#mals headcanons

With Cosette, Cosette took his breath away so quickly, delighted and enchanted him, and Marius has rewatched his favorite Disney movies often enough that that kind of sparkly, hazy feel between a girl and a boy was unmistakable. 

Realizing that the rosy glow of affection and admiration he held for Courfeyrac was more than a feeling of friendship was a little more difficult. He had no models in his head for this sort of thing. Even as his new set of friends exposed him to queer love, they’re all such an open and sex-positive group that it seemed thoroughly tied to sexuality and lust for one another. It was difficult to recognize his feelings for Courfeyrac as being related. 

It’s not until les amis are spending the afternoon in a city park together and Marius watches Courfeyrac and Cosette weaving friendship bracelets for each other that he realizes he isn’t sure who he is more enamored with, and that his feelings for one are not any different than his feelings for the other. 

WHICH AU THO… 

11. Baths or showers? Together or separate? Any bubbles or bubble fights?

They get clean separately plenty of the time, and when they’re getting ready for their day at the same time it’s no big deal to step into one another’s showers. On busy days, it’s perfunctory and no-frills, though the intimacy of that capability - to simply strip and step into the other’s shower and grab the shampoo without any fuss - is not lost on them. Particularly as both of them suffer from enough feelings about their own naked bodies that sharing them with one another so casually can’t help but be a display of comfort and trust. But on calmer days, of course those showers turn slow and languorous and… steamy.

Baths together though are always intentional. Enjolras loves the cradle of a warm, soapy bath, and even more so leaning back against Grantaire’s soft body, letting Grantaire brush out his hair. Bathtime is often part of scenes. Grantaire will spend a good long time scrubbing every inch of Enjolras till he’s glowing pink and perfect, and Enjolras adores the attention. There’s nothing better for getting Enjolras into a gentle, hazy head space, letting Grantaire maneuver him and have control.

WHOOPS YOU MEANT NSFW HAHA

11. Favourite romantic gestures during sex/orgasm?

Grantaire likes handholding during sex ;O; He’ll often pin Enjolras’s arms down above his head and then intertwine their fingers and keep them there. 

Enjolras like when Grantaire brushes Enjolras’s hair out of his eyes for him ;v;

12. How are their afterglows?

Depends! If the sex was vanilla, Grantaire will light a cigarette and they’ll cuddle and giggle and talk about how much they love each other. It’s really gay. If it’s post-scene, Enjolras is always a shaky, smiley puddle and requires a lot of soft petting and sweet murmuring and affirmation. 

14. Lights on or off? Do they look at each other? Or is someone embarrassed?

oh shit I’m not enough of a weeb anymore to come up with these 

feuilly’s old school, he probably likes dragon ball z

jehan loves the whole magical girl genre, from princess knight to sally the witch to sailor moon to madoka. They also like princess jellyfish, OHSHC, and other contemporary shoujos with lots of ~aesthetic~

Grantaire’s favorite anime is FLCL. 

Eponine is a fucking sucker for death note. that’s her SHIT. She was always torn between hating Misa and wanting to be her. 

Bossuet likes the shounen classics! Naruto, FMA, Bleach...

Joly probably likes legit children’s anime? Really cutesy stuff? I don’t know any actual titles tho D: Also Kino’s Journey. (That’s a lesser known 1-season anime with a canonically NB protagonist who had a hand in me understanding my own gender, and probably helped agender Joly understand theirs too!) 

jehan buying the lingerie as gifts for Cosette and Eponine instead, whose pretty, soft breasts they have always been envious of; they send cute mirror pics to jehan so that jehan can live vicariously through them

jehan who obsesses over their partners’ breasts when they have them, spending so long kissing and caressing them and the whole time imagining how it could feel on themself

jehan stuffing with tissues and socks and parading around their living room enjoying their own silhouette but too nervous to go outside like that, too aware of how imperfect the shape is, too self-conscious about reactions 

What they smell like: Homemade perfume, lush products, earth

How they sleep (sleeping position, schedule, etc): Not well :( They have a major insomnia problem :(

What music they enjoy: They like female pop stars (Lana del Rey, Marina and the Diamonds, Ke$ha to name a few), indigenous music, weird atmospheric sounds, and lyrics-heavy singer songwriter folk stuff. 

How much time they spend getting ready every morning: Never less than 45 minutes, sometimes up to two hours. They have hair to tame and outfits to coordinate! 

Their favorite thing to collect: Bones and other dead things, and dried flowers. Duh.

Left or right-handed: Left handed!

Religion (if any): A pagan, make-it-up-as-you-go sort of thing with catholic influences. 

Favorite sport: Cheese rolling.

Favorite touristy thing to do when traveling (museums, local food, sightseeing, etc): Jehan likes visiting graveyards! The have a dream of visiting a graveyard in every country in Europe. (Originally they wanted to visit one in every country in the world but they were urged to start with something more attainable.) 

Favorite kind of weather: Thunderstorms all the fucking way. Jehan is never happier than cozy in their home having occult fun while rain pours, lightning flashes and the sky erupts. 

A weird/obscure fear they have: This is a lot more sad than lighthearted/funny but Jehan’s really scared of being diagnosed with schizophrenia