hello … may i humbly request great tiger as your bf headcanons with gender neutral reader if u can… thank yeww
Great Tiger as Your Boyfriend HCS!! <3
also requested by @thisisdoggy ! this guy is popular lol
tws/cws: mentions of fears of abandonment, him randomly teleporting into your house uninvited
reader's gender is neutral/not specified
vv stuff underneath the cut!! vv
Your and Great Tiger's romance would be very quick-onset. You two met very suddenly (and quite randomly).
It was one of those lazy days, and you had decided to go on a short forest walk and stay by the creek for a bit, just to relax and unwind after the stressful week you had had.
When you make it to the creek, you see a man sitting underneath a tree, meditating in complete silence.
He doesn't seem to have noticed you yet; his eyes are closed, and he's completely still.
Not wanting to disturb him, you turn to leave, but are stopped in your tracks by a chaste, 'Wait!'
It's the man who was meditating under the tree, urging you not to leave just because he's there.
He soothes your worries about disturbing him and even invites you to sit with him.
He continues meditating, and you (try your best to) join him.
Soon after, he has to leave, and he just… teleports away!!??
You're genuinely dumbfounded and just sit there, trying to decipher whether the man was even real.
Before he leaves, he tells you that he really enjoyed your company and that he would like to do it again sometime.
A few days later, you're flicking through TV channels when you come across a boxing match from the WVBA.
To your great surprise (pun slightly intended), Great Tiger is in the midst of a fight with this short guy from the Bronx (guess who).
It was here you realised, the man you met was not merely a meditator, but a magician!
He's teleporting all over the place, he's making clones of himself?? This cannot be allowed in boxing, but it looks cool, so you don't mind.
He acts very differently from when you first met him; he's very, almost overly, confident and parades himself around like he's the most powerful man ever, even when he's about to lose.
When he does lose, you see him teleport… somewhere??
You instantly rush to the creek where you first saw him, hoping for him to be there.
When you arrive, you see Great Tiger sitting down, arms and legs crossed, in a huff. He's clearly angry and upset about his loss, but doesn't seem to want to tell you about it.
So.. Instead of asking him about it, you decide to cheer him up by saying how amazing he looked out there.
Great Tiger is quite surprised that you were interested in his boxing career, but soon graciously takes all of your compliments with a slight air of arrogance.
Like you say something like, 'The way you teleported was so cool!', and he replies with, 'I know.' (self-confident king)
After this, you and Great Tiger become good friends. You talk to each other very often, sharing advice, stories and joking around together.
Eventually, you notice some.. Odd things start to happen.
Like you find random packages at your doorway, even when you haven't ordered anything. And they all contain things that you mentioned you needed or wanted to..Great Tiger?
You don't make the connection straight away, but you also start to notice how.. different Great Tiger is acting around you. It's like he's holding something that he doesn't want to let go of yet.
One day, out of the blue, you get a CD delivered to you.
Not thinking anything of it, you play it, only to hear Great Tiger... singing? Well, he's more rapping; there are a few singing tidbits.
It's a mushy, somewhat cringey love song. The quality is also absolutely atrocious, but in a 'It's so bad it's good' kind of way. (Think 'On the Floor' by IceJJFish or something.)
It's very sweet and genuine, though, you can tell he means what he says.
After listening, you go to visit Great Tiger and confess how you feel the same way about him.
It's very cute.
I think that Great Tiger has a lot of songs written about you, even from before you were together.
He has whole albums' worth of (admittedly mediocre) music dedicated to you.
Always sends you demos or songs he's about to release and asks you for your opinions on them.
Also may perform them for you, if you ask.
If he manages to get a venue to perform in, he makes sure you get whatever seat you want, VIP, backstage pass, everything.
Absolutely loves showing you his powers, whether it's showing how his powers have grown or a new technique he's learned.
Absolutely nothing compares to the moment he showed you his clones for the first time,
You had already seen them on TV, but you never thought they were actually.. real..
That was until one day, you spotted him doing something, put your hand on his shoulder and phased through him.
Of course, you were very freaked out, and the real Great Tiger rushed downstairs to see what was wrong.
He realised he's never actually shown you his clones and explained them to you.
Being with him is… quite the adjustment (but in a good way).
You constantly see versions of him running around doing whatever, and you genuinely don't know if the one in the kitchen, the one in the living room or the one in the bathroom is the actual one.
Loves letting his clones do things for you (and him) lol.
