#mimi hcs

i know this was probably for a three-sentence ficlet thing i was doing like… forever ago, but i’m loopy with sleep deprivation and this is what i’m imagining, sry it’s not really in fic form:

angel is pretty tall and favors sturdy, chunky heels for daily wear. mimi is tiny but very determined. they go grocery shopping together at least every other weekend before they start their girls’ night in. inevitably, there is ALWAYS something on a high shelf that they absolutely Must Have, and mimi will take off her shoes and climb up onto angel’s shoulders to grab it without hesitation. 

on one memorable occasion she couldn’t quite reach and she had to actually stand on angel’s shoulders, wobbling the whole time, and (thoughtlessly) threw her spoils down into the cart before clambering down, so that she wouldn’t drop them. the container - which was, in fact, plastic, but apparently very brittle - fucking exploded on impact and they had to abandon their cart and race away from the scene of the crime in the hopes that they wouldn’t be banned from that location - it’s the closest grocery store to mimi’s apartment and neither of them want to have to lug the bags on and off the bus, ugh.

oh, tons! i have tons of headcanons for all of the characters, i know the vast majority of the shit that comes out of my mouth is mark and/or roger related but they are all my children, i swear.

some mimi headcanons:

carries a little first aid kit in her purse, which her little sister made up for her ages ago. mostly she just uses the bandaids out of it. they have sesame street characters on them.

leopard print is her favorite pattern.

she enthusiastically models clothing for angel when they go “shopping” aka they go mall walking so that angel can get ideas on how to improve on mass produced designs.

she has a nightlight. she’s not scared of the dark, but the light is cool and soft and soothing, and it casts nice shadows on the ceiling.

she is an arm-wrestling CHAMPION (she plays so fucking dirty)

piggy back rides are her favorite, and she is very small, which works out in her favor. roger (and all of their friends, honestly, no one is safe) is conned into giving them to her on a regular basis.

none of her friends now know how she contracted HIV, except for angel. she would probably lie if they asked. she doesn’t talk about being raped. she really hasn’t come to terms with it yet.

when she found out that benny was married, she literally kicked him out of her apartment without his pants, and he had to do the walk of shame upstairs to ask mark if he could borrow some. this was a few months before mark knew who mimi was, and roger was sleeping, in the middle of yet another nasty bout of withdrawals. mark went downstairs and apologized afterward, on benny’s behalf, because that’s just the kind of person mark is. so. that’s how mimi met mark.

she loves having her hair played with but she’s VERY sensitive about having it pulled.

she loves her acrylic nails - she does them herself regularly - but will not hesitate to ruin them in a fight. or during sex. fuck it, right?

gold eyeliner is her friend. it really complements her complexion.

some maureen headcanons:

she loves lava lamps and probably has a whole bunch of them. when she and mark were together, they’d have sex in the dark with just the lamps casting multicolored light over them.

she changes her hair color at least once every few months, sometimes every week. cutting her hair / trying out new styles is like a cleansing, calming ritual for her.

she was a really tomboyish kid. she used to tell everyone that she was never going to get married because who has time for that?

having serious feelings for people makes her extremely nervous. she has commitment issues out the ass.

she’s never happy staying in one place, doing the same thing. she likes variety in every part of her life: her career, the foods she eats, the sex she has, the media she consumes.

when she was young she wanted to be an actress, but she hasn’t ever had the patience for it. maybe now that she’s a little older and has her shit together, she might be able to manage it.

she’s taken a few improv classes and they really stuck with her.

public speaking is something she naturally excels at. she’s very persuasive and charismatic.

she is all about platonic kissing. she does a very poor job of explaining this to her partners. she doesn’t usually ask them how they feel about it, which is pretty thoughtless; she then gets defensive when they (rightfully, kind of) feel cheated on. so. all around, terrible communication and boundaries, mo.

she believes in supporting local businesses, and she was the reason that they all started frequenting the life cafe.

she writes slam poetry and performs it beautifully.

