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EDGAR ALLAN POE RELATIONSHIP HEADCANONS

(a/n: i have soooo many more thoughts about poe bro i love him so much..anyway, fellow poe fans if you have poe requests i am begging you to drop them in my inbox)

pre-relationship

- the two of you met back in america years ago. you guys start out as ride-or-die best friends, you’re the inseparable duo that does everything together. when poe goes to yokohama with the guild, you go with him even if you’re not a guild member.

- you’re an infuriating case of ‘the two besties that are clearly in love with each other but would rather die than confess because they’re convinced their feelings are unrequited when they obviously aren’t’. you’ve basically been acting like a couple for at least a year but somehow you and poe are both convinced that it’s just a friendship to the other person and nothing more.

- both the guild and the ADA assumed you were already dating until poe referred to you as his ‘best friend’ and they’re just like are you fr right now?? 🤨 it’s literally so freaking obvious you two are head over heels in love to everyone except for you and poe. especially if you’re not even in the guild and you moved across the world just to be with poe ���� ranpo (affectionately) hates you guys because you refuse to believe him when he tells you that your feelings are requited.

confession

- ranpo #1 wingman frfr!! at first he tries to make it happen naturally, but eventually he realizes that’s a lost cause..so he basically forces poe to confess to you because he’s so sick and tired of hearing poe lament about how you don’t love him back when you obviously do!! i could see ranpo being like “i’m not reading any of your new novels until you confess to (y/n) 😈” and that would be the final straw because poe is not about to throw away all his chances of ever beating his rival.

- i think we all agree that poe is a hopeless romantic, but i feel like he would just be too anxious to actually do anything fancy for a confession. he’s probably fantasized about the perfect confession a hundred times, but when he gets pressured to actually do it, all of those plans go out the window because he’s just freaking out lol.

- he’d tell you to come over because he needs to ‘show you something important’, he doesn’t make it obvious that he’s going to confess his feelings at all. so you get to his house and he tells you to wait on the couch while he gathers everything, and you’re starting to get anxious too because you’re like ummm wtf is he about to show me?? poe goes to his office and after a moment of ‘gathering’ (he actually already had his stuff sorted beforehand, he spent the entire time petting karl to muster up some courage), he brings you this giant stack of messy papers and just stands there awkwardly. and you’re so freaking confused until you start reading them and you realize that they’re all love letters and poems about you, written by poe himself. they’re all dated too so you can see that they range from today all the way back to like at least two years ago.

- poor poe is actually sitting there literally trembling while you read, anxiously waiting for you to respond. obviously you tell him you love him too, and he honestly looks like he doesn’t believe it or just can’t process it for a second, you have to kiss him on the cheek or something to get him to register the fact that you seriously love him. but after that he’s like the happiest you’ve ever seen him, he’s hugging you so hard, grabbing your hands and he might even excitedly kiss your face a couple times. this is genuinely a dream come true for him so he can go a little wild as a treat <3

- he owes ranpo so bad after this btw 💀

relationship

- since you and poe had been acting like a couple for a long while before officially getting together, it’s not that hard to get used to an actual relationship. now there’s just a lot less uncertainty and hesitance, you can comfortably do all of the things that you previously chickened out of because you didn’t want to ‘ruin your friendship’. your feelings aren’t a secret anymore, so you both have free reign to be as affectionate as you want to be.

- in terms of love language, i really feel like poe could appreciate any kind of love from you. he might be a little shy about physical affection, and he probably won’t want to do much of it in public, but in private i think he would secretly love it. his favorite type of love to receive from you would probably be words of affirmation, this man needs that praise and validation so badly!! in the beginning of your relationship, he doesn’t know how to handle your compliments, if you’re flirty he will simply explode. he eventually gets more accustomed to it, but he still blushes like crazy and gets all bashful every time you praise him. his favorite type of love to give to you is probably acts of service, just look at how much he bends over backwards to do favors for ranpo in canon lol. he will do literally anything for you!! with his absurd salary and spending habits, you can count on being showered in gifts too, he just wants to spoil you!

- you and poe are definitely one of those couples that enjoys just chilling in the same room doing your own separate things. it will actually make him so happy if you just quietly sit in his office while he writes! maybe after you’ve been dating for a long time he might even have you sit on his lap sometimes.. 😳 since he spends so much time in there obsessively writing new novels to beat ranpo, it got really lonely with just him and karl, so having you there just makes everything better. he also probably doesn’t take very good care of himself when he’s really focused on writing, so he will be eternally thankful if you help make sure he eats, drinks and sleeps enough. he might be the type to say “just one more chapter..” every time you tell him to go to bed, but you can usually persuade him with the promise of cuddles and a kiss goodnight.

- speaking of cuddles when you go to sleep…i am convinced that poe would secretly love being the little spoon!! he’ll of course default to being the big spoon unless you’re somehow taller than him, because that’s kinda just the norm for tall people in most cases. he might even be hesitant at first if you ask him to swap places with you, because he’s likely never done that before, but when you hold him for the first time..it immediately becomes his new favorite thing. it makes him feel so safe and secure and loved, please hold this man!!

- you play with poe’s hair all the time, it’s something you both enjoy because damn he has a lot of hair and it’s really fluffy. you push his bangs back because you want to actually see his eyes for once!! it makes him so flustered because he lowkey feels exposed without his bangs, but if you tell him his eyes are pretty he’ll be like “omg really?? 🥺” and forget all about his embarrassment. it works every single time. when poe is stressed, he often just lays his head in your lap and lets you run your fingers through his hair, it’s very grounding and calming to him. he gets embarrassed if you catch him off guard and just randomly start petting his hair, he tells you to go pet karl instead 💀

- poe is 100% the type of guy to kiss your knuckles or your forehead all the time. he’ll kiss you on the lips too, but it can be kind of overwhelming, so he doesn’t initiate those kisses as often. i think he would like being kissed on the cheek by you a lot, something simple and sweet to brighten his mood. despite being your partner, he still gets nervous to ask you for kisses when he wants them, but he’s honestly pretty unintentionally obvious about it so you can usually tell lol.

