#danny reagan headcanon

[longlivelindanny]

Danny Reagan Headcanons

Will literally eat anything, even if he thinks it’s not that good

Eats cold fried chicken. And cold pizza.

Favorite picnic food is hotdogs

Got his license as soon as he turned 15 (much to the horror of his mother)

Says he’s always liked smart girls, even though they weren’t his type until Linda came along

Needs a white noise machine but no animal noises or anything like that. Just a distant, constant hum

Is a hot sleeper

[human-souls-buy-dopamine]

there's just something about certain shows focused on jobs in the (american) justice system. are the shows fair to everyone all the time? no. do we die a little every time we see mental health stigmatized in a case? absolutely. do you all now have to suffer our batshit insane headcanons for shows like NCIS and fucking Blue Bloods of all things??? YES. I hate them so much (squeezing them tightly) /hj.... what's even more fun is that we usually just leave this stuff on in the background without paying too much attention so for all we know one of these could go directly against a plot point and we might not even know HEJRLPAPB

Anyways,

Abby Sciuto is a xenogender and neopronoun hoarder,

Timothy McGee is some kind of neurodivergent,

Gibbs and Tony DiNozzo are autistic,

Erin Reagan probably questioned her sexuality at some point but she's a straight ally,

Jamie Reagan is bicurious,

Danny Reagan is gender apathetic,

And there is nothing you can do about it! /j I can't wait for this to give someone whiplash 😭 none of those words and names should go together in the context of their shows but shhhhh...... they're all a little fruity and mentally ill..... /j

[jadeverse-asks]

Hey everyone! (read here for main blog rules!)

I have gained quite a collection of unusual/unpopular F/Os lately over the past few years, so I've decided it'd be a fun idea to open up this blog and have anyone send in x reader/headcanon asks if they happen to like them as well :)

Who I write for atm! (will be updated if a new F/O is gained!)

Telltale Batman (Telltale Bruce Wayne and John Doe/Telltale Joker, main husbands atm don't ask me :3)

MLP (Sunset Shimmer, Limestone/Marble Pie, Pipp Petals, Hitch Trailblazer and Autumn Blaze preferred!)

Sonic (Espio the Chameleon)

Mina and the Count (The Count)

Little Monsters 1989 (Maurice)

Goosebumps (Slappy, movie versions only)

The Guava Juice Show (Hart Spirit)

Teen Titans (Mad Mod)

Scooby Doo (Velma Dinkley, any version save for THAT version is okay!)

Tiny Toons (Fifi La Fume, aged up though and the reboot version of her is allowed too!)

Puss in Boots the Last Wish (Big Jack Horner)

Helluva Boss (Queen Bee and Vassago)

Eddsworld (Edd only)

Inside Job (Reagan Ridley)

The Simpsons (Sideshow Bob and Jacques)

Flint the Time Detective (Merlock Holmes aka Narugami Kyoichiro)

Gorillaz (2-D)

Danny Phantom (Vlad Masters/Plasmius)

Treasure Island (Dr. Livesey, 1988 film version)

Loonatics Unleashed (Rev Runner)

Dad'X (Striker/Foudror, this cartoon/fandom is kinda obscure btw but I still decided to include him!)

TF2 (Medic and Sniper)

Braindead13 (Vivi the Vampire)

Now for rules!

-I can write both SFW and NSFW, however fetish/abuse/death/anything else weird is not allowed

-Any gender/pronoun is allowed for asks!

-Reply times to asks may depend on how busy I am, and GIFs of your asked character may be included with my answers :)

-I don't really tend to chat and just take asks, so keep that in mind about me!

-And finally my inbox is always open, and have fun simping and asking! >3

[ultimateheadcanontournament]

Ultimate Headcanon Tournament

Here is the full bracket! I did the best I could to make it a proper bracket! Good luck to all of the participants!

Genderqueer Manifred von Karma (Ace Attorney) vs Gay trans man Ao Ohtori (I am Magicami)

Narrator Chara (Undertale) vs Trans male Yentl (Yentl the Yeshiva Boy)

Trans Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom) vs Captain John Hart has multiple mothers (Torchwood)

Trans Guy Gardener (DC Comics) vs Aroace Kaladin (Stormlight Archive)

Steve Rogers/Captain America likes men (Marvel Comics) vs Fletcher took Tanner’s folder when Andrew wasn’t looking (Whiplash)

Trans male Zelda/Sheik (The Legend of Zelda) vs Aroace autistic Mira (Sekko Boys)

Aroace Hunter (The Owl House) vs Dyslexic Wallabee/Numbah 4 (Codename: Kids Next Door)

ADHD Todd Chavez (BoJack Horseman) vs Trans girl Plum Puddin' (Strawberry Shortcake)

Phone Guy survived (Five Nights at Freddy's) vs Grayromantic Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows)

Transmasc MK (Lego Monkie Kid) vs Autistic Mark Grayson (Invincible)

Autistic Elle Woods (Legally Blonde) vs Mafia Town was called Mustache Town (A Hat in Time)

Bennett has eczema on his hands (Genshin Impact) vs Autistic Tobias (Animorphs)

Autistic N (Pokémon) vs Ben Tennyson forgot to remake his other cousin (Ben 10)

Mario and Peach hold no ill will towards Bowser (Super Mario) vs Autistic Reagan Ridley (Inside Job)

Autistic Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender) vs Affogato Cookie is part snake (Cookie Run: Kingdom)

Autistic Adora (She-Ra) vs Hank Schrader forgave Walter White before Jack Welker killed him (Breaking Bad)

Kylo Ren's full name is Ben Chewbacca Alderaan Organa Solo (Staar Wars) vs Commander Shepherd is a terrible driver (Mass Effect)

ADHD Dave (Homestuck) vs Trans male Kurapika (Hunter x Hunter)

Transfem Larry Daley (Night at the Museum) vs Trans male Mafuyu Asahina (Project Sekai)

Autistic Gregory Eddie (Abbott Elementary) vs Autistic Eddie Kaspbrak (IT)

Trans Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) vs Autistic hyperverbal Cecil Gershwin Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale)

Juggalo Remus Sanders (Sanders Sides) vs Aroace Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)

Autistic Izuku Midoriya (My Hero Academia) vs Autistic Keith Kogane (Voltron)

Shrek came up with his name on the spot when Donkey asked him (Shrek) vs Autistic trans man Elliott (Stardew Valley)

Autistic Peridot (Steven Universe) vs Kathryn Janeway is aroaspec, Captain Chakotay is twospirit, and they are in a QPR (Star Trek)

Nonbinary Lake (Infinity Train) vs Jason Mendoza has the highest emotional intelligence of all the characters (The Good Place)

