Panicing Baron headcanon
So I’ve had an absolutely wonderful couple of weeks. (l’ll just leave the empty bucket of sarcasm here in case you missed it dripping from the last sentence.) So among other things I missed to-become-wind’s liveblog of The Cat Returns. It’s delightful, take a read. (Incidentally, I’ve noticed a few people saying they have a copy with better subtitles than the crap ones that just echo Disney’s dub instead of being even close to a translation; can anyone drop me a hint about how they got that? Is there a new version of the DVD with better subs or what?)
It’s really worth seeing it with a good translation. Disney’s just loses so much character. Not talking about the sub/dub acting argument, just good translations matter.
MORE importantly: we have confirmed canon that Baron confesses (sorta. kinda) then jumps off the roof. And Catsafari’s ficlet with Baron and Haru both having kissed friends where Haru admits Lousie is attractive to her.
Picture this! Everyone’s been trying to get Haru and Baron together. For like, a year. Maybe two. They’ve got everything sorted, size change amulets, disguise for when Baron wants to meet Haru’s Mum, whatever. Haru’s been adventuring with the crew, probably had a couple with Louise and Sephie that Baron only knew (and freaked out about) afterwards.
But he’s too awkward too spit it out. They keep ending up in perfect romantic confession places (sometimes, okay, often set up by the others) and everytime he cute-awkwards something instead of “I love you” or even “let’s date” and then his brain panics and he just jumps off a roof again.
Baron trudging back into the Bureau, tail sagging, ears drooping, cane and hat clutched in one hand. Louise looks up from the poker table and sighs, “Not again! Tell me you didn’t jump off a roof again.”
“I made five revolutions,” he mutters into the teacup Muta hands him. The big cat can’t even laugh at this point. It’s just too pathetic.
“Did you tell her?”
“Five. Revolutions.”
“Damn it Baron!” And at this point Louise decides her precious little drama llama needs a little more impetous to move the relationshp along. After all, he always performs best in a crisis. So she talks with Haru, and they pretend that Haru and Louise are dating. And falling hard for each other. Madly. Passionately. Maybe even do the crappy rom-com/sopa opera thing, with Sephie either being despondent or crazy jealous fight, Baron bursting in to stop a ‘wedding’.
And everyone just smiles and says, “Finally!”
So later drinking games Muta and Toto can tease them about Haru and Baron having both kisssed Louise, and Louise and Sephie can just respond that they were perfectly happy that Baron finally pulled his thumb out, but they’d be okay if Haru ever wanted to be more ‘friendly’, and Baron freaks out because he still remembers how he almost totally screwed up.
And maybe later they’re all just really close family-freinds or they’re in a happy poly group and Baron laughs about how freaked out he was about everything.