#brotherband headcanons

[mostlyonthefloor]

Brotherband Sleep Headcanons

Source(s): Bro trust me

Edvin sleeps unreliably - sometimes he gets to bed late, often he wakes up early, because of the work he does for the crew making meals. However, his hardline is that he cannot be woken up between midnight and 4am. He is not a naturally grumpy person but if you wake him up at 3am for any reason less than his life is in imminent danger he will bite your head off (your life doesn't count. your life your problem he still has an hour of sleep left) That's not to say that he only sleeps four hours a night but those are the only four hours he will consistently sleep every night.

Ulf's favourite time to take watch is in the middle of the night. He loves how serene it is, and tracking his time by watching the moon set over the ocean. Also, nothing really happens in the middle of the night because all the potential enemies are also asleep. Has a symbiotic relationship with Edvin.

Wulf's favourite time to take watch is the last watch, in the morning. It means he gets a block of uninterrupted sleep earlier in the night, and he loves watching the sun rise while everyone stirs and wakes. He's memorised who tends to wake in what order, and he enjoys the feeling of being the first one up.

Hal tends to sleep very little on board ship, since he's either steering or subconsciously paying attention to the ship's movements. So when they're on land for whatever reason, he sleeps a lot. Unless he's in the grip of some idea, he might sleep twelve hours in one night (and then go back to sleeping two hours a night for the next three weeks 😬). Thankfully, he doesn't need a lot of sleep to function.

Stig needs a reasonably high amount of sleep to function well. He can live life on a little bit of sleep, but he won't really be having a lot of fun unless he's had eight hours at least. It doesn't all need to be taken during the night though - Stig is a big napper. He also sleeps in really weird positions, since he's quite flexible. A favourite of his is scrunched up on his side in a rowing well with his back against the side of the ship and his head halfway under his knee. It's a bit creepy.

Jesper sleeps all. the. time. He loves to sleep it's his favourite activity <3 It's because he's never sure when the next time he'll get to sleep somewhere safe is

Stefan remembers nearly every one of his dreams. He doesn't dream every night, but he remembers them all. They're mostly a bit mundane, but once every year or so he has a mildly prophetic dream. However, he doesn't usually realise it until after the event has happened - he looks back at his dreams in the few months beforehand and goes ahhh.

Ingvar takes a really long time to fall asleep but he doesn't mind because it's really calming and restful just to listen to the waves and everyone around him sleeping.

Lydia naturally goes to bed really late and loves the feeling of being awake when no one else is. Like Stig, she's also a big napper to make up the sleep she loses during the night. (They are nap buddies.) However, if she's tired enough she will go to bed and fall asleep Instantly.

Thorn must have 12 hours of sleep per night or he starts killing (this is why he is such a deadly warrior he's Sleepy)

[sister-of-the-brotherband]

Two opposing pre-canon Hal headcannons I like with completely opposing energy are

a.) Hal is perhaps the biggest Will Treaty, (foreign war hero to the Scandian people) fanboy to ever exist. A brave, strong, ingenuitive young man who just happens to come from Araluen? Who gained the respect of even tough, hardened sailors and fighters and who's name is known by many? Hal can't help but respect and look up to someone like Will (and hope that someday his countrymen will come to respect him like that).

Or

b.) Will Treaty? What's so good about him? No matter what he's done, he's still foreign. He isn't Skandian (not even halfway), so why is he so well liked? Why was it so easy for him? Hal would never, ever admit it, but he can't help the deep dislike for a man he's never even met. Because he has exactly what Hal has always dreamed of, without even knowing it.

Of course these are pre-canon, because after he achieves something heroic, Hal is even more well-liked and well-known. But I do kinda wonder how it would feel to him, to know that there is someone from Araluen that Skandians are almost all okay with, but Hal's still an outcast.

[vilintux]

It's 1.30 AM and I cannot fall asleep so here are some BB Heirons headcanons:

) Stefan used to cry easily, but learned how to control it.

) Jesper loves hugs but is scared to ask for them.

) Stig is crazy over head pats (Hal likes to tease him bc of that).

) Ofc Ingvar is a cudlle bug.

) The heroins like to wear matching costumes on Halloween, but they don't always do that.

) when Thorn was a kid, he liked to collect pretty rocks and seashells.

) little Edvin got hit by a rock in the eye and got a black/blue eye, so now he is afraid... of... flying rocks???

) Jesper wishes on Dandelions.

) Lydia has a friend who died saving her (IM SORRY-).

) Hal is very VERY ticklish.

) Ulf and Wulf loved playing hide and seek with each other, just because they would always find the other twin and claim that they are better (Twin magic).