Transfem Big Macintosh/Orchard Blossom (My Little Pony) vs Monika was following a script until she deleted herself (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Autistic trans lesbian Samus Aran (Metroid) vs Firestar and Sandstorm are queerplatonic mutual beards (Warriors)

Autistic Usagi Tsukino (Sailor Moon) vs Trans Kakashi Hatake (Naruto)

Transfem Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) vs Kermit caused 9/11 (Muppets)

Diabetic Sniper (Team Fortress 2) vs Gay Jousuke Higashikata (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

Trans woman Cinderella (Cinderella) vs Aroace Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

[baubeautyandthegeek]

Hiiii! You've put me on to Jackie Curatola :) can I request 👄 making out headcanon for her? Thank you - daddy-heather-dunbar

A/N: So this became a mini fic, oops? Making Up And Making Out – Erin Reagan/Jackie Curatola

Jackie will never admit how much she likes making out. She does, however, like it. A lot. She tends to kiss like she needs it to breathe, finding a quiet peace in the act. She’s always a little afraid of her own feelings, so long hurting and alone has left her tentative when it comes to love, but she does love make-outs, especially after a long day. By the time Jackie meets and falls for Erin Reagan, Danny’s younger sister and the local ADA, she’s aware that she will need regular make-outs. Most of the time Erin seems shy, a little nervous around her and Jackie can’t help smiling the first time they make out. Erin is tentative, reluctant to push for anything more than what Jackie wants to give her but Jackie, Jackie knows precisely how to make Erin feel good anyway. Jackie’s need to be loved is soothed with Erin, but she’s still sure that, at least for now, making out with Erin is enough.

[yuisdad]

Since I’m sad that otome games don’t have English dubs when they get realeased in the west, I’ve decided to do English fan casts to alleviate the pain. (I get that they’re a niche genre, but let me have this)

Code Realize, Hakuoki, and Amnesia will have the same voice actors from their English dubs. One of the exception is Toma, since his voice actor is unfortunately dead. I would replace Toma’s voice actor with Mike Haimoto. Another exception is Sanosuke Harada’s voice actor since he’s been blacklisted and arrested due to grooming a 16 year old and marrying her in 2014. He’s already been replaced by Phil Hayes in the Hakuoki movies, so he’ll stay.

I’m not doing Collar X Malice at the moment since it’s getting a movie adaptation this year, and (hopefully) it will inevitably get an English dub. If it doesn’t, then I’ll do it on the future. 

The heroines are all voiced in English as well because I say so lol.

Norn 9:

Koharu: Jad Saxton

Mikoto Kuga: Kira Vincent-Davis

Nanami Shiranui: Brittney Karbowski

Sorata Suzuhara: Kiba Walker

Kakeru Yuiga: Blake Shepard

Senri Ichinose: Bryson Baugus

Masamune Toya: David Matranga

Natsuhiko Azuma: Mark Ivy

Sakuya Nijou: Michaela Laws

Itsuki Kagami: Howard Wang

Akito Shukuri: Daman Mills

Heishi Otomaru: Greg Ayres

Ron Muroboshi: David Wald

Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly:

Beniyuri: Emi Lo

Kikage: Johnny-Yong Bocsh

Yamato: Aleks Le

Karasuba: Griffin Puatu

Kagiha: Y Chang

Monshiro: Caleb Yen

Usagi: Xanthe Hyunh

Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk:

Eiar/Jed: Brina Palencia

Lavan: David Matranga

Levi: Aaron Dismuke

Lugus: Zeno Robinson

Tower Overlord/Ashen Hawk: J. Michael Tatum

Hugh: Ryan Colt Levy

Piofiore Fated Memories: 

Liliana Adornato: Felicia Angelle

Dante Falzone: Daman Mills

Gilbert Redford: Alejandro Saab

Yang: Y. Chang

Nicola Francesca: Jonah Scott

Orlok: Cedric Williams Jr.

Henri Lambert: Jonathan Bullock

Cafe Enchante:

Kotone Awaki: Maddie Matsumoto

Misyr Rex: Joshua David King

Canus Espada: Christopher Escalante

Il Fado de Rie: Dom Dinh

Ignis Carbunculus: Jalen K Cassell

Kaoru Rindo: Eric Bauza

Cupid Parasite:

Lynette Mirror: Amanda Lee

Gil Lovecraft: Corey Wilder

Shelby Snail: Danny Spiller

Ryuki F Keisaiin: Jacob Takanashi

Raul Aconite: Everett Van Maren

Allan Melville: Reagan Murdock

Peter Flage/Jupiter: Brandon Winkler

Bustafellows: 

Teuta Bridges: Stephanie Sheh

Limbo Scott Fitzgerald: Robbie Daymond

Shu Lyn O'Keefe: Matthew Mercer

Mozu Nile Shepard: Jakob Takanashi

Helvetica Orsted: Steve Warky Nunez

Scarecrow: Edward Mendoza

Adam Krylov: Nathan Sharp

Luka: Mikaela Krantz

Carmen: Kayleigh McKee

Anyone else is free to put in their own voice headcanons for otome games if they want to.

[protectxthem]

✿ [headcanon meme] for Nicky and any of her uncles

SEND “ ✿ ” FOR 2 HEADCANONS FOR OUR MUSES’ RELATIONSHIP. | Accepting

Joe&Nicky -

Joe and Nicky are the closest out of the three Reagan brothers. Joe had a habit of spoiling her when she was younger.

Nicky was also the one to coin the nickname "Baby Roo" as in baby kangaroo aka Joey and she became Piglet.

Danny&Nicky -

Danny is a little strict around Nicky but not as strict as Erin, so the two aren't as close to each other.

Danny and Nicky used to go to Coney Island when Nicky was younger. Danny and Nicky would eat a lot of junk food before going home, which left Erin to deal with a hyper Nicky.

Jamie&Nicky -

Jamie and Nicky were like partners in crime when Jamie was younger because he was closest in age to Nicky. The two were as thick as thieves.

Now that the two are older they aren't as close but they still enjoy each other's company from time to time, more so when Jamie takes her to the fair and baseball games.

[writingdayandnight]

headcanons for dating Danny Reagan and bring half his age? (maybe a little part about what his family thinks)

Headcanon for Dating Danny Reagan and Being Younger

You had met Danny on an online dating site, which was aimed toward busy professionals 

Signing up, you never expected to meet anyone like Danny–you did it for some free meals and a chance to do some networking in your field 

Then you stumbled upon Danny’s profile (set up with the help Baez) 

The site was full of fake dating profiles, but his was one of the few that seemed genuine, or at least funny enough that it had to be explored further 

On your first date, you and Danny sat in the restaurant until close just laughing and talking about different interests

You were about to leave the restaurant when he received a text from Jack, something he was “too old to understand”

Being younger, you acted as a translator before realizing the text was meant to be for one of his friends 

“I know you’re a lot younger than me, but do you and your friends text like this?” 

