#linzi is the cutie pie

[sufferthesea]

First off thank you SO SO SO much once again for Danny! 🙊🙏 I genuinely had the biggest smile on my face reading your headcanons for him! I would like to request for my #1 BAE though, please! I would certainly like some sweet, adorable headcanons for Nolan Sorrento (It doesn't have to be Birthday Specific-! 😉 but if it had birthday elements...?)? I think he deserves all the fluff and love 💙💜🙏 Thank you so much! You're a real one! ❤😘🥰

Gurl!! thank you so much for another request! This is my first time writing for Nolan, so I hope I did okay ... (I probably shouldn’t say this, but I still haven’t seen Ready Player One yet, so I used your work and the, like, 2 other Nolan fics on this site to get an idea of how to write him lol.) 

Nolan Sorrento x Reader Birthday HCs

So Nolan definitely wants to spoil you so much for your birthday. You’re his best gal (his only gal, really, and he makes sure you know it) and you deserve everything. If he could literally give you everything, then he would. This is also because he likes showing off how much money he has lol.

The morning of your birthday, you are SHOWERED with gifts. Like, hundreds of roses, tons of balloons (the really cool ones that are like clear, but they have things like confetti and smaller balloons inside them), breakfast in bed, champagne — YES CHAMPAGNE FOR BREAKFAST — and a morning birthday gift. Your gift is probably something expensive and vintage. Maybe a really nice old watch, a tennis bracelet (ALL THOSE DIAMONDSSSS), or something along those lines.

If you’re not living together (which he insists that you SHOULD BE since it would make it EASIER to celebrate your birthday together), then he has all the flowers, gifts, food, etc. delivered to your apartment. If he’s working then he’ll make sure to call you the moment you wake up to wish you a happy birthday. If he isn’t working, then he’ll be showing up at your apartment first thing in the morning to present the gift to you himself, give you a kiss, and share some champagne with you.

He tries so hard to get the entire day off (really, the entire week, since he thinks you deserve a whole week of festivities), but he can’t just go traipsing off whenever he feels like it since he’s, you know, the CEO of IOI. But he does manage to get people to cover for him for at least half the day. So he leaves you at your apartment with the promise of a wonderful birthday celebration once he’s back home.

A few hours after breakfast, he has brand new clothes delivered to your apartment. The first is your lunch outfit, which is something classy but beautiful. Colors that compliment your skin tone and bring out the brightness in your eyes, fabric that drapes around your legs and arms, a cut that hugs your shape in just the right way. He has your favorite food delivered to your apartment for lunch, since he can’t be there, but he makes sure to send it with more roses, another small gift (probably a necklace or maybe something a little racier like a cute bustier), and more champagne.

You’re wondering if he really expects that you finished the entire first bottle by yourself, but then you realize that he’s just showing off his wealth. He manages to call you during lunch and you share a few moments talking. You thank him for his generosity and ask him when he’s going to be home. He says that he’ll be home before dinner, but he wants you to have a good time without him.

Then a few hours before he shows up, another package of clothing is delivered. This one is a very nice, slinky dress with all sorts of sparkles and gauzy fabric and it’s beautiful and expensive and wow there are also shoes and earrings and you realize all his other gifts from earlier in the day go perfectly with this evening dress. You feel like a walking, talking diamond by the time you’re done getting dressed. He’s so over-the-top, it’s ridiculous. And adorable.

Nolan shows up at the apartment dressed in an extremely expensive suit, ANOTHER FREAKING BOUQUET OF FLOWERS, and a bottle of wine (one from his own, very old collection and the bottle probably costs more than every single piece of clothing he’s ever bought for you). You share a glass of wine together on your couch, talking about his day at work. He’d rather talk to you about your day though. He likes to point out that you’re wearing the dress and jewelry he bought you. You admit that you really love everything he bought you, even if it was “too expensive.”

Since you’re all dressed up, you figure you’re going out somewhere. “Where are we going?” you ask him. He says that it’s a surprise, and you can’t really pry him for information since he is really good at keeping secret information safe, especially when it comes to you. His investors don’t like it when he spills secrets, so he’s learned to keep a tight lip about secrets and big events, so there’s no way he’s going to slip up on your birthday plans.

