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L A N C I T T Y

Who cooks: Lance, probably, assuming Kitty’s cooking skills are on par with her baking skills.  I feel like Kitty probably has a few things that she can make passably well, mostly types of salads and pastas that are hard to mess up and won’t suffer overmuch if one or two ingredients get forgotten or measured wrong.  Most of the cooking is on Lance, though.  Anything he grills turns out especially amazing, but he gleaned enough skill off of Freddy to be a better cook than Kitty no matter the method. When Lance isn’t around, Kitty probably has a lot of meals at the Institute - I headcanon that she’s involved there throughout her adulthood, so it’s no stretch to join them for a meal every so often.

Who does the laundry and other chores: They divvy them up.  Kitty is a pretty neat person, whereas Lance isn’t really bothered by a mess until it gets out of hand.  For the sake of their relationship, Lance adheres to Kitty’s standards of cleanliness.  Mostly.  I’m sure there’s plenty of times where Kitty has to insist he put his dishes in the dishwasher or remind him that a quick rinse will NOT take care of all of the facial hair that didn’t fall into the sink.  Lance is probably almost exclusively in charge of taking the trash out and Kitty does the laundry because “not everything can be washed on a normal cycle and then dried on high heat for the quickest results, Lance - like, there’s care labels for a reason!” I think most of the other chores would depend on who’s home and what else there is to be done.

How many children do they have: I headcanon three.  The first one is definitely a surprise and Lance is very apprehensive (read: freaking the fuck out).  He‘s never considered himself a baby person and has had zero positive male (or female, for that matter) influences in his life to learn parenting skills from, so he’s sure he’s going to ruin the kid’s life.  I imagine there’s a lot of Kitty breaching the subject, only to be brushed off by Lance so many times that she lets her hormonal rage loose on him and they have a fantastic fight.  After a night or two apart, they manage to have a mostly-civil conversation where Lance is able to open up to Kitty about his insecurities and she’s able to listen and assuage without her pep-talk sounding more like a lecture.  Fast forward to Lance nearly (if not actually) passing out in the delivery room and (further on down the road) panicking when Kitty wants to try again for a girl. XP  They have another boy, which is how they end up with three total.  Lance is glad the third is a girl.  Sure, this parenting thing isn’t as awful as he thought it would be, but it’s still downright terrifying, at times, to be responsible for three little lives.

I realized halfway through the above paragraph that I lied! XP  I kind of headcanon four kids, because I have this strong desire for them to adopt another child later on when their biological kids are in their teens/early twenties.  I picture an elementary school-age boy who’s as much a victim of the system as Lance was when he was growing up.  Probably an early-developed mutant whose powers have massive destructive potential, like Lance’s do.  Someone Lance sees himself in; someone who he can’t let grow up the way he did.  So when Cerebro gets a reading and the X-Men come swooping in, it isn’t long before he becomes an official part of the Alvers family. :3  Kitty likes when Lance steps up to the parental plate.  She doesn’t lose the chance to tease him a little, though.  “Remember when you didn’t even want one kid, Lance?”

I could talk for ages about the kids and my respective headcanons for them, but I’ve already gotten off track, so I will spare you. XP

Who’s more dominate: Lance, for sure.  Kitty knows when to put her foot down though. ;)  And I think she’s the only person he would let see a more vulnerable side of him when she turns the tables.

Favorite nonsexual activity: Kitty likes to watch Lance practice guitar.  She’s honestly impressed that he’s had the patience to get so good at it and he likes the opportunity to show off for her.  She also likes to watch him work on his Jeep, and he’s actually taught her some basic vehicle care.  By the time she gets her license, Logan doesn’t have to teach her how to change the oil or change a tire or anything else along those lines because she knows enough from Lance.  And while she can be a bit of a menace on the road at first, she has a knack for the technical work involved with owning a vehicle.  She’s picked up more from Lance than he realizes because of him talking his way through things as he does them - no one has ever really been as interested in his hobbies as Kitty.

Lance likes to lay his head in Kitty’s lap while she reads or studies.  On the best days, she plays with his hair and fills him in on all the latest gossip.  Sometimes they’ll go to the mall: he’ll drive and carry her bags and, in return, she buys lunch.  They hit the arcade after and Kitty doesn’t scold Lance when he uses his powers to improve his performance in certain games.  The occasional cuddly movie evening is a thing, as long as Kitty is back before curfew. 

In short, they really just enjoy spending time together and not arguing.  I don’t know that they’re really picky about the particular activity.