“No, I’m still an adult, Danny”

You and Danny started dating immediately but decided against telling his family until things were more serious–he knew how they would feel about him dating after Linda, even more so because you’re just about half his age 

Bring Danny to work gatherings or parties was always the best because not only did he bring out the intense cop stories, but everyone also got a kick out of his “back in my day stories” 

FIghting over music in the car is a huge thing

“I bet you can’t go one car ride listening to music from the 90s on” you dared, knowing full well that he would put on his classic rock station within minutes

“You know, you look a lot like Donnie Wahlberg from New Kids on the Block….” “Y/N, I’m not that old.”

Danny had been around the block a few times, he knew how to charm you. Flowers before dates, little gifts for no reasons, smoothing talking his way out of everything. He was a pro.

Occasionally Danny would get upset if he saw you posting on Facebook with your younger friends while he was at work. He was a little jealous that you were doing exciting things with your millennial pals instead of him. 

Therefore, you proclaimed that every third Saturday of the month was “Danny Reagan is Young Again Day.” Basically, you would just do a bunch of stereotypical millennial things in order to make him feel better about your age gap

You two had been together for five months before he finally asked you to Sunday dinner–and he wasn’t excited for it. 

“I promise we will be fine. I love you, no matter what your family thinks of our age gap”

You were going to meet Danny at dinner, since he was finishing up a case. When you arrived, Henry asked if you were one of Nicki’s friends. 

It was an awkwardly-endearing start to the night

“So how did you two meet?” “On a dating website.”

To which Jamie would reply, “Man, you really are that old.” 

For the most part, dinner went smoothly and it felt like a weight lifted off your chests. The family loved you, pretty much ignored the age difference, and Danny loved you, which were the most important things you could ask for 

*I’m starting a campaign where I bullying Danny Reagan but only because I have a crush on him…..This was super fun, even though it took more like six days to write. Requests are still open!!!!*

[kissandships]

Danny Reagan was ten years old when he really understood what pregnant meant and where babies came from.... well, mostly. He didn’t buy the stork story or the vegetable garden or the fairies or anything else grownups had told him. He had just learned what sex was, but he didn’t understand; only that it was meant for mommies and daddies, which meant he had to wait a long while. He was okay with that, though; what he was not okay with was that he was going to have another brother. He already had one of those; Joe was seven and a half, and came too quickly in the ten year old’s opinion. Joe was annoying: he couldn’t read that well, he was small, he wasn’t interested in the games Danny liked to play. His sister was the same way, only she was tall and a good reader- equally as annoying, though, maybe more.

Danny was only two when Erin had been born. He didn’t remember much, only that he had initially hated her. He was the baby, not her! After much convincing (and probably lots of whacks, he wasn’t going to lie), he sort of realized having a baby sis was kind of cool. Even though she was loud and messy, and never ever wanted to take baths or naps, the two year old grew to like her. She might be a girl, but Mommy was a girl, and Mommy was fun and kind. So he concluded he could live with a sister. If he could get used to that creepy thing on Daddy’s upper lip, he could certainly get used to a sister.

Three and a half; Danny was three and a half when Joe had come. And, again, Danny has been mad. First, Mommy and Daddy got Erin who they fawned over, doted over, goo-goo-eyed over, and he was left in the dust. Then they just had to get Joe. Another little rascal to push Danny away from them. Joe was just like Erin- only louder and more annoying. He cried all the time and always threw mashed up food onto Danny’s plate. He had to share a room with the damn thing- which he hated. He could never sleep.

Now, here he was, seven years later, and being told another little rascal was coming along. He vaguely remembered when he was about five, there was supposed to be another one, but something had happened. He had been too scared to ask Mom or Dad about it, because he specifically remembered them being really sad. If he asked about it, Mom would start crying again, and Dad would get mad.

One night, when Mom’s stomach was giving her trouble, he wandered into Dad’s study. He and his brother and sister weren’t aloud in there, but he needed answers. “Daddy?” He hated how his brain always wanted to reach for the “little kid” names. He was big; he could say ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’.

“Danny? What’s the matter?” Frank put his glasses on the table and scooted the wheely chair out from the desk.

Cautiously, Danny stepped into the middle of the room. He wouldn’t dare look his father in the eye; the mustache, stern expression, the eyebrows.... it was tough for a kid who knew he probably shouldn’t be asking the question. “Daddy? When I was five, I remember you an’ Mama said I was gon’ get another brother or sister. Then somet’in’ happened. What happened?”

Frank’s expression changed, and he sighed. He knew his oldest would eventually ask. “Sit on the couch with me.”

Danny followed Frank to the couch, twisting the ties to his sweatshirt around his finger.

“You’re right. When you were five, we were going to have another baby. But something went wrong. Mom got sick; really sick. And the reality of it is, it was either her or the baby. As much as it hurt to do it, we chose you guys. We can always have another baby. But the medicine she took.... it wasn’t the best for the baby.... you might not understand this now, but she had the baby before it was ready to be born.... and the baby didn’t make it.”

“Oh.” Danny didn’t know how to answer that, because his Dad was right; he didn’t understand. He had so many more questions: why was the baby early? Why didn’t it wait? Why was Mom sick? What did she have? Couldn’t it have waited till the baby was born? Whatever she had, was it bad? Why did she take bad medicine? So many questions he wanted to ask, but he didn’t dare. He heard how Dad’s voice was soft and sad; at ten, he was just starting to read people. The three emotions he could easily distinguish were happy, sad, and angry. Annoyed was a little harder, but he was quickly learning. Finally, he came up with an answer, “I’m sorry, Daddy. That must’ve sucked- Uh, stunk.”

“Yeah, it did. Still does. But we get another chance. And Mom’s being very careful this time around.”

Danny nodded, “I’m gonna read some.”

Frank knew that meant his son wasn’t sure what to say, and he understood that. He still wasn’t sure what to say to it. “Okay, son. While you’re up there, make sure Erin and Joey are doing their homework.”

Danny nodded and slid from the sofa. He walked up the stairs, but paused at the top. He looked at his parents’ closed door, and hesitantly knocked. “Mama?” There was the kid-name again.

“Come in, Danny Boy.”

He grimaced. He was starting to hate that name. He opened the door to find her in bed, reading a book to a sleepy Joe. He smiled and walked to the bed, “may I sit?”

“Of course.” Finally. She thought. He used ‘may’.

Danny climbed onto the bed, “Whatcha readin’?”

“Pirates,” a sleepy seven and a half year old answered. “Listen.”

It took about five minutes for Joe to be sleeping soundly, Mary holding him tightly as he slept.

“Mama?” Danny whispered.

“Yes, honey?”

