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[yuuago]

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Headcanon Thread

[(Anonymous)]

LAY SOME HEADCANON ON ME


And, uh, feel free to make themed subthreads if you want or whatever to help drum up ideas people like organized things, right

Re: Headcanon Thread - Kissing

[(Anonymous)]

Let's talk about kissing

Because I have very few ssss/artd headcanons, and one of the ones that I do have is related to smoochin':

Lalli hates kissing with tongue. Hates, hates, hates it. His thoughts on the matter can basically be summed up as "COULD YOU NOT". Basically he thinks it's one of the grossest things ever.

No thoughts on the others, mind you.

Re: Headcanon Thread - Kissing

[elleth]

Reynir is a great kisser. Very attuned to what his partner wants and enjoys, and it's the best thing ever for him to know he's pleasing them.

(Sorry. I'm just... still working on the Reynir POV chapter for that femslash fic I mentioned in the WIP thread, but it's veering off more and more into super-enthusiastic sub Reynir territory, so I may have to cut that out and make it into a proper porn fic, uhhh. :D)

Re: Headcanon Thread - Kissing

[(Anonymous)]

Awwwwwww, Reynir would be the most adorable super-enthusiastic sub. He really does seem like the kind of person who just wants to please. ♥

Re: Headcanon Thread - Kissing

[yuuago]

Awww. Yes I love this headcanon, it's so adorable. And it seems very him.

("it's veering off more and more into super-enthusiastic sub Reynir territory, so I may have to cut that out and make it into a proper porn fic" ...Omg yes. I hope you will eventually do this. Because I would love to read it. :D)

Re: Headcanon Thread - Kissing

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, for some reason, the idea of Lalli being fussy about tongue is really cute.


Hmmmmmmm. I feel like Mikkel and Tuuri are the best kissers on the research team. Well, okay, after this week's Mikkelfail, I figure he flusters pretty easily and freezes up. Congratulations, Tuuri, you win by default.


Which is not saying much, because I assume pretty much all of Tuuri's prior experience in Keuruu has been criminally disappointing.


I bet Mikkel gets all awkward and amenable when he's flustered. (See also: this week.) He's probably a self-conscious kisser. Gets all "FUCK FUCK WHAT DO I DO NOW OHGOD IT'S A TONGUE BE COOL MIKKEL"


Kissing Sigrun is as good an idea as kissing a bear trap. An enthusiastic bear trap that you are so willing to be bear trapped by but OW. You are going to hurt.


I like the headcanon I've seen floating around that Reynir has maybe had one summer kissbuddy and then it ended due to kissbuddy moving elsewhere. He's probably not bad, since he won't slobber all over partners or try to cram his face down their throat. But he tends to be timid/needs to be prompted a lot, which kind of kills any spontaneity. His mouth is super sensitive and he gets squirmy and groany just being kissed.

Re: Headcanon Thread - Kissing

[moxieweed]

Oh no, all of these are really cute! I especially like the Mikkel ones. I'm loving him so much after this update ahhh

Re: Headcanon Thread - Kissing

[yuuago]

Have some aRTD:

Hannu isn't very good at kissing. Well, he's not terrible, but he has a tendency to be unenthusiastic about it and make the other person do most of the work. Though this can be said for Hannu + romance in general. Or Hannu + human interaction in general. He isn't the most cooperative guy.

Human!Ville is terrible at kissing and uses way too much tongue and is overall excessively enthusiastic about it in the way that makes one go Whoa, calm down, buddy. ...He just needs some practice. Probably.

Re: Headcanon Thread - Kissing

[(Anonymous)]

OH WOW I love the Lalli idea, headcanon definitely accepted.

