A/N: Pretty sure this is my first time writing about a flip, so please give me your feedback! I’m really trying here!
- Samira has always had this quiet sense of responsibility that makes people naturally trust her with vulnerable things. Kids, littles, overwhelmed coworkers, etc. Somehow, everybody ends up gravitating toward her eventually.
- She usually regresses around pre-teen to teenage age, which honestly makes her the perfect big sister around most of the Pitt littles. She’s old enough while regressed to help out, but still young enough to happily join in on cartoons, pillow forts, and crafts.
- When Samira regresses younger than usual, though, it’s almost always because she’s sick, exhausted, or emotionally overwhelmed. That’s when her composure starts slipping, and she gets clingier and much quieter than normal.
- Samira LOVES early 2000s cartoons while regressed. Kim Possible, Total Drama Island, Phineas and Ferb, Winx Club, Teen Titans, all of it. Half the time, she’ll quote entire scenes before they happen.
- She’s extremely touch-starved in both headspaces, but especially while little. Samira is constantly leaning against people, linking arms, lying across somebody’s lap, or absentmindedly holding hands without even realizing she’s doing it.
- Samira acts embarrassed about how cuddly she gets while regressed right up until somebody actually opens their arms for her. Then suddenly she’s attached to them for the next four hours.
- Bubble baths are one of Samira’s biggest comfort routines. She has specific bath products for her little space that include fruity scents, colorful bath bombs, and so many kinds of bubble bath. She swears it helps her relax.
- She absolutely destroys people at Mario Kart and becomes deeply competitive about it.
“You targeted me.”
“I did not.”
“You hit me with three shells in a row.”
“That sounds fake.”
- As a caregiver, Samira is a HUGE planner. Color-coded schedules, backup snacks, emergency sensory items, chargers, wipes, medicine, stim toys - she’s prepared for literally everything.
- Samira absolutely carries a tote bag that looks deceptively normal until she starts pulling increasingly bizarrely specific items out of it.
“You have bandaids?”
“Mhm.”
“…Crayons?”
“Yep.”
“…A tiny sewing kit?”
“Why are you surprised?”
- Her caregiver bag somehow always smells faintly like vanilla lotion, peppermint gum, and hot chocolate powder.
- She makes genuinely incredible hot chocolate. Like suspiciously good. She’ll add cinnamon, vanilla, homemade whipped cream, shaved chocolate, and marshmallows, and suddenly you’re drinking the best hot chocolate of your life while she shrugs like it’s no big deal.
- Samira is an unbelievably patient caregiver. She never raises her voice, rarely gets visibly frustrated, and has this way of making people feel safe enough to calm down instead of ashamed for struggling.
- She’s especially good with anxious littles because she talks people through things step-by-step instead of overwhelming them.
“Okay. One thing at a time.”
“Can you take a breath for me?”
“There you go. Good job.”
- Samira is the type of caregiver who notices needs before you do. She’s already handing you water before you realize you’re thirsty and grabbing a blanket before you say you’re cold.
- She’s also very physically affectionate as a caregiver. Hair strokes, forehead kisses, hand squeezes, rubbing circles into someone’s back while talking, you name it. Physical reassurance comes naturally to her.
- She’s extremely good at braiding hair. French braids, fishtails, ribbon braids, she learned partly because she likes doing it and partly because repetitive motions calm her down, too.
- Samira absolutely falls asleep during cuddles constantly. Doesn’t matter which headspace she’s in. If she’s warm and comfortable and somebody is playing with her hair, she’s gone within twenty minutes.
- She has a tendency to overextend herself as a caregiver because taking care of other people feels easier than admitting when she needs comfort.
- Which means her regressors and fellow caregivers eventually start learning her tells. The quieter she gets, the more exhausted she is.
The more she insists she’s fine, the less fine she actually is.
- Samira gets deeply attached to domestic little moments. Sharing hoodies, making hot chocolate together at midnight, sitting tangled under blankets watching cartoons, that kind of soft intimacy absolutely wrecks her emotionally.
- Even while regressed, Samira still has strong caretaker instincts. She’ll remind other littles to drink water, help fix blankets, or pause movies if somebody looks overwhelmed.
“Your juice is too far away.”
“…Samira, you are literally little right now.”
“And?”
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