#rahim hcs

[hopeshoodie]

One of the things that bothers me about Rocco is not hid flirting but the fact that he gets mad if mc flirts (this also applies to rahim which is why I didn't like him much even before choosing jo instead of Shannon) but I think Rocco is interesting and I'd have liked him as like a friend in the game

Ok that's pretty valid. Maybe I just haven't been choosing the right options to see that side of him? I tend to replay the same game over and over again because making 'bad' (re: different from my impulsive choice) Feels Bad.

In Rahim's case I know he does that because been there, done that. But in his defense, it's in line with his character and not super hypocritical.

Rahim's an insecure, quiet dude. It makes sense that he'd feel threatened by his girl flirting with someone else. Plus if you've played his route all the way through, you know he doesn't have a sense of humor and takes everything super serious. So even MC play flirting is a big deal for him.

Also he doesn't do a lot of flirting himself. Yeah he makes some ham fisted comments towards Priya, but it's not like he really cracks on in the way Rocco does. I don't think he's hypocritical by being sensitive of MC making suggestive comments.

But I totally agree, Rocco was an interesting character and him staying in the villa longer (or cough cough coming back for a redemption arc) wouldve been interesting

[hopeshoodie]

How do you think the og boys would handle jealousy?

ok so @bobbysapron is doing an amazing series of asks about jealousy and I love literally all of them, they’re so good, and literally everything they post is so good. 

But if I had to conjecture- (also I see your ‘OG boys’ and raise you to ‘the LIs I actually care about’)

Bobby-

He deals with it internally (check my masterlist for more hcs about that because I’ve talked about it quite a bit) but if he’s feeling especially jealous and bitter he’ll handle it by being passive-aggressive. I forget who (reply and I’ll tag you!!) said that Bobby would make comments like “man that guy has a punchable face”, but literally that. If MC has close guy friends, he’ll always be trying cut them down with a subtle “He seems like... REALLY into himself” or “I feel bad for that guy’s future wife”. It’s shady and shitty and would especially bother me, but it’s what he’d do imo

Carl-

He’d get over it by flexing. He doesn’t even realize he’s doing it, but if he’s feeling jealous about a specific guy he’ll buy MC a new dress/earrings and encourage her to wear it around him, or dress extra nice (which for Carl means googling ‘Mens Fashion’ and copying a look verbatim). His emotional permanence is like 2 days, though, so he gets over it really quickly even if MC doesn’t reassure him because he forgets that he was upset and also reasons ‘but she’s coming home with me’. 

I just really don’t think Henrik gets jealous. He definitely can have his feelings hurt if MC’s violating his trust, but it never manifests in possessiveness or jealousy. 

Rahim-

He bottles it up until he’s really worked up about it, then blames MC. He’ll keep an internal log of ‘she touched his shoulder’ ‘she laughed at his joke for a little too long’ ‘she smiled at him x many times’ and throw it in her face if/when they argue about it. He also wants to flex, but unlike Carl he doesn’t do it reactively. Instead, he’ll just loudly and obnoxiously boast about buying MC jewels/vacations/cars as if that gives him ownership or something. Luckily he doesn’t get jealous very often, only when a guy is very clearly pursuing MC.

Lucas-

Most of his jealousy gets funneled into possessiveness and sexy stuff. He’s really turned on by his girl being ogled by other men, and really only gets properly jealous if MC is actively flirting with someone else. If he is feeling jealous, he broods about it for a while before dramatically giving MC an ultimatum. Of course she picks him and they have pretty forceful makeup sex. 

Marisol-

She gets horribly jealous when she feels upstaged or threatened (which isn’t super often because she rightfully knows that she’s a catch) and it manifests in her either being super bratty or trying to make MC jealous in return.  If it’s the first one, she’ll pout a lot and if MC asks what’s up she’ll insist “nothing!” and still be really fussy towards MC. Then, if pressed, she’ll devolve into crying that “I feel like you don’t care about me.” If it’s not that (which let’s be honest, she gets that way if she’s jealous of a woman, if she’s jealous of a man it’ll be this second way), she tries to make MC jealous.

Noah-

I don’t think he gets jealous often if at all. If he does, like Bobby, it’s all channeled inwards and it’s about blaming himself for his failings. He’ll absolutely punish himself if MC is spending a lot of time with a handsome, smart, funny guy. 

