#{🐤} henrietta & spencer

[painofhumanity]

FOR EACH “⭐️” I GET, I’LL WRITE A HEADCANON ABOUT OUR MUSES.

@thinnerthcnrecall sent: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ for Reid and Henrietta

1. Reid taught Henrietta (and her parents) how to fingerspell, along with some basic signs, to help her communicate when she goes nonverbal. It made her feel less frustrated and helpless when she was already overwhelmed.

2. Henrietta has a bit of an oral fixation. He turned her onto chewable jewelry when he saw her chewing on pens and pencils when she was little, because he hated the idea of her sticking shared supplies in her mouth at school--both for her sake and everyone else's. Now, whenever Hen gets a new fidget toy, she's always excited to show it off to Uncle Spencer.

3. Reid definitely has a mental list of things that have--or likely will, based on past experiences--caused Henrietta to get overstimulated, so he can help her avoid them when they're together.

[painofhumanity]

⭐️⭐️ (for Jason) ⭐️⭐️ (For Henrietta)

For each “⭐️” I get, I’ll write a headcanon about our muses.

Jason & Reid

Jason likes to read the same books as his dad, so that they can talk about them later. Though because he still struggles with his dyslexia, he usually listens to the audiobook instead of reading them. Some of them go over his head, but even when he doesn't understand them (or doesn't even like the books), he still likes discussing the books together, because it's a way for them to connect. Sometimes he feels like they understand each other better because they have their little two-person book club.

Jason doesn't remember, but when he was little, he asked to get shoes like Daddy's, so Maeve went out and bought his first little pair of Converse. He still wears them as a teenager (now in various colors), but he doesn't think much about the fact that his dad wears them, too. It's just something he's used to.

Hen & Reid

Henrietta often talks to Uncle Spencer about the frustrations of not understanding how to "be normal", or why people get annoyed with her for talking "too much", or missing jokes that everyone else gets. He's the reason she started reading books on profiling and psychology, because he told her that they helped him to understand people better--even if he's still a little off-beat in most social situations.

He was the first person to catch onto her special interests when she was little and start engaging in them with her; he helped her parents engage with her, too. He memorized facts about the things she was interested in (namely birds and Bowie), so that when she started infodumping about them, he could actually share some fun facts of his own. Every time he does, Henrietta lights up, because it's like someone finally speaking her language.