#also Hina is on a mission to get herself an Alolan meowth to complete the set and will love you forever if you give her a plushie of it

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💓 💤 🧸💬 for Reina and Hina??

For the ask meme here~

💓 - What are some signs they’ve fallen for someone? How do they show their affection?

Hina💋

Hina is a very bright and bubbly person, but she doesn't actually like to touch people unless she likes them - so a good way to tell she's developed feelings is if she begins initiating physical contact. It'll start with little touches on the shoulder or arm, boops, gentle pokes, bumping her shoulder against yours; then it'll transition into her grabbing at your arm and hugging it or hanging off it, leaning against you, putting her chin on your shoulder. After that will be her full on hugging you, wrapping an arm around your shoulders or waist, grabbing at your hand and swinging it around, and finally, just full on draping herself across your lap.

Her love languages are physical affection and words of affirmation, so watch for an increase of compliments while she's got your arm held hostage and she might just be crushing on you.

Reina🌸

Reina obviously has a history with food, having gone hungry so many times in her life, so she already tries to show her trust and affection for those she cares about through food. She likes to make sure her favorite people have enough to eat, and that they're looking after themselves - which gets cranked up to 11 if she starts to fall for you.

It'll go from the usual check up to make sure you've eaten and had water, offering you snacks, bringing you something for lunch, pretty typical Mom Friend behavior. However, it's when she starts making you full-on meals or bringing you tupperware containers full of enough food to be your lunch and dinner two days in a row that you know she's got a crush, even if she doesn't know it yet, herself. She also doesn't actually bake as often as you'd expect for someone that likes to cook, so once she brings you homemade cinnamon buns along with your favorite coffee order, that's your cue to ask her out.

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💤 - What do they absolutely need to have to fall asleep?

Hina💋

Hina's a cuddler; whether it be a plushie, a pillow, a pokemon, or a partner, she needs something/someone to cling to. She also needs there to be some kind of light source; in present day, she'll use one of those simple, weak nightlights that just plugs straight into the wall socket. (It's usually pink and glittery.) In Hisui she keeps a small oil lamp burning nearby, turned down super low and far enough that she won't roll over and knock into it by accident. She hates the dark.

Reina🌸

Reina's never had much of a chance to realize it, but she's a cuddler, too. She unconsciously curls around her pillow or one of her pokemon (usually her leafeon, Chamomile) during her time alone, due to just how utterly touch-starved she is. With a partner, though, or even just someone she trusts enough to fall asleep around, she wraps her whole body around them. We're talking arms around your middle, head in the crook of your shoulder, legs tangled up with yours, making sad little sounds if you try to move her, the whole nine yards. She also has the best sleep of her life when she finally gets to experience this.

Something else she doesn't realize she needs is some kind of white noise. Reina for the longest time thinks she needs complete silence to fall and stay asleep, but in reality that's what keeps her up half the time, and is pretty much entirely to blame for her consistently terrible sleep once she does pass out. The times she falls asleep with The Kids on the Bridge or Rawst's streams a video playing in the background are some of the most restful she gets. The sound of her pokemon purring or chirping, or her partner's heartbeat or even just them breathing is enough to send her into blissfully dreamless, deep sleep.

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🧸 - Do they have any stuffed animals? If so, are they decorative or do they sleep with them?

Hina💋

Hina is a plushie fiend. Like the cat pokemon that make up her team, she likes being cozy and thus she has constructed herself a plushie nest~ Mostly they're all of cat/cat-like pokemon, with the ones representing her team being the most beloved. (Kantoan Meowth, Abra, Purugly, Meowstic, Galarian Meowth, Mimikyu, and Espurr.) In Hisui, she only has a small group of handmade stuffed toys, either bought in Jubilfe or made by Kana as birthday gifts.

(She managed to bring those specific ones with her when she and Kana and Dorian all got sent back to present day. They sit on a special place on one of her shelves, keeping watchful eyes on her while she sleeps.)

Reina🌸

Reina sadly, doesn't own any stuffed animals. She likes them, and would probably cry if someone gave her one, but they were never something she felt she could justify spending precious food money on, and they were usually too big to shoplift when she had to resort to it. After finally getting settled down in Nimbasa, it takes her a long time to even finish furnishing her apartment, so buying plushies doesn't even really cross her mind as an option.

If she ever winds up with any, she'll probably give them a place of honor next to her pillow - and then proceed to snuggle it to death in her sleep.

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💬 - What are some filler/buffer words they use? (Like, um, etc.)

Hina💋

Hina uses "like" the most often, though she's been known to use the occasional long, drawn out, "uhhhhhh" if she's thinking or just stunned. If she's deliberately being cute, she'll switch to Kantoan and use "etoooooo" in place of "uhm" - usually paired with a finger pressed to her chin.

Reina🌸

Short "um's" and "uh's" are Reina's filler words of choice. Like Hina, she'll also use "eto" if she's thinking, which is usually when she slips back into Kantoan - though unlike Hina, it's an unconscious thing.

(Reina actually tends to use almost exclusively Kantoan when she's alone or when she's tired/thinking/can't find the words she wants in Galarian, and half the time she'll be switching from one language to another in her head, because 90% of her thinking is done in Kantoan and she has to translate before she speaks. So there's a lot of filler used if you don't give her a second to switch gears.)