#smallishbeans headcanons

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i am sick again (i stg its the weather patterns here or smth bc when i lived in a different climate for 4 yrs, I HARDLY EVER GOT SICK!!!! i still mask everywhere !!!! wtf!!!) so naturally i am thinking abt my blorbos…

watching older joel and etho content has me feeling so many things

JOEL BUILDING THEM A BOAT TO LIVE IN,,,, IN DOUBLE LIFE

and etho being so encouraging yet still teasing to joel the entire time. it was so endearing ngl lmaoo

i havent seen either of their newest episodes of current hc but i have seen a handful of things abt it 💀 oh maaaaaan etho is leaning into the “little shit” part of their dynamic so hard its so funny

it also all has me thinking abt head canons n stuff… so heres some of those heh

-etho comes down w a cold and hes miserable but trying rly hard not to show it, n joel comes in n makes him some food n gets him some warm towels and makes sure he knows hes allowed to take a rest now n then, especially when sick

-etho is not a menthol enjoyer, but joel loves it. he loves vapo rub and menthol cough drops/tea, and it used to make etho nauseous, but he’s slowly beginning to enjoy the smell of it bc it reminds him of joel, but more specifically whiny sick joel who’s very needy

-OH YEAH. joel is so the type to be extra whiny and needy when he’s sick, whereas etho is the opposite. he pretends hes fine until hes literally collapsing lmfao he could have a high grade fever and still insist he can keep working lmfao meanwhile the millisecond joel feels slightly under the weather he’s whining about it and basically throwing himself at etho to take care of him

-i like tho think that gem would stop by with some sick care package stuff if both of them were to get sick, like soup and meds but also comfort stuff as well like snacks, media to watch, maybe a handmade blanket too heh

-etho is immunocompromised teehee so anytime joel gets sick, etho ends up getting sick 2x as hard, thats also why he masks all the time!!!!!!!! but sometimes the sickies r just unavoidable ough

anyway yeah idk what this is i feel feverish and delirious even tho the dr said i had a normal temp this afternoon hope u enjoyed these potentially incorherent smalletho/boat boys ramblings

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c!joel is so very not cisgender man to me. im Thinking and theres so many possibilities,,, you don't understand,,

i think in my mcyteu, where he comes from mezelea, in her first language/culture gender and sex are just like. different. theres so many species there that dont fit into the same categories of male/female or the same categories as each other that sex has very little cultural impact beyond literally who you're having sex with.

gender, however, is a whole other thing. there are like. seven or so 'accepted' genders (meaning. accepted the same way man/woman are in this culture) and a ton more less widely identified with genders, pronouns too i either want to go with no gendered pronouns or a ton of different pronouns with different like situational uses on top of being linked to gender, im not quite sure yet.

i wont get super into that here because i dont want to but like point is, when joel first learnt english (common? whatever we're calling the language they all speak to each other with) he didn't quite understand the whole concept of it and just rolled with what other people called her, which, due to being a bearded vulture hybrid and having a beard (despite all lammergeier hybrids having beards), was usually he/him.

obviously as they got older and got a better grasp on the language and culture outside of mezalea, he got a better understanding of gender, but due to there not really being an equivalent to her gender and pronouns he just doesn't really care. doesn't bother telling people he uses all pronouns unless they ask

Human/bad dads au i think hes intersex, although genuinely i dont know enough about intersex like relationships with gender and stuff like that to develop this one fully yet, but im currently doing my research and ill get back ti you on this one. though i do think he uses majority masc things like dad/boys ext. the majority of the time

i have a hundred thousand aus and they're all overlapping but different, but those are the two ive been rotating in my mind the most. i think generally though joel is something close to agender, where its a bit situational? like usually its masc presenting masc pronouns but with some people its more fem/androgynous?? if that makes sense?? never fully a man or a woman but sometimes a bad boy sometimes a butch lesbian you know she's flexible. so maybe genderflux? but like chill about it she doesn't care that much