#homenoir

[scarletsp1der]

Can I have uhhhhh Noirlander

[denseimagination]

“There’s not a lot of noirlander/homenoir content on tumblr..!!”

HOLD MY BEER I WILL SUPPORT THE NOIRLANDER COMMUNITY ANY WAY I CAN

[tz-pumpkin]

hmm

[fuzzyfathered]

Noirlander Headcanons pt. 1

Pre and Early Relationship (slightly nsfw)

After their first meeting and their first mission together, Homelander develops an admiration for Noir and seeks out his approval, which Noir gives him through thumbs up and nods and an occasional hug or pat on the back/shoulder

After years of this, the admiration grows deeper into romantic feelings on Homelander's aide, but Homelander is involved with Madelyn Stillwell so he doesn't act on those feelings for a long time…besides, he doesn't think Noir will reciprocate them and he doesn't want to embarrass himself

Eventually, after many more years of pushing his crush down, Homelander (now in his early 30s) realizes that he does have a chance with Noir

Homelander calls Noir to his suite and sits with him on the couch, he tells Noir how valuable he is the team and how grateful he is to have him as a friend, Noir places a hand over his heart as his way of thanking him

Homelander puts his hand on Noir’s shoulder and trails it down his arm until it's resting on top of Noir’s own hand

To Homelander's surprise, Noir takes Homelander's hand in his, Homelander uses his x-ray vision to try to read Noir’s expression, to try to figure out what he's feeling, and he sees him staring down at their interlocked gloves before his eye goes up his body and lands on his lips

Homelander takes this as an invitation and he goes to shoot forward to kiss Noir, but Noir holds a hand out against his chest at the last second to stop him, much to Homelander's confusion

Noir pulls out his notepad and writes out the word “GENTLE” and Homelander doesn't want to be gentle because he's been thinking about this moment for years but he does reluctantly listen

Homelander carefully kisses Noir’s masked lips and he feels Noir place his hands on his waist

Homelander wants to do more and he starts trying to pull Noir onto his lap but then Noir stops him yet again and Homelander sits back in frustration because this is NOT how he thought this was gonna go, he thought they'd already be in bed by now

To Homelander's surprise again, Noir lifts him and places him onto his own lap and lays Homelander's head down on his shoulder, Homelander feels himself relaxing against Noir but he starts to complain anyways, but then Noir is making a shushing sound and starts petting his hair, that's all they do that night

Homelander does eventually get what he wants, though it goes differently than how he imagined it, he realizes he likes the way that Noir wants to do things and he does like the slower pace (Noir does indulge him sometimes anyways)

Noir had noticed Homelander's crush on him maybe a few months before they first kissed, he noticed the way Homelander would stare at him, he's figured out how to tell when Homelander is using his x-ray vision or not because he gets a certain look in his eyes and he realized that Homelander often used it on Noir even when he wasn't just looking at his face

Noir had initially thought Homelander's crush would go away in time but it very obviously wasn't, so after an intense discussion with Buster and his friends, Noir then began playing with him to almost test his limits, to see if Homelander was serious or not: when he noticed him staring, he would stare right back; when he was sure he was looking under his suit, he would look him up and down and/or lean back in his chair just to see Homelander try to hide his flustered face; Noir even hooked up with someone (which he hadn't done in a long time, probably even before Homelander became attracted to him) just to see if Homelander would made any comments about it the next day and he did, asking him if he had a good night last night with a tight smile on his face, obviously very jealous

Their love for each other is romantic, but it's not a classic type of romantic love, they'd never call each other their boyfriend or even partner (especially because of some things that happen later on), but Homelander still calls Noir his best friend and oftens calls him buddy or pal, and they tell each other they love each other but they did that even before they started this relationship

No one knows about their relationship...until a few months after

[bishopie]

this physically hurts

[homielander]

black noir!!! WHYYYY

and i KNEW all those takes about homelander and noir's relationship were shitty. little hearts showed up in black noir's internal cartoon commentary when they hugged AND homelander confirmed that he always checked how noir reacted to things and knew him better than basically anyone else. which just makes things sadder #tome

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