would be neat if the uh, volume and distance of their orgasm was different, as well as their default rhythm when they're bangin.
And also, just like any headcanon, I want to make sure it suits the character in some way, either by going balls to the wall with a trope or subverting it. For example, there is a common trope of the quiet, nerdy guy is also possibly sexually repressed and/or into super kinky stuff that I refer to as 'It's always the quiet ones'. For Egon I went with him not actually being that repressed or into anything that could be defined as 'really kinky', and Ofc. Friendly is actually into more kinky things.
And lastly, sometimes an idea just pops up and feels like it fits a specific character for no specific reason.
i may or may not be toasted ofd my face and craving the old man.
I'm sorry i love don so much. his wife remonds me of my spouse's ex wife and she a bitch (no really I could write a novel. even the cps officer was surpsied at how fucked up she is) but anyway
probably spicy horny stuff under the cut
i love don so much. i wanna lay on him while he talks sweet to me. he's gotta wear old spice thats like classic dad fru fru water. hed be so soft except where it counts, and warm. and sweet.
anyone put there like hurr durr his dick wouldnt work it would. guys dont get less horny or able to fuck with age, its related tonunderkying health problems that can occur with age *or* when they're younger. i choose to believe that don doesnt have any underlying issues bc he's loaded, he's got access to healthcare. he can afford a nice house in the fukkin BAY AREA. also bc i said so.
and the dick isnsuperb bc hes got age and experience on his side, plus stamina. get him goin in the right mood at the right pace and hell go for an hour or more.
how the fuck did i end up jere what amni DOING with my life.