#gilagoona

“Oh but they were SO toxic [Fan Favorite Character] deserves better!!”

OH WOE MONSTER HIGH G1 HEADCANONS BE UPON YE 4: GILAGOONA EDITION

Because they're my babies and I love them both so very very much

Lagoona

I always thought it was a little stupid that she hates geology, (ofc I'm biased I love geology) especially since it plays a huge part in coral reefs and coastlines so FUCK YOU MATTEL she's a huge geology nerd and she's absolutely in love with the Screamerican landscape and wants to study geology in Screamerica

Also related to the geology one, she does lick rocks. Just a little bit. Y'know to tell if they're shale or not. Definitely not because she wants to eat them.

Since she's half sea nymph she does have some amount of water magic, but it's not nearly as strong as her mothers especially since she takes more after her dad; she's mainly able to waterbend at a basic level, nothing like pulling water vapor out of the air like in G3, she needs a decent amount of water to be able to waterbend.

Neptuna is now a black devil anglerfish instead of a piranha because piranhas are freshwater and anglerfish need more love anyways. Lagoona also has a pet dwarf ribbon seal named Miss Blubbles; she taught her how to 'cheer' (slapping her belly to sound like applause) and 'perform' (Lagoona puts a toy trumpet up to her nose and Missy blows into it to play it)

Gets very cold very easily since New Salem is much colder than Australia and she's semi-cold blooded and can't really wear warmer clothes because her skin needs to breathe

Frequently sunbathes on rocks and sometimes falls asleep she gets so relaxed (side note HAVE Y'ALL EVER LAID ON A BIG ROCK THAT'S BEEN IN THE SUN FOR A WHILE?? IT'S SO NICE I SEE WHY REPTILES DO IT ALL THE TIME)

Internally screaming %80 of the time because of global warming causing ocean acidification causing large-scale coral bleaching/death which is one of the most telling geological/paleontological signs of a mass extinction event BUT IT'S FINE :)

Defo has beef with humans since they're the main cause of ocean pollution and aforementioned coral death and because they always act like she's an attraction for tourists whenever she visits home

Her species of sea monster doesn't create their own calcium, they get it from the crustaceans they eat and in a pinch eat coral skeletons. Thus Lagoona often gets the urge to eat chalk and other types of limestone since they're both essentially made out of calcium.

Her freckles are actually electroreceptive pits like on crocodiles; her face is especially sensitive because of it, one dodgeball to the face and it's fucking OVER for her

Gil

Japanese American because I'm sick of you people calling him white when he 1. Looks fucking Asian 2. Every single last outfit he has either has Japanese wallpaper or the Great Wave off Kangawa on it WITHOUT FAIL 3. His dad was in the 'koi' scouts and koi are native to Japan. 'oh but his last name is Webber' it's very common for immigrants to change their names to something more 'acceptable' and that's probably what his dad's family did. 'that's not confirmed though' yeah no they implied him to be Japanese for shits and giggles. (This was less of a headcanon because I actually fully think this is canon but I digress)

Had his lungs removed when he was young because he got very sick; the leftover scar ends up making it look like he had top surgery and he usually has to explain such and he jokes about accidentally queerbaiting people

Hatched in Brainerd, Minneskullta by the Hississippi since when Lagoona's imitating his mom it sounded pretty Midwestern to me and she says something along the lines of '10,000 lakes', which Minnesota is the land of ten thousand lakes and he also gives off a lot of Midwestern to me; A lot of freshwater folk in Screamerica are from Minneskullta because of all the lakes/the Hississippi.

Fucking loves dairy since he's midwestern and also because bones made for water tend not to fare too well on land, he needs the calcium. Also fish fucking love cheese in general.

Memory of a fucking goldfish, bro cannot remember SHIT due to the culmination of mild brain damage from SKRM, ADHD, and simply being a fish. Also tends to jumble the fuck out of his words sometimes and can be quite gullible despite how smart he is.

His favorite snacks other than seaweed are garlic Parmesan snails, ranch flavored crickets, and scareiyaki leeches. Also loves pistachios but doesn't bother taking the shells off to the dismay of literally everybody.

I always thought it was sad that his parents wouldn't let him have a pet so I made it so that after he moved out he got an asthmatic pygmy beaver and named him Critter (also because I find it funny that he's a RIVER monster with a pet BEAVER). He spent at least two weeks teaching him 'greet' (Critter grabs the person's hand and gives it a kiss) to impress Lagoona.

Bonus lore relating to the last one; freshwater monsters in Screamerica domesticated beavers to stop them from building dams in the rivers river monsters were living in and to help build dams to make lakes for lake monsters. Pygmy beavers are the domesticated beavers and regular beavers still exist, Gil didn't just snatch up a random beaver, they're still pretty common pets for freshwater monsters in Screamerica.

