Author’s Note: I am so sorry this one took so long. I completely forgot about it. I wrote this a while ago and never posted it. It’s been buried in my drafts. This idea is really cute and I’m always looking for an excuse to write about the Cenobites.
Warnings/tags: The female cenobite is referred to as DP in anything I write that includes her because she’s unnamed in the film, just thought I should add that, gender neutral reader (I know what the request says but I didn’t notice that until I was finished)
• At first, they’re all indifferent about your career path or what you’re going to school for.
• They’re Cenobites, after all. It’s safe to say their priorities are elsewhere.
• That doesn’t mean that they don’t care. They’re happy you’re pursuing what you enjoy doing. But they don’t really get caught up in humans' day-to-day activities, including careers.
• One day though, Pinhead’s interest is piqued when he sees you deep in focus, painting your nails. He doesn’t say anything. He just sits and watches from a distance.
• As you sat there painting your nails you couldn’t help but wonder if he would let you paint his nails, so you asked. Couldn’t hurt, right?
• “Could I paint yours? I bet you would look good with them.”
• Pinhead’s face shifted, the pins above his eyes raising ever so slightly as he watched you finish up your own nails. He looked almost shocked you had asked but he let you regardless, sticking his hand out and patiently waiting as you painted his fingers black.
• He didn’t admit it, but you could tell he liked it. Or at least he didn’t mind it. He let you mess with his nails as often as you wanted.
• His only gripe is the colors. He refuses to let you put anything on him other than black, a deep reddish maroon color, or the darkest blue you could possibly find. Anything brighter than that and it will be coming off.
• DP had joined in on the fun and she is less picky. She is always quite amused by your excitement about doing her nails and she surprisingly enjoys sitting and watching you paint them.
• She was also the first of the Cenobites to let you practice skincare on her.
• Her face is by far the easiest to work with so obviously she was the first you practiced on.
• Seeing you apply facemasks DP made Chatterer jealous. So he was next in line.
• Chatterer and Butterball were hard to read. Butterball barely spoke and Chatterer could only clack his teeth together. But from years of living with them, you were positive that they were at least mildly enjoying themselves when you did skincare on them.
• Pinhead refused skincare, wanting to save you the time and possibly frustration of having to maneuver past each of his pins.
• Over time all four of them allowed you to practice on them, helping you get some very unique experience that you knew nobody else in your class could get.
