HELO I AM THE HEADCANON PERSON
IM SO SORRY I SAW YOUR POST JUST NOW SKJAHDJGF,, UHHHH HERE ARE THE HEADCANONS:;;
1. leper is The Tallest Boy In School bc i love the idea of him being huge but super un-intimidating also i think he’d have really bad posture
2. gene has glasses but is one of those people who can see like?? okay?? w/o them, so he tries his hardest to never actually wear them. he’ll usually end up having to when he reads or writes though, which is usually in his devon dorm at like 3am when he’s gotta read finny all the required reading he skipped
3. gene’s tan in the beach chapter was actually terrible i refuse to believe he can tan and think he sunburns easily and wears layers even when it’s warm
4. finny is heterochromic and also has GREAT dimples
5. leper has a fondness for watercolors
6. after returning from whatever service they did in the war and a short period of silence, gene and brinker get back in touch and slowly get around to talking about what happened at devon and sorting out their feelings about it all. they keep a regular correspondence which sometimes involves meeting up but not always, and if they do, they’re usually kind of cold and curt?? but they’re kind of the only remaining connections they each have to devon bc they were never super close to anyone else and they lost track of leper so they have this quiet understanding. also i like the idea of them moving in together in the city to get away from the suburbs around devon and brinker being super invested in making gene get a job to stop!! being!! fucking!! Sad!1
7. brinker buries himself in work to deal w everything, gene lounges around and writes sad stuff
8. so uhh after thinking about this dynamic for a super long time i thought they might end up having a sort of friends with benefits type thing?? idk if either of them would marry but i think they’d be single and lonely at that point in their lives and just Really Wanna Touch Someone u kno
(currently writing a fic about the last three headcanons that will be finished in approximately 55 years)
9. brinker (because he was the most sexually open character in the book–which wasn’t much but y'know) develops the same/similar views as gore vidal (the guy he was apparently based off) on sexuality very unabashedly and gets into Intellectual Essay Battles w people over this
10. leper becomes a hermit painter guy after getting some weirdly decent therapy for the 1940s/50s (just let me have this ok)
11. gene gets into the beat poet scene when he moves to the city bc i think he’d just be really intrigued by how Innovative and Edgy it was and how many queer dudes there were in that movement at the time and also i think he’d become a writer bc fight me (this is also probably gonna be in my fic??)
i also have modern au headcanons for some reason?? i felt the need to write them all down one time and am just now rediscovering them and i thought y'all might wanna hear them as i’m not gonna fuckin do anything with these (this is the shitpost section of the list all of these are atrocious)
1. finny’s only shoes are heelies and crocs with socks
2. finny only ever gets into memes once they’ve died out
3. leper has an aesthetic blog / generally is aesthetic Soft Boy trash
4. leper uses the bug and snail emojis a lot bc you know he does it’s a fact
5. brinker unironically uses impact font memes especially the kermit one where he’s sipping tea
6. he also likes to overuse the b emoji too bc yOU KNOW HE DOES
7. “brinker” and “thicc” tend to go in the same sentence a lot when people talk about him and it’s terrible i hate this so much but was compelled by satan himself to type it out
8. finny gets a NICE PROSTHETIC LEG and DOES NOT D I E
9. gene has access to therapy and good guidance counselors and school queer alliances and tries to work on himself a lot ok let me believe
10. gene gets spammed with texan memes a l o t
11. finny and leper make terrible suicide session t-shirts for everyone and they eventually get banned but everyone wears them as pajamas anyway
UHHH SO YEAH THAT’S IT YOUR BLOG IS GREAT BY THE WAY ABSOLUTELY BLESSED !!! it’s like one of the only active asp blogs i know of and i couldn’t ask for more to be honest???