He always carries around a dry erase marker so people can doodle or play tic-tac-toe/hangman on his helmet when bored during class or just for fun, and he's now goated at hangman from playing it so often. He also whips out paint markers for special events for people to decorate him; at the end of the year he tries to get people to both sign his fearbook AND his head

Plays the bass since 1. Fish hear low frequencies the best 2. Bass is spelled the same as bass which is a type of fish lmao 3. His parents are fucking squares and hate nu metal so natch he learned to play the bass as a rebellion since the bass is one of the most iclawnic things about KoRn other than the drums and vocals.

The walleye in him takes over sometimes and his eyes just start drifting apart when spacing out, sometimes he only blinks one eye and he can roll his eyes in different directions; he's blind as shit outside of water since his eyes are missing a lens that allows his species to see above water.

Lagoona x Gil:

Since Lagoona is always fucking cold and Gil is always fucking hot they snuggle to achieve perfect body temperature. Also Gil always gives Lagoona his jacket when it's colder out since he's used to it (being from Northern Minneskullta n all) and she isn't.

Gil likes to gently pull one of Lagoona's curls and say 'boioioioing' when it springs back up. Lagoona loves it.

If Lagoona's running late or running out of moisturizer she throws herself into Gil's arms to get covered in his slime before giving him a quick peck and running off.

Gil's always blowing heart-shaped bubbles at Lagoona if they're too far away to talk or if they're not allowed to in class.

Since Lagoona fucking loves geology and Gil fucking loves entomology they have the best nerd dynamic ever conjured. Lagoona lifts up the cool rocks to look at them and then Gil gets to look at all the funky little bugs underneath!

Lagoona absolutely loves Gil's thundering (fish noise). 9 times out of 10 she buries her face in his chest to really feel the full rumble.

Pansexual queen and her bisexual malewife. (Lagoona has the pan color scheme in her design and Gil has the bi color scheme in his design)

They are both pathetically fang over heel for each other. Gil thinks Lagoona looks like an absolute goddess and that no one could ever look hotter, cuter, or more beautiful than her in both looks and personality. Lagoona couldn't even imagine a more attractive and caring boyfriend if she tried. She finds him absolutely smoking and even more so when he rebels against his parents to defend her honor. (WHICH HE HAS DONE CANONICALLY BY THE FUCKING WAY)

Gil helped Lagoona name Miss Blubbles. "It's a combination of 'bubbles' and 'blubber'! And she's quite the distinguished lil lady too." They both baby-talk each other's pets constantly and act like parents to the little creatures, putting them in tiny clothes and making them dance a lil jig.

Gil always puts his arm out for Lagoona to hold onto since they can't really hold hands because they're webbed.

OH WOE G1 MONSTER HIGH HEADCANONS BE UPON YE PART 5: GILAGOONA 2 ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

Because I think about them very frequently it's becoming a problem

Lagoona

Absolutely DESPISES MICROFIBER TOWELS, they catch on her scales and ruin her whole goddamn week she will waterboard you if you dare present her with a microfiber towel

Practices her waterbending by chucking balls of water at Heath when he's being a creep. Gil often lets her take water out of his helmet for her to do so.

Neptuna's gettin pretty old so Lagoona has planned out what she's gunna do when she eventually passes. She decided that she'll get a necklace made out of Neptuna's teeth and lure and bury the rest of her off the shore so she can return to the ocean.

Biting is her love language she'll either actually bite you if she knows you well enough or pretend to bite you. If you offer to let her gnaw on your arm she'll happily accept.

Beasties with Frankie because I think it's fucking rude and criminal that she was never anybody's best friend and was an afterthought to most of the group; Frankie because 1. Lagoona knows what it's like to be the new ghoul 2. Clawdeen has Drac and Ghoulia has Cleo

She does shed her skin about once a month; will chase you around with some of her shed skin for shits and gigs and then will eat it when bored in class.

Sick and tired of normie tourists trying to hit on her whenever she's visiting home; would beat the shit out of them if she was allowed to but would rather not get arrested.

Gil

Is working on learning more about his Japanese/East Asian River Monster scareitage (since his parents were pretty fucking gentrified) and signed up for the Monster Exchange program to spend time in Shibooya like Drac did and connect with his culture more.

Once in a blue moon Deuce asks him if he wants to be on the casketball team, to which Gil responds by just placing the ball in the basket to emphasize how unfair that would be due to his height.

