Things about Whitsantos that I firmly believe:
Her favorite energy drink was red bull for a long time but then she found out that Alani was co-founded by a woman so she tried one and now those are her favorite
Most of the time she cannot cook for shit but family recipes are the exception
She grew up catholic but is mostly agnostic. She still wears a miraculous medal necklace out of comfort.
This girl LOVES latin dance music. Bad Bunny at the superbowl made her whole month.
Used to smoke weed a lot more in school, shifted more to edibles after she started MS4. Now she only indulges in weed if someone else is interested.
It’s not really a HC, since Isa said so, but she is a big ‘ol lesbian
Lil gay boy and ftm (!!!)
Trinity gets him into energy drinks, he is definitely a red bull guy
He hadn’t ever really spent enough time around a woman before moving in with Trin (singles in undergrad to unhoused in med school) to experience this, but by month 3 their cycles are synced. It makes for a very tense start to the day before they both realize what’s happening. Now they always prep ice cream in advance.
He is still semi-religious, but mostly nondenominationally. He was raised fundamentalist/evangelical and he had a theology class about comparative world religions that he took when he was starting to question what he was raised with. He did a deep dive into different sects of christianity and found that he liked the foundational principles but not the organized part of it all
(Coincidentally at the same time, he found @ pastorpauldrees while scrolling on his tiktok fyp and that really helped him come to terms with his sexuality and gender and deconstruct his childhood faith)
Dennis grew up drinking shitty moonshine and beer and smoking cheap cigarettes in his teens. He’s become a whiskey and rum person, but he also loves a wine cooler/canned cocktail. He got into vaping in undergrad, Trinity constantly gives him shit about vaping in the apartment. He also got SO much shit from Robby the first time he saw him vaping in the ambulance bay.
Trinity is the first person Dennis actually vocally comes out to. She laughs initially because “duh” but then she sees that he looks like he’s still nervous and she realizes that he probably had never done that before so she gives him a hug and tells him she’s proud of him. Then she gives him a noogie because that’s her baby brother.
When Dennis is homesick he makes midwest foods. Many of them got made fun of by Trin (especially the salads, she didn’t get the jello) but then she started trying some of them and now they have a rotation of filipino food and midwestern staples in their apartment.
Trinity’s favorites: lumpia, halo-halo, chicken adobo, runza, muddy buddies (she didn’t know people made them from scratch, but now she will never buy the premade stuff), tater tot casserole
Dennis’s favorites: lumpia, (surprising to Trin) balut, runza, sugar cream pie, calico bean casserole
Her and Dennis wear nearly the exact same size clothes and as soon as he relaxes into living with her she starts stealing his sweaters. The first time she drags him to a gay bar she gives him one of her old crop tops.
Both of them get nightmares from time to time and they have a couple different ways to deal with it. Early on in their friendship they would just go sit on the couch together, laying on opposite sides with their feet in the middle. Later on they either will just climb into each other’s beds or make a big blanket fort in the living room.
Their whole apartment is covered in string lights in a soft yellow-white. After spending 12 (or more) hours under bright overhead lights, they only have soft lighting to give their eyes a break.
The couch has one of those cool covers on it so it’s a nicer color, softer, AND easier to clean.
They have tons of throw blankets and pillows, none of them really match. They’re from either a goodwill or marshalls/home goods and they’re either stupidly patterned or super soft.
Someone on here said they have a height chart on one of their doorframes and I love that idea, every time someone comes over they are required to get their height marked. Trinity sneakily finds out how tall Robby is and marks it up while Dennis is out. She is fully aware of his crush and she put it there so Dennis won’t settle for shitty hinge guys, since he’ll automatically compare their heights lmao
There are definitely a few stolen signs in their apartment, including: a construction sign that had been left behind when the construction near their apartment ended, a bathroom closed sign from the hospital that they found outside for some reason (inspired by something from my life lol), a wet floor sign from a bar
They schedule two nights per week for each other - one night is cooking night and one is drinking night. They follow the recipe rotation for what they cook each week, and they alternate between drinking at home or going out. At home nights usually end with them very drunk and venting about their workplace crushes.
When he can tell she’s stressed, Dennis lets Trin mess around with his hair, paint his nails, or do some make up on him. When she’s going through a rough spot with Yoyo and dealing with a long week of awful patients, he drags her to CVS and tells her to pick a color and he’s going to let her dye his hair. (He comes into work the next day with deep purple roots and Robby actually spills his coffee.)
