MLQC Headcannons
Dating and Taking Photos
Masterlist
Kiro:
Would sneak photos of you when you do something especially adorable, or silly. This could be when you sneeze. Or when you make a pouty face at the last ice cream being sold and you're one too late. Or, that one time you had a catkin land on your face and - the image of you between a sneeze and scrunching your nose. The photo was too freaking adorable not to have permanently as a homescreen or your profile photo for a week year. He ingores you forcing him to change it, a cheeky smile and will raise the phone away if you ever try to. He would consider changing it when you two are married - and it will be the goofy photo of you two at the wedding.
He especially loves taking photos of you being at home in his bed when you don't notice he's come back from grabbing a horde snacks for a movie marathon. You're on your phone, flung over his bed with a pillow under your chin. Your legs are splayed like a kid and kicking the air, waiting for the commercial to end.
His has a whole folder named "Miss Chip's Chip's" dedicated to you eating your favourite foods. He keeps the folder a secret so when he's away, he's reminded of the times of when you two met once again in the silly little store, and his life changed forever.
He is absolutely pleased to take photos on your phone, and leave stupid selfies to remind you of him when you open up your camera roll.
The amount of times he sends you a mugshot of yourself after a date is unreal.
"Look what I spied this morning, a stray Miss Chips waiting for her Kiro (˘³˘)♥︎"
You roll your eyes, but can't stop a blush.
Best replies are when you send a photo of yourself to him when he's away on tour. He's there for the instant Miss Chips dopamine hit, whether or not he's busy in the middle of a shoot. Savin has to put Kiro's phone on silent so it doesn't interrupt with the new music video.
Kiro pouts when you don't send a photo of you and only of your surroundings "But where is my Miss Chips?! She has to be there (つ .•́ _ʖ •̀.)つ"
You sigh, and find yourself poking your tongue out cheekily in front of an ice cream shop. Kiro is jealous and asks you to deliver some to him. If you can, you bring some of the snack home with you, so he can devour it as he enters the front door. Other times you tease him completely and he teases you right back when a limited edition of your favourite sweet appears as a photo with a line of text "Guess what, I found a limited edition of this! I can't wait to eat it ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ and it's all mine!"
"Noo!! Bring some home for me! (ᗒᗣᗕ)՞ Please I'll do anything..."
"Ask and you shall recieve and will pay a heavy price... A Kiro bear hug!"
Victor:
He secretly enjoys seeing photos of your day and life - even if his replies are sarcastic and blunt
"You do realise that having three coffees spanning the hours of the morning won't make work go faster, dummy."
"Is that a report I see lying unfinished on your sofa?"
"..."
"You're not eating that. Come to Souvenir in an hour and throw that shallow imitation of nutrition away." "It's only microwavable noodles Victor." "It is heart disease in a container. Throw. It away."
You follow his instructions while also making a silent mockery of his comments.
He wouldn't take pictures of setting up a romantic evening in Souvenir, but he will definitely take a photo of you in it, - at least, only if you ask (persuade) him to and he wasn't waiting to be asked, no of course not.
*Sighs* "Fine, if you want me to."
"Come here then, dummy. I won't wait all day." *He moves to the side, allowing you to tuck into him the camera's frame.*
He allows you to take pictures of new Souvenir dishes for your review, begrudgingly.
There are more times that he wished he could capture you in a photo, like you walking out of a changing room in a beautiful red dress - spinning like a giddy unbalanced ballerina. Or the time you two end up at the Opera, when you are on his arm like the woman he wanted to marry. It was definitely the time you first walked out of the doors in a bikini. He had to push aside the trembling anticipation and guardedness of other people seeing what he wanted most in the world, and cursing himself for never a photographic memory. That feeling could never compare to an actual photo.
He likes the feeling of having you on his phone, like an odd feeling of security. He pretends that it's really just ensuring his investment wasn't being a dummy and putting herself in danger unnecessarily. You still did.
You replying to his "Where are you, the press release is starting in fifteen minutes." with a simple photo of you in a taxi will cause his heart to stutter, and he still doesn't know why knowing you would be face to face soon would give him palpitations!
It was because of the fear of you being late to your own press release was the issue, after all. If he had to clear up the political headache of you being late, was the main concern. Nothing else.
Still, he watches like a hawk when you get out of the taxi unscathed, on the correct side of the road - and his familiar bark of "You're late" would look completely thunderous to anyone else, bar the concern rapidly beating in his heart.
But you just shake your head, chuckling, "Victor, your late is everyone's early. I still have plenty of time."
He grunts, for once allowing the dummy to walk ahead, following closely behind.
-him having concern over her being 'on time' fools no one, Victor
Gavin:
He was the one who first saw you take a photo at school, taking pictures with your few friends. Once, in the music room where the world sometimes felt the safest place to go. He'd always wanted to take a photo of you in school. But never quite had the chance, courage or conscience to do so. He also throttled Minor when he eagerly offered to get on of you on the sly. "Don't be a creep, idiot."
He had wanted to see you when you went to prom or summer dance, had wished to be the one you went with, to have the moment of meeting your father and having a framed picture in your hallway - a night that would never be forgotten.
Fate had other plans.