Edit: some people liked this post at night. DO YOU PEOPLE DON'T SLEEP?

[brotherbandchronicles]

The only mirror in Hallasholm is in Erak's storeroom. Over the years, it witnessed quite a few interesting meetings.

[twofoursixohjuan]

Skandians having very complicated hairstyle traditions for weddings, incorporating crew braids, job braids, family braids back several generations, your partner's family braids, etc., etc....

Hal and Stig doing Ingvar's.

Ulf and Wulf doing Lydia's.

[just-your-local-rafan]

Help!!!

I keep on switching between wanting to write Edvin as having Autism or having OCD and I can’t choose which! If anyone has any idea on what i should do please tell me, I feel like it would be overkill to write him as both but maybe not idk. Also if anyone has any Autistic / OCD Edvin headcanons put them in the tags pls. I’m dying for more content of my precious baby!

[nothernghostbat]

so... Hal is autistic, right?? it's not just me??

all the talking to himself, the pacing(stimming), the hyperfixing on projects/work, being the "weird kid", weird sleep habits (the less the better), being inattentive(he gets over this one), rejection sensitive dysphoria(the gear in book seven for one of many examples), all that stress he's got, constantly going over the finest details imaginable to find faults in his plans (this one goes back to the rejection dysphoria too)

[al0ra]

Brotherband appearance headcanons part 1!!

Hal

Very tanned

Hazel eyes

Dark brown hair

He also has a few freckles around his nose

He definitely has a lot of scars on his hands and arms from working on his inventions

Broad shoulders but a small waist

Stig

Dirty blond shoulder lenght hair

He almost always wears it in a bun

His eyes are normally dark blue but when the sun hits them they are lighter

He has a straight nose and big lips

Stong jawline

Hes 1,5 heads taller than Hal

Teases Hal about this

Hes just pure muscle, broad shoulders and strong legs

Lydia

Thick black hair that comes to her waist

She has a lot of hair, and its kinda wavy

When she lets it down its just a huge waterfall of hair

She has a bump in her nose

Green eyes

Long eyelashes and bushy eyebrows

Lean but broad shoulders

Hip dips

Thorn

Grey beard and hair

But with streaks of black and white

Very big eyebrows

Scar on his eyebrow and on his cheek

Dad bod

Also a lot of scars on his biceps

Very dirty fingernails (I'm sorry but this man needs to learn hygiene)

Ingvar

Ton of muscle but still a little chubby

Really soft blond hair

Straight nose and big lips

His eyes have a lot of different shades of blue in them

A ton of freckles, on his face but also on his arms and shoulders

Has a scar on his jawline

A lot of scars on his legs and knees from tripping because he couldn't see well

When he doesnt need his spectacles he wears them on top of his head

Also wears quite a lot of jewellery, like necklaces from shells

(Can you tell he's my favorite?)

[swordanddreamcatcher]

The friendship between Lydia, the twins, Edvin, and Jesper is supreme. Add in anybody else, ESPECIALLY if it's any of the Lotte-Rollond-Hal trio, and it's a fucking disaster. Erak almost had to ban them to stop their prank war.

(Nobody is sure who won, but the people of Hallosholm now fear rubber ducks. And normal ducks. And being the first to cut into food. Nobody wants it to explode again.)

[birds-of-wax]

Brotherband Chronicles Headcanons

Skandians have mostly blond hair, but a broad range of eye colors

Edvin has grey eyes 

Edvin is an orphan

Jesper has dark brown, almost black eyes

Jesper isn’t an only child, he has six older sisters

Stephen also has a fairly large family, including older siblings and his grandmother

Two of Stephen’s older brothers serve together on the same ship’s crew, along with one of the twin’s older brothers

Ulf and Wulf have green eyes

Edvin is good with kids because of his healer training, the twins, Ingvar, Stephen and Jesper are good with kids because they have younger siblings or nieces/nephews, but Lydia, Hal and Stig aren’t allowed near kids.

Edvin is actually a much better than average fighter, but doesn’t realize that because everyone else in the crew is faster and stronger than him

Edvin’s bedtime is much earlier than the others, partly because he gets up before everyone else, and partly because he’ll start to fall asleep as soon as it gets dark (unless he has a job to do) 

[nothernghostbat]

have we ever considered that at least one other heron is from an immigrant family.

maybe edvin is a ginger and hides it under his copious amount of hats.

perhaps there are herons with a birds nest of hair (it's even brown to make it even harder to distinguish against)

there is so much room to go nuts with it

My toxic trait is I just can't picture any of the Herons as blonde despite all canon evidence to the contrary. Not a single blonde to be found in that group of Skandians

[mostlyonthefloor]

Autistic Edvin: here it is, folks.

