#Which really just makes 'music lover' and 'HoH/Deaf' really click together in my head

[fordanoia]

Heartcanon that I've had for well over a year at this point with hard of hearing / Deaf Fiddleford

It's been my new ride or die heartcanon for him since I thought of it back when (to a point that it's become my default for Fidds since)

A big thing of it that really solidified it to me was it for Fidds and Ford's friendship in college and later on too. The idea of Ford learning asl after knowing Fidds for a while and that sort of connection/communication as Ford woking through his discomfort with attention on his hands for the sake of communicating in an easier way with Fidds and that progressing to a point where they're just equally comfortable with one another. Ford using his hands for asl normalizing his hands/people looking at his hands for himself more and giving him a positive association with that and Fiddleford having a roommate/friend at college that he connects with who he progressively gets to be able to easily communicate with.

Fiddleford and Ford comfortably carrying on long conversations in asl like you do with friends where the time easily turns into hours.

I could word it a million ways but its just a really tangible instance in relationships where y'all mutually find these ways of understanding the other in the ways specific to them and really connecting.