I like to think that Emil is terrible at kissing. Absolutely terrible. Half of me wants to say because he's never kissed before, and another half of me says what happens in Cleanser camp may stay in Cleanser camp but wow, the newbies suck at kissing. Like a bunch of enthusiastic children slobbering on each other. Just gross. (I also get the feeling that if there were tentative "try to get experience at kissing" sessions in Cleanser training, Emil would be too shy to partake. Or they wouldn't want Emil to participate, because let's face it, Emil had a shitty personality at the very beginning of the comic.)

So Emil's kisses are awful. Lots of knocked noses, teeth, and awkward stillness, if he's not trying to stick his tongue down the other person's throat. He has to learn how to kiss properly from whoever he's smoochin'. After that, he's more bearable, and gives cute little pecks to people's cheek/temple/forehead. And lips, of course.

Also with Reynir, I get the feeling his family would be the kind of family that kisses each other on the cheek a lot. E.g. Seeing relatives, a sibling comes home to visit, general "good morning" or "thank you for the meal" kisses on the cheek- stuff like that. Which is great, because Reynir is used to kissing people with no qualms, and promptly proceeds to embarrass the more conservative members of the crew (because he keeps kissing them all the time, why is the sheepherder doing this, what is happening).

Family

[(Anonymous)]

Re: Family

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sort of undecided, sicne it sounds like we'll be getting more details, BUT. Bornholm is fucking crawling with Madsens. Mikkel has so many cousins/etc, that he no longer bothers to remember how he's related to many of the Madsens, they just are.


Likewise, the Norwegian army is crawling with Eides. Unlikewise, it's probably clan creed to know exactly who is part of what subset of the Eide clan. If you don't know, you will very likely learn fast when your third cousin twice removed, of the Andersen/Pedersen Eides, bolts right up to you, kicks you in the shin, and demands a fight for glory and probably whatever you're eating at the time. You bet your ass genealogical preambles are involved in the challenging process, saga-style.

Re: Family

[yuuago]

aRTD:

The Viitanen and Kuikka families are pretty closely-related. Well - okay, in a small village like that, everyone is going to be more or less related to everybody else in some way, at least distantly - and I think that Minna might have mentioned that at one point, though I can't find where.

But the more I look at Hannu and the twins, the more convinced I am that they're cousins. Maaaybe not first cousins; could be second cousins I suppose. But, something like that. They just look... similar... and I'm pretty sure this is deliberate. THEY'RE JUST all so... cheekbone-y, and Hannu's hair flips in the front the same way that it does with all the Kuikkas. Look at Hannu and Jouko here. Or Hannu and Joona here.

It would explain a lot about why Jouko bothers to employ Hannu, if he's as much of an irresponsible slacker as the text suggests.


Aaand I'm still trying to untangle the Kinnunens but that will have to wait for another time.

Re: Family

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, y'all will have to pry the idea that Sigrun's mom isn't white from my cold, dead fingers. And even then I'm not letting go of that idea, because Sigrun's mama looks more POC than anyone else so far and I'm clinging to that. (Her mom's on page 200 if anyone's interested)

Hobbies/Skills

[(Anonymous)]

Re: Hobbies/Skills

[(Anonymous)]

Onni is surprisingly good at carving/whittling stuff. That's how he kills time when he's being a nervous wreck over encroaching doom in his dreamspace at night. And probably during the day. And whenever.


Reynir, son of a shepherd, has picked up a fair amount of wool-processing related skills. He has probably been enlisted in the manufacturing process a freaking lot (pre-industrialization style production HEY-o) because it's sometimes easier and cheaper than finding help or outsourcing it to another business. So. He can shear, card, spin, weave and knit. He's better at the carding and spinning than the other ends of the process but he could probably Make A Thing if he mustered up the confidence to. Unsurprisingly, it's all very good meditation for his magic, not that he knows that.

Re: Hobbies/Skills

[yuuago]

aRTD:

Hannu spends a hell of a lot of time outside. He's rarely happier than when he's out in the middle of the woods somewhere, with peace and quiet and nobody to bother him.

He knows a fair bit about how to get around outdoors - partly from picking things up here and there, partly from doing stupid shit and learning from it.

