#and even if other people don’t personally subscribe to those hcs they’ve probably at least considered it

[fogwitchoftheevermore]

every once in a while i remember that scott’s life series+empires characters being aro is not actually a hc that has occurred to most people and it really does throw me for a loop. there are very few characters where my personal hcs about their queerness so heavily affect how i analyze them but scott being aro really is a massive contributor to how i see his character and i see takes about him i agree w/ relatively frequently so i. forgot. this is at least partially because i have curated my dash well and rarely go into the tags but that is not the point.

[forestwater87]

Hit me with that cute shit and do Gwen for the love meme

*tries to remember what this is in reference to because it’s been forever* RIIIIIGHT! Okay, let’s do this.

When they discover they’ve got a crush:

I imagine with Gwen it gets increasingly difficult for her to recognize that she has a crush, with each time it doesn’t work out. (Either because you subscribe to my hc that she has a long string of failed relationships with douchebags or the idea that she’s an awkward nerd who’s never had a date, or something in-between.)

Anyway, I figure her immediate response is panic, then denial, then “oh fuck.” Probably in greater or lesser amounts depending on the likelihood of her crush feeling the same way.

How they confess/hint:

Aaaaaavoidance! Either until it goes away (ha, yeah right) or it just kinda … explodes out of her. She didn’t necessarily pick up her repressive, “shove these feelings down into a tiny box” tendencies from David, but it’s something I like to think they have in common. Self-medication — either through doctor-approved methods or … less doctor-approved methods — is probably another one.

Big gestures of love:

Anger. And panic.

If she’s yelling at you for being a goddamn idiot who could’ve gotten yourself killed, what the fuck were you thinking you absolute moron who the hell let you even leave the house without a chaperone for fu … Yeah, when you reach that point you know it’s love.

Also, going along with insane plans like ruining Parent’s Day (or, hell, having Parent’s Day) to take your most difficult camper out to pizza even though that might cost you your jobs. That, too.

Little gestures of love:

Canon: Ben & Jerry’s, urging you to take a break, learning your stupid shitty camp song and singing it

My headcanon: Calling you an idiot and lame, smiling/laughing 100% more than happens in canon because goddamn it I just need to hear my beautiful girlfriend laugh please I’ll do it myself if I have to

How to win their heart:

Watch trash TV with her. Take her to see some sort of live fighting — pro wrestling might be too corny, but boxing? Martial arts? Hell to the fuck yeah — share your opinions about bad YA romance, listen to her talk about … anything.

Just please, someone listen to her. No one listens to her. She knows so much and is so enthusiastic about sharing information and no one cares.

How to break their heart:

Be her dream man. Like, all those romance-novel heroes with the square jaws and the smoldering eyes and the constant overprotective stalking and negging and all that shit? My personal headcanon is that that’s the kinda guy Gwen is fucking w e a k for, and it takes her a long time to learn the lesson that guys who act cold and distant and like assholes aren’t really hiding a heart of gold under the desire to be healed, they’re just … cold and distant assholes.

Tiny little turn-ons:

Crooked smiles of fucking course. Big hands. Red hair (I’m thinking like Edward Cullen but okay I mean let’s not pretend all of this post isn’t lowkey about David because obviously it is). Pale skin, dark shadows, chiseled jaws and the kinda bone structure Naomi Campbell would die for. British accents. Leather. All that “teen vampire heartthrob” bullshit, though I like to think as she starts outgrowing that stage it’ll turn into softer things, like long eyelashes and freckles and fluffy hair and big ears.

Big turn-ons:

Being listened to again. I feel like her love of romance novels will always give her something of a being-dominated kink, but her telling a partner to get on their knees and they actually do it? Rendering someone speechless with a hair flick? That shit’s like fucking crack.

Also, re girls: totally projecting myself here which, let’s be real, is how I’ve always written Gwen and probably will continue to because I’m trash but big buff ladies who can kick her ass and sweep her up in their big beautiful arms. Also tits. Because tits are great.

Things that make their heart flutter:

I’m a broken record, but remember that whole “being listened to” thing? The first time she dates someone who gets her a little present because they saw something and thought of her — even, or maybe especially, something tiny, like a candy bar or something — she’s blown away because they were paying attention to her. Something she said, something that didn’t even matter to her, was considered important enough to someone else that they remembered it and acted upon it.

If they prepare her coffee the way she likes it without her having to ask? Melts.

On a smaller scale, even just someone reminding her of something she’d mentioned but forgotten, like “oh you said you wanted to get some reading done today” when she complains about being bored, is overwhelming for her. She likes to feel important, because she’s not treated as such by anyone in her life except David usually. Sometimes. He’s a shit but this ship will never die in my mind okay?.

Their type:

I kinda already hit this one in the “tiny little turn-ons” section because idk what these questions mean, but … yeah. Think Robert Pattison and Christian Grey and the Doctor and all that. Super tall, skinny, vaguely muscled, ridiculously pale, preferably British, probably an asshole. (Re: women … uh … strong and Bonquisha because really who wouldn’t wanna fuck Bon, am I right?)

Ideal date:

Gwen is absolutely either a “5-star restaurant and my hottest dress” kinda date, or a “pajamas and take-out McDonald’s in front of the TV” kinda date. Not much middle ground.

Past relationships:

Bad.

How they might affect current relationships:

Oh it might lead to angst … Short version is a short temper and defensiveness, difficulty trusting kindness as genuine and not pity, feeling useless/worthless/like a burden, and aggressive self-sabotage out of an unconscious belief that she doesn’t really deserve to be happy, or that happiness is not a tenable state for her. Pessimism and a need to heal broken people, mixed with the frustration of having failed to change enough douchebags that the two combine into an almost nihilistic hopelessness fueled by the hope that maybe something will be different enough this time to be worth it.

‘Goals’ in a relationship (marriage, kids, a house, etc):

Probably marriage, if she thinks that hard about it, but I’m not confident she cares that much about it as an institution. (She strikes me as a pretty standard liberal-arts college grad, a “millennial” in all the ways that implies.) Definitely don’t see her having kids, at least in the traditional sense, though I know that’s not a terribly popular hc in the gwenvid fandom — which I get. I think she’d love to be one of those glamorous DINK couples, though: living somewhere where things happen, a successful author with a supportive and loving and intellectually stimulating partner, looking damn good together. Not saying she’s shallow, just that she seems to like the larger-than-life kind of celebrity lifestyle.

Also, those being things she wants doesn’t mean they’d make her happy, of course. But I think she likes the idea.

Any other love headcanons:

Just, like, the most insecure. All the time. It causes a lot of problems.