#eloises headcanons

joy - nail art. it was one thing she picked up during her year out of school, as it would take her hours and she needed to fill up the day. she’s super talented at it, and can do really intricate designs easily.

mara - blogging! she started during her preteen years as a kind of journal thinking no one would ever actually read it, but she ended up with quite a few followers who loved reading about the drama at boarding school. she changed everyones names slightly for anonymity, but she found that writing to an audience was much more therapeutic than writing to herself in a diary.

kt - plant mom. if it weren’t for the fact that she has 2 other roommates, she’d have way more plants than she already does. she just loves the way they brighten up the room and gives her something to nourish and care for.

willow - photography. i know it’s mentioned in the show slightly but she genuinely is really good at it. she doesn’t tend to use regular film or digital cameras though, she prefers film and polaroids. her room is decorated with little pictures of her friends and pretty birds.

fabian - astronomy and astrology. he’s pretty much the only one in the house that has properly used the telescope in the living room. he’s become really good at identifying constellations and planets. he doesn’t really believe in astrology but he can’t help read it every time it comes up.

mick - he plays guitar, but what most people don’t know is that he likes to write little songs and verses when his emotions get the best of him. he wrote a number of angsty, edgy songs when things with amber and mara weren’t working out. he takes a lot of inspiration from the likes of arctic monkeys, the killers, coldplay, and foo fighters.

alfie - drawing. he’s done it ever since he was a kid, drawing boldly coloured dinosaurs and aliens and whatnot. and he still does do that, but he’s also become very skilled at realism and drawing what he sees. jerome caught him drawing his side profile during a particularly boring french lesson. he gave trixie a drawing of her as a rock star for one of her birthdays. and, in the least creepy way possible, he’s drawn amber from across the room a few times.

jerome - directing. he first fell in love with it when he was directing mara and joy’s play. even though he never had much of a say in the play’s plot, he much preferred it to being on the stage. so, when he went to uni to study business and finance, he joined the film society and produced a couple short films during his time there.

micks a die hard man utd supporter (it just feels like he would be) and patricia was born and bred in liverpool, so there’s that. it just means that they’re not always watching together. but on days when they play against each other, the whole house is walking on eggshells. whoever wins gets bragging rights, and the other becomes victim to a week of gloating. the other students at anubis house know very well just how easily those two get irritated, so if they’ve lost, it’s best not to bring it up again. no one else in the house seems to get how important it is to them, apart from mara and eddie, who find it weirdly endearing.

when mick and amber were together, amber wouldn’t mind watching, but she often got bored just before half time. although she’d sometimes get mick to put the la galaxy game on just so she could look at david beckham for 90 minutes. then when mick and mara got together, they were watching for different reasons. mick watched for the love of the game and the passion for his club, whilst for mara it was strictly tactical. she’d analyse the game as if she was their actual manager or something.

eddie tried to get into it for patricia’s sake, but he still thought it was nothing compared to american football. yeah, he’d cheer them on besides her, but he still thought “soccer” was pretty lame either way.

eddie rolled his eyes at that.

“i already flipped my room upside down looking for that stupid letter, so i know i haven’t got any hoodies in my room. i know this house is cursed but they haven’t magically disappeared, you’ve taken them all!” he said, as he poked an accusatory finger at her chest.

patricia crossed her arms defensively in response. “still have no idea what you’re on about, weasel. as if i’d wear anything that’s been on your sweaty self”.

eddie let out a smug laugh. at this point, he knew patricia wasn’t gaslighting him, but was just trying to keep all his hoodies for herself.

“oh yeah?” eddie smirked. “then why does your hoodie say ‘colorado state university’ on the front?” he asks, as he peels patricia’s arms away from their crossed position. “didn’t know you’d been to colorado, yacker.”

patricia’s shoulders dropped, as she knew she’d been caught.

“okay, fine…” she admitted. “but i didn’t mean to take them all, honest. i steal them after you wear them because they smell like you, and i just forgot to give the old ones back” she said, looking down at her feet in embarrassment.

eddie’s face dropped at that. he knew things had been tense since the term started, with the breakup and his sudden fascination with kt, but he had no idea patricia was taking it so hard.

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the hoodie thing started at the end of last term when they realised eddie was going straight back to america, whilst patricia had to see her own family before she could catch a flight overseas.

others knew patricia as a stoic, no nonsense kind of girl, especially when it came to boys. but eddie saw a different side of her. it had taken a long time for patricia to open up fully to him, and when she fell, she fell hard. they had both put in months of work to get into the position they were in before the summer, and patricia was afraid that a couple weeks apart would start tearing down the foundation of trust they had built together. she didn’t want to admit it, but she was dreading being away from him for so long.

the night before he left, the couple were laying in eddie’s bed, enjoying their final few hours together. fabian and nina were spending the night at uncle abe’s, so the empty room meant patricia could be vulnerable with eddie in a way she wasn’t with anyone else.

the laptop sat in front of them, playing some thriller movie patricia loved that they’d seen a thousand times before. patricia’s head was laying comfortably on eddie’s chest as he rested his hand atop her head, cradling her against him. his eyes were drooping, and he was just about to fall asleep when he suddenly heard patricia mumble into the thick fabric of his hoodie.

“you smell really nice” she muttered.

“hmm?” eddie questioned, half asleep.

patricia chuckled slightly. “i said, you smell really nice.”

eddie was more awake now, brushing his fingers through her hair lightly.

“well thanks, yacker” he replied with a smile. “it’s that nice bottle my dad gave me. from christmas, remember?”

patricia nodded in reply, before nuzzling her cheek further into her chest.