When one gets right down to it, he could survive out there if he had to, and probably pretty well. Which would come in handy if, say, some kind of strange plague was spreading and he and Ville had to get away from civilization....

Hobby-wise, he reads. A lot. But he isn't very thoughtful or critical about what he reads. He reads the way some people watch action movies: just kind of breezes through it and at the end he doesn't really remember or care about what happened or who the characters were. He isn't selective about it either, so he usually reads a lot of crap. But he has read the Kalevala - it was during a week when the sky wouldn't stop pouring down rain and he was bored out of his mind and there was nothing to do and it was the only book in the house that he hadn't read all the way through yet.

Re: Hobbies/Skills

[elleth]

Emil has all those rich-kid status marker hobbies down from his childhood. He plays the piano and violin, tried his hand at chess and painting (and quickly gave those up again), is decent at ballroom dancing and probably even riding/show jumping, and he knows what golf is.

Which is to say - he didn't exactly lie when he claimed to be good at the things his tutors taught him, it's just that he managed to skip most things in the way of general education beyond reading, writing and a very rough idea of history.

Re: Headcanon Thread - Ville

[(Anonymous)]

#does ville even have a last name#how will he get a passport#what if he wants to register to vote#can ville read#these questions need answers minna

Tumblr tag commentary has reminded me that I have so many questions.

Give me all your headcanons on the practical matter of how Ville exists as a human plz. Because... how....

Re: Headcanon Thread - Ville

[yuuago]

"How" is right, if we're getting into like... paperwork-type stuff. It makes my head hurt if I think about it too much. :D Dude seems to have an okay time adjusting to opposable thumbs, but life can be pretty tricky at times if you don't have the correct documentation. So what happens when you have this human who apparently popped fully-formed into existence?

I mean, seriously. We know he gets a job (or at least, that the twins suggest that he get at job at the Kuikka place), but. What. How. Would Jouko pay him under the table, or what?! (I honestly can't see him agreeing to do that.)

At one point I decided that if I ever write a thing dealing with this, it'll be basically more Kokko Ex Machina. In other words, magic. A slight adjustment to the universe. Ville-the-human has "always" existed, all the correct paperwork already exists, it's just tucked away in a safe place in Hannu's house somewhere.... Because honestly the possibility that there is nothing just stresses me out way too much just thinking of it, haha.

As for surname - I usually go with Viitanen, same as Hannu's surname. I dunno how it is in Finland, but that's how it works over here, your surname is your dog's surname, officially. xD Like, the few times I've had to get medication for our dog, his name was listed on the prescription as (Dog's name) (My surname) - in other words it'd be Ville Viitanen with this example. ;p The surname connection would make the fact that he is living with Hannu easier to explain, because then (after repeated pressure to explain wtf is going on with this guy, how do you know him) all Hannu would have to do is make up some bullshit story that Ville is his... uh... fourth cousin. From, uh, Oulu. Or somewhere else sufficiently far away. Without a tenuous family connection, many of the possible excuses are kind of creepy ("Oh this is some guy I met. Somehow. Don't ask me where. And also he has amnesia or something.") - it's just so much easier to go the 'this is my weird and very distant sort-of family member'.

"Can Ville read" is another good question... I can't remember if canon touched on this? I actually think it might have, but I'm not sure - I'll have to doublecheck (will do, and shall report back - later). If he can read in canon, it's probably just one more Magic Thing that we should just accept as a side-effect of... everything. Generally, when I write him, I have him able to read, though not necessarily with a high level of literacy/comprehension. He can get by. He's working on it.

My go-to when it comes to postcanon Ville: There's a ton of stuff he doesn't know. So many things. Including stuff like how to tie his shoes, and basic arithmetic, and how to tell time on an analogue clock. So many things. But luckily for him, he learns fast - especially after Paju takes a shine to him and realizes how much he doesn't know. She might be a really strict and nitpicky person in a lot of ways, but I think that she would have a lot of patience for people who are eager to learn things and are honestly trying, and that would be Ville all over. So - Hannu would take care of helping him get the hang of lots oof the everyday stuff, and Paju would handle the rest.