“I’m gon’ help wit’ the baby. An’ help you. Wan’ anyt’ing? Water? Cookies? Ice cream?”

Mary laughed but considered his offer. “If you could get Joe to bed and make sure Erin is getting ready for bed, then maybe I’ll share some ice cream with you.”

Danny’s eyes lit up at that. He jumped from the bed, and helped Joe Walk to the small room. Next stop, he poked his head in Erin’s room and told her to get ready. At ten and the oldest, he got to stay up about half an hour later. He bounded down the stairs and fixed himself and Mary a big bowl of chocolate chip cookie dough Ice cream- his and Mary’s absolute favorite.

Many years down the road, in 1997, he’d understand what Frank and Mary went through, because he and his wife would have the same sad fate. But now, in the present, in 1983, he’d make sure he’d do anything for his Mom and Dad and Joe and even Erin. He was the big brother, and that was his job: to look after the people he loved most.

[longlivelindanny]

Linda Reagan Headcanons

Her type is the complete opposite of Danny, which is ironic

She started cooking at 14, and could make a full Reagan-style Sunday dinner at 16

She’s super close to her grandmother

Her favorite sweet is chocolate (or anything That’s chocolate-y, like cake).

She loves her pasta

She tries to balance out her coffee intake with her tea intake. Coffees are for mornings, (decaf) teas are for nights

She runs hot, but she loves being cozy. So she ends up stealing covers. And because of her running hot but being under blankets, they usually have a fan going or a window open

[fixomnia-scribble]

Blue Bloods 9x05 “Thicker Than Water” Recap/Ramble/Rant

The ranting is very mild this week. This was An Good Episode.

I am trying to condense these Recaps somewhat, so that they’re less novelizations and more Highlights. It’s my tendency to novelize bloody everything…and I’d like to have room for a screenshot now and then.

That said, let’s get started. SPOILERY SPOILERS THAT SPOIL below the cut.

OPEN ON: Reagan Annex, that is, the House of Dudes. The living room is a semi-controlled vortex of bins and clothing. Jack is off to college, and Danny is in a bit of a state, trying to juggle bill collector calls and advise his elder son on clean socks and condoms while he has the chance.

I sincerely hope that at some point, there was little more detailed a sex talk than “You’re not a kid anymore and there’s gonna be girls there.” But good call on simply packing them like NBD, this is your grown-up packing list now, son. And if not for Jack, then they could be a lifesaver for someone else. [I enjoyed being the Condom Fairy in a hostel for several weeks, even though I was completely solo myself: an awesome way to make friends and also double-check that people actually wanted to do the do with their fellow travellers without being pressured.]

As Danny takes another call, this time from Baez, Sean and Jack get into an absolutely spot-on bit of brothering, with Jack being just the slightest bit condescending and Sean ragging him just enough to get a reaction.

Sean heads off to school with a little backwards glance at his big brother. The Terraciano brothers have grown up so well, and clearly they still get a kick out of working together.

CUT TO: Street scene. Baez and Officer Cosgrove (tall, blonde and radiating sass even without a word) greet Danny, who is noticeably frazzled. Baez comments on the frazzle and asks if he wants to talk. Aww. Danny, surprisingly receptive, says with a certain self-awareness, “I probably do, but not now.”

They’re there to investigate the most futile shooting ever. A doctor was targeted and took twelve shots, but instead of a messy cleanup, Baez freestyle raps, “No need, all shots missed / except the one that grazed his wrist.”

The doctor, McCandless, is sitting on the stoop of an ambulance, and I can sense @cards-onthetable twitching about bad medical hygiene and doctors who should know better.

CUT TO: Office of E. Erin wanders down the hallway with her morning coffee, looking absolutely On Point in a long, sleek belted sheath dress in black and coloured stripes and soft-looking hair. (Hair & Makeup has also stopped plastering eye makeup on both Bridget and Vanessa, and they both look years younger and less weighed down by the world.)

Erin is looking for Tony, who shuffles in late and discombobulated. After some gently prying – and a notification from Camryn the clerk that someone ran up eight grand on Tony’s office credit card that morning – Tony fesses up that he got rolled by an online hookup. The poor guy is mortified and wants nothing more than to forget it ever happened. Yikes. That’s an expensive forgetting, there, champ.

Erin is left with an utterly priceless look on her face.

CUT TO: The shooting scene. Cosgrove is about as sassy as she looks, trading eyerolls and patter with Baez like they’re old pals (my headcanon is that Baez is Big Sister to every female officer and a few male officers in the five-four). Danny is speaking with Doctor Sunshine – sorry, “The Baby Magician”, a fertility doctor. He’s extremely smiley and has a hip little micro-ponytail like he’s a Vegas showman or something. He toothily assures Danny that he has no enemies. Everyone knows he only wants to help them. He’s even about to go to an annual picnic in his honour. Uh huh.

Cosgrove is roped in to drive McCandless to his damn picnic, and Danny and Baez get serious, deciding where to start interviewing.

CUT TO: A PT room in a hospital, filled with walking bars and balance bars and therapy tables, and just a bit of natural light from high windows. A middle-aged man, Detective Moreno, is slowly and painfully working on his walking, with the help of his therapist. Enter Frank, in beige trenchcoat and tinted glasses, looking more potboiler private eye than PC. He smiles and waves, and Moreno greets him, pleased to see him.

Moreno rolls up in his wheelchair, and the two chat easily at first. Moreno has taken two bullets in the back on duty, and Frank assures him that the department will take care of all of his expenses and needs. Moreno wants his job back. Frank has come by with the news that unless he’s willing to ride a desk, his return to active duty is not going to be okayed by the medical and insurance people. Ouch. That’s got to sting. Frank offers him full retirement or an admin job, which is pretty decent. But it’s cutting him up to have to say so. Moreno has the whole outward aspect of someone who lives for being a cop, and a good one.

Moreno then asks for one favour: to find and fire the cop who refused his son Jay, also a cop, the guarding post at his father’s hospital room when he was injured. Frank’s moustache promises to look into it.

CUT TO: Credits! A long intro, but felt faster than eight minutes. Great pace. Dorky musical couch dance interval.

CUT TO: The two-nine. Daytime, so Eddie’s tired amble down the hallway is possibly because she’s at the end of a long shift. Or she may be back on days. Who knows? An Officer Irving has called her on account of finding Frank’s courtesy card on Sean, who claimed that Eddie was family (Awww.) We get a close-up of Sean and some of his classmates sitting meekly all in a row on a bench, in school uniform, a bag with a broken twelve-pack beside them. Oh, dear. We’ve been down this road with Jack before.

As Irving coordinates with Eddie, Sean pipes up, “JUSTYOUNOTUNCLEJAMIE” and I melt. Good call, Sean – I rather think Eddie’s been there herself. She rolls down the corridor, thinking of how she’s going to handle being dropped in the deep end of Aunthood.