[hopeshoodie]

Can’t stop thinking about S3 completely the same, but Ibrahim is an islander. Can you IMAGINE. Him looking into the camera like it’s the office and constantly being like ‘shiny demon, hide and seek, what the hell are these people talking about’

[hopeshoodie]

Rlly random, but I went painballing last week right? And i got these bruises on my chest that looked like hickeys and I was constantly worried that my boyfriend would see them and think I cheated💀 (he didn’t haha) but so last night I dreamt that Bobby was my boyfriend and he did notice the bruises and thought they were hickeys, but I woke up before it got any further😭 Do you have any ideas of what his reaction might’ve been??

I feel like Bobby would be super chill about it? Like you would be brushing your teeth in your PJ’s and he would walk up behind you and gently trace the bruises, looking up at you in the mirror and asking “you okay?” If you explained it was paintball he would 100% believe you and that would be the end of it. I don’t even think it’d be too much of a hit to his confidence, because he’s not the one to obsess that you’re cheating on him unless you give him very clear evidence. If you were coming home late all the time and not kissing his as much, then the bruises might be more significant. 

On the other hand, I think Lucas and Rahim would be SUPER insecure about the bruises and not believe you if you insist it was paintball. Lucas would get really possessive, and Rahim would just get really quiet and sad.

I feel like most of the other LIs would react similarly to Bobby. Except Marisol- she’d 100% be butthurt that you didn’t invite her to paintball.

[hopeshoodie]

This might be a controversial opinion, but I don't blame Rahim for picking Jo over Shannon.

Obviously the first thing is that it doesnt matter how absolutely gorgeous Shannon is, if he wasn't feeling a spark then he clearly wasn't going to stay with her out of obligation. Shannon hadn't been with him long enough for him to feel guilty leaving her.

And the way Shannon talked about Rahim? Like he was a prize and she was strategizing by 'going all in on him'? Doesn't really seem like she thought they had a super intense connection.

And finally Rahim is nonconfrontational. Instead of going directly to him to ask about the kiss, Shannon argued with and attacked Jo. That makes Jo look like the victim. Of course Rahim's going to side with 'the victim' instead of the person who seemingly is causing problems.

[hopeshoodie]

What do you think the s2 lis' relationships with their families is like?

Henrik:

So I can’t find the post where I said it, but I have this whole elaborate headcanon for Henrik’s family- basically his parents are both teachers and he’s an only child, so growing up he was really close to both his parents and all of their coworkers at their school. He never really went through the rebellious phase because his parents were so important to him and he didn’t have a whole lot of friends, so to this day his relationship with them is unchallenging and really healthy. It doesn’t hurt that they’re both really humble, kind, thoughtful people. He either doesn’t have or doesn’t see his extended family often, so it’s pretty much just him and his mom and dad. Their marriage has always been really healthy and loving, so they really set the bar for what a good relationship is in his mind. 

Lucas:

This is pretty widely accepted fanon, but Lucas has a bad relationship with his parents. He grew up REALLY wealthy, which meant that his parents were hardly ever around and he was raised by nannies and private (boarding) schools. As an adult, his parents very much think they did a good job and expect him to be the model son, which pissed Lucas off to no end- how are you going to sit across the table from me and say you love me when you literally don’t know me? They have a lot of Thoughts (™) about what Lucas should be doing, and for the most part he’s pretty in line with those, but they definitely are very judgemental when he doesn’t. They definitely had some very cold, dismissive things to say about him going on Love Island, which drives a bigger wedge between them if Lucas meets The One (MC or Hope) there. His family is way more judgmental of MC than they are of Hope (assuming your MC is like Sveta and not some crazy rich successful kind of girl)

Marisol:

Marisol has a pretty amicable relationship to her parents and her two sisters. Her parents divorced after their youngest daughter left for college, and I don’t think it was really that traumatic for anyone- her parents were very ambivalent to each other and her mom wasn’t around a whole lot, so it wasn’t that surprising or contentious. Marisol’s always been closer to her dad anyways. Growing up, they definitely set very high expectations for all the sisters, and one of Marisol’s driving motivations was making her parents proud. I think Marisol is going to outgrow her relationship with her dad a bit after college- he’s the one who taught her that politics and debate is about the sake of arguing well (and not necessarily the outcome). He taught her to value appearance and decorum over facts and that prestige is more important than day to day reality. He really pushed her to go into private criminal defense law, and when she realized that doesn’t make her happy she felt like she was disappointing him. But once she settles in with her wife and starts getting over the competition of school and constant posturing, she starts getting more disillusioned by her dad’s personality. AND she starts moving left politically, whereas her parents were definitely centrist leaning tories. The never have a formal conversation about it, but suddenly there’s tension there. 

