#hatverse

Thomas Gracey - @askthehatboxghost

Horatio Ernest Topper - @ask-the-hatbox-ghost

[image ID: a screenshot of an ask that reads “do you think eliot can knit? i want him to knit things, it'd be fun to see for sure :)”]

(Tumblr ate the asks you sent me so I’m working from a screenshot I apologise @themagnificentmx)

Building on from hatverse (not to be confused with bathverse) we know that Hardison can knit and is very open about it.

Eliot I’m gonna project onto and say prefers crochet as it’s easier on the hands (imo)

He originally started as a progression from sewing (his needlework on skin and fabric is pristine and a work of art either way) when she decided to get better at fixing clothes. He found it a good way to gently keep up with fine motor skills that his chronic hand pain dulls.

(I’m gonna go back to sewing although I know the ask was about knitting I apologise.)

Eliot becomes excellent at embroidery and starts adding initials to clothing for his people. Hardison even manages to convince him to hand embroider custom leverage international sweatshirts for him and Parker.

However due to his pain he sometimes can’t do any of it. Those are the worst times, when his brain gets loud and distracted and he can’t focus his energy into the detailed task of creation. It can spiral into dark thoughts of how his hands are becoming the product of years of violence. However, that’s when he focuses on the callouses from his crafts, the ones that slip between those from guns and knives and nestle there as a reminder that his own pain has become less about hurting others and more about protecting and helping.

Anyway, Adam got this for him when he moved to Cambridge, and Ronan wears it because it makes him think of his beautiful boyfriend (the face is bc Blue is making fun of him for wearing it facing forwards)