#remarkably bright creatures

July 15th, 2026.

hello!!!

yeth, i do!

cameron cassmore x masc reader domestic headcanons

cameron is someone who before the beginning of the relationship, when you're just talking is fun. and i think once you're established, it's fun too, but that in-between bit can be difficult.

before you're together, i think he's a bit awkward, in a not knowing to not say that type of way.

this isn't as present in the movie, but it's kind of implied cameron has some kind of special interest/hyperfixation with animals. specifically reptiles and aquatic life. several times through out the book he just spouts or thinks about random factoids that he can't remember why he knows. at a few points, he brushes it off as 'i prolly googled it out of curiosity'. it's something he rattles off when relevant (aunt jeanne's garden, a few times at the aquarium). and tends to think about when he's idle. i think it's something that would come out when he's nervous as well, so every date you leave with at least a handful of factoids.

i don't think he's good at deciphering the difference between a date and a hangout with someone who's romantically interested, so a lot of the (rare) dates he plans are much much more casual. like coffee dates don't really occur to him. he's more of a 'go to the supermarket and watch the live lobsters fight' date kind of guy. there's a fic someone wrote about him bringing you to the aquarium after hours. it's gender neutral, i believe. and the way that's written/how it plays how feels incredibly on brand for him. and if you plan more formal dates, i don't think he's opposed, i just don't think cameron would think of that.

after you're in a relationship, once he comfortable, feels like he has his footing, i think he's someone who gets weird about his partner a little quicker than most. in that way most couples do. he likes to bother you. do bits and little jokes to himself to an while you're turned away. like he's deeply unserious with his person, i do believe that. he'll ask if anyones home and interrupt with a 'huh?' when you start answering. oh, you were writing something? he took the pencil. you're doing something and don't notice? he'll mime a one-sided fight with you. sometimes he'll just follow you around your place, noodling on his guitar. he stands in front of shows your watching. he'll decline to watch a movie, only to join you halfway through with a list of questions. some of them are on purpose, some of them aren't. the line between which is which is impossible to make out.

i do think he likes to keep busy. i think he general has a hard time sitting still. if he can't find a little home project to start (or god forbid, the apartment complex won't allow him to just fix whatever he finds - from experience they tend to not like that), he'll just follow you. bother you with questions, fill the silence with random thoughts or whatever he's been researching recently. if he can ever get around the 'nerd shit' of it all i think he'd really like ttrpgs, or card games like mtg. i doubt he'd play much, but the systems themselves would be fun for him to learn about. it'd be another thing for him to ramble at you about. bc there's a good bit of that in your relationship. any information he comes across that he's excited about or thinks you'll find interesting is rambled at you at least once or twice. more if you don't stop him, let him know he told you already. he has a fantastic memory for information, just not things he's said.

you never have to trick him into doing shit, he's an adult. pretty avoidant when he doesn't wanna do something. like he might say the word no but you can tell when a ill get to it is a im not doing that. if you're already doing chores or something around the house he's been putting off and he's following you, rambling, he's going to help. he'll barely notice it's happening, far too focused on you. talking to you. watching how you look at him, to notice he's done most of the dishes or taken out the trash.

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cry? yes. be moved? yes. but a movie that's really made me feel the connection and love and just utter emotion like this one? not in a while.