Could I request an affectionate X pre and post dating headcanons?
Like, we know the guy is silly and before dating, he's a mess because he's so infatuated, but once he's dating reader he amps up his silliness because X loves nothing more than the sight of them laughing and smiling.
Bonus points: the rest of the top are watching him being silly and either it's cute or disgusting.
PRE-DATING :
Oh X was an absolute mess around you. If someone were to look at him when he was looking at you they could very- very clearly see cupids arrow attached to his head, and hearts that replaced the pupils in his eye’s.
Down bad. He’s so down bad for you, and at the same time he was so distraught. ( Because remember, he’s currently busy with the rest of the top-10 and their fates, this matter needed his dire attention. Oh but his thoughts drift unto you way more often than he wanted, needed. )
I’d imagine him getting pretty attached to you pre-dating, so close yet at the same distancing himself. Cut him some slack he doesn’t know what romantic feelings are, so it’d take quite a while for him to confess ( If you wanna speed things up, you’re gonna have to be the one initiating the confession sequence- this man is a perfectionist he needs the perfect, temperature, day, color of the sky, what mph the wind goes- )
Maybe the both of you got close during college, better yet even knew each-other during high-school— Who knows,
One thing is for sure is that he’d watch you for a while, learn things and habits of yours that you- yourself don’t notice; he’s too smitten, he’d go on your old social media accounts and stalk you there /j It’s not stalking if the information was put out on public.
POST-DATING :
He’s your kitty meow meow now, you’re stuck with him forever.
At the start of you guys dating he was so shy, but overtime shyness— became not-so-shy at all, every-time he came home from work he’d look for you immediately, and then pounce on you like the cat he is; even if you protest that he’s still wearing outside clothing, he wouldn't budge- he needs you stat.
One of the other reasons as to why he hates overtime is because its a few more hours separated with you!
He’d perform a multitude of magic tricks for you, the bunny out of the top hat? ( Although switch the bunny with a plushie of himself, ) Made you smile didn’t it? Your favorite flower coming out of his sleeve? Give him a peck, won’t you?
This man has an unhealthy obsession with the ‘X’ cola, so much so that you were mortified when you found a shelf filled with packs of it, X was scolded- ( Though he didn’t stop he just learned how to hide his cans in better places, poor you. )
Anyways remember when you said this man is silly? He’s the evolved form of silly the moment you guys get together, but it’s because he feels safe to let himself go around you.
Comfort this man, tell him you’re his- and his only, accept him give him affection— He needs so much of it.
You found out that he was X after a funny thought, “ Hey the facial proportions of my Boyfriend, and X looks so similar- what if I just overlay it? “ Surprising discovery. You kept it under wraps for a while, eventually X did admit it to you. X wasn’t smiling when you told him you knew.
Anyways.. After that, X let himself go wild around you— Hiking on Saturns rings? Joking about him lying on his interviews, it’s just pure fluff all around.
Sometimes he’d sneak you in the Hero Tower- lounging around and having dumb conversations.
He needs you as his peace, as his get-away from life; from his responsibilities, and you are.
BONUS SCENE :
It was supposed to be a quiet- peaceful, and normal day at the Hero Tower; all until someone barged into X’s floor and found out X— That rat bastard, had a Lover. The shocking news was relayed in an instant within the top-ten group chat, a meeting was immediately commenced ( On X’s floor of course, he doesn’t even use it. ) And what made it all worse? X wasn’t even hiding it, he was attached to his lover, you- by the waist.
“ How come his beloved lives— While ours die!? “ Lin Ling pointed an accusatory finger at X, he was aggravated— Devastated even, as the representative of the ‘Dead Wife, Unhappy Life’ Committee, he truly believed X should break up with you.
And you? You were watching this all in stride, the dude had everything prepared a powerpoint that's being presented on a fifty-eight inch LED flat screen, the members of the ‘Dead Wife, Unhappy Life’ committee sitting beside him chiming in time to time to give their own input, ( or better to say, lack thereof. ) and X was in your arms, huddled close to your chest.
Queen who sat a distance away from the both of you, glaring at X— If looks could kill X’s corpse would’ve been incinerated by the sheer anger in her stare; E-Soul sat in the corner ( still near Lin Ling as he was presenting why you and X should break up ), staring off into the far distance ( Looking to a time far before, ), Ghostblade… Maybe it’s better left unsaid, Luo Li furiously stalking at your social media accounts, Ahu— Actually you, X, and Ahu visit Xinya a lot- so you already knew Ahu. Little and Big Johnny were having a dispute about who knows what, Cyan who only gave you a sheepish grin— Dragon Boy? Listening to classical music,
Ah yes, this was not how you expected you’d get yourself entangled within the chaos of the dysfunctional dynamics the top ten have with one another.
Kai and Cinder giggling like the lovers they are and as she’s walking out of the room he grabs her ass and Kai hears someone clear their throat - It’s Torin. He saw that. Kai didn’t realize he was there. He goes “I’m am so sorry you had to see that”. Cinder face palms, dying of embarrassment
Consider this: Cinder and Kai have been married for a couple years. Torin has found them in far more compromising situations than a light ass grab. However, one day Kaider is hugging, but Kai's hands wander down because he thinks they are alone. He gropes her ass and tugs her tight against him... but Cinder sees Torin over Kai's shoulder and gently pushes Kai away.
Because no matter how many years it's been, how many times Torin has caught them doing worse, she still feels like a teenager caught making out with her boyfriend on the doorstep whenever Torin finds them being any sort of intimate situation that could be viewed as sexual.
If she could blush, she'd be redder than a firetruck every time Torin comes across them.
