#wayne headcanons

[coeurzr]

WAYNE MCCULLOUGH

warnings ✩° : mentions of being hurt, mentions of fighting scars, mentions of fighting, slight argument?, little angst?, wayne being .. wayne.

pairing ✩° : wayne mccullough x fem!reader

authors note ✩° : hey guys.. i’m back after sm months but i’ll try to be consistent, i need to get back on the grind...

You sat, on your friend’s bed facing her. The silence in the room is so loud even though no one’s speaking, To break the silence you speak up “Why does it even matter that i’m with him?” you say in a loud voice “How does that affect you?!, Plus you hardly even know him. He’s genuinely a really good guy” you say in an upset tone, You stare at your friend for a few hoping she’ll speak up .. she finally does eventually “It matters because i don’t want you getting hurt! What point in that don’t you understand?”

You see the hurt in her eyes, For a second you feel bad but you choose not to let your feelings take over “He’s a bad guy. If he wasn’t then he wouldn’t just go around beating people up then would he?” she says with a questioning look on her face hoping you’d answer her question. “Listen, You’re my friend it doesn’t matter about who he is or not and if you can’t let me be happy and accept him then..” You look down at the bed trying not to face her “That’s the end of being friends.” You get up off her bed and grab all your stuff “Seriously?! all this over Wayne? Cmon y/n it was never that serious” you tune her out and leave the room. Heading home after all that, you feel hurt on the walk home questioning what you’ve just done but you end up brushing it off.

Later — It’s late at night around 10PM .. You lay in your bed scrolling on your phone until you hear a bang at your window. Frighted you slowly get off your bed and approach the window, Lo and behold it was your boyfriend Wayne. You open the window and stick your head outside “Yo! What the fuck are you doing?” you say with a smile on your face. “I don’t know, what does it look like i’m doing” Wayne responds in a sarcastic manner, You roll your eyes “i’ll be down in a sec to let you in” You then bring your head back in through the window and close the window shut. You happily go downstairs to open the door for him, “Where have you been all day? Haven’t seen you in class or at lunch .. or at all” you say to him as you grab his hand and lead him upstairs to your room

“Well i don’t know i jus’ didn’t really feel like showin’ up today” he says looking at you “I wanted you to be there.. I needed you to be there.” You sigh and hold his hand “I got into a slight argument with F/N after school today .. it was about you” Wayne’s turns to you visibly more intrigued with the story “Okay … It was about me what happened ..?” he says to you, Turning your head to face him “Well she kinda told me to not be with you anymore because your supposedly a “bad guy” and i didn’t like her talking about to like that so i kinda dropped her..?” “You didn’t have to do that for me. You know i don’t care about what ya friends think of me as long as your happy i’m fine with it” he says squeezing your hand tighter “yeah but .. i wasn’t okay with it. You mean a lot to me you know that right?” you graze his face with your hand “And you mean a lot me too” he says cupping your face, he pulls your face closer to his.

You feel his soft lips brush against yours, You lean into the kiss and you practically melted. Your hand was on his face, his hands held onto your waist, You took you hands off his face and brought it underneath his shirt feeling all his scars, You hate it when he fights because even though he still ends up “winning” he still gets hurt in the end but It was hot you had to admit. He brought you over to your bed, then you broke away from the kiss “Nuh uh my parents are home you know better than that” you laugh, Wayne rolls his eyes “Cmon that’s not even fair. First you tease me then deny me a good time” you smirk at him “maybe next time”. You lay in bed with him cuddled up together, you look up at him “I love you, Y/N,” he says breathily. A smile slowly appears on your face “I love you, Wayne”. He kisses your forehead, Wayne .. Even if i lost all of my friends it wouldn’t matter to me really because i’d still have you, Your not a bad guy.. You’re a good guy who does bad things. Wayne fell asleep in your arms, you noticed that you’ve been talking to yourself the whole time, you chuckle and kissed the top of his head.

[floridian-vigilante]

text messages for a change

[floridian-vigilante]

In the show because Wayne is written to be portrayed as autistic I feel like we see a big aversion to physical touch which like neuro divergence aside makes sense because Wayne has been around so much violence as opposed to affection growing up.

And Sgt. Stephen Geller is so real for the (kind and gentle) way he absolutely reads him in episode 10 because no you are not a barbarian you are made of love

Bc even in episode 1 he's so receptive to it the moment he feels safe with someone

The second time he meets Del he doesn't mind sitting close to her, and she kisses him on the cheek and he smiles, he sits still in the evening when Gail patches up his face, he roughhouses with Orlando on the way home because that's how he shows and receives affection really. All he has is love for other people.