“don’t take this the wrong way, but i’m really gonna miss you” patricia admitted, purposefully facing away from him.

eddie laughed quietly at that. “why would i take that the wrong way?”

“because your ego is bigger than your massive head” patricia snapped back, laughing as well.

eddie rolled his eyes at her snarky comeback, knowing she was using jokes to overshadow her true feelings. she had learned to be more open with him, but relationships were still new to her, and the idea of being so honest with eddie still made her head spin.

“i’m gonna miss you too, yacker” eddie replied, placing a soft kiss on her head.

“we’ve just been spending so much time together,” patricia continued, “and it’s gonna be weird knowing you’re not around all the time.”

“i get that” eddie replied, racking his brain for ideas on how to comfort her over the summer. besides the obvious texting and facetimes, he wasn’t sure what else to do.

“i know!” eddie stated, suddenly remembering the time the students at anubis house sat around the living room after their most recent prom having a little after party. patricia got cold in her dress but was enjoying herself too much to go upstairs and get changed. eddie then spotted his hoodie he’d thrown over the couch earlier that day, and helped her put it on without ruining the hairstyle amber undoubtedly spent ages doing. eddie’s heart swelled at the image of his girl in his hoodie, leaning against his shoulder as she laughed and joked along with her friends.

eddie initially hated the idea of coming to boarding school in the uk, but he’d do the entire year a million times over as long as it lead him to her every time.

he sat both of them up in his bed as he shrugged his hoodie off and handed it to her.

“take this with you” he said, sincerely. “it has my nicest cologne on it, so when you wear it, i won’t feel so far away”.

patricia smiled at the gesture. “i mean, it’s not as high end as any of my jumpers,” she joked, “but i’ll take it. thank you.”

“anytime” he responded, pulling her back into his chest as they slowly dozed off, the scent of his fanciest spray swirling around her.

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“oh…” eddie said quietly, now full of guilt.

“it’s whatever, you can have them all back” patricia told him, as she started pulling hangers out of her wardrobe.

“no, no, no!” eddie rushed towards her, hanging his hoodies back into her wardrobe. “you can keep them, it’s fine. i can buy some more, and they look better on you than they ever did on me anyway” he said, cheekily.

patricia hated how those comments still got to her after everything. if any other boy had said it, she would’ve gagged in their face and marched away. but with him, it just made her heart jump and her cheeks flush.

“listen, yacker…” eddie started cautiously, now looking at the ground himself. “i’ve been thinking…”

“oh, that’s never good” she interrupted.

“yeah, whatever” eddie smirked. “i was thinking, you know, about us.”

“oh…” she replied, nervously. if this was him breaking things off for good, admitting he liked someone else and never wanted to be with her again, she wasn’t ready to hear it.

“i was thinking, and you were right. i didn’t communicate enough when i was in america, and i’m sorry i made you spiral and start thinking the worst of me. but you have to understand, i was never doing it to you on purpose. i had just found out i was the osirian, and then nina told me we had to be kept apart. honestly it freaked me out a lot. i was supposed to protect her, and now i’m finding out we can barely be in the same room together? i was scared, and so i isolated myself from everyone besides her. i should have told you about it, about the letter, about everything, but i promised to stick by her no matter what. i guess i momentarily forgot about the other girl i promised to stick by.” eddie scratched the back of his neck awkwardly after his rant, showing how guilty he felt.

it hurt patricia to hear that she’d been forgotten about. but she understood, really. nina had come out of nowhere and became an invaluable friend to them all in no time. she understood how he’d forgotten about her while worrying about nina, because she had done the same to him last year. every time eddie and patricia were on good terms, a new sibuna task whisked her away and occupied her mind so much that she’d forgotten about him sometimes. if he could forgive her for that, she could forgive him for this.

“eddie, it’s fine, i get it” she replied, placing a comforting hand on his shoulder.

eddie finally picked his head up to look her in the eyes as relief washed over his face.

“okay, good” he breathed. “because i was also thinking that now that we both know nina’s safe, it’s time we start again.”

“really?” patricia asked. she tried to mask her enthusiasm, but eddie caught the way her eyes widened with excitement.

“yeah! fresh start. no secrets, no fights, no chosen one. just you and me, like we were before, yeah? maybe i can steal my dad’s car for the night, drive us down to the beach and we can talk more there. it might be windy, so it gives you an excuse to wear my hoodie again” he said, with a wink.

“oh, i don’t know” she replied, sarcastically. “i was only wearing it because all my nice clothes are in the wash, you wouldn’t catch me dead in public wearing any of your things.”

“yeah, whatever yacker” eddie smirked, as he backed out of her room. “tomorrow night, after lights out?”

“you should be so lucky” she giggled.

eddie just rolled his eyes and shook his head playfully as he finally walked out of her room.

a few minutes later, joy walked in to an excessively smiley patricia, who was busy hanging up new photos on her wall.

“oh god,” joy playfully groaned, “what have i missed?”

the two girls laughed as they sat on patricias bed, ready for a debrief.

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eddie couldn’t help but smile as patricia slid into the passenger seat of his dad’s sleek black porsche, wearing one of eddie’s favourite hoodies.

“ready to go, yacker?” he asked, as he started pulling out of his dad’s parking space.

“as i’ll ever be” she replied, grinning to herself as she looked out the window, watching the school building slowly pass by as eddie started driving towards the beach.

not entirely sure how i feel about this one but it’s been in my drafts for ages so thought i’d post it anyway

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