CUT TO: Office of F. After Frank finishes being cute about wanting to take a swing at-bat instead of throwing a ceremonial first pitch at an event, Gormley brings up Moreno Sr. and Jr. It turns out that it was Jay’s choice not to guard his dad in the hospital, not an order from above. The entire family are cops or work in emergency services. It’s unprecedented to refuse that kind of duty, Frank says in wonderment.

“Kinda like if a Reagan did it,” Gormley anvils usefully.

CUT TO: Adams Park, where Eddie is speaking to Officer Irving and his partner about her class-cutting nearly-nephew. Eddie takes a mild approach, at first: “Skipping school, getting boozed up…really?” I think that would be my reaction, too. This kid knows better. It’s more a matter of why? Mind you, I was a kid raised in a Held To A Higher Standard family, too, and sometimes you just gotta do shit. Eddie keeps it pretty cool, reminding Sean that even aside from the Higher Standard crap, cutting class to drink while underage is clearly never the right thing to do. But she pulls out a bit of hardass, telling Sean that he’s used up his one-shot courtesy card, and insisting that he answer her properly. And then –

“Good, ‘cause I’m starting to sound like your Uncle Jamie, and it’s scaring the hell out of me. Let’s go.” AHAHAHA CACKLING FOREVER! Girl Scout.

CUT TO: Doctor Sunshine’s ex-wife’s house. Danny and Baez are making preliminary enquiries. The good doctor was more sunshiney on the outside, according to his ex, and soon there was no room in the marriage “anything but his patients or his ego”.

Danny calls the son out for eavesdropping (Ha! More good Dadding from Danny), and the surly youth offers to hire the shooter a lawyer when they find him. All his mother says is, “Oh, honey, don’t say that.” Danny chortles, but has to ask him where he was at the time of the shooting. The kid was studying at NYU, and the ex-wife was at Pilates.

The kid gets up in Danny’s face and tells him it’s time to leave. Attitudinal little twit. Danny give him quiiiite a look, and he and Baez leave without further ado.

CUT TO: Office of Tony. As he is shaking his head sadly over the online profile of Donna, 36, Erin comes in. Tony hides his phone under a newspaper – literally – and switches to business. Erin gingerly removes a bag of takeout barbeque or something from his guest chair, and sits down. She’s had the fraudulent credit card charges written off, and has dug down on Donna, 36.

“Didn’t I tell you to drop it?” Tony asks.

“Yeah,” Erin agrees. “That’s the beauty of being the boss. I get to call the shots.” It’s lovely how her affection just shines through all of this. She explains that a woman with the same description has pulled this off with at least ten other guys, and assures Tony he’s not the schmuck he feels like.

“If we grab her, I’ll get outed,” Tony protests, when Erin wants to go after her. And I feel a real pang for the guy, because for all it’s nearly impossible for women to report date fraud (let alone date rape) male victims have their own social barriers and reactions of disbelief and scorn to contend with, too.

His job is to see things a mile off, he says. If this gets around, he’ll be laughed out of the building.

Erin gets serious at that. “You are the victim of a crime,” she says, “Now, what do we tell victims in this building?”

(“I believe you”, I hope…)

“There’s no reason to feel shame, because you’ve done nothing wrong,” Tony recites. Pulling himself together, he prepares to launch a search for her through the dating app. Erin points out he won’t get in the door without a subpoena. Her eyebrow says she has something cunning in mind and with less paperwork involved.

CUT TO: Tony’s apartment, a spacious, airy open-plan flat about four or five storeys up, overlooking a ball park. It’s very modern and clean, in total contrast to all of Tony’s workplace habits, as Erin points out.

Erin stands in the kitchen in her lovely dress, gloved up for a search, like a proper Reagan. (No booties, bonnet or bunny-suit, though: she’d never pass muster at an actual crime scene.) Tony comes around the corner and tries to hurry her along, saying they’ve looked everywhere and there’s nothing to print and nothing to pull DNA off. (Um, really? I think CSI could find something.)

Tony ribs her a little about having booty calls with Jack, which she denies (you little liar), but then he soliloquizes about being lonely and single. Aw, Tony, you big bug. He tells her a little more about his date with Donna, and she doesn’t bust him at all, but sympathizes genuinely. He asks her plainly why she’s settling for random Jack reruns, and she just shrugs and admits it’s a good question. These two are so great when they let themselves lean on each other.

Tony tries once again to hurry them out, and Erin says she thinks he’s holding back on something. Which was entirely predictable, but they play it perfectly in character as a genuine moment: Tony sheepishly pulls out his handcuffs and suggests they might get Donna’s prints off them.

“You know the expression TMI? This goes way beyond that,” Erin keeps her voice very calm, as the Soundtrack of Lilting Nonsense plays.

CUT TO: The two-nine, where Eddie is feeling badly about spilling Sean’s secret to Jamie right away, as much as being concerned for Sean.. And really, I don’t think Sean would expect Eddie to keep a real secret from Jamie. Kid just needed a bit of a buffer, without the entire family sitting on his head. Jamie tries to calm her down. They’re back on form, with the perfect timing and poking each other even when they’re supporting each other totally.

Eddie asks about the Reagan Rules regarding secret-keeping. Jamie tries to explain that certain things are more of a need-to-know, like giving the boys courtesy cards.

“It’s good, what you did,” Jamie tells her, earnestly. “Any of us would tell you the same.” Eddie moves from concerned to dubious to charmed to alarmed in half a second, because Vanessa can do that.

When suddenly: Danny walks in the door right behind Jamie, loaded for bear.

“Danny! Come to see the new digs?” Jamie tries. Danny is having none of it. He’s on his way back to work after being called into Sean’s school. Oh, dear. Everyone’s busted. And Danny’s concerns are bigger than one escapade: Sean’s picked a fight, he hasn’t been doing his homework and his grades are slipping.

“That’s rough,” says Uncle Jamie, perhaps thinking of how recently Sean’s mother passed away, and how soon his big brother is going to be going to college and leaving him baching up with his old man.

Danny proceeds to take a small strip out of Eddie for getting Sean off the hook for underage drinking. Which, okay, a first warning with a responsible adult to take charge? That’s what most cops would do.

“You two wanna raise kids, feel free to have your own,” he says, “But leave raising Sean and Jack to me, okay?”

I am stuck somewhere between big sappy heart’s-eyes and OUCH.