So he whisks you away and the real surprise is when you turn up to HIS apartment. Which isn’t bad, really. It’s huge and nicely decorated (except for his little “man cave” which is full of vintage items from his childhood, really dorky memorabilia, and obsolete electronics). You’re surprised to see that the lights are turned down in the living room and dining room, there are lit candles all around, and soft music playing. It’s probably something romantic but also …like, from the late 90s or early 2000s because this is one big Nostalgia Boi. (Claims to be a 90s kid even though he literally did NOT grow up in the 90s, what is he even doing.)

You are more than surprised (stunned, astonished, gobsmacked?) to see that there is a beautiful dinner waiting for you there!! Nolan is more than ready to take credit for it seeing as how touched you are, but let’s face it — this techno-CEO has nowhere near the cooking skills of Danny Rayburn, so he did not cook this elegant meal. He did attempt one, but it burned … and tasted like nothing but salt and sadness … so it was thrown away and he hired someone to come over and cook a delicious, expensive meal for you. There are two place settings at his table, framed with candles and crystal dishes, goblets, rose petals, etc.

You sit down and enjoy dinner with your man, drinking more wine (he’s even brought out a larger selection from his private wine collection so you can sample some of his more expensive tastes, which are so expensive, oh my gosh, why is anyone paying this much for fermented grape juice?). You eat dinner and you talk. You want to ask him more about work, but he pushes for how your day went, what you did, etc. He just … wants to talk about you. It’s so sweet. He could talk on and on about himself all day if he wanted, but right now he’s so focused on you and your birthday. And you’re happy to talk about your day and you end up rambling and you get distracted with how blue his eyes look in the candlelight and how he’s leaning forward, listening to everything you’re saying …

You somehow manage to get through dinner without totally turning into a puddly mess, and you move to his couch with more wine. He surprises you yet again by saying he has one more gift for you. Honestly, you try to refuse it because he has already given you so !! much !!! No more gifts, please! You feel bad. But he insists, so you relent. He pulls out his tablet (what are they called??) and you’re kinda confused because you thought it might be another piece of jewelry or clothing, but you’re not complaining.

He’s so excited but he’s trying to play it cool. He slides closer to you and wraps one arm around you, setting the tablet in your hands. You look down and see a digital rendering of an avatar that is very heavily influenced by 80s and 90s sci-fi films (or so you’ve been told; Nolan’s secret stash of old movies are something he kept close to his heart until you two got very serious, and then he couldn’t wait to have movie nights with you ALL THE TIME). You can see elements of yourself in the character (the hair, the eyes, the hands), but you’re kind of confused. It takes a moment before you notice your name and some sort of nickname up in the corner. Another second passes and then it clicks. You look at Nolan and he’s trying so hard not to grin, but it’s difficult. He’s just so excited.

“Is this me? Did you design this?” you ask him. He nods and looks to you to see if you like it. You’re speechless. Nolan designed this avatar of you, for you? He finally tells you that it’s not just designed, it’s been created and that he wanted you to have a very special avatar for the OASIS. (He kind of just wanted everyone in the OASIS to know that you’re his, because your avatar’s outfit may or may not have elements of his avatar and probably has his name or his avatar’s name hidden somewhere. He could’ve just given her a sash that said “Property of Nolan Sorrento” but that seemed too on the nose.)

If you could, you’d go into the OASIS right then and test out your avatar and probably try to find Nolan’s and just check out the OASIS, really. Also probably try to figure out how you two can make out as avatars lol. He’s all for it, but that’s probably just the wine talking. You end up lounging on the couch, thanking him for his gifts while his head rests on your chest and you run your fingers through his hair. It’s so rare when he lets his guard down, so you take advantage of it whenever you can. He’s very warm and his breathing evens out as you run your hands over his back. Soon you can tell that he’s about to fall asleep, even in his expensive suit. It’s so cute, you don’t want to disturb him. So you keep rubbing circles over his back and tugging at his hair and soon he’s asleep on your chest, and he’s even snoring which is adorable.

You know you can’t stay there forever, but you let him rest for as long as you can, thinking about the wonderful day you had. You didn’t get to spend all day with him, but he made sure that you knew how much he loved you. As you lie on the couch with him, you can’t help but feel overcome with love and begin thinking about all the things you’ll do while in the OASIS with your new avatar, and how you can repay him once his birthday comes around.