Sexy Headcanon

[(Anonymous)]

Orientation, activity, social norms, etc, put 'em here.

Re: Sexy Headcanon

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, not gonna lie, I have a lot of thoughts on this.


- I'd like to think that after the end of the world, the biggest sociocultural baggage surrounding sexual activity is responsible procreation. It's okay to be sexually active and with whoever makes you happy, however makes you happy, as long as you're conscientious about the possibility of offspring in uncertain survival conditions -- and the genetics of immunity.


- Partners of any gender are fair game, with varying levels of interest across the board.


- So maybe it's pretty easy to access birth control. If you're in the army, it's all part of routine health care. Tuuri and Sigrun both have some kind of long-term thing (implant? hormonal? magic?), and maybe the world's worked out a male version? God, maybe everyone's on birth control unless otherwise noted. (Except maybe Reynir, who's been in the boonies with medical access lite and minimal choice of partners.) Poor Lalli, scratching at an arm implant 'cuz it weirds him out. Safety mittens for Lalli, too.

Re: Sexy Headcanon

[shoopzig]

Emil is gay and had a crush on every boy that was handsome and halfway nice to him until he met Lalli. Which, wait, yeah that falls under that category too.

Pls imagine rich boy Emil (and then former rich boy Emil) elaborately announcing his love with horse rides, a dozen red roses, chocolate,, etc. poor Swedish boys didn't know what was comin to them.

Re: Sexy Headcanon

[yuuago]

/throws some aRTD over here

Hannu: ...Is in more than a bit of denial about the fact that he likes gals and guys. Not that he has issues with it per se; more like, he thought he had himself figured out in that regard, and it turns out he didn't, and he's kind of pissed off about that. He's also definitely in denial about most of his kinks. Won't admit to it. His partners need to drag it out of him, preferably through trial and error.

Joona and Jonna: My headcanon is almost the same for both. Bisexual, very forward, enjoy taking initiative, like it rough, like experimenting with kinky bullshit. Someone roughing them up right back = FUN. Both are very tactile, very touch-sensitive (in more ways than one). Jonna's more into kissing and bondage, Joona's more into breathplay and hair-pulling.

Riikka: Likes girls. A lot. Definitely. Yep. (Actually, I have difficulty imagining her interested in guys, though it might be because there aren't really any guys in the canon that I'm interested in shipping her with) She's the sort who's kind of shy in bed at first, but once she gets used to her partner, she enjoys taking the initiative a lot.

Paju: ...I actually have no idea. Someone should throw some Paju headcanons in my direction, 'cause I got nothin'.

Re: Headcanon Thread - Culture

[(Anonymous)]

Some things change, some things stay the same... (my own ideas will be in the replies, need to get them down)

Re: Headcanon Thread - Culture - Manuscripts and Books

[(Anonymous)]

-Neat handwriting is very important in more remote areas where typewriters are scarce. Skalds are required to have tidy handwriting, though not necessarily required to conform to a certain style. It isn't unheard of to get someone else to write one's letters (a skald, or someone who just happens to have good writing) when it comes to non-personal communication, especially anything for official purposes.

-It's common for households to have at least one active blank book that is used as a Miscellany (typically containing, among other things: recipes, family trees, property notes, life events, medical/healing notes, song lyrics, poetry, and short stories). This is typical even in more literate/prosperous areas.

-Longform handwritten manuscripts are not as common as the short works in miscellanies. They are not preferred by those in more literate/populous areas, and possessing only these in one's personal library is a sign that one is a little bit backwater/unrefined. Typewritten/printed books for longform works are of course the ideal.

-Libraries exist in many places, but being able to take books home with you is typically only permitted in the more populous cities of Iceland and Sweden.