Do you have any rugby headcanons (especially England nt)?
Anon I’m so sorry!!! I tried to answer this on the day but tumblr crashed and refreshed 😐 #wth
Ok, so, it’s horribly early on a Monday train so…!
**Disclaimer**:
THIS SHIT AINT REAL.
I like to borrow people faces/circumstances and spin random fanfictions about them - usually LGBTQA - which means that I don’t think the real player does that or like this, but that his character equivalent might.
This being said, Watson plays piano and he and his brother use to play four hands during holidays from boarding school. (England is weird.) mostly because watts needled and bothered his brother until he caved in and they’re actually quite good - except when Watson tries to cover the weeknd.
And since I’m on a Bath kick, nick (who in real life is probably a dick whatever) has been trained to sing classically - look at his chest, I mean - just to escape math hour, and has been listening to the Hamilton Mixtape on repeat (he can /nail/ satisfied, ok)
Hidalgo-something Scottish is a human espresso. I mean, Scottish players are much of the mastiff beaten-by-life-but-not-surrendering but this one took to the bitterness like a duck to water (he’s half Spanish. He’s allowed to angst.) he’s one of the only three backs the forwards have sworn their life to. Snark for days (but volunteers for pets charities).
Just to make you understand how my headcanons should not be applied to real life people but to their 2D counterparts, half of the team can see with their little eye that Manu and Goode always end up talking in corners. And have entire sassy comeback sessions in the way they gesticolate across the room whenever people separate them after matches (sarries being a pack culture actively surveilled by the vets). Incidentally Manu doesn’t have fucks to give and his whole family is open supportive of their sister, and Alex is English and deadpan, so it’s a star crossed thing I’m telling you.
As anyone who has been on my blog for more than 5 minutes? During the RWC? I don’t like England (too many sexual assault cases pending TBH) BUT the young guard is killing me with the cute. Especially by having two fly halves on the pitch (yeah, Farrell’s 12 is a physical 10. I fucking love it) that have been playing together since childhood yadda yadda - Owen talks rarely, but he’s 100% about training people for kicking. Sexton and Halfpenny were quite the mentors during his lions, and he knows the only way is to pay it forward to whoever wants to try and might be struggling - reason why he and Fordy are constantly in front of one of the posts at impossible angles.
And fordy 1) hates long pants 2) is really good at yoga (‘core?’ 'no, yoga’).
Switching to the Welsh, Hallam never properly learnt it (besides school basics) while Morgan speaks with his family’s cadence, and teaches him. North is vaguely traumatised when he makes the mistake to listen in to them ('they were blushing and giggling warby!!!’) but also finds them cute. This being said, north’s Lola (she’s a basset-hound! 😍) is like, amazing and will look at you with gentle canine understanding eyes if you’re sad. George will drop it on your lap when he thinks you need her. Warburton gets a hug and a 'you’re enough, you’re a great captain’. (Seriously, he’s been shoehorned in the role since he started playing and he’s like 'why me’).
And I think it’s enough???? I’m missing the Irish, I know, but that’s because I don’t know them very well but they all seem nice tweens with a really thick accent?