Their favorite place to be together: Honestly, just off in the Jeep somewhere quiet or locked away in Lance’s room at the Boarding House.  Lance feels like he’s under the microscope when he’s at the Institute and anywhere too public they run the risk of either of their groups of friends finding them and giving them a hard time.  Sometimes they sneak out on a late-night drive: Lance plays classic rock and Kitty listens to him sing along under his breath with her window rolled down and forgets that they’re on opposite sides of a conflict that shouldn’t even exist.  Sometimes they just drive the back roads and hold hands. Other times, they find a spot to pull off for cuddles, make-outs, and serious talks they’re only capable of having in the dark - these are the times they learn the most about each other; things they can’t tell their friends when they ask what they see in each other.

Any traditions: At the start, I think their relationship is too rocky (haha) for them to have any solid traditions.  They’re so on and off that there’s no guarantee they’ll even be together to carry out a tradition the next time it rolls around.  Once they’re older and solidly together, I think they’d develop cute birthday and anniversary traditions.  Maybe they always take an anniversary road trip, just the two of them.  And when Lance is away on SHIELD missions it’s tradition to never call Kitty unless it’s obnoxiously late at night, as a throwback to all of their teenage phone calls that lasted until 1am. XD

Their “song”: Lance finds himself associating the song “I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing” by Aerosmith with Kitty, and he’ll 100% deny it if it comes up.  That doesn’t stop him from tearing up when they dance to it at their wedding reception, though. ;)  Kitty has a new, positively saccharine love song for them every other week, as well as a mixtape full of girl power songs and all the best 90′s and 2000′s breakup songs that she blasts when they’re on the outs.

What they do for each other on holidays: Lance sucks it up and goes with Kitty to spend Hanukkah with her family. XP  It causes him enough grief that it could be considered his gift to her, but his SHIELD paychecks are nothing to sneeze at so he does good in the material gift department, too.  Not only does he hate Deerfield, having very few good memories there, but I don’t think he’d ever be super chummy with Kitty’s family.  Carmen and Lance just glare daggers at each other whenever they’re in the same room.  Kitty goes back and forth between telling Lance to behave and scolding her father for saying something scathingly passive-aggressive.  Rebecca doesn’t actively pick on Lance, but she doesn’t defend him and has no idea how to carry on a conversation with him, so she doesn’t make a good ally.  All the family drama, coupled with the fact that there’s never any discussion of mutant powers or their careers that involve their mutant powers (and the fact that Lance isn’t even Jewish) makes for a hellish time for Lance.  **Just to avoid coming across the wrong way, Lance doesn’t dislike Kitty’s culture.  He’s happy to celebrate any Jewish holiday far far away from Kitty’s family and their disapproval. XP 

Kitty makes sure that they stay in a hotel that contains none of her other extended family when they visit Deerfield, as part of her thanks to Lance for putting up with them.  They give each other their gifts in private to avoid discussing them with any of the Prydes, and they always spend Christmas together, just the two of them (plus the kids when they come along), since this is the holiday that Lance grew up celebrating.

Thanksgiving is spent at the Institute, and New Year’s is spent with the Brotherhood and their families. 

Valentine’s Day involves the usual gifts (because Kitty is a sappy romantic at heart) and a night alone in a hotel, kid-free. ;)

Where did they go for their honeymoon: Lance lets Kitty pick, because he’d just as soon check into a hotel a few towns over and lock themselves in a suite alone for a week or two. XP  Kitty takes them somewhere tropical and has all of these activities planned - they end up skipping half of them to laze around on the beach where she has plenty of opportunities to ogle Lance’s muscles and he has plenty of opportunities to grab her around the waist and fling her into the ocean.  Lance gets roped into a couple’s spa day and Kitty sits through a cover band show snuggled up under Lance’s (very soft - you’re welcome) arm.  Jet skiing happens.  Maybe some snorkeling.  Definitely a night of skinny dipping.  Lance gets a glorious tan and enjoys foiling Kitty’s efforts at sunbathing by wringing out his hair over her or tugging at her undone swimsuit straps.

Where did they first meet: Outside Kitty’s locker in Deerfield High~  If they knew of each other before then, the series doesn’t tell us, but they’d certainly never met officially. 