Jamie turns his puppy dog eyes to Eddie, who looks highly nervous about the next dinner. Also? I adore the old office gack they have for the two-nine sets. I remember those card files and OMG FLOPPY DISK BOXES and scrolled wooden desk chairs and all…

CUT TO: Office of E. Erin, still looking like a million bucks in a slim grey pencil skirt and grey and white fluttery blouse, emerges from the elevator. Tony has tracked down Donna’s real name. She’s actually a Maud Weaver. Hm. Okay. Maud has a long string of complaints and a history of rental fraud and/or offering sex for rent. There’s no current address.

Tony, sly dog that he is, suggests making a fake profile on the dating app to snare her.

CUT TO: Office of Dr. Sunshine. Danny and Baez have examined local security video, and while they haven’t spotted the shooter, they’ve found footage of a young woman who’s been lurking around the place. The Dr. recognizes her as someone who worked just one day as a clerk, two weeks back. She wasn’t fired – she was great, he says, but she left after one day without even her paycheque.

At least he has her ID and place of residence.

CUT TO: Office of F. Baker (Baker! Baker! Baker!) greets young Jay Moreno outside a borrowed office at the One PP, and assures him, “No formalities today, Officer.” Moreno, hat in hand, finds Frank therein, with coffee and sandwiches. Frank sits him down for a fatherly chat, assuring him that this is a way to stop the entire office clocking who’s been summoned to the fourteenth floor. (And for sure nobody is going to make eye contact with Baker, standing guard outside.)

Frank asks Moreno to explain why he didn’t take the hospital post to be near his old man. Jay explains that out of a family of cops, he’s the only one whose heart isn’t in the job, despite his Excellent Service Award. He’s a good cop because he’s been well trained, but he has a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning – shades of Jamie Reagan, but into community development rather than law. Jay, however, feels stuck, and he can’t back out now that his Dad’s out of the business. He loves his Dad. But he can’t stand all the Brothers-in-Blue that would come along with guarding him, not when he knows it’s not his true calling.

Frank seems to understand. He has to have wondered from time to time if all three of his boys could really have been called to be cops, or if they were just doing it out of love and duty. He promises Jay to keep the conversation between them.

This whole scene was so well played. The young man playing Jay slid so easily into character across from Tom Freaking Selleck, and held his own the whole way. Tom just gave him space to work, trusting him, and they made what could have been a maudlin bit of script into something that felt like the sand everyone gets under their skin where family is concerned.

CUT TO: Office of F, fourteenth floor. Frank, Baker and the Two G’s are sitting discussing the situation (so I guess the idea of “keeping this between us” in Frank terms just means not bringing Moreno Sr. into the loop). The Moreno family has a combined century of service between then, something they should be proud of. Gormley thinks maybe the kid hasn’t has his defining moment as a cop yet, the event that makes him really feel that he’s living the life.

“Is this a first, you without an opinion?” Frank asks Garrett, who is over at the coffee tray.

“As has often been pointed out, I’m not a cop,” Garrett says, and SERIOUSLY let it go, Moore. But he does have a point to make: “As a non-cop, I don’t go all butterscotch-and-marshmallows talking about a big cop family.” Heh. What if they were talking about a surgeon who didn’t want to practice surgery, he says. What if he’s in a shootout and has to cover his partner?

“If he freezes up,” Frank says, standing directly in-frame with the portrait of Roosevelt that could be his own father in looks, “That’s his defining moment.”

In such a cultish show about cops, it’s refreshing that the writers deal with the family outliers who definitely don’t want to be cops – Jay Moreno, Erin herself. Jack still on the fence. Also, that scene was beautifully claustrophobic in framing. Just saying. It fit the theme perfectly.

CUT TO: A classy looking diner, into which strides a classy looking Erin. She spots Donna, 36, and make a beeline for her table. Sliding herself across from Maud, she sweetly explains why she is there, outlining the many crimes Maud is accused of, and placing her under arrest. (Erin is wearing a heavy silver chain necklace that in certain contexts would clearly be a slave necklace, and when put together with Maud’s prints on Tony’s cuffs, my brain is now in double-TMI land. I’d have figured Erin for a dom, but hey, switch away, my good lady.) When Maud laughs in her face and claims that Erin must be making a huge mistake, Tony appears out of nowhere and assures her there’s no mistake.

Such teamwork. As Erin smiles to herself, Tony marches Maud out of the diner in cuffs, and not for fun.

CUT TO: Reagan House. Dinnertime. Nicky asks Jack if he’s signed up for his classes. Not yet, he says – he’ll wait till he gets down there. (WHAAAT? Says I. No, no, no, son. You get all of your classes ready to enroll and you wait with your finger on “Submit” the very second your reg window opens.)

“Most of them will already be filled up,” Nicky assures him. Yup.

“Seriously? Why?” Jack asks. Seriously, you have to ask, a bright kid like you?

“Nobody knows. Just the way it works, for freshmen,” Nicky smirks, being a recent graduate and all.

Ain’t that the truth. First year you take the crumbs on the ground. Second year, the herd has thinned out and it’s way easier. Third year, you’ve got mostly small seminars instead of lectures again, and whoa, things pack up. Fourth year, you better pray to your favourite great whatever high atop the thing that you get the mandatory courses you need without having to wait around another few terms…but anyway. My Spring Term reg date is two weeks away, and you better believe I’ve got seven upper level courses ready in my online cart, in hopes of landing a seat in three of them…

Sean instigates another round of brotherly heckling, which Danny shuts down as Jamie tries to re-direct things into asking after Jack’s major.

Now this is where I get interested, because in my head/fic canon, Jack plans to major in broad Public Policy studies with a Cognitive Science concentration, at Princeton. Eddie did Business and Marketing at a private college upstate, and Erin did a joint Lit and Poli Sci degree before law at Columbia.

The writers proceed to burst my bubble by making it canon that Jack hasn’t yet decided on a major, that Eddie did Art History and Erin did (or started) Botany. What? I could see Eddie taking a few Art History classes, and I could see Erin maybe enjoying learning all the Latin names and respiratory structures of variegated begonias and monocots, but not as a major…whereupon I pull out my CANON IS FOR SUCKERS t-shirt.

Anyway. The adult siblings™ are totally on their game, back-and-forthing about how they turned out okay despite majoring in subjects that have nothing to do with where they ended up. I’m 100% nodding along, having ended up so far off where I thought I’d be that I still marvel at it.

Frank launches into a classic Frank homily that is nevertheless heartfelt and wise, and I wonder if Tom really was speaking to the grandkids who have grown up onscreen around that same dinner table. Frank, though, is clearly thinking of his conversation with Jay and with Garrett, and maybe remembering Danny’s past conversations with Jack about To Cop Or Not To Cop. He wants Jack to be aware of his right to be his own person, to take what is valuable from his family but forge his own way.

“I like to think that your dad, and your aunt and your uncle do what they do because they were called to it, not because they were pushed. I like to think…to hope, anyway,” he finishes. Erin, who we know went through her own turmoil about joining up, looks particularly keenly at her father, watching his face. The others look pretty touched.

