#refelines

I do have some hernandez twins headcanons to share teehee

They both have been referred to as 'the other one' so many times in their lives it became an inside joke.

Tyler is a dog person, Taylor is a cat person.

They prefer working out together if they can.

Taylor knows the password to Tyler’s phone. Tyler doesn’t know hers (he doesn’t really need it, anyways).

Tyler doesn’t have much time to listen to music, and therefore hasn’t developed any strong opinions on genres or artists, so he listens to whatever Taylor is listening to.

Taylor often does Tyler’s homework for him if she knows he’ll be busy until late that day.

Tyler naturally wakes up before the sun is up, Taylor would sleep until noon if she could.

Tyler knew how to write her name before he knew how to write his.

Taylor’s first ever thing she’s made in the mechanics club was a gift for Tyler.

At this point, Taylor has wore every hairstyle under the sun that she physically could wear, because Tyler needed a test subject.

They used to have a running joke where Taylor would note down every instance of Tyler laughing out loud in her notes app. She stopped doing that a couple of months after meeting the rest of the gang.

Tyler did his own piercing.

Taylor is infinitely better at Mario Kart than Tyler and it pisses him off (Tyler "I'm not angry, this is just a stupid fucking game" Hernandez).

Tyler enjoys drawing, even if he does it very rarely and it's mostly just doodles in his school notebooks. -> whenever somebody (probably Aiden) looks over his shoulder to see what he's doing, he slams the notebook closed and tells them that it's nothing.

Tyler is the kid in your Call of Duty lobby that is throwing around the most heinous of insults and cusses up a storm when losing (he calmed down a bit since then).

There has been multiple instances where Taylor has brought a stray animal home when they were kids.

here's what I thought up after some time:

Ashlyn

Is literally never seen wearing any other hairstyle other than two braids, the only exceptions being ballet and the phantom dimension (totally not based on me btw) this is kinda confirmed by that one panel btw if we assume that these are their worst fears or most hated selves or whatever

look. her hair is undone. sounds about right to me (undone hair is one of my worst sensory nightmares, on par with ponytails…)

has very bruised feet and legs from doing ballet

Tyler

his hands are rough and calloused. They're also littered in small scars from all the cuts and burns he's got while learning how to cook and manage the household in general

has his ears pierced and wears earrings (I think this one is canon?? i dont remember exactly. I do remember that he's into piercings and such though)

his hair is soft because he takes great care of it (and, frankly, he's very proud of it, too, even if he won't ever acknowledge it out loud)

keeps himself in shape, has good eating habits and exercises regularly because he takes baseball seriously

Taylor

her hands, much like her brother's, are also rough and calloused (even if somewhat less so, because she actually takes the time to take care of her hands)

her hair is soft because Tyler makes sure she takes great care of it

she has a mole in the same spot as Ben and thought it was the coolest thing ever when they found out

takes good care of her nails and sometimes has them done (rarely, though, and she always keeps them short, lest they get in the way while she’s doing mechanics)

she‘s very physically fit and is definitely strong from doing mechanics and having a healthy diet, thanks to Tyler (additionally, she and Tyler probably work out together a lot)

Aiden

his lips are chapped 24/7 all year round (additionally, he has to buy new chapsticks all the time, because he keeps losing them)

bro is, like, lowkey strong af from all the sports he does. Do you know how much body strength does rock climbing require?? do you know how much leg strength do you need for skateboarding?? do you have any idea how much freaking endurance does that boy need to have???

alas, he's skin and bones. his diet is basically non-existent. -> he often gets dizzy while doing sports, but doesn't stop anyway unless he's literally about to lose consciousness because he's stupid (affectionately)

peach fuzz (he frequently either forgets to or can’t bring himself to shave)

Ben

bro's eyebags are heavier than his punches, and they have been that way even before the whole phantom dimension thing. If there is anything that Ben and Aiden have in common, it's their sleeping schedules (there are no schedule)

slouches a lot to appear less intimidating (and probably has / will develop back problems bc of it)

he has a mole in the same spot as Taylor and thought it was pretty neat when they found out

has got a cauliflower ear from one of the fights he got into in middle school

Logan

very short nails because he keeps biting them

has a habit of drawing on his hands when bored

has pretty thin skin, so his veins are often visible

sometimes has his nails done by Taylor because he can’t say no even if he wanted to and it kinda suits him 💅💅

rarely shaves; he thinks the little of the facial hair that he has makes him look somewhat more mature (not really)

headcanons of the sbg gang in an escape room, here we go!