On a completely different note/tangent, I think they'd have one of those "x many days since Torin caught us making out" calendars. It never hits double digits.
you are patroclus, from the iliad by homer, doomed by fate to be stuck in a love story that has no place on the battlefield. although you always have the best intentions, you have to realize you cannot save everyone. your unwavering loyalty means you often lose yourself in the process of putting others first. take a deep breath, remember who you are, and that you are deserving of the same love you try to put out. you are kind, you are strong, and you give and you give but it is never enough to protect those you love. in the end, it's not even enough to protect yourself.
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you know, this serum makes me tell the truth, but it doesn’t make the truth any easier to get out. let me wash my mouth out with some stoli and i can maybe tell this in a half coherent way.
ok. so.
when i was 13 i got a gift for my birthday that was a video game in beta that i had wanted to play for a long time. it was called sburb but fuck that, i just call it the game now. so it was a video game but it also kind of altered reality? i don’t understand a lot of it even now. rose knows a lot more about the mechanics just because she wrote the gamefaqs walkthrough for it back in the day but i have not talked to her in years.
so the game sort of sucked us in and altered our realities. the world ended. there were a lot of meteors. the game gave us new planets to do quests on so we were saved from armageddon. like all video games it had a level system but it was stupid names instead of numbers. and just like any other game you could godmode it eventually, not just through cheats but if you got super strong you could basically just coast your way through the whole thing. so think of it like that aspect of a video game at first.
once we got on our planets the goal was to get through quests to find our quest bed. none of us really understood what we were doing besides level grinding to get through the rest of the game easier. by the time we found our quest beds things were worse than ever. our session had a defect in it and the only way to save it was to reset it. we would have done anything.
as it turns out, the last thing you have to do before hitting godtier is die on your quest bed. the only way you can come back to life is if you still have your extra life, which is a whole other thing that is really complicated but i can just explain it as the person that is you walking around in dreams was basically our green mushroom. thankfully i still had that left.
i woke up with some nifty new pajamas and some neato new powers. i don’t remember much from right after i woke up but apparently i caused a huge shitstorm with the windy thing when i found out what vriska had been doing to jade.
and the game lied to us, by the way. becoming godtier was just the first step in trying to beat the session as a whole. we couldn’t become who we were supposed to be without being challenged by those titles and without facing our denizens. kind of the rulers of those planets we got. but at least it came with this new mechanic where we couldn’t die unless the death was heroic or just. there were... a lot of ways to kill us that still fit under those rules. but i got out alive. and apparently i still can’t die! or all of my deaths have been stupid instead of heroic or just.
my godtier title is Heir of Breath. there were other Heirs and other Breath players. the powers are tied to Breath. i never talked with tavros or his bancestor about what they were able to do. i don’t think tavros ever reached godtier in the main timeline and i have no clue what the other nitram’s class was. but what i can do is control wind and stuff. rose had a theory it was connected with animus, or something, some latin bullshit. that the reason i was the Heir of Breath was to keep our session motivated and to keep us all on one team. i was never very good at that, though. i already word vomited earlier about how we all fell apart once we got kicked out of the game.
now that we are out of the game, i can control some weather stuff. breath, air, wind, currents, pressure systems. i can make it storm holy hell. i can whip up tornadoes on the fly. waterspouts too. sometimes for fun i get struck by lightning or fall out of tornadoes because i have nothing else to do with my life and i just want it to be quiet for a few hours while i start to regenerate. sometimes it feels like the wind sings to me but that may just be wishful thinking. i also don’t need to breathe. so long as i have my Breath i can go without fresh air.
but yeah. the short story is i don’t fucking know how this happened. i just played a video game when i was 13 and it just happened. i don’t know if it is from game programming or if there was something legitimately supernatural involved and i don’t know how i would find that out.
ok so rly fast before i go write bc im feeling really fucking anxious today:
alma named his golem “little brother” in basically every exorcist verse and little brother’s been confused with smolma just bc he’s only called it “little brother” for as long as he can remember but now smolma is also little brother.
let's talk abt modern verse (except resurrection) arthur using the money and connections he has for good like the writers never fully let him do in canon! for modern stuff he usually ends up working as a lawyer or maybe eventually in politics in some way but even before that like. he's the friend that always can spare money and doesn't nag about getting it back, he might be a terrible cook but he takes probably full banquets of free food from Family Events bc otherwise it'll get thrown out and [insert person here] is strugglin with groceries, he's in a two bedroom by himself probably and the second is for anyone who needs a place to stay for whatever reason etc., if he's a lawyer he'll happily take pro bono cases if someone needs help and can't afford and will just pay his own fees out of pocket if he has to like.....
sometimes he's a jerk bc he's genuinely unaware that he's being rude and sometimes he's rude and fully aware of it but gimme those modern verses where arthur's not completely ignorant of the privilege he's afforded and decides to use it to help people
brief rundown of arthur’s anxiety--------- absolutely exacerbated by competitive and/or diplomatic events such as tournaments or visiting rulers ; rarely has full-blown panic attacks, but often suffers from prolonged periods of inexplicable nervousness or tenseness ; values the routine of military training and often finds anxiety increases when that routine is interrupted ; engages in avoidant behaviour to varying degrees with regards to known triggers; stress sleeps more often that he’d like to admit ; only very occasionally dissociates (generally only in response to severe triggers, always in the form of depersonalization, and usually as a precursor or aftermath of a rare panic attack) ; triggers stem from a combination of persistent stress related to duties, uther’s abuse, and traumas experienced in military campaigns ; other symptoms include irritability, intrusive thoughts, fidgeting ; almost never talks about any of it.
