can we hear your favorite aruani headcanons?
Heyyyy nat! Been a while, how've you been?
This blog is kinda infamous at this point for having a ocean's worth of Aruani smut, but believe it or not, some of my most favourite headcanons are those fuzzy, cute, old-soul, slow and lazy moment types!
Off the top of my head I guess some hcs that particularly make me feel all warm and giggly inside are:
1. Aruani playing word games on a rainy day when there seems to be nothing else to do. Armin, out of the very goodness of his heart, with the simple desire to make Annie scowl cutely as much as possible, uses some of the hardest, most convoluted words possible. But to her credit, Annie, deeply annoyed and very much pissed by how much he's enjoying this, simply makes up words that she says are exclusive to Liberio and so ofc he hasn't ever heard of them. 100% he suspects she's bullshitting but she's just so cute (and a very sore loser!) he just goes with it. (And anyway, this is why they're so good for each other 😌)
2. Aruani discovering vinyl! Brand new shiny invention, he's definitely buying one for their home as soon as he can find one and making her dance to all these jiggy records he buys (doesn't have very good musical taste unfortunately ☹️) but hey, she actually enjoys it? It's fun, and they end up actually having a hell of a time moving as ridiculously and stupidly as possible before making out so hard they have to pull away to laugh.
3. Annie getting her ears pierced for earrings and Armin absolutely freaking out at the needle that (obviously) has to go through her ear (to pierce it ofc) but hey. Sometimes he's a stupid blond fellow.
4. Annie just closing her eyes and listening to the sound of his voice as he rambles on about this and that sometimes. It reminds her of the crystal and how much has changed since then.
5. Armin trying (and failing) to replicate the knot Annie puts her hair in after he spends all his mornings watching her wake up and do it, determined to learn as well. He's very bad at it. 0/10.
6. He's very good at pulling her poker-face cheeks wiiiiiiiide for no reason other than to laugh at how cute she looks. Reporters who accidentally get a peek at this are shocked. That's Ambassador Leonhardt, the most intimidating! And he's just pulling her cheeks and laughing! Anduhxkdnhd what sorcery is this?!
7. She's very good at tickle-attacks. Ymir may have been a bitch ass kid but atleast she didn't give her the tickle genes. Armin, however, is veeeeryyy weak to tickles. And Annie learns to dole them out generously 😌
8. Playfighting that leads to sex, and slow, unhurried kisses. I'm not elaborating.
9. Nightmare nights when neither can sleep, and they end up comforting each other with whatever they can think of. Armin's the guy with the clever words but Annie uses her actions to convince him he doesn't deserve to die. While he speaks into her ear and calms her shaking, she makes him look into her eyes until his racing breath steadies. Slow breathing, in tandem with each other, until they eventually drift off into an uneasy sleep, but atleast without anymore nightmares.
10. Just those glances they share with each other that silently say "I'm here for you," and "I've got your back." No matter how harrowing things in their lives get. He's the voice that helps her out of the dark and she's the hand that pulls him up. Every time.