- poe gets so embarrassed if you ever read his novels, he knows that you appreciate his writing, but your opinion is so important to him that he gets anxious about it. he usually doesn’t let you read books that he’s written to challenge ranpo until after he’s already shown them to the detective. but you always read them when he gets back home and he’s all mopey after ranpo has successfully solved another one of his mysteries. although he remains determined to continue trying, it’s always a major blow to his self esteem when he loses to ranpo again. so you read the books for yourself so that you can praise him about every specific detail and make him feel better about himself and his work. you may not be his rival or the greatest detective in the world, but you are poe’s partner, so your words are still very meaningful to him.

- poe would definitely call you lots of pet names if you’re comfortable with it. he calls you things like ‘my dearest’ and ‘my beloved’, but he’ll also call you things like ‘darling’ and ‘love’. if you have a nickname, he’ll typically use that in place of your full name because it feels more intimate to him. if you do the same to him, he’ll be so happy! he’s down with being called basically any term of endearment as long as it comes from you, but some may make him more flustered than others. if you shorten his name and call him ‘ed’ it makes him feel so much closer to you.

- poe talks about you all the freaking time! he’s not above straight up bragging about how great his partner is, he constantly feels the need to tell everyone how great you are. hopefully ranpo likes you a lot because my guy has to listen to poe gushing about you constantly lol. if poe ever finds out that you’ve told your friends good things about him, it will warm his heart and make him feel so appreciated. he’s basically never prepared for you to match his extreme passion in your relationship, it shocks him every single time and he can’t believe he actually met someone who loves him as strongly as he loves them.

(a/n: thanks for reading my first fic on this account! i hope you guys like my theme lol, i just wanna be known as the tokage guy who writes bsd fics)

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REQUEST RULES AND GUIDELINES

♣︎ i only write x reader fics (platonic or romantic), so i won’t ever write a character x character ship on their own. however, you can request a poly relationship with the reader and a ship, like ‘dazai x reader x chuuya’ or ‘ranpo x reader x poe’

♣︎ i will only write bullet point headcanon style posts, i do not have the energy for complete fics

♣︎ please be polite and understand that i’m a slow writer who just does this as a side hobby, it may take a while to get to your request

♣︎ for a complete general relationship/friendship headcanon post, you can only request one character due to the detail included. the exception is if you request a poly relationship, which can include 2 characters

♣︎ with a specific headcanon prompt, you can request 1-3 characters. if you want to send a follow-up ask requesting more characters with the same prompt, that is perfectly fine as long as my requests are still open

♣︎ please specify if you want platonic or romantic relationship headcanons! this does not apply to the young characters because they are always limited to only platonic

♣︎ i write with mostly gender neutral readers and canon character genders with unspecified sexualities, but if you want to request a specific gender or sexuality headcanon i’ll try it! for example, you could ask me to write something like ‘transfem!sigma x reader’ or ‘lesbian!yosano x lesbian!reader’. fair warning, i will likely have a lot less detail with these specific requests because i might not have as many ideas, especially if i’m not too familiar with the gender/sexuality

♣︎ i don’t currently take requests for readers with a specified disorder/condition purely because i feel like i’m not educated enough on everything to properly write them for you

CHARACTERS I CURRENTLY WRITE FOR

bungou stray dogs:

- edogawa ranpo

- edgar allan poe

- yosano akiko

- nakahara chuuya

- dazai osamu

- kouyou ozaki

- sigma

- akutagawa gin

- akutagawa ryuunosuke

- atsushi nakajima

- q (PLATONIC ONLY)

- kyouka izumi (PLATONIC ONLY)

that’s all for now, but i will likely add more as i get further into the manga! sorry if your fav isn’t on here, it’s likely because i don’t feel like i know them well enough to write them <3

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WELCOME TO MY DREAMLAND

♣︎ MASTERLIST ♣︎ REQUEST RULES ♣︎

meet the writer:

hi, my name is lizard! my pronouns are they/it. i don’t know what my gender is, i just vibe with tokage from sumikko gurashi. i’m asexual. i’m 19. i’m autistic + adhd. i write in all lowercase because i like it and it makes things easier for me. i write x reader fics. this blog will probably be multifandom eventually, but rn i’m fixated on bungou stray dogs so that’s my agenda. my favorite bsd characters are ranpo and poe.

general rules:

♣︎ i only write sfw, this is a strictly sfw blog. slightly spicy stuff is fine, i just won’t write smut or mentions of sex because i’m sex repulsed. you can still interact with the blog is you’re a nsfw account, just as long as you keep it sfw in my asks and comments :)

♣︎ this blog is meant to be an inclusive safe space for all lgbtq+ people, we welcome xenogenders, neopronouns and aroacespec identities here!

♣︎ absolutely no proship stuff is allowed on this blog, i will not write it and i do not want to interact with proshippers

♣︎ please read my request rules before requesting! they are linked at the top of this post alongside my masterlist

♣︎ please be aware that i am a slow writer! i have executive dysfunction and motivation tends to come to me very sporadically. i will write whenever i feel like it, so don’t expect a schedule or consistency, this is a casual writing blog

♣︎ this list might be updated as i run the blog and realize i need to add stuff <3