a few pynch headcanons for your consideration
when ronan first told adam that he loved him he realised pretty quickly that nobody had ever told him something like that before, so whenever adam and ronan are sleeping together, ronan makes sure to tell adam that he loves him, even if it’s late and they’re almost drifting off to sleep, ronan tells him anyway, and he clearly sees how adam, eyes closed and pretending to already be asleep, hears him every time and smiles softly at the words
ronan liking to see adam work as a mechanic and pretending to go to boyd’s to pick adam up when really all he wants to do is watch adam’s hands work gingerly at some engine replacement or perform diagnostic tests on vehicles and enjoy the smell of gasoline that permeates the room and will remain on adam’s skin for hours
ronan loving to run his hands through adam’s pillow-mussed hair and making them always worse and adam taking revenge by running his fingers at the base of ronan’s scalp, lightly brushing against his buzzed hair and making him shiver every single time
if they’re sleeping together there will always be a part of their bodies touching, even in the most swelteringly hot summer nights, be it a hand on a hip or a leg over another
whenever ronan is in a bad mood or his thoughts are going in a negative direction again, adam drags him to the bmw and lets ronan drive for hours wherever he wants to and lets him speed up and go over the limit, because he trusts ronan completely and he’s never afraid when he’s with him
when adam asks ronan out on their first official date he means for it to be something easy and informal, so he’s completely taken aback but extremely turned on when ronan, knowing that adam likes to seem him all dressed up, shows up in a suit and tie (no need to add that their date doesn’t last very long, because adam is too eager to get back to st. agnes and untie that perfectly knotted tie)
for a while adam and ronan start exchanging cassettes or cds with sappy love songs for their car time, never addressing it in their day-to-day life, until adam once accidentally leaves one of the cassettes in his player whilst driving with ronan and when the first song starts he can see ronan smirk thinly out of the corner of his eye
ronan knowing that adam has had few to none chances to pursue any hobbies, would make up for it by taking him to concerts with the excuse that he’s the one who wants to go and needs company, but adam is able call his bluff as soon as they get there because the music’s never ronan’s awful electronica, but rock or mainstream pop or folk or indie or anything ronan thinks adam might like because he wants adam to experience the whole thing
similarly, ronan downloads all kinds of movies on his laptop to watch on nights when adam isn’t working and he discovers that adam’s favourite genres are rom-coms and, much to ronan’s chagrin, horror films, which he finds totally frightening and can watch only by having adam hold his hand tightly during the whole time
ronan still gazing at adam’s chest adoringly and touching him with something like awe in his eyes when he undresses him and adam gently running his fingers on ronan’s arms and shoulders and neck before kissing him urgently, and both of them being generally unable to keep their hands off each other
adam’s favourite song about ronan and himself being ‘take on the world’ by you me at six, so whenever it comes on the radio and he hears the chorus, adam snakes his arms around ronan’s back and sings along the words to him, and just say the word, we’ll take on the world / just say you’re hurt, we’ll face the worst / nobody knows you, the way that i know you / look in my eyes, i will never desert you, and ronan, who knows the song by heart by now, continuing with and i am your future, i am your past / never forget that we were build to last / step out of the shadows and into my life / silence the voices that haunt your inside (okay, i’ll admit this is my fave song about pynch, but shh)