#seriously considering doing a permanent blog feature where if anyone sends an ask to check the canteen they get different shit

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@bloodtwin sent: hc + 💌😡☕ :]

I don't do enough memes or headcanons so here we go—

☕ for a drink-themed headcanon

So! Zandi's canteen! It's a little round copper thing with a steel cap. It has actual water in it, oh, roughly 75% of the time; otherwise, it carries some [Mysterious Liquid] he managed to get his hands on. Could be wine. Could be soup. Could be the alcoholic death slurry a local farmer uses to burn warts off mules. Only way to find out is to drink it.

Or don't. He has to rinse it out very thoroughly before swapping its contents.

😡 for a headcanon about something that makes them angry

The most dangerous situations Zandi gets involved in are often because the abuse or over-reach of power (real or imagined) by those who wield a lot of it over others and their lives pisses him off very easily. It doesn't matter if anyone asked him for help, or if it affects him specifically, or how many people it's hurting, or even if anyone wants him involved; he will make it his business because it actively infuriates him to watch people get away with it. It means he's definitely helped people who otherwise had no recourse, but he's also had to put out the (figurative or actual) fires he's started or made worse before. "Look before you leap" is not his strong suit, especially once he's worked up.

💌 for a romance-themed headcanon

Zandi's infatuation with someone is fast to develop once he's made a connection, but he doesn't fall in love as fast as this might make it seem. He forms whirlwind romances with others with the sense that they're temporary, usually because he insists on staying on the move and/or doing dangerous shit that scares people off, if it's not an already tenuous and/or ill-advised relationship with someone just as much (if not more than) trouble as him.

It's definitely ended bitterly before, but he doesn't go into these relationships trying to trick, lead on or hurt people; his feelings may be surface-level, but they're strong, and he's earnest about them. He just tends to see these relationships—and feels safer in them—when both parties treat it as affectionate play, where the present and short-term matters more than the future. Once things start crossing into something serious that he might want to keep? Things get challenging—at least on his end.