It was Aiden's idea to go to an escape room. He loves puzzles, and this was one big, human-sized puzzle, inside of which he could literally walk and touch everything and stuff. It's so much more fulfilling to him than his regular puzzles (and that's saying something!), he made it his mission to visit every single escape room in the area he was staying in every time his family moved, which made choosing a place a 1000% more difficult, because the group didn't want to drag him to a room he already solved.

The gang voted against doing anything horror, despite Aiden's whining. "Was the fucking phantom dimension not enough for you?" - Tyler, probably.

Game master, at the entrance: "The record for this room is 27 minutes" Aiden, turning towards the group: "Bet we can do it in 10"

Despite it being Aiden's idea, he's the one who spends the most time complaining, sometimes broken up by occasional periods of him, as he would put it, 'locking tf in'.

Tyler didn't exactly want to admit it, but he got really into it after a little while. He came in with the mindset of 'this is for kids' and 'this is stupid', but ended up taking it upon himself to manage everything, split the tasks between everybody, and note down all the clues, as well as engaging in passionate discussions about the solutions to the puzzles.

Ashlyn was secretly glad to let Tyler take over.

At one point, Ashlyn and Tyler end up fighting over a solution for a solid 5 minutes. Aiden, Ben, and Logan watched the fight, silent, engaged in it so deeply they didn't dare to stop them, eyes darting from one to the other like they were audience at a tennis match. Behind their backs, Taylor solved the puzzle in question. The actual solution was completely different from both Ashlyn's and Tyler's.

Ben got called out by the game master for trying to twist something in the wall that he thought might be either a clue or another puzzle, which it wasn't, and he got so embarassed by it he couldn't stop thinking about it the entire game.

There was one puzzle that involved looking through the insides of some sort of mechanism, which Taylor liked a lot even if it wasn't particularly complex, as it was made to be solvable by people who don't neccesarily do mechanics.

Aiden "Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you guys, I saw *proceeds to tell them about a clue they've all been actively searching for for the past 5 minutes*" Clark

Taylor "This is nothing more than just those point-and-click games, this is gonna be easy" Hernández

Ashlyn "I told you so" Banner

Logan would probably be anxious about time the entire time. He's the guy to keep announcing 'it's been 10 minutes', '40 minutes left', '20 minutes left'. Déformation professionnelle.

Logan's academic knowledge helped them figure out the correct solution without finding the last couple of clues once. The game master didn't even know it was possible for that particular puzzle.

Aiden definitely tried to make small-talk with the game master multiple times while laying on the floor starfish-style.

"Hey, game master, how often do the players try to get that axe?"

"Young man in a red hoodie with a smiley face, do not rip out the battle axe from the wall. It is a part of the room decoration and is not meant to be used during the game."

Taylor, together with Ben, solved the most puzzles out of everybody.

Aiden probably dragged Ben to escape rooms with him all the time, which is why Ben is actually pretty good at them and, unlike his cousin, actually posseses the attention span required to solve it calmly with the others.

Aiden: "We are NOT asking for a hint!" Ashlyn: "Aiden, we need to, we're stuck-" Aiden: "No, we're not, I think I've got it!" *types in some number combination. The screen beeps 'wrong'.* "Fuck!" Logan: "Let's ask for a hint-" Aiden: "NO-" Tyler: "Oh, for goodness' sake- *turns around and looks up at the camera* GIVE US A HINT!" Aiden tackles him. Game master comes on to both tell them to stop wrestling on the floor and that it was their last warning, and to give them a hint. At the end, a faint, barely heard sigh could be heard from the GM: "teenagers..."

They solve the escape room in about 50 minutes. They could do it a lot faster if they didn't fight over about anything and took it more seriously, though, but they didn't feel like taking it seriously. It was their well-deserved break from taking things seriously.

