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Headcannons on an s/o who is obsessed with bugs and arachnids like tarantulas, beetles, moths, etc?? Bonus for owning a few and teaching him about them, misunderstood creatures 😔💚

I love this idea! I’ve seen a few hc’s centred around this already and I’ve read them and they’re so amazing skskkk I hope that this doesn’t come across as repetitive or copying or anything! ^^ I did my best to keep it as much my own as I could kskskk.

Anyone who fears, doesn’t like or has an aversion in general to the creatures listed above, please consider skipping this request.

Shout out to @justahyena for answering my questions + fuelling my curiosity and love of strange creatures about her own request lmao I hope it didn’t ruin anything for you, thank you so much for being so patient with me!! As a thank you, I made this personalised - names + species are all yours, plus I tried to put bits of you in there, too!

The first time Arthur went to your place, he was not expecting to see several vivariums, tanks and the like.

The first thing you did was let out a small noise saturated with love as you saw one of your tarantulas close to the glass. You always liked to think that they were coming up to say hello, especially when they followed your finger along the glass, crawling along the bottom of the tank slowly.

“Hello, baby!” You touched the glass gently, a reverent look on your face as you crouched down to get closer. “Hi!” Your voice was so soft, so sweet, that Arthur almost cried there and then.

He hovered in the doorway, nervous and unsure, his eyes darting all over the place as he just watched. Waited. He was scared? Confused? Unsure? Nervous? All of the above?

Oh, but he wanted to understand what you loved about them so much.

He wanted to know you. To know all of you.

“You can come in, Arthur. It’s okay.” His nervousness was coming off of him in waves and you walked over to him, locked your fingers together and walked back over to the tarantula you had just been cooing over.

“Is that… is that dangerous, Lilith?”

“No, Arthur,” You smiled gently, “She isn’t dangerous as long as you’re cautious and treat her with respect. Wanna meet her?”

You were going to handle her anyway, you always made sure to handle or spend time with every single one of your babies whenever you got the chance to do so; you couldn’t relax properly until you had, but you wanted Arthur to be okay with it all first.

If he said yes, you’d spend time with your babies now.

If he said no, you’d wait until later, though you didn’t really want to. You hadn’t seen them all day and you were eager to spend time with your unusual but beautiful family!

“S-sure. Why not?” Arthur giggled nervously and you gave him a somewhat tense smile. You really hoped that he would grow to love them just as much as you did.

With fluid movements and practised ease did you get Salem out of her enclosure. “She’s a Brazilian black tarantula and she’s my biggest girl. I love her.” You pressed a small kiss to her bum, the lightest, happiest smile gracing your face as you simply looked at her.

All at once, Arthur loved every single creature that you owned. All of them. How could something be bad, or ugly, or anything negative, when the woman he loved could look at them like that?

He approached you, feeling braver, and you smiled at him, true joy on your face as you held your baby.

“He-hello, Salem. My name’s Arthur.”

He stretched out a hesitant finger and just lightly stroked her, his teeth worrying his bottom lip. She moved and he jolted. “Did I - did it hurt her?”

“No,” Your voice was thick with love and pride as you looked between Salem and Arthur and back again. “She just moved.”

“She’s beautiful.” Arthur hummed. You barely repressed a squeal, just barely.

You pet her mandibles with a finger, and Arthur emitted a soft cooing noise as Salem’s two legs curled around the finger.

He just watched as you spent time with her, cupping her in your two hands, before you put her away, your fingers and lips reverent as you kissed and pet her gently, slowly, so she wouldn’t flinch.

Though you introduced Arthur to every member of your family, you noticed that he kept going back to Salem, even after you’d put her away.

Arthur watched as you kissed eleven tarantula mandibles, kissed beetle shells, rubbed your nose against scorpion pinchers or beetle horns… you had so many pets that Arthur was blown away by the depth of the love in your heart.

He made sure to learn all of their names, all of their species… About halfway through all of them, he broke out his journal and started taking notes right there in the room with you, crude and rushed sketches accompanying the details he faithfully copied down.

Arthur felt connected to a lot of the creatures which you housed and loved like your own children; they were misunderstood, shunned, for looking ugly or for being ‘strange’, and he felt like he was like them. So he loved them for that alone, but then for you to clearly love him as you did so genuinely, and to gaze upon your babies with so much pride and love??? He was taken in immediately and right away did your home become his very favourite place.

He, too, was welcomed and understood, loved and known in your home and he never wanted to leave.

You took it upon yourself, and gladly so, happy to have someone who wanted to know about them, to teach Arthur all about them. How they were misunderstood, you debunked rumours which were designed to spread fear and corrected common misconceptions, and over time, and very quickly, Arthur grew to love them just as much as you did.

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