#considering that

(1) Super annoyed that the characters don’t look anything like his drawings, especially Binghe.

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(2) Super excited that the characters look exactly like his drawings, especially Binghe.

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(3) Binghe is the only one who looks how he imagined, and he doesn’t know how to feel about that.

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Ah! Thank you so much for your comment, invicta. qUq I really try my best, and so it’s really nice to know that you like my writings. Whether it’s blurbs or notes or full-fledged writings, it’s fun to just be able to write and show you guys!

But romantic Ignis, you say? I think I can come up with a few headcanons for you in regards to that. c:

— Ignis is a cool and composed man. He knows how to charm a person, how to sweep them off their feet, to swoon them with poetic words and sincere gestures. He’s the prince from a fairy tale, a knight in shining armor, valiant and charming. Only… Well, it’s easier said than done. He knows how to do all of the things to make someone like him, but putting them to practice is a completely different story. He fumbles over his words a bit when he speaks to his crush, often sounds overly technical and analytic when it comes to matters so mundane. It almost seems as if he’s challenging someone with every one of his words, but he honestly just wishes to talk civilly. It isn’t until later that he realizes that he perhaps should have tries calming down his nerves.

— In addition to Ignis’s nervous rambling, he has a nervous habit of adjusting his glasses when he’s uncomfortable. Gets really touchy with them by pushing them up, adjusting them on his face, sometimes taking them off to clean them with a small cloth, putting them back on, fumbling with them again, so on and so forth. It becomes rather obvious when he gets flustered and nervous around someone he’s crushing on, especially when he’s at a loss on how to interact with them.

— Ignis would have to take a moment to recollect himself before he becomes more able to control his thoughts after his first realization of his feelings and thoughts. But once he does, he becomes a bit more composed with his behavior around his significant other. Adjusting his glasses only a little bit, and now able to develop a coherent and legitimate conversation with the subject of his interests without fumbling over himself. He’s actually quite smart and polite when he’s not tripping over his rushed words. He just needed a moment to figure out what his strategy was to approach and converse.

— He often finds himself staring a bit more than he would notice. He will watch, analyzing actions, gestures, smiles, words, everything he can to learn about his crush. He watches as they eat. The sheer idea of him being able to make someone happy with his cooking. So he’d be subtle with his gestures despite his staring not being as subtle. He’d use everything he’d learn about his crush to do something to please them, especially if he can cook something they’d like and them watch curiously and admiringly as they ate.

— When Ignis converses with someone he’s interested in, he’ll make it his point to stare into their eyes. Sincere and genuinely interested in what they have to say, it often seems intense that he’s doing it, or perhaps they never really notice at all. But when Ignis talks with someone he’s interested in, he’ll make sure to listen to every one of their words. To get to know them and to find out just what he can do to make sure that one day, he’d be a pleasant significant other.

— Despite Ignis being rather confident after learning as much as he can about someone, he often finds himself full of insecure thoughts soon after. Perhaps he was being too creepy? What if he was wrong about something? What if all of his efforts were futile in the end? Ignis is plagued with his insecurities that often make him seem a bit more distant in his own mind. But small reassurances to him from his friends or even from his crush will make Ignis confident enough to still keep trying. Because if he ever hoped for a chance to be with the person he fell in love with, he would want to make sure he was good enough to be by their side.