Some ralvez headcanons to end the day:
Spencer has a tv at his house but you can only watch VHS and CDs on it. So the first time he stays the night at Luke's, he's like "oh you have cable." Luke wakes up alone in bed. He walks into the living room to find Spencer sitting on the floor watching blue's clues (the old school one with Steve) or some other kid cartoon.
Luke can't pick a love language. He loves to hug and compliment Spencer. He loves to make him smile, whether it's a small grin or a wide open mouth smile. He loves paying attention to everything he does. And don't get me started on gifts! Chocolate, flowers, etc is what he gives him in the beginning. It overwhelms him at first. No one's ever been that way with Spencer. But then Luke gives him a stuffed animal and he loves it. Bows their bed is literally covered with stuffed animals bc he refuses to leave them all on the ground where they're at the mercy of Roxy.
And these stuffed animals are very much well thought of. Around Halloween they're Halloween themed. At Valentine's Day they're Valentine's Day themed. But in the summer, that's where he gets the ones he finds most interesting. He's gotten one of a toad, a chicken, a cow, a horse, you name it he probably has it.
Every Christmas they go to the Bronx to visit Luke's mom. Spencer never really has "been" to new york. Sure, they go every year for a case or two but he's never really been there as a tourist. Luke shows him all his favorite spots, they play in the snow, etc. Spencer's really proud at the Spanish he's able to speak, so is Luke. His mom can actually understand what he's trying to say. They stay at her apartment bc hotels in New York are expensive and when it starts snowing you cant go anywhere basically. They stay in Luke's old room and ofc there's banter about it. They drink coquito and Luke's mom tells Spencer stories about Luke's childhood and about her life. They pass down family traditions.
Luke doesn't like his other family too much so he tries his best to avoid him whenever he comes to town. They're really judgemental and he really doesn't want to hear about what they have to say on his autistic boyfriend.
If they get snowed in or they don't go to the Bronx for Christmas they stay inside all day with their fuzzy sweaters that Garcia knit them. They spend the whole day baking cookies and watching Christmas movies.
They also make sure to get Christmas pictures. I mean like, professional Christmas pictures. Ones where Roxy wears red bows in :)
Spencer gets a shit ton of gifts for Christmas it almost makes him uncomfortable. He gets books, puzzles, new clothes, fidget toys, new candles, new chess boards, and of course, stuffed animals. Spencer finds Luke incredibly hard to shop for but Luke doesn't mind and Spencer tries his best.
Luke has the gift of thinking that he's being super subtle when in reality he's being super obvious. He was like "hm. How do I hint to him that I want to move in together?" And then he just started stealing his shit. "Hey babe have you seen my toothbrush?" "TOOTHBRUSH? HMM IDK SPENCE. MAYBE WE SHOULD CHECK MY PLACE." "your place? Why tf would it be there?" "OH IDK-"
Luke loves Spencer's apartment tho. If they allowed dogs he probably would have moved in with him. He finds Spencer's apartment incredibly soothing. On their day off Luke asked him to hang out and he was like "yes! I'm finally gonna be in his apartment!! Victory for Luke Alvez!!" And then the second he walked in there he was like "whoa what is this book about?" And he spent the whole day just listening to Spencer explain all his things.
Spencer writes essay's on his spare time. Some of them he submits to colleges and research centers, some are for his own personal reasons, but he's wrote some just for fun. He notices how much Luke loves to hear him talk so he thinks "oh wow he must really like to learn!" So he prints out every analysis of every animation movie he's ever seen and gives it to Luke. Luke is amazed at this for many reasons and reads every last one of them.
When being with Derek, it was mainly the sports channel that kept him up. Derek was always trying to watch the games that he missed while on cases and he often got so sucked into them that he forgot Spencer was trying to sleep late at night. With Luke, it wasn't sports it was video games. It wasn't really that Luke was allowed during video games, it was often that everything else in the apartment was quiet and the tv being on 10 bothered him. But he'd often just grab his blanket and come to couch so he could watch Luke play.
