Curly Headcanons || MouthWashing
» Curly isn’t overtly romantic, but he shows care through consistency. Sitting beside someone during long shifts, wordlessly handing them what they need, remembering small preferences.
» He prefers relationships that don’t demand too much emotional performance. Comfortable silence, shared routines, parallel tasks. He feels safest with someone who doesn’t push him to explain himself constantly.
» Curly subtly positions himself between his partner and danger, standing closer during tense moments, stepping in before arguments escalate. He’d never call it “protecting,” but it’s instinctual.
» Before the crash, Curly dodges conversations about “after” or long-term plans. Not because he doesn’t care, because part of him is afraid that naming a future makes it fragile. He lives in the present with the person he’s with.
» Post-crash, Curly struggles to believe he deserves affection. If someone stays, he assumes they’re doing it out of obligation. He loves deeply, but it’s tangled with self-blame and shame.
» He won’t admit needing reassurance (well he cant), but he lingers, he stares, normally itd make someone uncomfortable, but your happy hes still alive, after everything.
» When things get too intense, Curly pulls away, not to hurt his partner, but because he thinks distancing himself is “doing them a favor.” He believes his presence is a burden.
» After the crash, relationships become anchors. He survives because someone is still there. If a partner reaches for him first touch, words, forgiveness, it breaks him open in the quietest, most devastating way.
Bleehhhhh X3 Idk, anyways hope yall like it