Kaider headcanons part 2
Part 1 is here.
When she does come to earth, he makes sure she’s not overwhelmed with people - very limited staff and no journalists or cameras if he can help it. And asks the chefs to cook everything he knows she likes. From the time she became queen of luna, he already has a suite picked out for her in the palace. For whenever, if ever, she comes to stay.
If Kai impresses her with something or goes viral on the net she always tells him not to forget her when he’s famous.
In Gilmore girls there’s a line where one character tells a girl who’s meeting her long-distance boyfriend in real life to “hold the phone up to her ear so her boyfriend will recognise her” and I definitely think a variant of this joke would have been said to Cinder when she goes to Earth.
Her glare still makes him feel like “a grain of salt,” so if he has to tell her something daunting or how he broke something (again), he’ll put a hand across her eyes and say it. But it only ends up making her laugh.
They’ll regularly eat off each other’s plates or take drinks from each other’s hands to share.
He wakes her up for a birthday with a cupcake with an unlit candle. Just a private moment between them two and to show how much he knows her, and it makes her feel better about things that are still hard to talk about.
He absolutely does not forget about the half-promise of dancing lessons that’s given at the end of Winter, and prior to the next annual peace ball, he sets time set aside to teach her as much as he can. I could go on forever about how amazing this is like it needs a 50,000 word fic but I’ll restrain myself.
Agree with the headcanon that she helps him during his most anxious moments. Puts a hand on his knee when she sees it bouncing or slips a hand into his under the table, both of their expressions unchanging but he gives her hand a squeeze as a discreet thank you. When at the beginning, she’s up on her own, giving a speech or leading a meeting and she’s still not used to it all, she finds him in the crowd - he’s already looking at her - and he calms her down.
There’s an old crack-canon from ye olden days on tumblr where someone says he accidentally calls her babe on national television and is beating himself up over it. This actually happens.
They often play chess together. It’s something he used to play with his dad and a game that cinder loves - OG strategist. They take turns beating each other and it forms a little healthy rivalry.
Much like Barack Obama and Michelle Obama being caught on the kiss cam at the pre-olympic basketball game, so too do Kai and Selene end up on the kiss cam on live television. Watch Ashton Kutcher’s and Mila Kunis’ kiss cam and that’s what I picture for them, with Cinder laughing probably more from being flustered and a bit embarrassed while Kai loves it.
As emperor and empress they visit lots of schools together as part of diplomatic missions and fundraising events, even participating in a lot of the activities. I think they jokingly race each other in one video and you can see Kai point behind her to make her look at something and he gets a split second head start and darts off while she has to catch up after him. It’s these sorts of moments that humanise them as a couple in people’s eyes.
They have play fights and she tries to use the tactics Wolf taught her. At the end of the day biology wins out and he still is stronger than her. She sulks after that.
They’re both pretty private but after many requests and when they’re an established couple, he recounts how they met in an interview, how they fell in love (maybe Thorne’s podcast??). He says he couldn’t stop thinking about her, he asked her to the peace ball and well…he smiles fondly, “we all know what happened after that.” Interviewer says no, what happened. “Oh! She rejected me.”
As practically the most famous person in the world, my darling Cinder ends up getting a lot of attention, both wanted and unwanted. She ends up having more admirers than she’s prepared for, even the sons of political party members or celebrities. There’s especially one guy, we can call him Adam, a son of one of the union members who’s not much older than her, and it’s obvious he has a huge crush on her. Cinder and Kai are both secure enough in their relationship that it’s never an issue but Kai does use it as healthy fodder for teasing. They’ll be planning the wedding and she’ll ask him if they should have shrimp and he says, I don’t know does Adam like shrimp? Or, do you think Adam would like egg-shell for the bathroom walls? Many similar jokes and definitely enough that she threatens to hit him.
He brushes the grease spot off her forehead. Every chance he gets. Even if there's nothing there, he has an unconscious habit of gently brushing the hair off her brow in that spot and she knows he's going to kiss her. It makes her wait in anticipation which makes him laugh and yeah. YEAHHHH
