#gauntwood headcanons

[ghostprincessworld]

Headcanon that at some point, when they are like 27/28 Gauntwood goes on like a 1 month "vacation" without any of the staff. It will be nice to be truly alone together. They rent a cabin that is a bit isolated, not to far form markets and such.

However, they forgot to account for the fact that they don't know how to take care of themselves:

Day 1&2

Going alright, they brought a few meals with them. 

they are free to love each other openly in this private place, this place is beautiful and they love it!

except when they go to bed, they note that the bed had not been made that morning. This is never properly resolved. There are a few attempts to make it, but they resign themselves to a poorly made (mostly an unmade) bed

Day 3

Prepared meals are gone. they go to the market, They have a fun time.

Sidney has no doubts they can figure it out, Henry is like, "Have you ever cooked a chicken before?"Well, no, but I used to watch my mum do it when I was a kid," Henry has absolute faith in his husband because he's an idiot 

“So we just put it in the oven? The chicken and the veggies?" "Yeah that's how my mum did it!" (They are making roast potatoes, carrots, and chicken)

they didn't use any seasonings, butter, or oil, the chicken is overcooked, so dry and plain. The potatoes and carrots are too hard and burnt at the same time. 

"Sidney, I love you, but this is disgusting."

“No, you're right. If you stop loving me, I'll understand." 

they end up picking through it just eating the least inedible parts it's not a lot, and they eat a lot packaged snacks that night

Day 5 

Henry has a brilliant (terrible) idea, he's going to make them breakfast, eggs, and lamb sausage.

Sidney comes into the kitchen when there is smoke everywhere

they put out the smoke, and the (unseasoned) eggs are burnt to the pan.

"WHAT is going on!!!" "I was uhh... making breakfast..."Why did you cook it so long?" "Excuse me, I didn't want us to get salmonella!"

For dinner, they plan to make pasta. Together, this is going to be a team effort. Henry immediately puts the dry noodles in a pot and no water, Sidney stops him.

They call Maud, and she laughs at her useless brother and his husband but agrees to help

"Okay now you'll wanna add any veggies to the sauce" "veggies...?i didn't get any" "okay skip that, just add your seasonings" "seasonings?" "Okay... it gonna be a bit plain"

"Why are all noodles sticking together weird?" "Did you salt the water like I said?" "Oh..."

S: what if we heat the water up twice as hot , then we can cook the noodles half the time 

H: No, it will probably burn them

M: idiots you can't heat water past boiling

Pasta is plain, but edible

Other cooking mishaps:

Pasta take 2: no veggies again, goes way to hard on the seasonings, add like every single one, there is cinnamon in the pasta

Henry makes eggs(unseasoned) bacon and toast (only a little burnt)

"Henry, I love you so much, and this is so sweet, but I don't eat pork"

"Oh god! I knew that! The butcher was just looking at me, and I panicked. " Henry is about to cry

Sidney spends way too long slicing (mutilating) a loaf of bread with a meat knife

Cleaning

By day 3 all of their clothes are wrinkled because they don't know how to iron and they didn't pack them well

It fine they are mostly being seen by just each other, but it makes them feel icky

At the market a woman is looking at henry, and he get insecure and just tells her unprompted that his wife is too sick to iron

By 2 weeks in they have no clean clothes

S: What if we just sent it all to the dry cleaner

H: You wanna send our underwear to the dry cleaners? No we are supposed to be learning this, we are living a simple life

S: What if we were just naked from now on

Back on the phone with Maud, they learn how to wash clothes. They have pasta stained clothes they can't fix. Clothes are wearable again, still wrinkly :(

They wash no dishes for the first 4 days, it's a terrible mess. It takes 15 min to scrub the burnt pan because they didn't realise they can soak the bad dishes

The whole place is a bit dusty by the end

Fun stuff

There is a lake on the property and they go skinny dipping

They fish (and successfully cook it over a fire)

Stargaze: “hey did you that constellation [insert greek info dump]” nerd

Ellwood convinces Gaunt to dance with him

They play card games

They get to be domestic without any prying eyes

Overall, they had a great time! They picked up some novice-level skills along the way and, despite the chaos, they’d be willing to try this again in the future (and they do). When they get back they are this close to kissing Luis on the mouth.

[viimsical]

in my head, in brazil, they own a cat named marie. marie loves henry. marie despises sidney. the compromise? they keep marie.

ps!! thank u to my dear friends @loafwins for supporting the initial headcanon, and @jovienna for supplying the meme content 🙏 my actual darlings and saints of IM thank u very much <3

[jovienna]

in memoriam headcanons idk

gaunt is an excellent cook (contrary to ellwood, who is a walking fire hazard)

up until the declaration of war in 1914, west genuinely believed that queen victoria was ruler of the united kingdom

sometimes, ellwood would strut walk around the preshute grounds with a ‘cane’ (it’s an umbrella)

gaunt took an embarrassingly long time to learn how to swim (~12y/o) and ellwood’s the only person who knows about it

grimsey bears duelling scars on his cheek (courtesy of a particularly strenuous fencing match in hundreds) and ellwood used to be really jealous of it— at least, before enlistment

people at preshute used to joke that gaunt was ellwood’s ‘guard dog’. ‘where’s his leash?’ etc etc.

post-war, maud and elisabeth attend university together and quickly become… roommates 🤨 (elisabeth had the wrong branch, but the right family tree!)

ellwood and his mother used to pretend that they were siblings as a joke

gaunt loves to see ellwood grow old & collected the first fragments of his greying hairs in a mason jar (ellwood thought that growing old as a dastardly and demeaning process—gaunt thinks it is beautiful.)

maud is a dog person. i picture her with a large guard breed, like a maremma or german shepherd. she’s still fond of cats tho

+ more if people ask for it? idk

[motions1ckn3ss]

idk why but i can only picture ellwood with curly blonde hair despite all the descriptions of his hair being dark and slicked back with wax... i also picture gaunt as having brown hair rather than sandy... idk how i'm going to cope when they adapt it into a film and they aren't exactly as i imagined them

[fairer-tales]

some gauntwood headcanons taken from the headcanon generator

bonus:

[spineless-lobster]

I’M HOME I’M HOME AND I’VE COME HOME TO A LOVELY HOMEMADE DINNER THANK YOU!!!!!!

in my head, in brazil, they own a cat named marie. marie loves henry. marie despises sidney. the compromise? they keep marie.

ps!! thank u to my dear friends @loafwins for supporting the initial headcanon, and @jovienna for supplying the meme content 🙏 my actual darlings and saints of IM thank u very much <3