He's so quiet because he doesn't know what (is appropriate) to say a lot of the time and he learned very young that it's better to say nothing than to say something that one of the bigger boys will think is "smart" and get hit for it

He's also quiet because it takes a lot of concentration for him to tell what's happening with body language and social cues. Constantly monitoring how people are standing, where they are looking, their facial expressions and what they mean, is energy-consuming.

He mimics characteristics of the people around him. This is why he is so inconspicuous and forgettable, because he will see what other people are doing/saying and copy that, so he blends into a group. Body language is a conscious choice for him, and like above, it's easiest to just not be noticed.

(He also accidentally mimics accents, he will occasionally spend time with Lydia and pick up a little Limmatan accent)

Sometimes people's characteristics stick if he spends enough time with them. For example, he says "what" with identical inflection to the twins, and it messes Hal around when he's not looking. (His repertoire of weary sighs are entirely his own)

He likes to knit because it's so rhythmic, and he deliberately chooses needles that make little clicks because he loves the sound.

When he joins the Herons he's pleasantly taken aback to see that no one will care if he says something a little strange or fails to pick up on a social cue that everyone else does. He's hardly the strangest person there anyway.

He probably couldn't say something weirder than anything the twins could come up with if he tried, and people tend to say things out loud for Ingvar's benefit as he can't see people's body language well, so Edvin also won't miss out on silent cues

He and Lydia become good friends quite quickly because they bond over their shared inability to know what to do in social situations (autistic Lydia as well?? who knows)

He is prone to assuming that things that he experiences are universal, and is astonished to find that non-verbal social cues are intuitive to most people, and that in fact most people "just know" if something is acceptable to say or not

On that note he is absolutely shook to discover that sexual/romantic attraction is inadvertent and just happens to people (aro-ace Edvin supremacy)

He takes his job as quartermaster very seriously god bless and will occasionally hijack a conversation to talk about needing rations or what town to put into

He has accidentally walked into and directly through several Stigal moments in compromising positions. It wasn't until afterwards when he was doing his Lie In Bed And Think About Today Time that he realised what happened

This isn't relevant but he's #1 stigal shipper

[sister-of-the-brotherband]

Since it's disability pride month in the US, here's a list of disabled characters in the Flanagan books, including canon, hinted, and headcannon. These are ones I can remember, additions are encouraged.

Starting out strong: Thorn is canonically physically disabled, with a missing hand from a boating accident. He also suffered from depression-induced alcoholism for years afterward. He overcame that, and with Hal's help developed several prosthetics to use.

Ingvar: has severely impaired vision that affected him for most of his life.

Maddie: is physically disabled, with permanent muscle and/or nerve damage from a javelin wound. She has a limp that limits her movement but continues to pursue becoming a ranger.

Will: suffered from severe depression and suicidal tendencies after Alyss died. He also overcame addiction from warmweed.

Jesper: has borderline kleptomania as a result of childhood poverty and hunger.

Here's a couple headcannons:

Hal: is autistic. He hyperfixates on his ideas and stims by pacing. See @y3t1cr4b54ndb4t5 's post for some details!

Wulf: has post traumatic stress from that time Ulf almost died. Ulf doesn't really remember it.

Halt: has chronic pain from archery.

That's all I can think of for now, please add on if you're interested!

[vilintux]

IM SORRY I GOT MORE-

But this time (secret) hobbies

) Hal likes sudoku

) Stig loves watching birds in the morning or evening

) Thorn can and likes to just hum

) Lydia likes rock climbing.

) Ingvar would love cake decorating

) Edvin wants/tries to learn sign language

) Jesper loves playing cards and sometimes cheats

) Stefan does wreth making

) Ulf has definitely tried gardening before

) Wulf laughed at him for it but secretly realy wanted to try it too

I also headcanon that either Stefan or Jesper has tried pole dancing before (NOT LIKE IN STRIP CLUBS-). Liked it, but didn't do it often bc thought it was weird +did not had time.

(SERIOUSLY ITS 2:30 AM AND IM HERE SITING IN THE LIVING ROOM WRITING HEADCANONS WTH💀)

[brotherbandchronicles]

Today's random headcanon: Ingvar is the youngest of the Herons and, therefore, sometimes referred to as 'the little one'. It confuses a lot of people.

[twofoursixohjuan]

so we all have slightly different headcanoned backstories for Jesper — drop 'em in the reblogs! let's see how many we can collect!

yes I fully intend to do this with each Heron until we all get bored