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Fenn (😶) : Ok so this one's a bit of a joint one with Tobi, and this headcanon has absolutely NOTHING to do with any canon evidence and EVERYTHING to do with exactly one (1) doodle Lennon posted on her Instagram story in February.

In this doodle, Tobi describes temperature using Fahrenheit. The obvious explanation for this is that the author is American (even though she lives in Canada now), so obviously she's gonna use Fahrenheit, HOWEVER. I'm going to take this as an opportunity to read way too much into miniscule details ☝ and because it's simply impossible for the health of the universe for Tobi & Fenn to not have opposite characteristics, I've taken this to mean Fenn (and Sona in general) would use Celsius.

(Fenn feels very strongly about his form of measurement and gets VERY irritated when Tobi uses Fahrenheit to describe things. Obviously Tobi keeps using Fahrenheit anyway but Fenn almost always "corrects" him when he uses it. Eventually they just get used to the fact that they're always gonna think about it differently but the two forms sometimes makes their conversations. Very confusing for anyone who's listening in.)

Tobi (😶) : I think it's already fairly well known that I have a headcanon about Tobi playing the banjo, but I also have a second musical headcanon about him playing the fiddle (and now I'm thinking about him playing harmonica.... god I need to put him on every folk instrument ever). This headcanon actually comes from when I went to see The Crane Wives in concert earlier this year! While we were waiting in line to get into the venue we passed this absolutely beautiful violin shop and it just. IMMEDIATELY made me think of Tobi. (Along with the fiddle headcanon it also sparked the idea of Tobi running an instrument repair shop in the future -- I have NO idea why it took me so long to think of it because it's such an obvious conclusion to come to for him. It combines all his favourite things...music, working with his hands, taking apart things to see how they work...)

Oskar (😺) : The obvious one is that Oskar would absolutely adore Miss Sofia Mittens, ALMOST as much as Fenn and Tobi themselves (I have such a precious headcanon of Fenn putting Miss Sofia Mittens in bows for special occasions and since Oskar does canonically know how to sew, I like the idea of him making her a bow or two as a gift). But I think we can all agree Oskar loving Miss Sofia Mittens would just be canon.

So a different one, hummmm... Well, I did do that mini comic recently about my headcanon about lil Fenn catching frogs and trying to keep them as pets. And, while I do think that Oskar wouldn't let Fenn keep them in the house, because well. Obviously. I do think he would've encouraged Fenn making friends with the farm animals, especially because of Fenn not being very good at making friends with other people. Oskar might've had names for some of their livestock already, but in my head lil Fenn wanted to name ALL of them, plus every other critter he found on the farm (yes, frogs). And Oskar humoured him and used all those names as well :). Actually the idea of lil Fenn having a bit of trouble trying to come up with names and Oskar throwing ideas out there for him to choose from is REALLY adorable... His wonderfully proper way of naming animals came from his uncle 🥺

Greenley (❤️‍🔥) : Both of the headcanon asks I got about Greenley have to do with his love life, I LOVE that we can all agree to be enchanted by this Lilly character... We've only just started to actually learn stuff about Greenley's relationships and his life outside of work, so this is a complete shot in the dark, but... I like the idea that Lilly is the one who gave him his pet rock (to keep him company while he's driving, obviously). Not sure if that counts as a romantic headcanon, but he likes that it reminds him of her. He keeps it in his truck while he's doing his rounds :)

Alice (🌟) : I think she's like Tobi -- she doesn't have some grand dream she wants to fulfill, she just wants to be peaceful and happy somewhere. They've both seen enough of where rich and famous people end up, they've seen what the war's done, and they don't want any part of it, y'know? And I don't think she's found it yet either because, unfortunately, they also share the situation of being trapped in their circumstances. In Alice's case because she was a servant to the Hawkfordts, and because she's a commoner (which in law gives her less rights) but also because, even now, she still comes from a family that's entirely employed by wealthy Vaylinian families. She still didn't get away from it, even when she was fired. (There are a couple reasons why I think when/if Alice and Tobi meet again it's going to be a lot more complicated than we expect, and that's definitely one of them. She'd want to help him because it's Tobi and she sees him like her own son, but the External Circumstances are ever pressing)

Edward (💔) : God, Edward and his immeasurable levels of angst... Ok so this is one I've had for a while about younger Edward! I like to think that when one of his trains broke he would give it to Tobi so that he could take it apart and look at the inner workings. But Tobi would've still been small enough at that point that he couldn't really understand it fully yet, and Edward obviously loves trains and Knows Everything about them, so they would've spent a couple hours sitting on the floor with the dismantled train as Edward tells Tobi what all the individual pieces do... This is definitely one that's ignoring the canon a little bit because it's been made clear that Edward didn't like letting Tobi near his trains, but, y'know... I like it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Eventually though, Tobi stopped messing with only the broken trains and started to get in trouble for taking apart and breaking things he wasn't supposed to. So Edward stopped letting him have his broken trains because it was seen as him "encouraging" that behaviour (not that I think Vivienne/Francis would've been privy to them doing this because they wouldn't like it anyway even if Tobi wasn't acting out, but IF they ever found out that would definitely be the attitude -- even if they didn't I think Edward would stop on his own out of fear of getting in trouble). It was one of those little things that preceded them really starting to become distanced from each other...