Regressor!The Deep Headcannons 🐬🍼
-- About 99% of his regression is involuntary. If he feels small, he's gonna be small. While he can go into headspace voluntarily if he sets the mood right, it's borderline impossible for him to come out of headspace before he's ready. He basically just has to wait it out.
-- He has a pretty wide regression range, with his youngest age being 4 and his oldest being 10. However, he typically falls between the 5-7 range just because that was before his powers really developed and his insecurities started.
-- Speaking of his insecurities, his age regression is really high up there on his insecurity list. He's definitely more insecure about his gills and maybe his feelings of inadequacy, but I would say his regression probably takes second or third place for what he's most insecure of.
-- A reason adding to that insecurity is the fact he has some trouble figuring out what he wants/needs when little. He can't always find the vocabulary for what he's feeling, so he sometimes struggles to tell that he's hungry or tired, leading to some crying tantrums. It's only worse when he doesn't realize that the funny feeling he has is that he needs to use the restroom.....
-- It took a lot of convincing and swearing he was still a big boy, but his fish friends were finally able to get him try out some protection, so if he can remember he'll make sure to put a pull-up on, but nine times out of ten he'll make it in time. He's very thankful for his pull-up's on those times he doesn't make it though
-- He tends to overeat and binge on junk food a lot, making him feel really icky. 😢
-- He's a little Jekel and Hyde for real. He can be the absolute sweetest boy in the world, all loving and caring and cute. And then he can become a total tantrum throwing brat like that. Thankfully he doesn't have any sibbys or playmates because OMG the tears that would be shed and the tantrums that would occur over sharing toys would be ridiculous.
-- He doesn't have too bad of tantrums; they usually just happen when he's really, really upset and can't find the words to express it. He usually just screams and cries and plops down on the floor while his fish friends try to calm him down. Poor guppy just needs to get those big icky feelings out.
-- Would totally play up his cute factor and charm to get what he wants out of his caregiver. He's a master at puppy dog eyes.
-- Despite all his fussiness and bratty behavior, he really is just a sensitive boy who wants some loving on. When everyone thinks you're annoying and a joke it's hard to be the happiest little.
-- No matter what age he's regressed to, he still uses his pacifiers as they're a huge comfort to him. His main comfort items include: his pacis, his blanky that is covered with cute cartoon sea animals in a coral reef, his sippy cup + bottle, and his collection of stuffed animal sea creatures.
-- He has this blue stuffed seahorse that plays lullaby music and an otter that glows, plays music, and has a breathing motion for relaxation. He can't sleep without either of these. He cuddles their glowing bellies and listens to the music/breathing while watching his fish friends swim around in their tank like his own personal sheep to count himself to sleep. He's a spoilt little guppy.
-- He normally drinks out of his ocean themed sippy cup, but before he goes to bed, he always has a bottle of milk or cocoa for a little comfort. He's like a toddler on the final stage of getting weaned off the bottle.
-- If you though he talked about the ocean a lot as an adult get ready for when he's little cause oh boy, he won't stop. He'll talk and talk and talk and talk. Even if it's not about the ocean, this guppy just loves to hear his own voice.
-- Loves to play pretend with his stuffed animals or fish friends. He's pretty lonely so when he can't go swimming, his stuffies are his only friends. He loves to play games based on roleplaying like house, school, zookeeper, and even work where he'll sometime pretend he's Homelander.
-- He has action figures and other toys of himself and The Seven, which he plays with as a way to process the way they treat him or as a way to feel respected by his team. It's not uncommon for the toy versions of Homelander and The Deep to team up as best bros for Kevin's games
-- The Seven don't know that he age regresses but some of the members definitely recognize when Kevin is acting a little more childish than his usual self. No one has ever said anything about it though. The members that have the most knowledge of whatever's going on with him are Queen Maeve, Black Noir, and Translucent.
-- Whenever he feels like The Seven are being mean to him, he'll cry about it to his fish friends. Even then, the fact that they can't really give him hugs or cuddle him makes him very sad. He'll cuddle his stuffed animals and just wish he had a Mama/Papa for him to really get some comfort and loving from.
-- Despite how sad most of Kevin's regression seems, the majority of his regression days are spent playing, relaxing and snacking. Despite his shame about it, he really does love regressing and it makes him feel so carefree and destressed about the world around him.
