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Send me a 🌠 and i’ll tell you three things i associate with you

*Rubs hands* I was waiting for this

1. Um you already know I’m gonna say goats and cats?? Like you know I wasn’t a big cat person before I got to know you (I liked cats, cats were good, but I was always more for dogs), but now?? Cats?? Are?? So?? Good?? But yeah, you the goat boy. 

2. Writing in general?? I’ve been in love with your writing since the first time I read your RP bio on the first blog I followed you on, and I’m still here three years later bawling my eyes out whenever you post anything. So just?? All your writing?? Especially AUs and also heart-wrenching RP threads?? I mean, you got me to kill off my girl Claire, so that she wouldn’t have to live on without Mick…

3. Honestly I could say so many things for this one, but I’m gonna go with saltiness? Because man, can you (and I) salt about things for hours on end, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. 

What other people do you associate me with?

I honestly wasn’t sure if anyone would associate me with him anymore but!!! Yes that’s my dude!! Actual footage of me looking @hillbillied though:

I can’t believe I forgot to do this one, I’m so sorry!! But yes my dude, okay, Runner, totally had a crush on Leckie?? But tbh he totally ends up with Chuckler because those two sweet boys love each other too, and Runner’s crush on Leckie probably turned more platonic with time?? Especially when he found out Hoosier liked Leckie and noticed Leckie liked him back (because damn son Leckie was obvious af with that, but he refused to admit it, that stupid boy). 

Anyway!! Some headcanons!! I don’t have a whole lot, because I haven’t focused on that a whole lot, especially seeing as there’s already some known about it! So some things might be stuff that comes from actual things! Some of these might also be repeats of stuff from my last thing I wrote, so I’m sorry about that if that’s the case!

Leckie started reading to escape from his many siblings, and to get a calm moment in his otherwise very busy house. Especially when he was younger, he’d hide anywhere he could think of (under the dining table, in closets, in the bathroom, in the garage), just to get a calm moment. 

Being the youngest, he’d get forgotten quite a bit. Not in the sense of his family actually leaving him somewhere, or abandoning him places, but in the way of them forgetting he exists until they do a headcount a realise something’s missing. Which would then lead to a call of “Robert, come here right now!” and for Leckie to pop out from underneath the sofa or something. 

He’d totally also take advantage of that to get a calm moment, because he would quickly learn how long he could be “gone” before someone realised. 

He wrote his first story when he was maybe 7 or 8, calling it “Too many sisters”, because he had too many and he used that as his inspiration. 

He started “acting out” quite early to get attention. While being a really good student (because, man, is that boy clever), he’d get himself in trouble as a way of trying to get some attention from his parents. He probably continued doing that until he got back from war, because him going to war in general was a way of making his parents proud of him/notice him - which we all already know didn’t really work. 

(Honestly let me fight his parents bye)

He never really had any encouragement when it came to writing, and it wasn’t until high school that he properly started doing it. He had already been writing stories and his own little papers before then, but he hadn’t really allowed anyone else to read his things. So joining the school newspaper (which again was a way of trying to get attention), was what really got him going. 

Speaking of high school, he totally joined a poetry club for a while, but he quit because he didn’t like the other kids, and he also had a tendency to not pay too much attention to the others’ writing, woops...

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Okay but?? His homecoming?? Is so?? Depressing?? Like, his parents acts like him coming back is a disappointment and a hassle, and like they just didn’t expect it? They had started using his room as a storage space, which they then were reluctant to clean out because “Oh no where would we put it??”, and he probably had to clean it up himself because they just complained. 

His father was probably decent about things, but it wasn’t like he gave him any more attention than he used to when Leckie was a kid. He just left him alone and was relieved when Leckie got his job back because it got him out of the house again. The same probably applies to his mother, even though she’d be a lot more vocal about what she’s displeased about or how disappointed she is about Leckie’s lack of a fancy rank and shiny medals. 

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Smol disclaimer that some of these have been worked on w/ @malarked so I can no longer remember who originally came up with the thing. Also, this is probably a mix of a lot of things, that’s like during the war and like post-war and stuff. Idk, I have written these two with Ed for too long and we have too many AUs and things.

Leckie never learnt how to drive before the war, since he grew up close to New York. He mainly didn’t really need to, but he also never really got the chance to learn. It wasn’t until post-war that he learnt how to, and that was mainly thanks to Hoosier teaching him (and being really patient about it and being so proud of when Leckie got his license. Basically, they’re cute af)

The first place Leckie drives them to after getting his license is their favourite spot in a forest of some sort, and they sleep in the back of the truck and watch the stars and are just... cute.

Hoosier is 100% the small spoon and Leckie the big spoon, but that might have already been established tbh.

Leckie wears glasses for no other reason than to look smarter, and Hoosier loves to tease him for it, because Leckie is just such a hipster. 

Hoosier is a great cook (credit to Ed for that one), and he cooks Leckie meals whenever he has a lot of work, and makes sure he gets his sleep and take breaks and stuff. 

They own a bathtub for the sole reason of soaking and washing together after sex, because it gives them an excuse to cuddle and still stay close

They love going on roadtrips together in Hoosier’s pickup truck and just stop in shitty motels to sleep, or sleep in the back of the truck if it’s warm enough. 

Leckie’s family doesn’t like Hoosier at all - not only because of the gay thing, but also because they think he’s too uneducated - and Leckie gladly cuts all ties with them, because it’s not like his parents have ever done much for him. 

Basically, get Leckie a better family 20kforever

Seriously, anyone who makes my boy look like this does not deserve him:

Hoosier thinks Leckie looks super hot in his dress blues, so that’s pretty much the only reason Leckie ever wear them. 

Hoosier fell in love with Leckie LONG before Leckie realised he wasn’t a Good Straight Boy™, and even after he realised he had feelings for Hoosier, he still struggled with them A LOT. Basically, I can talk about this for years, I have so many emotions about Leckie’s internal struggle with his sexuality. 

Hoosier totally didn’t think Leckie would fall for him, because, look, he’s not intellectual or educated or anything, but fuck, does Leckie fall HARD for that blond sweet boy. Yikes, okay, Leckie is so in love, but it takes him SO LONG to admit it. 

Basically my boys are sweet and good and OTP and I love them more than air.

Like, y’all, if this isn’t the face of a man madly in love, I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS. LOOK AT THAT FACE. THAT SMILE. THIS IS ALL AT LECKIE.