hmm, i feel like roger would definitely have MORE tattoos. i see mimi as being interested in tattoos, but she’s very young compared to him. would have had less time and less money to get them. roger was the lead singer of a metal-rock band, he most likely had some extra cash for a couple of years, and probably plenty of buddies willing to ink him for free or at least discounted.

plus… i assume that roger got his diagnosis when he was a bit older than mimi was when she got hers. the ADA technically makes it illegal to refuse services to people with blood-borne illnesses but i can see the whole idea of going to a shop and asking someone to jab you with needles, knowing you have a contagious disease in your veins, would be… anxiety-inducing. i mean. you don’t know how they’re going to react. angrily, maybe even violently, depending on what sort of neighborhood you’re in… i headcanon roger to have gotten most of his many, many tattoos before his diagnosis for this very reason. and mimi… i dunno, i don’t think that she would bother. she’s got plenty of other forms of self-expression to fall back on.

if anything, i can imagine mimi getting tattoos after she gets together with roger, inspired by him, emboldened. i’m sure he could bring her to whatever artist he’s gone to, who he knows will be safe and cool about it.

possibly they’d get some cute, tacky little couple’s tattoos. i think mimi would like that. and i think roger would take basically any excuse to get inked. after a certain number, we all sort of get like that. it’s… addictive. the pain, the intimacy of it, and the look of the ink shiny under your skin when it first heals up.

MIMI MARQUEZ:

favorite dessert is unequivocally strawberry rhubarb pie and probably the only person who knows this about her is angel, because she almost never has the opportunity to eat it.

mimi knows the value of loving yourself, and she loves herself as much as she can, probably a healthy 8/10. she presumably leaves benny when she finds out he’s married (my personal headcanon, but i think it’s a reasonable assumption), and she usually treats herself pretty well. the whole running off and living on the street thing was sort of a low point for her, not reflective imo of her self esteem on average.

mimi dropped out of school before graduating, something she really regrets. but her best subject was social studies. had she kept going, she might have fallen in love with history.

her hands are small and incredibly delicate. they shake, partly because of unaddressed malnutrition and anemia, partly because of the drug abuse, but they’re beautiful regardless. you can see her veins (also small and delicate) on the backs of her hands and on the insides of her wrists. her fingers are long and thin, her palms are relatively small. the skin is soft - she’s very attentive to her skin, owns a collection of scented lotions and moisturizers and pays special attention to her hands, because she knows they’re one of her assets. being tiny is something she knows attracts people to her, particularly the men who pay to see her dance at the club, so she’s not afraid to show them off. she paints her nails, most often in shades of light blue/green. 

mimi is young and passionate about everything, so no... she’s not very patient about a lot of things. she’s learning to be, and she wants to be, but she’s not entirely there yet. her diagnosis definitely hasn’t helped in this regard, because now - as much as she fights the notion - she feels like she doesn’t have enough time to wait around for people who aren’t willing to take a chance on her, and things she’s not sure will ever happen.

i actually talked about her voice in a recent post, but here it is again:

mimi’s voice is high-pitched, nasally, and the fact that she’s a smoker also gets more obvious the louder she talks. she was not made to project her voice, that’s for sure. but that’s fine. she’s never liked singing much, anyway (she’s an alto if you were wondering), not the way she loves dancing. she sounds more jersey than new york, and it makes her friends wince a little, but she always speaks so gently most of the time that you almost forget about it. her laugh, however, is silvery and clear and so easy to fall in love with.

mimi loves kids and is GREAT with them. she grew up with a lot of siblings, so she’s known how to care for kids and the best ways to play with them since she herself was barely more than a child. she comes up with the best games to keep them entertained, and is always happy to listen to them ramble on nonsensically the way children do. she always imagined herself having kids, but not while she’s still young. i think mimi is self-aware enough to understand that she would not make a responsible mother at this point in her life, and definitely not until she quits heroin for good.

mimi adored angel, because she'd sit on the floor with her and gossip about boys at her school, listen to her chatter about her day, braid her hair, bring her little treats...