Ryland Grace- Tickle Headcanons
Lee headcanons
He wasn’t really tickled very much as a kid, and he certainly hasn’t experienced it much as an adult, so it isn’t until you come around that it becomes a common occurrence for him.
He doesn’t know what to think of it. The first time you got him, it was an accident. You were carding your fingers through his hair, and your nails grazed his ear. He jumped near out of his skin.
Definitely 100% absolutely ticklish in “weird places”.
Ears? Ticklish. Palms? Ticklish. Shoulders? Tops of his feet? The bend of his elbow? All stupidly ticklish.
In fact, one of his really bad spots is his biceps, especially if you get him pinned down really good. Just tracing your nails oh so gently from his elbow to his armpit is enough to have him a giggling mess.
Poor guy cannot at all tolerate being teased, especially if there’s any sort of praise involved. He’s so awkward about compliments, he short circuits every time you call him cute or talk about how pretty his laugh is.
He doesn’t handle anticipation very well at all. He’s very cocky up until he knows he has no way out of it. Smartass remarks very quickly turn into half-assed bargaining points. Once he’s pinned down, it’s just a mess of rambling and poor attempts to convince you to let him go.
Chronic lip biter. He’ll do everything in his power to fight back giggles and hide his smile. Not that he does a very good job of that but he does try.
“Hey, w-wait— hold on! Can’t we talk about this?”
No.
Absolute worst spots for this guy are his ribs and hips, but his thighs are definitely an honorable mention.
Incredibly susceptible to kneading and squeezing, but if you have long nails, spidering and clawing at his ribs will break him.
Loud as hell.
He’s very grumbly at the beginning because he’s actively straining to force himself not to laugh. He growls and huffs and tries to act all angry, but that never lasts more than about 30 seconds before he’s a cackling mess.
Baby talk and fake pity don’t really work on him. It definitely gets under his skin a little, but because he begs and barters with you so much, the worst thing you can do to him is ignore him, or pretend you didn’t hear/understand what he said.
He doesn’t have a problem saying the word or generally talking about tickling, but he will NOT tell you he’s a in a lee mood.
Not that it matters, it’s blatantly obvious when he’s in a lee mood. He gets way more energetic, and significantly more sassy than usual.
Rocky has in fact told on him for being in a lee mood (more on this further down), to which Ryland responded by teaching Rocky the word “snitch”.
I cannot stress enough how easily he breaks, and you can always tell when he’s just about reached his limit because loud cackles turn to weak, desperate, breathless laughter riddled with pleas and apologies.
Aftercare is always the same for him. He likes to lay his head in your lap while you comb your fingers through his hair, and he’s always left with this big dopey grin and his eyes glazed over, pupils blown out like saucers.
Ler Headcanons
This man is a mean ler.
He loves tickling you.
If he’s working on something or researching in the lab, he’ll hold you in his lap and tickle you with one hand while the other stays busy with the task at hand.
“Can you stop squirming? I’m trying to focus.”, and then he’ll tickle a worse spot on purpose specifically so he can punish you for “distracting him”.
Begging gets you nowhere.
“Please? Please what? Please stop? Mmm no.”
You remember the fake pity that I mentioned doesn’t really work on him? Yeah. That’s because he’s using it all on YOU.
“Aww it tickles? Yeah? Poor thing. Too bad you can’t get away, huh?”
This man absolutely loves a chase, and he has never been above calling himself the tickle monster.
Gets stupidly into the role. Growling and manhandling you and biting. Never enough to hurt, but enough that it tickles like crazy.
He’s very aware of the power of his stubble, and he uses said power very liberally.
Pretends he’s gonna let you go/lets you think you’ve escaped just to drag you back by your ankle when you start to crawl away from him.
Taught Rocky all about ler moods and lee moods and tickling in general because Rocky once found Ryland tickling you to absolute pieces and freaked out.
“Grace! Let go! They ask you to let go!”
So Ryland stopped just long enough to explain to Rocky that he wasn’t hurting you.
“Why you keep going when Grace mate say they not like tickling, question?”
“Because they’re a liiiiar!”
He proceeded to use you to demonstrate to Rocky all the different spots a human can be ticklish, along with different ways a human can be tickled.
He has never crossed the limit or made you use your safeword, but he sure knows how to get close, and he’ll intentionally make sudden movements long after he’s done just to watch you get all giggly and jumpy and nervous over nothing.
He absolutely pins you down just to hover and wiggle his fingers over one particular spot
“What’s wrong? I’m not doing anything.”
Just mean for no good reason.
Asked Rocky to make him a set of those claw rings, and told Rocky they were a present for you.
Quizzes you with science questions while he tickles you.
Tickles you more if you get them wrong/can’t answer them.
“You’re not taking this very seriously. This is very important information and you’re laughing.”
I have many many more thoughts about Ryland Grace, but I’ll leave it there for now.