Thirsty but don't want to get up? Great Tiger has already summoned three clones that are rapidly approaching your location with water, snacks, and even a blanket.
He’s also fond of getting stuff off high shelves for you. He literally floats up into the sky, grabs whatever you need, and descends slowly and dramatically like an angel giving you the gift of eternal knowledge ( he just wants to look cool lol)
He takes great pride in doing the things you can’t do; it makes him feel important and needed by you.
But don’t think he’s doing everything though, Great Tiger is a little (more like a lot) spoiled and loves it when you do things for him (perhaps a little bit more than he likes doing stuff for you, kinda real tbh)
Also, you have to deal with his constant teleporting around the place.
Sometimes he randomly teleports right next to you, gives you a kiss and teleports away.
Actually teleports a lot, often randomly drops into your workplace/college/wherever to give you lunch that his clones made before teleporting away.
Your relationship is never really 'long distance', even when he's boxing in a whole other country, he teleports to you and back regularly and keeps you updated on what he's doing.
I feel like he would take you on little trips with his magic carpet, too.
Just little excursions.. sometimes to the park, sometimes to one of the restaurants in town, other times to the corner shop to get a few snacks.
Basically, every day with Great Tiger is an adventure; he makes sure of it.
From all of this, you can probably infer that Great Tiger's main love language is acts of service and gift giving.
This guy adores getting you gifts. He loves how he can just magic up whatever your heart desires with so much as a flick of his wrist (and around twenty minutes of waiting for his clones to go shopping and bring the stuff back).
Great Tiger has actually gotten you so much stuff, it's insane! His favourite things to give you are definitely beauty products and perfume, and maybe some clothes as well.
You have a whole drawer filled with perfume oils and sprays that he has given you, all with different scents and intensities, so you have something for every possible occasion.
If I'm being honest, Great Tiger is very easily... Bored when you're not there with him. Whenever you're away, he just floats around half-asleep, missing the ways you talk to him and keep him on his toes.
Along with teleporting to your work/college, he also just teleports into your house, sometimes unannounced. He has accidentally jumpscared you before by just appearing in your peripheral vision or after you find him randomly making coffee in your kitchen.
This is honestly the only real 'issue' in the relationship. Great Tiger is kind of used to just doing what he wants, and you have to tell him if you don't want him to do that type of stuff.
Whatever you have to say about it, or anything else he does, he takes it on board and tries to stop or, at least, lessen the frequency.
There is the odd time that he sees a particularly annoying speck of dust on the floor and gets one of his clones to pick it up after he leaves, though.
Anyway, being with you has really opened up Great Tiger's eyes in ways even his constant meditation couldn't. He grew up quite sheltered (which I may elaborate on soon idk..), and that, combined with his powers, left him with a narrow worldview.
He's learned that things are not always easy, and that lots of things can't be solved by just magicing them away or ignoring them.
Speaking of meditation, he 100% gets you to meditate with him, especially underneath the tree where you both met. To him, it's a great opportunity to connect with you on a deeper, more spiritual level, while also reliving the memories from when you first got together.
Although at times, he can't help but be a little... Distracted by you. The way your face scrunches up in concentration, or even the ways you get distracted by the noises or scenery around you (or Great Tiger himself, he always notices this btw).
Would he let you watch his training? Absolutely yes, PLEASE come. As I said before, he loves showing you how strong he is and how he's improved; it gives him such an ego boost to see your eyes light up or when you ask him how he did something.
Would he let you watch his matches, though? Absolutely depends. If he believes he has a good chance of winning, he'll let you watch, but if he has even the slightest thought that he might lose, he makes up an excuse for you not to go.
He does not want to be embarrassed in front of you; the thought of being seen in his vulnerable, defeated state by anyone (but especially you) makes him want the ground to swallow him up.
He would never, ever tell you this, but sometimes he worries that you wouldn't like him (either as much, or even AT ALL) if he didn't have his powers.
For reasons I may discuss later, he believes that his powers are the most interesting and important part of him, and if, by some horrible tragedy, they were taken away, you would leave, or not want him anymore.
This is obviously not true, but do still try to praise him for the other parts of him; it'll quell his dread tenfold.
In short, you're very endearing to him, and he utterly reveres you.
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hope you guys enjoyed this stuff!
this is officially my longest post yet, over 1.7k words (excluding author's notes)!! we will soon have the 2k word headcanon post mwahahaha