Can we talk about how much my heart breaks for Lance in that moment,though?  He has no idea what a mutant is.  He thinks he’s a freak of nature and that he’s all alone.  And then Kitty falls into his life and he’s so excited because this is someone like him.  We don’t know how long ago Cerebro got a reading on Lance, but Xavier knew about him before he knew of Kitty and never bothered to come for him.  It’s really fucked up how choosy the Professor is with his students in Evo.  Lance has had his powers and, therefore, been on the radar for long enough to figure out COMPLETELY ON HIS OWN how they work and how to channel them.  He is able to trigger a brief earthquake or concentrate his abilities to a specific area.  He’s obviously been at this for a couple weeks at the very least (probably more like months) - there’s no reason why Xavier couldn’t come and explain what a mutant was to him so that he didn’t feel isolated. 

And his whole insistence that nothing can control him once he controls his powers implies that he‘s been at the mercy of others and felt powerless for a long time.  He projects those feelings onto Kitty when they first meet, wanting her to be as lost as him so they can lean on each other because he has no other way of expressing that he needs somebody in his life who gets it.  I don’t think he’s had many stable influences in his life, tbh.  I disagree with his methods, but I really think all of Lance’s actions were driven by his desire to have some semblance of control as well as someone in his life who gets how tumultuous he’s felt since the emergence of his X-gene (and even further back than that).  It’s only once they’re both older and more mature that they’re able to support one another emotionally in the ways that they both needed in the beginning, but weren’t able to communicate.

Any pets: I don’t know that an X-Man and a SHIELD Agent have much free time for pets, honestly. XP

What do they fight over: They do a lot of arguing over Lance being a part of the Brotherhood.  In my head, the Brotherhood boys aren’t so oblivious/quiet about Xavier blatantly not choosing them for his team.  Toad’s story makes them all especially angry. 

Kitty doesn’t understand the twisted sense of allegiance that spawns when someone takes a group of outcasts, who have been spit on their entire lives, and bands them together to dominate over the people that turned their noses up at them.  In the Brotherhood’s case, this is not only most humans, but is also Xavier and all of his picture perfect mutants. 

The X-Men, while all obviously with problems of their own, haven’t had it as rough as the Brotherhood.  The Brotherhood have issues that can’t be worked through prettily or easily, partially because of the nature of those issues, and partially because of their general outlook on life.  I will never not be angry at Xavier for not stepping in.  I don’t know how long he’s been working with Wanda, but did it never occur to him that maybe Pietro is just as tormented in a different way?  Did he never think that the kid who’s been bounced between every foster home in the system might need his guidance more than the girl that is guaranteed to at least have a stable and loving home environment, even if she never sets foot in the Institute? 

Xavier might genuinely care about Kitty’s welfare, but I’d bet he’s just as concerned about her powers not ending up in the wrong hands.  Kitty tells Lance that he’s being used as a means to someone else’s end, and he fails to see how her situation is any different.  Mystique and Magneto are the people who decided he was worth the trouble of recruiting, so that’s where his loyalties lay.  Even with them gone, his teammates need him more than Xavier could ever want him.  So there’s a lot of tension between them whenever that subject comes up.  Kitty’s been very privileged - she looks at things much more black and white than Lance does.

Do they go on vacations, if so where: Aside from their annual trips back to Illinois (which don’t really count), I think they’d try to take a vacation a year as long as their work schedules were obliging.  I really want them to go to Greece some time in the future, but I want Lance to discover his Grecian heritage before that trip, so I‘m not 100% on when that would occur.  They have to go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at least once.  They can make weekend trips to nearby beaches, but Kitty makes sure that they get to see some more far-off beaches once in a while.  While working with SHIELD Lance visits some places that he adds to his mental list of possible vacation spots.  Oh!  I also headcanon that a bunch of the X-Kids go on a last hurrah trip to Hawaii around the time they’re all starting to graduate and temporarily go their separate ways.  Kitty brings Lance along for that trip. :)

K U R M A N D A

Who cooks: I think this is entirely dependent on what type of cuisine they feel like having.  Or whoever is available to do the cooking.  They come from very different cultures, so they each have a different arsenal of recipes at their disposal.  Their favorite thing is to be able to prepare a meal together - they like to integrate elements from both of their upbringings whenever possible.  Plus they can feed each other bites in between like the lovesick children that they are. XD

Who does the laundry and other chores: Both of them!  They have a day of the week dedicated to household chores (a habit I imagine they both retained from their parents) and they like to tag-team when possible.  Kurt and Amanda are one of those obnoxious couples that can have fun doing absolutely anything, and that includes cleaning.  The only thing that is Kurt’s job consistently is the cleaning of anything high, because there’s no reason for Amanda to climb to dust the high shelves when her husband can teleport. XP  Even then, I bet there’s at least one time where he teleports her up there so he can hold her while she cleans through uncontrollable giggles.