Now, his phone is filled with places you've been together, like the lodge in the summer - that night when it was just the two of you, a lake and the stars. There was a snapshot of STF retreat and the boat, of you two on the forest trail or that bar Minor always loved to drag the company to for karaoke. It was you with your hair loose and wavy, a little pink blush, gazing up at Gavin as if it was the first time he'd asked you to be his girlfriend. You had forgotten after several rounds of drinks that you even had a boyfriend. You were remarkably excited to see what a loyal, dutiful, sweetheart you had captured and wanted to tell your dad.
Minor still teases you about that, until you threaten more work on him in recompense.
He gets the most excited responsive when you send him pictures of you on your way home, knowing he's the one who will get you in his arms eminently. It just sends a quiet, reassuring peace through him. It most likely will be the thing that motivates him to shower again before you get home. He just loves when you run your fingers through his hair as it dries.
He loves it when you two do couples activities together, like going to do a run together, and taking a photo after you both complete it, like a record of achievement.
He probably hates and loves it the most when you send spicy pictures when he's away, or when he's on his way home. The fact he can't have you right then and there almost destroys him. Finding him in a state of utter disarray when you come back is the first thing you see, until he's suddenly making you come undone in his arms, just to release the need in him. You don't do it often unless you can take your time getting up on the morning, and being able to walk slowly. Otherwise, work gets compromised.
Gavin is at once apologetic and yet a small part is relieved - if he can still make you loose your mind half as much as you make him loose his own, he's still worthy of being yours.
His homescreen is of soley you, and he can't remember when he took it, such a candid beautiful photo should have the memory attached, but it doesn't matter, as long as he could stay in your heart forever, as you did for him.
Your photo profile photo of him is one with him in the starlight, holding out his hand to you.
Your phone background is of you two together in the sky, both of you held the phone screen together - Gavin worried that you might drop it -, as you took a photo with the blue backdrop behind you. The photo with you kissing in the sky got deleted by accident, when your thumb slipped.
Gavin still mourns the fact he never could get that photo of you. He is determined that one day, you'd recreate it. He also wants to take you back to the Ferris Wheel and take a photo of you there too, this time, one of him kissing you.
Lucien:
He definitely surprises you the most when it comes to take a photo - it's never quite when you expect it - and you can feel a flimsy excuse failing to get out (when in public). As you got further into your relationship, allowing him to take the lead in photography got easier, less flustering. Like it truly was merely a way to bond, to know you two have something shared, together.
He knows a lot more on how to use scientific terminology than you do, despite you having worked with cameras and film for being a producer. But it allows you two to converse a bit more technically when discussing films and film history together! It can feel like a real bonding experience when you two take a photo of a landscape, together and separately. He enjoys comparing different understandings of the same thing, especially with you.
He will have many pictures of you sleeping, he can't just help it when you sleep beside him looking that cute and being completely unaware. Considering he sleeps only a little, and his favourite subject is you, it's hard to resist cataloguing each and every moment.
He's quite sly at ubiquitous photos, and he enjoys it when you look through his phone gallery and seeing you become increasingly flustered and indignant at the positions he photographs you in.
"You can't keep that one! My hair - it's terrible, I'm deleting it!"
*Sighs* "That's a shame. I think you're very cute here. I rather like it." his reply is smooth, and only makes you become more flustered, and duck your head into him.
"Stop it, you're making me blush!"
He laughs, nose nudging you with soft resignation. His finger hovers over delete -
"Wait, don't do it - if you like it, keep it." comes your muffled voice, peeking out.
"Are you sure butterfly? I don't want you to be embarrassed. I simply so enjoy taking photos of things I find beautiful."
"I'm not a thing." your voice pouts.
"No? No, you're my beautiful little fool, aren't you?" his breath tickles your ear.
"I'm not a fool either!" you glare at him, and before you realise it, he grins, a teasing one that only riles you further, that makes you grin and you push him back, falling onto his chest and guilty laughter falls from your lips.
"You - . You distracted me, didn't you?"
His lips curve, "Did it work?"
You smack his chest lightly in delighted exasperation, and press your head under the warm nook of his chin.
"Yes. And -" you pause, staring at the bark of the camphor tree with a small smile of wonder, "I'm glad you think I'm beautiful, too."
Lucien gently thumbs away a fallen strand against your cheek, voice rasping just slightly, "I'll always love you, through the beautiful and the mundane. For you make everything beautiful, in your own way. And I'll always want to keep that safe."
You close your eyes, holding in the words, and know that loving him was a journey you'd undertake a thousand times, just to keep him safe, too.
(Lucien will definitely be one to adore have NSFW pictures of you, and at one point in your relationship, he would do an experiement hoping to ask. It's more about intimacy and trust in a way, having you there in a very tangible moment that would be hard to forget or untangle, when the doubts and the guilt would creep in, or when the hunger to cage you in wouldn't go away, knowing that you would feel so safe with him, knowing that you would trust him to keep you safe - it helps him.)
He finds the photo albums of you and him filling a hole he had inside, each one a year he was replacing with something beautiful, rather than dark, unwholesome and most of all - ugly. It wasn't just a catalogue, it was belief. A hope for your future, together, two people like everyone else in the world. If he ever became untethered, the photo albums would be the first thing he'd thumb through and remember what exactly tied him there in the first place.
Okay!! I found myself going into more detail in circumstances sometimes haha - sometimes it's hard to keep track when it unfolds so nicely! I appreciate every other person's headcannons for these guys - they're so gorgeous and fun and help me! Anyone would be so lucky to have any one of these men.
(I mean, besides the Lucien thing. We're just going to ignore that.)
Feel free to request! :D *waves hello*
