some Pippin headcanons I thought about today !
(i found the prompts from this post ✨)
Pippin's hands are calloused. he doesn't work hard in fields or something ("you never had a hard day of labor" lmaooo) , but he goes out a lot for many sides quests, which involve that this guy is neeever at home taking care of him. and we can't forget that he lives in a kind of countryside. therefore, his hands tend to be dry and irritated sometimes. i also think that the ring quest didn't improve this ; he litterally spent days holding his sword, carrying stuff, etc. he had real knight's hands after this.
talking about this, he moreover had his hands kinda burned when he saved Faramir from the flames. probably even a bit to second degree. so he may had blisters, and slight scars. (he wore leather gloves irrc, and leather protects hands from fire, but also can concentrate and retain a lot of heat inside the glove, which can burn the skin indirectly)
other point about his hands (yeah im obsessed) : Hobbits canonly have long and agile, assured hands with a great dexterity to make things, crafts, manual and precise works. i thought for a long time that they had smaller hands than humans but probably not then.
we can never say it enough, he's sooo tactile in his daily life. totally the type of perso who fidgets your clothes when they talk to you. doesn't fear touch, touch fears him (he traumatized some non tactile people by randomly hugging them)
he still likes to hear his mother sing his childhood lullabies ; the first songs and ballads he learned are from her. bit cliché but it's really HER voice that he likes and misses the most. dunno why but i imagine her mum singing like Lana del Rey like "baby if your love is in trouble... when you know, you know... 💅💅"
he feels the safest when he can be himself at his fullest, and doesn't have to act differently to fit in a context. (he was in total crashout at Minas Tirith-). he's really assured but sensible at the same time and is perturbated when something or someone doesn't match his energy and blocks it
he sleeps curled up on himself, holding his pillow, or on his belly. loves to sleep snuggled up against someone. he moves a lot. like. really a lot.
his hugest personal fear is to be useless and left behind, the feeling that he doesn't belong to some situation
of course, THE thing he always carries with him is his pipe and his pipeweed. as it is said in the books, he carries his pipe in a little pouch inside his jacket. then, do you think Hobbits have long pipes (churchwardens) or short pipes ? (I will make a post about this soon btw)
the quickest way to set him off is to be pessimistic, and especially to remain deaf to his positives affirmations intended to cheer you up. it doesn't make him angry litterally, but he's really disconcerted at first, worried and frustated because he doesn't understand how someone can stay in a bad mood (#denethor :D)
Boromir's death traumatized him so much in a way that he hated and blamed himself for a long, long time, and felt to guilty about it, thinking it was completely his fault. this thought never completely left his mind i think
Pippin LOVES animals. he's a bit scared of great horses tho. he's not afraid at all of spiders or bugs (they're part of his favs pranks). he loves dogs
I think the two who thaught him a lot of things when he grew up were Merry and Pervinca, since Pervinca is the younger of his sisters (she's 5 years older than him only). I personnaly think that having sisters only, made Pippin growing up with a particular way to see girls ; he litterally grew up among 3 girls and their habits, and thanks to that he doesn't have any prejudices about them. Anyway, furthermore, growing up between an older guy best friend and an older girl sibling brought him a certain balance between to universes and two ways to see things ; for example I think that Merry and Pervinca's courting advices are not similar lmao.
Btw, for me Pervinca is really HIS partner in crime after Merry ; she's only 5 years older than him, and his others sisters are 11 and 15 years older than him, which probably made them being busy with other stuff than hanging out and being michievious with Pip. I also see her being rebel and michievious like him, not wanting to settle down. Jo March vibes 10000% !!!
He grew up cajoled by everyone, since he was the youngest of the family, and the only boy. (Even if he spent his life wander and straying everywhere, sleeping more often in a haystack after a random side quest with Merry than in his bed), he grew up among love and care, and never knew a hard life ; he lived like a bohemian sometimes by choice, but a warm diner and a roof were always there if he needed to. And it was the same for the affection that his family brought to him in all his life. So he always thought he was worthy of being loved, during his childhood and tweens. It's only during and after the ring quest that he started doubting about this, when he saw real life and the risk of being a burden, not being in the right place and not pleasing certain peoples. He started seeing more than just the safe affection he lived with
His main love language is PHYSICAL TOUUUUCH of couuuurse, and smiling and doing everything for that the other feels happy. it seems so simple but for me it's so obvious that that's it
he searches someone with who he can fully be himself, a person with who "settling down" doesn't only mean "home - diner - kids - adult life" but having someone which also matches his energy so he can be in love and to still continue in his carefree, fun-filled way with them. He doesn't want a love that reduces to the life at home, starting a family ; he would love this of course, but he doesn't want to have a relation reduced to this
SOOOOORRRYYYYYY for any spelling, syntax, grammar, or other mistakes !!!! I did it all from my head lmao and didn't check afterwards (english is not my first language)