The family raises its collective glasses to Jack.

CUT TO: The kitchen. Jamie (ROLLED SLEEVES DOMESTIC JAMIE ALERT) is scrubbing the dinner dishes, and Danny is bringing in the last lot.

Jamie tries to re-open the issue of Sean, or rather, Eddie getting involved with Sean’s troubles, and Danny turns on the snark. Jamie takes a breath and tries to keep going. He thinks he knows why Sean’s acting out so much, he says. Jack’s going away, and maybe in Sean’s mind, he’ll stay home if he sees that his kid brother is going off the rails and needs him. He knows, because he did it himself when Danny left for Camp Lejeune. Aww. He must have been, what, eight or nine?

“What, you get a B-minus on a test?” Danny cracks.

“A-minus, it was a dark time,” Jamie answers in a rush, like it’s a painful memory he doesn’t want to revisit, and I nearly snort my tea.

It doesn’t quite work, though. Danny, trying to keep his cool, says he sincerely loves Eddie (Awww) and that they’re great together (WE KNOW) but that the two of them have to mind their business.

That get Jamie in the buttons. “You know what, we already apologized,” he says, “You got a problem with that? Go to hell.”

Yup. Brothers.

Danny knows he’s probably in the wrong but he’s not going to admit it just then. He throws his kid brother a look and stalks off.

CUT TO: Office of E. A female detective is taking custody of Maud, because Tony intends to take the stand. As the detective says she’ll return his cuffs, Erin pipes up, “You might wanna wash those, first.” Hee!

“Could you not?” Tony growls.

“What?” Erin asks, all wide-eyed. Then they share a truly lovely smile. “I’m proud of you,” she tells him. She offers to set him up with a friend from the Brooklyn DA’s office, but he declines, with thanks.

CUT TO: The five-four. Finally, back to the shooting plot. Danny and Baez have the lurker in the interview room. They unwind a sad and sordid story from her, culminating with the fact that Dr. Sunshine the Baby Magician is not only the fertility specialist who assisted her parents, but her biological father. The good doctor used his own sperm to create her and nobody knows how many others.

“Could be one of them’s our shooter,” Danny says, looking ill.

CUT TO: Dr. McCandless’ office. Danny and Baez arrive and put him in cuffs. He laughs it off at first, saying it’s just a misunderstanding. Eventually his mask slips off and he yells that of course he did it – he was helping people, giving them something they needed. YUCK. We’re actually dealing with a case of this up here right now. Yuck.

CUT TO: A bench on the East River Promenade on a beautiful autumn afternoon. A portly fellow tucks his phone back into his pocket, and pulls out a small handgun instead. Oh, dear.

Danny appears beside him, speaking softly. He explains that his daughter covered for him, diverting their attention to unknown persons, until he sent her a goodbye message an hour ago. (I assume they pinged his cellphone by super-urgent red-hot subpoena.) Danny keeps him talking, and eventually gets him to give up his gun.

The man turns around, and his daughter is there waiting for him. Thicker than water indeed. The full text of the proverb, by the way, is “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” 99.99% of the time, it’s misquoted and twisted 180 degrees from its intended use. The point is supposed to be that family means many things, and doesn’t have to define an individual.

CUT TO: Reagan Annex. The camera drone swoops down from above on Danny and Jack stuffing Danny’s car as full as they can, for the first of many college runs.

Eddie and Jamie step out of the house. Jamie is still wearing the same black polo and beige chinos he’s worn on every day off this season. Eddie’s in – I swear to God – a denim pantsuit with a ruffled halter top. As Vanessa, it’s a sweet look to rock to brunch on a sunny Saturday. As Eddie, it’s…please, no. Eddie helping someone move would be in her oldest jeans and a ratty t-shirt. I love the bouncy ponytails they’ve had her in, though I did see that Vanessa’s tired of cop hair. (I know, honey, I know. I’m sure she’s seen what real live female officers go through with their hair, and why so many chop it all off.)

ANYWAY. This was supposed to not be a novel.

“Maybe he wants to show off how good a dad he is?” Jamie wonders. I’m getting all melty with these two and the this-will-be-us-soon chat. Highchair at the dinner table in a year, you think?

“Gonna miss you guys,” Jack says sincerely. For the hundredth time this episode, AWW. He gives his uncle a hug, and then his Aunt-in-waiting.

“We’re only a phone call away,” Eddie reminds him. I don’t know where the fictional Hadleigh College is supposed to be, but it’s apparently a drive away, too.

Jamie slips Jack some mad money, being that kind of uncle, and no doubt remembering what being a broke college kid is like.

Sean appears in the door, looking a bit surly and down.

“C’mon, man, come say bye to your brother,” Jamie calls.

“Alright, I guess I’ll see you around,” Sean mumbles.

“Actually, you’re coming with us,” Jack tells him. Sean brightens right up. I guess he thought he was going to be staying at his grandpa’s house, or maybe being semi-babysat by Jamie and Eddie? Jack says he can help him get settled in, and have a campus tour to get ready for weekend visits. Sean practically leaps for the car, but does not yell “SHOTGUN”.

As the boys get ready, Danny comes over to Jamie and Eddie, and everyone falls over themselves apologizing. Danny insists he’s the one who screwed up, “running around with my hair on fire” which is a pretty apt visual.

Danny and Eddie hug it out (again, AWWWW), and Jamie wrestles Danny into a tackle-hug with an actual growl, which, okay. I’m going to need to replay that a couple times.

Danny ribs Jamie about needing some mad money too, and Jamie replies he’s got his own circus coming up soon, called a wedding. Eddie rolls her eyes. I guess that Sergeant’s pay bump will come in handy.

“Well,” Danny says, gesturing to Eddie, “You chose well.”

“Let’s not go overboard,” Jamie deadpans, earning him a whack from Eddie.

“Hey!” she squawks.

“What?” he asks, and busts out a grin. He reaches out to bring her in for a hug like we haven’t seen in years, just the two of them being natural and goofy and honest-to-God enjoying each other’s company, and it’s glorious. The camera swirls above them, in an allusion to all the open possibilities ahead, for them, and for Jack.

CUT TO: Office of F. Baker is escorting Moreno Sr. and Moreno Jr. to the fourteenth floor. Jay is pushing his father’s wheelchair. As Frank welcomes them in and Jay gets his father settled, Baker fixes Frank with yet another eloquent look as she closes the door – but this time it’s one of approval.

“My son, Jay,” Detective Moreno introduces them – or thinks he does. Frank plays it off like he’s never seen Jay before, as he promised.

“You find that idiot who refused my son’s transfer?” Moreno asks.

“I did, John. Heads rolled, that’s all I can say.”

