okay my day has been MADE
so for context, my main job (out of 2) is being a caregiver and i typically work with children (attendant, habilitation, and respite), but i literally just walked home from my shift a few minutes ago and my neighbor's daughter was so excited to see me and gave me a drawing and a leaf from her family vacation. we yapped for a bit since she hadn't seen me in a while and guys it was so so so wholesome and sweet i thought my teeth were rotting. and she told me the colors in my hair were cool. kids are just the sweetest things the maternal instincts in me literally screamed.
i dont really want kids of my own right now or anytime soon but man i thought i was gonna cry augh i feel better now 😭
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any hcs about felix when he was a kid? i'm curious lol
Hmm... See the problem is I don't know how much of my fics, you've read, anon, so I feel like I'm danger of repeating things you might already know. I feel like a lot of my headcanons get sprinkled across all my fics lol. Some of this might be familiar if you're familiar with my fics.
Thanks for the ask! (HCs below cut)
He was orphaned during the the beginning of the war at age 4 (going on 5)
He's raised in the Presidential Palace by President Ravinstill (whose pretty distant because that man has baggage)
He has two living cousins who are over 10 years older than him, Marius and Gnaeus. He isn't particularly close with either of them.
He doesn't remember much of his parents (or the rest of the large, dead extended family I gave him) as he grows older which is part of what reinforces the distance between him, his cousins, and his great-uncle.
To grieve with Felix would require them to remind him of what he's lost which would rip open wounds for the rest of them that are just beginning to try and heal. In the middle of a war, those three don't have the emotional energy. Once the war's ended, they all feel like it's too late.
He was homeschooled for the duration of the war, and doesn't join the rest of the kids until he's 8 going on 9 (around the time the war ends)
Being a Ravinstill offers him amount of confidence in social interactions. He believes that he's owed a certain amount of respect from his peers
He also offers a certain amount of respect back, but he can come across as rather patronizing
He doesn't actually pull rank (saying his great-uncle is the president or that his family is more prestigious). He expects people to to treat him that well without a reminder, and when they don't, he believes he's failing to fall into his idealized view of what a Ravinstill should be.(I weirdly think about John Locke's social contract when I think about Felix's views of his interpersonal relationships. Ravinstills are great, and everyone should want to be our friends! If they don't want to be mine, maybe I'm not doing it right? Maybe, I should be overthrown I'm not a worthy Ravinstill?)
For most of his childhood, he isn't really able to tell the difference from doing what he thinks he should and doing what he actually wants to do
Felix is jealous that Gaul can get his great-uncle's full attention so easily, and he develops a bit of a grudge against her from a young age. Plenty of other officials can get the president's attention more than Felix, but he's sensitive to how his distant father figure interacts with others and can see the president will pull his attention away from other matters if Gaul speaks.
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Every time I see Chucky I remember how up until high school my mom would tease me about being scared of him 😭 but but but TBF when I was little at our old house she specially would scare me with him. And when I was really little she wanted a kid in the costume to scare me. She called me over to see him and I would NOT get closer
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