[floridian-vigilante]

Yesterday I was low key bummed out so I watched Shawn Simmons' interview about Wayne on the official Conan the Barbarian podcast, presumably, to feel better. And then I found out that luccullough was supposed to have a breakup arc and got more bummed out mostly because this reshapes my idea of what post canon could be like,, completely. Like obviously bob's ur uncle world's your oyster write whatever whenever but Word Of God is important 2 me

Anyway I'm halfway through my work day and I've been thinking about this a lot because it's better to think about than work and holy shitballs season 2 has never felt so clear to me... I will write .. one day.. somethinggggg!!!

interview in question is here!

[floridian-vigilante]

Wayne can't process what people around him are saying very well at a very large percentage of the time so like thrice a day Del asks Wayne something and he asks her to repeat it, and then starts responding to the question halfway through her repeating it and after however many years it's such a pet peeve for her but she knows he can't help it so she's just like 🧍‍♀️ok

[floridian-vigilante]

Wayne has Del saved in his phone as "del" which sounds incredibly unromantic until you look through the rest of his contacts and see that literally everyone else is either some variant of "asshole" or not even saved with a name

Del, conversely, has Wayne saved as "bitchass" with everyone else saved under their actual names

[floridian-vigilante]

what do think are Del and Wayne’s love languages

I think I might've done a little something to do with this a while ago because I've definitely said that I think Wayne is really good at words of affirmation and acts of service, but he is especially receptive to acts of service and physical touch. Conversely, Del is really good at giving physical affection and acts of service, but is especially receptive to acts of service and words of affirmation.

They just like having someone do something nice for them, they're not used to it :(

Continuing down the path of traditional love languages I think that their least utilised language of love is defo gift giving, but it can pop up here and there. Wayne always buys her a chocolate if he's going to the shops. Del doodles on little post-its and leaves them on his stuff for him to find while he's working.

Quality time was sort of easy, sort of hard! because they kind of always spend their time together, but they had to navigate that as part of becoming like, adults. And then like what do they do to make sure they have that quality time together if they're not as close all the time? They have a lot of movie nights. It's not often or even regular that one of them is watching something on the TV while they're both home and the other is doing literally anything else. They also don't often eat dinner separately. They like having a little debrief about their day

I think that words and affirmation and physical touch are both things they have to ease into because it's all like foreign and mushy to them. Nice words come naturally to Wayne, because he doesn't feel all that anxious about saying something if he feels that it's true, and touch comes a lot easier to Del, who finds it the most straightforward way to express extra affection. But Wayne's not used to non-violent touch, and Del's not used to being lovey dovey with her words so they sort of learn by each other's example. And they just make each other feel safe so it ends up being kind of easy to be all soft and nice to each other.

And acts of service is just a given for them because of who they are I think. They're both the kind of people that prefer to help because it makes them feel like they have a purpose and that shows up in a lot of ways. I think also that Del is extremely attracted to competency. Wayne teaches Del how to change a tyre but she makes him do it whenever she needs it anyway. he doesn't mind cause he's really keen about her being really keen on him doing things for her. I've said a lot of times that Del cuts Wayne's hair for him and Wayne mends Del's clothes for her.

General list of "love languages" that probably fall into the above categories but I want to highlight

having each other's order memorised at every food spot in any given city

Del sends Wayne pictures of really random stuff she sees while she's out and about like "us"

Like a fire hydrant next to a plastic bin on the pavement yk

Wayne hates his phone so he only reciprocates in person

Del draws on Wayne and Wayne sits very still while she does it. Hates his phone but he takes pictures of everything she draws.

His entire camera roll is kind of just her actually

Del calls him stupid affectionately but genuinely thinks he's the most intelligent person she knows

Wayne just tells her she's the most intelligent person he knows

In his own words of course

looking at each other pointedly when someone says something really effing shady in public

Buying snacks and always leaving the last portion for the other person

Saying they'll drive in shifts on overnight road trips but actually they don't want to wake the other person up when they're tired so they just end up sleeping in the car together.

They don't like driving that much when they can't talk to each other anyway

They're very private people but all their co-workers would know who their partner is because they visit each other at work when it works for them and everyone notices because they just get really happy

roughousing

pillows are involved

sharing headphones on public transport

Having really dumb conversations while one person's in the shower and the other has to whizz

Del reading Conan the Barbarian

Going on walks together

Going on runs together

Falling asleep together in really stupid places.

See car in the middle of nowhere above. Also the floor of their apartment.