How many children do they have: I see Kurt and Amanda as two people who love the idea of children, so I headcanon them with five blue, furry kids.  In my mind, they wait a little longer into their marriage to have kids.  As newlyweds, Amanda’s in college and Kurt’s knee-deep in X-Men shenanigans and it’s just never a good time for a baby, especially once the other X-Men start having children and need to take time away from active duty.  Kurt is always working at the Institute, training, or out on a mission.  Amanda spends her time buried in schoolbooks or keeping busy as a mutant rights activist.  They discuss it, of course, but the discussions always seem to end with a cryptic ‘when the time is right’ or ‘when things calm down some’ type of conclusion.  It actually gets to the point where Kurt fears that Amanda just doesn’t want to have kids with him because of the persecution they would undoubtedly face.  Kurt would take these concerns to someone like Kitty or Scott, who would tell him he’s crazy and that he should really just talk to Amanda.  That talk goes well, Amanda admitting that she’s waiting for a perfect time that probably doesn’t exist with their lifestyle (not that she regrets their lifestyle, they just definitely have full plates).  This leads to a weekend getaway and baby #1 approximately nine months later. XP   I’ve always envisioned decent gaps between their kids - the youngest still a toddler when the oldest is starting high school.  Just every couple years: “You know what would make our life even more fun and full of challenges?  Another baby.” XP 

Bonus headcanon: they know none of their children’s genders ahead of time, because they’ve each been curled up with their little tails between their legs on the ultrasounds. :3

Who’s more dominate: Amanda, especially early on.  I think she would be the one to initiate even the simplest displays of affection, because Kurt is too afraid of scaring her away.  He’s a complicated mix of confident in their relationship and positive that someday she’s going to look at him and realize that she could have someone with less baggage.  Amanda is so sure of what she wants that it’s soon not hard for Kurt to believe that she’s here to stay.  I think she stays more dominate throughout their relationship, but Kurt eventually gains the confidence to switch things up pretty frequently. 

Favorite nonsexual activity: Anything that involves goofing off together.  I see Kurt and Amanda as a very fun-loving couple.  They’re the types to spend summers mini-golfing, go-karting, and frequenting amusement parks.  I love that they go to the concert together in Self-Possessed - I need more of that.  I picture them spending a lot of time hanging out with the rest of the Institute kids as well!  I want huge groups of mutant kids + Amanda on mall excursions and having movie nights in the lounge.  But yeah, Kurt and Amanda are up for almost anything as long as they’re together.  I think date nights would be really important to them too, especially as a married couple with a young family; they value that one-on-one time with each other.

Their favorite place to be together: Anywhere Kurt can be his blue, fuzzy self.  Their top three places are probably: the Institute, Kurt’s parents’ house, and their own home.  Kurt is most comfortable around his friends and family who know his secret and let him be himself.  Amanda likes Kurt best blue, and is pretty much adopted into both of his families long before they’re officially married.  There was a time when Kurt thought no one would ever want to be his friend, let alone date him, so to sit in a room full of people who accept him 100% for who he is makes him giddy with happiness.  These are safe places, whether they’re socializing, or simply getting to know each other better in between kisses.

Any traditions: ICE CREAM AFTER EVERY SCHOOL DANCE. Breakfast in bed for birthdays and Mother’s/Father’s Day.

Their “song”: It’s kinda cheesy, but I definitely get Kurmanda feels whenever I hear “Stand By You” by Rachel Platten.  It’s not even like it’s “their song”, because the canon timeline takes place before it even comes out, but it does remind me strongly of the two of them.  I’m sure there’s a more fitting option, but I’m drawing a blank.

What they do for each other on holidays: Amanda and Kurt are Christmas sweater people.  They pick them out together every year.  Then they pack them and head to Germany to spend Christmas with Kurt’s parents.  Kurt’s parents adore Amanda right away - she’s just the kind of fearless and faithful that they’ve always wanted for him, and they’re unbelievably happy that their son found someone who loves him as he is.  They insist on buying Amanda a present and wrapping it for placement under the tree, so the kids are temporarily banned from the house for a couple hours on one of the days leading up to the holiday - can’t have them peeking.  Kurt and Amanda use that time to go for a quiet walk with a thermos of hot chocolate and knitted hats. 