Ashlyn thought it was sort of refreshing to do something like this with the group without fearing that a potential mistake could actually harm them greatly.

alright *cracks knuckles* let's do this 1. Aiden

The unbeaten winner as of today, he is definitely the best at puzzles among the entire group. He has been shown to canonically spend a lot of time with puzzles, enjoy them a bunch, and be able to solve them very quickly. His title as The Puzzle King (made up and bestowed upon him by none other than himself) has been challenged multiple times by brave and fearless knights like Taylor, Ben and Tyler (although, the latter more out of irritation than anything), but alas, he remains undefeated. And he is, frankly, very proud of that fact. 2. Taylor

Taylor has the patience and the intelligence to be good at puzzles, given that she's a part of the mechanics club (which is all, basically, just big puzzles - said by somebody who has no idea about mechanics), but she also has the (friendly) competitive spirit to want to get better at them just so she could beat Aiden at least once! Not to mention that Aiden, probably, yaps a lot to her about them, which is why she might know a couple tricks and also feel excited about solving them!

3. Ben

Ben, frankly, spends a lot of time with Aiden, which means that he has probably listened to Aiden yap about puzzles a lot in his time. Like, a lot a lot. He has not only seen him solve them countless times before, but also probably knows a couple of tips and tricks on how to even solve them easier. Not to mention that he probably tried some out of curiosity, as they were often simply scattered around the house, and was most likely forced to solve some with Aiden 'to bond' or something. He's nowhere near as good as his cousin, because he doesn't really do them often, but he's not terrible either! It takes him time and considerable effort, but he succeeds more often than not.

4. Ashlyn

She never really spent much time with puzzles, and she is known to give up on things way too fast if they start to frustrate her... but, with the right kind of motivation and enough time, she has it in her to get very hyperfocused on solving that one damn puzzle™ (monotropism my beloved) until it's solved. She'll spend a lot of time on it, but she'll get there eventually, which is why she's placed higher than the ones below her:

5. Logan

Logan is... academically smart, for sure, and even generally he's not somebody you could call 'dumb', but puzzles just aren't particularly his thing. He enjoys stuff like chess, sure, and he's even pretty good at it, but apart from that... not really. He'd try a couple of times, for Aiden's sake, but would get discouraged fairly quickly. He does have the patience and mental capacity to be good at puzzles, but he just doesn't have the drive to try long enough.

6. Tyler

so since I personally don't really know that many music artists (seeing as I, uh, kinda listen to the same stuff on loop for years), I'm going to brainstorm what they'd listen to and just give you some music headcanons and hope you'll accept that........

Ashlyn

Ashlyn doesn't listen to a lot of music, period. She has always been sensitive to sound, so she simply never really developed the habit.

If she does listen to music, though, it is always very quiet and on speakers.

She's probably into stuff that is mostly calm - classical, lofi, jazz, stuff like that. Especially classical, because of her interest in ballet (although I can imagine her having a slight aversion to listening to it in her own free time instead, because of how much she has to hear it during practice lol)

Tyler

Doesn't have time to listen to music. He's one of those people that cannot focus if they have music playing in the background, so he doesn't listen to any while studying or working.

Might put something on in the background while doing chores around the house. It's usually just radio though, he doesn't have any playlists or particular song preferences.

He then spends the entire time complaining about how stupid the music people are listening to nowadays is, yet doesn't change the station anyways.

He listens to whatever Taylor listens to, so he always lets her be the one to choose the music (except for a couple of very specific songs he just can't stand. Taylor sometimes puts them on just to mess with him a bit. It works flawlessly every time)

The only actual playlists he listens to are those 180 bpm running playlists, whenever he either goes jogging or works out.

Taylor

She listens to some of the hardest punk rock you'll ever hear in your life.

She's blasting heavy metal, rap, and dubstep on the stereo as she's working on stuff in the garage all the time. The hernandez family has gotten numerous complaints from their neighbors because of how loud her music is.

Listens to the most violent, eardrum-blowing, hardcore music with the straightest face.

Needs background noise to work on basically anything, unlike her brother.

Tyler is, frankly, very concerned for her hearing.

Aiden

Playlist ranges from hip-hop to heavy metal to lofi video game soundtracks to 1970s movie trailers to country to lullabies in languages he doesn't even know the names of.

Has had one (1) single playlist since he was 11. Has never removed a song from there once. -> Ben is lowkey terrified.

Fucking try and convince me that he did not have a daycore (aka slowed + reverb) phase.

