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[mertgraves]

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☼ - appearance headcanon

Mert is hyper protective and proud of their hair. They were never really allowed to grow it long, before they started school. Their father and the Graves side of the family were much more conservative during Merton’s youth than they are today, and they still didn’t understand why Mert wanted to grow it out so badly. 

[mertgraves]

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❣: Describe a way that will earn affection (whether platonic or romantic) from them.

Compliments. There’s nothing Mert loves more than other people loving them. The one sure fire way to make them melt and adore you is to compliment them on something –– it really doesn’t matter what it is, even the most trivial of comments will make them beam. 

[augustustheyounger]

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❤ : Describe a physical action that shows complete trust.

“Complete trust? Sounds fake…” A scoff. A pause played off as thoughtful. The question asks for too much honesty. He’s spent years making sure nothing gives away something so vulnerable. So maybe that’s the answer. Relaxing enough to not worry about what actions he takes, not having to calculate it, giving into instinct. He sees how friends act, casual shoulder touches, how partners act, so willing to give so much, to show weaknesses. Thoughts flash to the scars from the Vow, the way he hides them. 

“Guess I’m like a cat, like, if I show you my belly, you got my trust, except, like, not my stomach. I don’t care if you see my stomach or not. It’s a metaphor, you know what I mean?”

[tmtonks]

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♡ - romantic headcanon

Loving someone, to him, means nurturing. Sure, there are plenty of grand romantic gestures, and small, thoughtful moments, and he loves showing his affection in those cheesy, cliche ways, but what means the most to him is the mundane. He watched, as a child, as his father silently always had his mother’s favorite tea waiting for her when she came home from work, the gentle touches in passing conversation, the way she’d bring home an old, odd book she’d noticed in the library, because she knew he’d be interested. It was always so normal, and yet so beautiful. He hoped he’d be able to manage the same, someday. And it’s easy, he realized. It’s easy to care for someone when you love them so much, because they become a part of you. It became a lesson that he hadn’t realized his parents were teaching, until he had Andromeda, and he had the chance to care so wholly for someone else. Love is healthy when it’s equal; when you realize how easy it is to love someone else, you realize how easy it is to love yourself, too.