They definitely get each other really sweet, sentimental gifts - it’s not a Kurmanda Christmas unless one of them cries over a present.  They are also A+ mistletoe spotters and will canoodle beneath it whenever the opportunity presents itself.  Amanda likes to warm her nose by giving Kurt Eskimo kisses or shoving her face in his neck - his fur keeps him the perfect level of toasty for cuddles.  They also always have a top-notch Christmas card, especially once the kids are in the picture and they’re a family of seven in matching pajamas.  I just love these cuties at Christmastime! :3

Naturally, they’re staples at the Institute’s Thanksgiving dinner.  They’re usually still in Germany for New Years, and they obnoxiously call their friends in different time zones to let them know how the year’s going so far, since they won’t hit it for a couple hours yet. XD

They still make each other handmade Valentine’s. <3

Where did they go for their honeymoon: These two don’t go on the most traditional of honeymoons.  I’ve always pictured them just hiding themselves away in a cabin in the woods and getting cozy by the fireplace at night.  All of their friends expected them to go somewhere with plenty of nightlife to keep them entertained, and that was definitely something they considered.  Ultimately they decided on the simpler option.  Their little cabin reminds them of the nights spent in Kurt’s childhood home in Germany; safe, warm, loving, intimate in all the important ways.  I think it would be a priority to Amanda that they honeymoon somewhere where Kurt doesn’t even have to think about putting on his image inducer.  She likes the real him better than anything and she wants to spend their first days married just drinking in the sight of him unafraid and unashamed of his looks.  And, you know, naked cuddles in front of the roaring fire are a very appealing prospect, too. ;)

Where did they first meet: That fated math class~  The thought of Amanda quietly crushing on Kurt from sometime close to when he started attending Bayville High, all the way up to Shadow Dance, is just adorable to me.  She’s so shy in the beginning - it makes my heart happy to see her go from stuttering in his presence, to running up to him after he and all of his friends have been exposed as mutants and shunned by the entire school. That moment, and all the subsequent times she supported who he was, really cemented a lot of my Amanda headcanons.  She’s Kurt’s ride or die.  She’s not afraid of people knowing she’s dating a mutant, even though it obviously paints a target on her back.  I honestly think that, even if she and Kurt were to break up down the line, Amanda would still remain friendly with all the kids at Xavier’s, and she’d still put her neck on the line to demand they be treated like human beings.

Any pets: I really don’t headcanon these two with any pets either.  All of their children are furry with tails, if that counts?  XP  They joke that there’s enough hair to vacuum up with the five kids and Kurt in the house.

What do they fight over: The main cause of conflict in their relationship stems from Kurt’s fear of prejudice-induced violence.  I don’t mean to make Amanda sound insensitive toward his fears, but she can definitely be pushy when it comes to Kurt’s usage of his image inducer.  In the series we see her turn it off randomly in the street, and Kurt drops his books in the scramble to disguise himself again.  She wants Kurt to flaunt his mutation - an easy thing for her to say when she hasn’t had to face the persecution he has.  In the Evo comics, we see that Kurt was hunted as a demon before coming to the Institute, and obviously the Friends of Humanity are very much a thing in Bayville.  Kurt is very aware of the danger his natural appearance puts him in - you don’t forget an attempted burning at the stake - but he is even more aware of the danger it could put Amanda in.  I certainly don’t think that Kurt would NEVER EVER go out in public without his inducer on, especially once he’s older, but there would definitely be a higher chance of ridicule without it.  So I think that the argument over the image inducer would be a fairly common recurring one. 

There’s an added complication to this argument when the kids come along.  Within the walls of the Institute, they’re obviously safe in their blue fur, but Kurt knows better than anyone the danger they’d be putting themselves in to appear in public that way.  It breaks Amanda’s heart to have to raise them in fear and teach them why it might be safer to hide themselves.  I think that when they’re old enough to defend themselves, Kurt gets a little more lenient with their appearances, but he probably strongly encourages them to keep hidden when they’re little.  After all, even if people know they’re mutants, a blue child with fur and a tail is always going to attract more attention than an outwardly “normal” one. 

I want them to have at least one child who, from a young age, is more inclined to embrace their appearance.  I’ve always pictured this one as a little girl and second-youngest.  Kurt and Amanda argue over Amanda’s encouragement of the I-love-myself-blue-and-don’t-care-who-sees attitude.  Amanda doesn’t want her baby to be forced hide who she is when she doesn’t want to and Kurt argues that her safety is more important.  Amanda says something about Kurt projecting his fears onto their kids and Kurt reiterates that there are people out there who would gladly nab a young mutant from the streets to make an example out of.  This brings into play the very real, heartbreaking concept that it’s all-to-often the would-be victim’s job to make themselves unappealing to the attacker.