Unironically listens to mashups of popular songs and artists.

Is permanently banned without the right to appeal from choosing the playlist for any roadtrips/parties/anything else.

Ben

His spotify playlist is basically his collection of rocks. Only the best make it. He's very meticulous with which songs make it and which don't.

The songs that don't make it into his playlist of ultimate favourites have the chance to make it into about 15 other playlists, all sorted by what occasions and moods they're for.

Yes, Ben is always the guy everybody looks for when there is music needed for an occasion. -> Aiden tried to sneak his own music through Ben more than once. Ben let him.

Very proud of his playlists, too shy to ever let others listen to them. -> Eventually, everybody gets a go, but Aiden has obviously been there years before everybody else. The first out of the rest of the gang to get a listen was Taylor. Tyler was the last.

He made everybody a personal playlist of songs he thinks they'd enjoy at one point <3

Probably struggles with maladaptive daydreaming.

Logan

Enjoys those calm, dreamy songs that are nice to look at the sky to.

I can see his playlist being full of melodic songs, instrumentals, and electronic.

Learned the hard way that taking song recommendations from Taylor is a 50/50 chance for him.

Favorite flowers?

Favorite activity they’ve done/memory (duo or as a group)?

Favorite music genre and why?

Can they use chopsticks?

What is their impulse buy at the store? Food or non food?

You don’t have to do all of these but these are some random questions I thought up while bored

Hi! Thank you for the questions, I'll try to answer all of them, but probably without much detail since I don't want the post to be too long and take too long lol! 1. Favorite flowers?

I imagine most of them don't really have a preference, except for Logan, who obviously knows a lot of flowers and a lot about them because he works at his grandparents' flower shop. (I can't tell you what that would be, though, because I have literally zero idea about flowers... sorry </3)

2. Favorite activity they’ve done/memory (duo or as a group)?

They've done a lot of activities together, and everybody probably has different takes on this, but the ones they have unanimously agreed to be one of the best were the sleepovers at Ashlyn's, where they spent the weekends just doing nothing in particular: binge-watching TV shows together, playing Aiden's board games that he brought with him and that are so stupidly specific and unknown that there's literally barely any mention of them online, and chatting with Ashlyn's parents like nothing else mattered. School was promptly forgotten about until Sunday evening, the phantom dimension didn't cross their minds once until it was time to shift. They felt like normal kids their age, having friends like they were supposed to - something none of them, really, have had in a long time.

3. Favorite music genre and why?

Just answered a similar ask, you can read it here!

4. Can they use chopsticks?

So we have official art of Taylor, Aiden, Logan, and Ben using chopsticks, so I'm gonna go with that lol Taylor, Aiden, and Logan generally give me weeb vibes I'm sorry, they had to have had a Japan phase at one point of their lives at the very least. I also think Aiden was simply bored out of his mind one day and thought it was a cool skill to learn, so he spent the next 2 hours clumsily picking at noodles until he finally was able to eat without causing a huge mess Ashlyn and Tyler (somewhat) bond over their inability to use chopsticks unlike the rest of the gang. They're the fork duo whenever the gang gets japanese food frfr

5. What is their impulse buy at the store? Food or non food?

Tumblr & ao3 user @tragedry did.

in all seriousness, I already loved Tyler as a character and was very fond of Ashlyn. I randomly came across Ry’s hernandez twins fanfics (the born to love forced to grieve series, which I still can’t shut up about and which you 🫵 should read if you haven’t yet) one night, loved it, and decided to check out the rest of her works.

true to form, every single one of her other fics were ashler.

I, an aidlyn shipper at heart at that time, thought “not my cup of tea”, but decided to give one a try anyway, because I had nothing personal against the ship itself + I really liked the writing on that series I’ve read prior. The one I read was tide pools by the shore, at that time the latest fic.

it wasn’t like the born to love forced to grieve series, where the fic(s) themselves were the ‘aha’ moment for me, but it sparked just enough curiosity in me to check out the tag on ao3 and some fanart. So I did.

Fast forward a couple of months, I’m hooked, and I’m creating this tumblr blog because I was promised cookies art, headcanons & character analysis on the ship I was now interested in. Joining this community definitely solidified the vision for me and brought new perspectives that I hadn’t even considered before!!