#renji headcanons

Shuhei

Immediate nosebleed.

We all know that Shuhei, despite being confident in his duties & abilities in battle, is easily flustered by the opposite sex

Even if they were his significant other, he would get embarrassed or rattled just looking at their chest. Never mind falling into it.

He would quickly dart up and apologize profusely

Floundering over his words, not at all helped by Rangiku or Mashiro teasing him and calling him a pervert.

Uryuu

Uryuu is a very shy boy. So he’s honestly surprised at times he has a s/o.

Usually graceful on his feet, he has been known to trip up a few times going downstairs. Falling onto his s/o and into their chest.

His glasses would immediately fog up from how hard he was blushing.

He’d try to get up as quickly, but carefully as possible. Apologizing for falling on them, but trying to ignore what just happened with their cleavage.

Anyone could see though, that something had happened. Something that Ichigo would probably loudly ask about, causing the Quincy to blush violently again.

Renji

Probably meant it as a joke that went awry.

Getting ready for bed together, Renji would get the idea of literally pouncing on them before both went to sleep.

A ‘brilliant’ strategy. If s/o didn’t roll over at that moment and his face landed in their pillows instead of the beds.

The two of them would just lay there for a moment, not sure what to do, before Renji spoke up.

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L’ORÉAL, Because He's Worth It

I just know Renji has a whole hair care regimen:

shampoos and conditions (both the rinse and leave-in types) twice a week

hair mask once a week

while his hair is still wet, he works a high-dollar hair lotion into it

goes in for a trim and hot oil treatment every 6 weeks, without fail

BI👏🏼O👏🏼TIN👏🏼 - 5,000 micrograms every day

uses the blow dryer sparingly - it's already got volume-o-plenty and it'll just damage it over time

Sounds like a lot of work, doesn't it? It is, but look how luxurious it is, I mean damn. You wanna touch it, don't you? Mhmm, of course you do.

It's so long and thick and soft (his hair, you pervert!). Women envy him for his hair. Always be wanting to touch it while they ooh and ahh and ask him questions about how he makes it so soft.

You can't help but get a little jealous and wanna slap their hands away from your man's hair, but you can't blame them. You touch it all the time.

He loves it when you play with his hair, it's so soothing. Will legit put him to sleep. So run your fingers through it, twirl strands of it around your fingers, pet it, brush it, braid it, wash it for him, put it in pigtails and laugh at the I'm so done with you look on his face. And most importantly, puuuulllllll on that shit during sexy time and watch his eyes roll back in his head.

If y'all are headed out to a nice dinner or social event or something and he's lookin' all sharp DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT touch his hair. Do you know how long he spent getting his fishtail braid just right? He'll put a hand up to stop you and say, "Not the hair, baby".

He had to rock the man bun when Ichika was a baby. Too many times she grabbed a handful of it and pulled with all of her might and poor Renji just "Ahhhh! Helphelphelphelp!" while you delicately untangled his locks from her little kung fu grip.

Sheds everywhere. Long red strands all over the damn place, you even find it in your own hair sometimes. If he doesn't use the little mesh screen over the drain when he showers, it'll be a matter of when, not if, you have to call in a plumber...again. The clumps of hair that have come out of the drain look like you discovered a new species of small, fluffy red animals.

Face Tickles™. How many times have you woken up in the middle of the night because his hair tickled your nose or got in your mouth? Too many to count. Sometimes you be gettin' mad at him too, nudging him awake and blaming him for it. He's over there all groggy and shit talkin' 'bout "Whaaa??? I can't help it" before pulling you into his arms and falling back asleep.

Relationship HCs

💝How long until they feel secure and comfortable in a relationship?

Despite Renji’s friendly and outgoing nature, and his tendency to make friends without much effort, this doesn’t mean that he’s one to open up easily to others. On the surface, he’s a happy go lucky guy without much troubles, but one has to remember that he too is a warrior. One that has been through countless battles and has experienced a lot of trauma. 

Perhaps compared to some of his fellow shinigami officers, he has healthier and better coping mechanisms but there are still things that haunt him at night. For him to feel at ease with his partner, it would really depend on how long they’ve known each other before they’ve decided to get into a relationship.

If he’s in a relationship with someone who has known him for a long time, it might be fair to say that he will feel more at ease with them and open up in a relatively shorter time. If it’s with someone he hasn’t known for too long, it might take more time. But fret not, he isn’t the type enter a relationship with someone that he doesn’t trust. In due time, he will become more comfortable. 

🔮Do they believe in soul mates?