If it's not video games, it the weekly novela. White people, they have book clubs. Spanish people? We have our telenovelas. Luke keeps up every week no matter what the case because he KNOWS that his mother is gonna call him and ask him about the show and if he says that he didn't watch it she'll be all dramatic. "¿Qué? ya no amas a tu madre?" "Mamá por favor, cálmate-" watching the telenovelas with Luke helped Spencer learn a lot of Spanish. Spencer has always secretly had a flair for dramatics (he only let this side of himself out with Emily) but he let it out with Luke while watching their shows. "Ay no Luke. ¡Ella NO solo se acostaba con su primo! tienes que estar bromeando, ¿qué pasa cuando se entera?"
Luke naturally is a goofball, he just didn't expect for Spencer to be such a goofball too. Spencer only really let that out when he was around Derek but it felt nice to let it out around Luke. Every weekend they would do something silly. Build a pillow fort and pretend that aliens where invading, try to bake things they've never made before without a recipe, sing with different accents as they slide across the hard wood floor in their socks, etc.
What Spencer loved to most about Luke was that he was a dreamer. He liked to dream about things that were impossible, dreaming about things he knew he'd never do. It was as if his mind was filled with wonder in the determination despite the fact that he had seen all that he seen in the world. They could literally stay up all night just because Luke kept asking him question after question like "what's the difference between hand soap and body?"
Luke sure did steal a bit of Spencer's personality. The more time he spent with him he started researching little questions that popped into his head. He started memorizing statistics of his own (yeah it was mainly to impress Spencer but he found it fun too.) He'd also start unconsciously copying the way Spencer talk and certain facial movements. The team comments on how he's starting to become more like him and Luke responds "you say that like it's a bad thing. I feel my brain expanding everyday i spend with him. I'm getting smarter :)"
Luke has a tendency for having no filter and being very with people he's close to. (Yes I'm saying neurodivergent luke alvez rights) he doesn't often realize that Spencer gets super tired at night. There's been many times where he's asked questions at the wrong time. Like when he layer upside down on their bed and asked Spencer if he wanted kids. Naturally, he got the reply of "it's 4:42 am go to bed Luke"
Luke's very open to trying new things. He's the first person who gets invited to Reid's and Penelope's "every Saturday hangout" (if you've seen my post on garceid headcanons you'd know what this is). It's a nice change of pace for Penelope and Spencer. They usually focus on each other but now they're like "how many things will Luke let us do?" Luke left Penelope's apartment that Saturday with black nails a skirt and lavender glitter eyeshadow.
They love to clean and bake together. Spencer loves healthy relationship feels like a fair trade-off. Spencer teaches Luke how to do some things and Luke teaches him how to do some things! (He taught Luke how to play chess. He's not very good at it.)
They get a house together eventually. They spend a shit ton of time on the landscaping bc Spencer wanted the outside of the house look a very particular sort of way. And Luke's not gonna deny his boyfriend that. Besides, he enjoyed seeing his scrawny boyfriend put his back into the yard work. There's probably a bench swing on the porch too.
I don't think either of them are opposed to being married but I can also see them just living their days out as being boyfriends forever.
Luke is super not judgemental and this makes it super easy for Spencer to open up to him. He probably tells him more secrets than he's told anyone on the team ever. He's very honest about how he used to be in love with Morgan and Luke doesn't judge him nor is he jealous.
When Luke sees Spencer with glasses for the first time he fuckin dies. He can't handle it. You will never meet someone as soft as Luke alvez.
Luke respects boundaries like crazy man. He has never not even ONCE joined Spencer for a shower bc Spencer didn't ask him to. It relieves Spencer a lot because in the past majority of his partners just did stuff without asking him about it first and he just had to pretend that he was okay with it. Like moving his shit around, or not putting the dirty dishes where they're supposed to be, for example.
They have inside jokes as well. The team has no idea what they're about but it just makes them smile.