Sort of a Northern version of a redneck (blueneck?) and is well versed in fishing, camping, and hunting. Loves trolling the normie fishermen whenever they're trespassing on his family's territory by playing with their lines to make them think they caught a biggun before breaking the line and thus, their hearts.

Whenever he goes fishing he brings a separate bait bucket just to snack on while waiting for a bite. Leeches go on the hook and minnows go down his gullet. Confused the fuck out of Lagoona when he first brought her fishing.

Absolute EEBY DEEBY that boy could sleep for a whole week if he wasn't a complete glutton that hunger wakes him up. He could sleep anywhere bro if he's in a spot where he can lay facedown he will take a nap right there. Is this related to his insomnia? Yes it is. Am I projecting on him about my insomnia as I write this at 5:30 in the morning? Also yes. Kill me.

Often babysits for the Wolfs when Clawd and Clawdeen are busy (since neither of them trust Howleen) and it's a chance to get away from his parents. The pups fucking love him and bully the fuck out of him like Lagoona's brothers did in GSR.

When he got sent to boarding school he defo just started throwing hands when the new scaremester started to get his ass out of there and back to MH. 'they couldn't change me so I'm back' bullshit dude you put someone in the hospital to get kicked out. 'Course nobody needs to know that.

Gil x Lagoona

Gil is a more powerful swimmer than Lagoona because river monsters are built to swim against the flow and up stronger currents like rapids and flash floods whereas a reef sea monster has no real need to be able to swim that hard. However Lagoona's built different and Gil is a fucking simp for her so he lets her win half the time in their races.

They love surprising each other with little treats throughout the week. Gil usually brings Lagoona a milkshake and Lagoona usually brings Gil some mac n cheese. Or a sub sandwich. Or whatever his hungry ass is craving that day because like I said, hell hath no gluttony like a freshwater fish and as the saying goes, 'the best way to a man's heart is through his stomach.'

Gil likes to tease Lagoona by flopping on top of her when she's sitting or tackling her onto a chair and trapping her underneath him. Lagoona pretends to be annoyed but it's kinda relaxing, like a weighted blanket. A very wet, slimy weighted blanket.

Whenever they make out, since natch Gil has to have his helmet off Lagoona keeps him hydrated by putting her hands on his gills and waterbends to make sure he doesn't suffocate. Gil goes fucking insane for it, since it's such a vulnerable position for him to be in but Lagoona's always there to make sure he'll be okay. And in general anything with the gills is very intimate for water monsters. A lot of very loud, very affectionate, very passionate rumbling is heard from Gil when they do this.

Lagoona can't fucking drive since she doesn't have her license because she keeps failing her test so Gil's always her go-to for transportation because SOMEHOW he's the best driver out of the friend group. SOMEHOW. She loves going on car rides with him and just kinda follows him around when he's on his escapades. Gil, of course, loves it.

Lagoona constantly jokes about getting Gil pregnant and tibbiaych, Gil would let her.

Since Gil has that really bad habit of ripping out his scales when stressed or anxious, Lagoona tries to keep his hands busy when he's high-strung by just examining them or letting him play with her hair or some sort of whiteboard game on his helmet.

Lagoona doesn't mind that she can't just kiss him on the lips whenever since she can leave kiss marks all over his helmet whenever she wants. She purposefully layers her lipstick on a little thick for prime kissy kissy marks on Gil's glass. Gil proudly totes the kiss marks around for as long as he can before either the school day ends or it starts to stain.

Ever since Gil joined dance class Lagoona has been gunning to teach him that move where your partner leaps over you and you catch them and spin them around c'mon y'know what I'm fucking talking about I'm not getting a gif for this. Gil learned it pretty quickly but they save it for special events to flex on everybody else. In return Gil has taught Lagoona a few of the square dances he learned back in Minneskullta, including that fuckass pretzel one I can't even describe but yeah that one

These two idiots have defo recorded at least one joke ASMR mukbang to try out each other's cultural snacks. They were absolutely fucking unable to stop giggling the whole time and it only got worse when Lagoona gagged on a leech and Gil's drink splattered out of his gills, they were both dying of laughter. They never posted it but they watch it back fondly in class and try to keep their mouths shut to the best of their abilities.

Maybe I missed something, but as far as i'm aware, none of the G3 ships are 100% together yet... which makes a lot of stuff I see, particularly anger, very funny.

Poll Time ! (Again.) I wanted to know what the general consensus on the canon, or implied to become so, ships in G3 of monster high, and what better way to do so than a poll? I’ve only included the ships that are more clearly being put into the show, so no toradeen (sorry!), and none of the ships introduced only for monster match. Feel free to also leave your reasoning for why you’ve chosen a specific one !! And thank-you to all those who vote !!