No. Simply because he doesn’t believe in fate. To him, soulmates is a concept that ties strongly with destiny - the fact that somebody was already chosen for him out of his own will, that they were ‘meant to be’.  It’s not a fact that he will accept so easily. 

To him, his life is strongly determined by his actions. Whether the consequences are good or bad, he chooses his own path for himself. And this applies to romance too. 

For a realist to him, the concept of soulmates is too idealistic. Growing up in the Rukongai, it’s definitely impacted his perspective of 'love’  to say the least. It’s skewed his outlook on romance, and what he can expect from a relationship. Empty lies, broken promises, cheating, abuse... he’s seen it all. 

This is undeniably true. As I was trying to make a joke about it, though, I realized that everyone in Bleach is only about four degrees away from everyone else, everyone is really interconnected. However, I think Renji is actually the in-universe, Soul Society’s Kevin Bacon, where Yumichika will be like “UGH I have to go out to West 27th for a whole week” and Renji will be like, “Oh, you should try this ramen place, my dude Hiro lives out there and he says the shio is aces.” Of course he knows everyone in Squad 6, including their strengths and weaknesses and old knee injuries and career goals, because this is how he thinks a good lieutenant should be. He likes to wander around different parts of the Seireitei and he’s chatty and friendly and has a good memory for names and faces and he always knows the best place to get your spirit phone screen replaced and shopkeepers always give him deals or make him dingdang hairpins because he tends to bring in a lot of shinigami business. I think he knows the names and a couple of personal facts about all the servants at Kuchiki Manor (this kind of creeps Byakuya out, he feels this is Rude). Renji even knows people in Karakura because he went to Chad’s gym a few times, and also some of his band’s gigs, plus Urahara used to make him man the shop all the time, and somehow, customers would miraculously appear when Renji was on the register.

☰ Matched with Renji Abarai

Renji will take an interest in you fromthe first time the two of you meet, though he really won’t show it much andespecially won’t seem very interested in you romantically right away. 

It’s notuntil the two of you have spent a fair amount of time together that he’ll beginto develop feelings for you, but may hesitate to actually ask you out forawhile it could be a few weeks before he actually goes to ask you out. 

When hedoes ask you out he will seem pretty nervous and not quite himself because he willbe worried about you turning him down, he makes sure to ask you when the two ofyou are alone and will likely even ask you to go for a walk or something simplejust to ask you out. 

NSFW Alphabet

A = AFTERCARE (What they’re like after sex)

Renji takes after care very seriously. He is aware he’s a big dude, and is pretty rough during sex; not intentionally, just enthusiastic. He’ll feel bad if he leaves fingerprint or slap marks on his partners ass, and apologize. Offer to rub their back if they want but mostly just lets them lay on top of him to get a good night sleep.

B = BODY PART (Their favourite body part of theirs and also their partner’s)

Both answers: chest

He’s very proud of his chest and the amount of work it’s taken to add his tattoos on it. It’s why he’s always showing it off.

He also loves a partner with a big chest. He’s got big hands, so it takes a lot to fill them.

C = CUM (Anything to do with cum basically… I’m a disgusting person)

His favorite place to cum on his partner is their ass & back

D = DIRTY SECRET (Pretty self explanatory, a dirty secret of theirs)

Relationship HCs (under a read more because of course you would send me so many, Starry lmao)

His tattoos go a lot longer than most people might think. They don't end on his sides, and in fact go down along his outer thighs, among other places. Either way, they end before the tops of his feet.

What most people fail to realize about him was that his tattoos weren't just there for aesthetic purposes. They grew more and more as he gained strength. His initial bankai is why they started to go down along his outer thighs.

When Byakuya expressed his admiration for his work ethic and strength they'd grown a bit more as well. No longer was he trying to beat his Taicho. Instead, he simply planned on working with the other man out of mutual respect.

His friends from the academy remained much the same, with the introduction of others over time, such as Rangiku. While they didn't all hang out that much once they were on their squads or making things of themselves, they had a day every week they met up.

Drinking is easily one of his favorite pastimes. Not because it made him numb or anything like that, he never drank to that point but because his friends and their friends, and people from their squads all met up and jhad fun together.

He can cook a few dishes. Nothing overly fancy but he's learning. He wants to eat out less and bring more food to the barracks for himself instead. So he can eat and get through more of the paperwork he has to finish for Byakuya.

He considers Ichigo one of his best friends. Even though things that happened when he was in his gigai left various rumors surrounding the nature of his and Ichigo's relationship, the younger Soul Reaper made sure to clear things up with the rumormongers.

He's always down for a good spar or fight. It's the Eleventh Division in him. He'd been on that squad before being upgraded to Fukutaicho of the Sixth Division after all.