Hi, me again. What burning headcanons do you have buried inside you that you haven't had the chance to share yet?
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this question is the greatest amazingest (ik that’s not a word) question you could’ve asked me. now i get to release this into the world laughs evilly.
first i will dump my kaider head canons (also the only ones i have)
1. kai calls cinder by many pet names, we know love/ my love, but also dear/ my dear/ darling, sweetheart, my dove, etc etc and she starts to do the same
2. au-wise, they have three kids (2 girls, 1 boy), canon-wise they have one son and one daughter. in both cases they work HARD for their first child, and the rest come by surprise (they're a bit fustrated). they name their daughter(s) after flowers and kai calls them 'his boquet'. like when he introduces them to new people he says, "and this is my boquet, my girls". he does this more when they're younger.
3. cinder ADORES his hair, like she could run her fingers through it for hours. it's like therapeutic to her. when he finds this out, he purposely buys better products to keep his hair silky and clean. also, he likes the feeling.
4. they refuse to not eat together. now, not in a possesive/obsessive way, nor all the time (they snack on their own ofc) but, maybe because they've been seperated for so long, they'll go looking for the other if they're not at the dining table. or just not eat until the other comes. they don't explicitly say "IM NOT EATING UNTIL MY SPOUSE GETS HERE" but they just sit and wait, and wait, and wait, until they get confirmation that the other is coming or can't eat at that moment.
5. when cinder started living at the palace, before they got married, they wanted to see how long they can before sleeping in each others rooms. the longest record was thirteen days... which was conveniently also when kai got sick and was under strict quarantine...
6. kai sometimes just drops himself into cinder. he just sees her and plops. she can tell when he's going to do it, there's a look on his face. usually it's after long meetings or when he's particularly stressed, but it can also happen when he's happy and just wants to melt into cinder. it's a little weird. but it's their weird thing. they're weird people, i don't thinl enough people know this.
7. KAI IS A BIG NERD/DORK/BRAT/ETC. he is that one humble rich kid that you can tell is well-intentioned but can come across as priveledged and spoiled and you can't help but notice it and you also wish you had his money so you could buy all the collectibles he has. cinder knows this AND calls him out for it. constantly. once, and only once, has it ended in a fight. but, usually, it's her main way of teasing him.
8. ok more abt the kid thing/ kids part 2: this one splits on the assumption of whether kai has infertility issues or not. i usually think he does, but sometimes i feel bad and keep him happy. if he does, they have two kids, peony and rikan. if he doesn’t, they have a third child called celeste who they nickname poppy. peony is the “girliest” in the sense that she likes shopping and dolling up and pink. her and iko are best friends. cinder sometimes wonder if peony is peony linh reincarnated because they’re so alike. but this peony is different. this peony is a hard-core perfectionist. everybody calls rikan riki, only peony and poppy call him hyacinth to have a ‘flower named sibling trio’. anyway, he’s the black sheep of the family. he’s the talk of the tabloids, involved in many scandals, he likes to party and hang out with pretty women. he has some turbulence with his father mostly because rikan is nothing like kai but the public expect him to be like kai. he has a dark era but eventually grows out of it. he falls in love with michelle (wolflet’s kid) and it’s my favorite gen 2 romance. if kai has infertility issues, ignore everything i say about poppy. poppy is cinder’s brains with kai’s finesse but with jacin’s nonchalantness. she keeps to herself, she’s overly blunt, and definitely neurodivergent. she doesn’t mind dressing up for occasions, and she also doesn’t not care about what she wears. peony and iko take turns styling her and she becomes some sort of a fashion icon. she’s good at everything. not in a “i have to be good at everything” kind of way (like peony). she’s just naturally talented. she’s one of those people who can sing, dance, draw, know jiu jitsu, draw a bow, shoot a gun, write, talk, etc. very well. and she just shrugs it off. my QUEEN. she has a passion for journalism, which is ironic because she hates the press. she’s frustrated with the media because they would make things not what they seem. she wants the TRUTH out there. she hates liars. she has actually has a romance with a nerdy journalist who’s VERY BERY into her and flirts with her all the time. she doesn’t realize into later that he likes her like that, and it takes her even longer to to realize she loves him back. they’re SO cute. he wears glasses.
9. they switch who’s big spoon vs little spoon based on who’s more tired. usually, cinder ends up the little spoon because kai likes holding her. but that guy loved to be held as well.
10. kai’s mom’s name is camellia. this is why he likes the flower names so much. they almost named peony camellia actually.
ok i have like hundreds more but it’s been a year and i forgot about this so i’m going to post it now. hope you like it. and THANK YOU for asking me this.