“Thank you, Frank,” Moreno replies. That’s really all he needed to hear.

Frank sits down and outlines a quandary he’s in. He’s always fought the Housing Development Board to bring in a cop into the actual planning of the projects that they’ll end up policing. There’s always been pushback. And they still won’t allow a cop on a board. The only solution to getting cop perspective and expertise on the board is for someone with a valuable degree in Urban Planning, who is also a cop with a strong track record, to resign his badge and move to a civilian consulting position. For the greater good and the future of the city.

Having dangled this bait, Frank waits to see what the Morenos make of it. Jay is stunned but quiet, but when his father says it’s a request they can hardly refuse, he perks up, in his understated way. So while Frank has to cut a good cop free, he’s also freeing up an unhappy and undervalued man to do what he’s best at, with his policing experience as an extra asset rather than an albatross.

A tad contrived, but you know what, I’ll take it.

For all the wildly divergent plotlines, this stories were well-balanced, and even if the theme was a little sledgehammery at times, it was lighter than some episodes. I love love love that the actors just took scenes and ran with them - it felt very natural, and I wonder how much ad-libbing was going on. The parallels between Danny and Baez and Erin and Tony, as working partners, are becoming clearer, especially as Danny and Baez become less reactionary and performative, and Erin and Tony poke each other into more friendly and less professional interactions.

And of course, watching Jamie and Eddie trying to make sense of everything is hilarious, even if they definitely shouldn’t be working together. Maybe when Eddie’s a Sergeant too, they could collaborate on community projects, but not as CO and Officer, no, no, no...

Looking forward to next week.

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Ultimate Headcanon Tournament Round Two Bracket

Voting starts at midnight EST! Polls will be linked under the cut!

Left Side

Genderqueer Manfred von Karma (Ace Attorney) vs Narrator Chara (Undertale)

Trans Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom) vs Trans Guy Gardner (DC Comics)

MLM Captain America (Marvel Comics) vs Trans male Sheik (Legend of Zelda)

Dyslexic Numbah 4 (Codename: Kids Next Door) vs Trans girl Plum Puddin' (Strawberry Shortcake)

Phone Guy survived (Five Nights at Freddy's) vs Transmasc MK (Lego Monkie Kid)

Autistic Elle (Legally Blonde) vs Autistic Tobias (Animorphs)

Autistic N (Pokémon) vs Autistic Reagan (Inside Job)

Autistic Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender) vs Autistic Adora (She-Ra)

Right Side

Ben Chewbacca Alderaan Organa Solo (Star Wars) vs Trans male Kurapika (Hunter x Hunter)

Trans male Mafuyu (Project Sekai) vs Autistic Gregory (Abbot Elementary)

Trans Dipper (Gravity Falls) vs Aroace Luffy (One Piece)

Autistic Izuku (My Hero Academia) vs Shrek improvised his name (Shrek)

Autistic Peridot (Steven Universe) vs Nonbinary Lake (Infinity Train) vs Jason has high emotional intelligence (Good Place)

Transfem Big Mac (My Little Pony) vs Autistic trans lesbian Samus (Metroid)

Autistic Usagi (Sailor Moon) vs Kermit caused 9/11 (Muppets)

Diabetic Sniper (Team Fortress 2) vs Trans woman Cinderella (Cinderella)

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It’s my headcanon that Danny runs hot. All the times we see him in his pajamas, he’s in a tank top, or in 2x5, naked. He also isn’t one for sweaters, like the rest of the family, and he walks around snowy New York streets with his jacket wide open. He says he doesn’t like being cold, which is different from disliking the cold.

I also headcanon Linda as running hot… for the first few seasons at least. We see her wearing a short sleeved pajama top in the dead of a New York winter. Going off of 2x5, we can see that she hogs the covers; so perhaps she likes to be cozy? She’s also seen wearing sleeveless dresses and tops in the dead ass of a New York winter with snow on the ground. She doesn’t come into her sweater game until s4, though sweaters have been seen previously.

[longlivelindanny]

Blue Bloods Headcanons Part Five

Linda sings show tunes and NKOTB as lullabies to baby Jack & Sean

Joe is an amateur photographer

Danny will steal his kids lunchables and Kids Cusines

Danny and Linda stress eat French fries before the wedding

Nicky will end up in jail one of these days, and she’ll be totally guilty

After Linda buys a gun, Danny and Jamie keep singing “Linda’s got a gun!” to the tune of “Annie’s Got A Gun”. She almost uses it on them (not really)

I think I’ve done this before, but Eddie, Linda, and Nicky are Taylor Swift fans. Joe would be one too if he was alive

“Man! I Feel Like A Woman” is a go-to karaoke song for Linda

Linda and Eddie have a joint Broadway playlist, and it’s added to on a nearly daily basis

So it’s canon that Linda and Danny read together before bed, but I headcanon that Danny can get really into the story. Like, they’re reading Agatha Christie and someone goes into an ominous room. And Danny’s all like “don’t go in there! The murder’s there!” And Linda thinks this is 100% adorable to the infinity power

Jamie is a big flirt

Linda always falls asleep during movies

Eddie once punched someone who said she “threw like a girl”

Danny’s favorite opera is Carmen, and his favorite operetta is HMS Pinafore

Jamie is a master chef, and so is Eddie, so they’re dinners can be DECADENT

Sean still hates everything green, unless it’s a candy or food coloring

Frank can barely boil water, but he can make one helluva fancy steak dinner

Henry and Linda are the Broadway nuts. Mary also loved Broadway

[longlivelindanny]

Headcanon that Danny says “you know/y’know” from time to time ‘cause it’s Linda’s verbal tick and she says it a lot. It’s in grained in his brain now

[longlivelindanny]

Lindanny headcanon please? Like relationship stuff, and not individuals if that’s okay!

Linda’s first day of school, she was late for lunch and didn’t really get anything. Danny gave her his sandwich and starved the rest of the day

He also brings her brownies once he notices the bag of chocolates in her locker

She brings him desserts her Nonna makes, and he loves them

Forehead kisses make them both melt. You know how you’re letting your dog and they just start falling asleep and fall over? Yeah, that’s how the kisses make them feel

Danny will deny it, but bath time with Linda is one of- if not the best part of his Saturday

They watch British murder mysteries together, and comment on the medical/police inaccuracies

Sometimes they read to each other before bed. Currently they’re working through Where The Crawdads Sing. Linda thinks the murderer is the Mom

When they read The Princess Bride, they change the ending to the movie ending. (Linda actually yelled “what?!” when she first read the original ending. Danny used worse language)

Danny brought Linda one of those big ass thermoses so she doesn’t have to get up at night and refill her thermos. (So he doesn’t have to get up and get her water)

They both love the fall season. It’s their wedding season after all