Noah:

I wrote a whole fic about it, but Noah is SO close to his parents and siblings. He’s the oldest, and he dotes on his 3-4 younger siblings. He’s a huge momma’s boy, and an even bigger ride or die older brother. 

Rahim: 

I don’t think he has any problems with his parents or sibling (I picture him as having one older brother), but there’s definitely some distance there. It’s either on his end, feeling uncomfortable being emotionally vulnerable, or his father’s end for the same reason. Their family was always big on discipline and restraint growing up- the kids were taught to be quiet and tidy- but not big on mental and emotional support. For some reason I have this headcanon that anxiety or ADHD runs in their family, but everyone refuses to acknowledge it and it’s treated as a moral failing- the uncle who was open about it is seen as a ‘failure’ and everyone else refuses to acknowledge it’s hereditary. Rahim was always really afraid to talk about his issues growing up, and still won’t.

[hopeshoodie]

How do you think each S2 love interest would react to losing their headphones/earbuds? I just experienced it myself and the panic was real 🥴 even though I found them in like 5 seconds

Is this a big thing?? I never realized this was a thing?? Granted, I don’t use earbuds or headphones because anything in or around my ears gives me bad sensory issues, but I’ve never considered that losing headphones could be a big deal? Is it because they’re expensive, or just the prospect of not having them?

I think Carl, Hope, and Rahim would be the most stressed about losing their headphones. 

Carl because he has a really expensive noise cancelling pair and as any autistic person knows, comfort items are a thing. He wouldn’t be able to just ‘buy a new pair’, because his pair fits perfectly and just IS what he uses. I can’t explain it better than that, but I get that way about my water bottles. 

Rahim would hate the perspective of listening to things out loud, the idea that other people perceive him and might judge him for what he’s listening to is mortifying. It’s not so much the prospect of losing a specific pair, just that he might have to listen to something out loud. Also he probably has specific earbuds he uses for working out and practicing, so losing those would be super frustrating (what’d he gonna do, work out in silence???)

I can see Hope always having her earbuds in when she goes place to place, and being pissed if she had to ride the subway/walk somewhere without them. She doesn’t NEED to be listening to anything, but she does use it as a ‘don’t interact with me’ signal.

Lucas would probably be mildly irritating at losing them, only in that he buys super expensive earbuds and replacing them is a bit of a hassle. 

I think Bobby and Chelsea would be the least stressed at losing their earbuds.

Chelsea because if she’s not distracted with a podcast/music/video, that’s fine she can just zone out for however long needed. Also I don’t think she sees anything wrong with playing stuff out loud- if she needs to listen to a short video or play music in her office she’ll just do it. I don’t think she even considers that it might be rude.

Bobby is a chaos demon and he has like 8 pairs of earbuds, some working and some not. He’s got a pair under his bed, in his car, in his bag, and loses them frequently enough where he’s not concerned when it happens.

[hopeshoodie]

a Jo tantrum would inevitably drag in Ibrahim and he’d just try and explain calmly while she was screaming about how attracted she is to him, right? And he’s just blushing and muttering “I’m sorry, she’s had a bad day” and trying to get Jo to leave. and it’s even worse if the person that hit on her actually stands up for themselves, then Rahim has to reassure her that she is truly 100% heterosexual and that the other person’s at fault, not Jo for being the most stereotypical lesbian imaginable.

This whole scenario is triggering my fight or flight respong oml. It's spot on, but uhhhhh I feel unsafe lmfao.

Jo will periodically go on tirades about how it's unfair that lesbians 'steal having short hair and tattoos' and 'why do they want to look like men so bad if they hate men'. She'll get really pissy about how "why are all the women in BMX d*kes?!".

Lowkey I think Rahim's one of those "I'm okay with gay people I just don't want to see that... lifestyle in my face", so while he doesn't feed into it he definitely doesn't discourage her thinking.