#holly grayelle x reader

[somegirlnamedalicia]

ooooh if you're taking requests, would you be cool with writing some gatekeeper relationship headcanons? :0

So sorry for the delay on this one! Dang, you guys really wanna date the managers that require dictionaries and/or translators, huh? /lh This one's a bit on the shorter side, but I hope you enjoy!

Holly Grayelle (Gatekeeper) Relationship Headcanons:

Holly Grayelle has exceedingly high standards, but if you're dating her, that means you've met them! Huzzah!

Nobody will mess with you when you're with her. Her presence alone is intimidating, and if someone is stupid enough to actually try anything, she'll be standing between you and them in a flash.

Her date spots are always carefully hand-picked and vetted for suitability. Her lover deserves only the best and finest, after all. 99% of them will require reservations to reduce the possibility of you two being exposed to "boorish bothers" or something.

She's not really the lovey-dovey affectionate type, but she loves walking arm-in-arm with you when you're out in public. It's a physical closeness she doesn't often get that's also regal and shows off that you're hers.

Unfortunately, dating her doesn't make you exempt from her criticism. You're already great, but you could be even better, and Holly wants to bring out the best in you. That means removing any flaws you might have, no matter how small.

Constantly having every little issue pointed out can get exhausting, though. No matter how hard you try, there's always something that could be better in Holly's eyes. As it turns out, nobody's perfect, not even someone as amazing as you! And no, trying to "fix" every little "flaw" doesn't actually help! Who would have guessed?

Unless you want her to keep doing this (hey, I don't judge), you'll need to have a serious talk with her. It might take her a while to drop her old habits, but she will reassure you of all of your strong points. And believeth her, there art many.

She'll still judge other people, though. Only now, she'll also add how you're both so much better than them!

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Gatekeeper x Reader Headcanons

⚔️There was no way Holly liked you back... right? Right??? She's all high and mighty and hardly even wanted to talk to you, so SURELY she didn't like you back...?

⚔️Well one day she calls you pathetic for being too shy to share your feelings with her and confesses that she has a crush on you. Wait, she knew?? How? She tells you it was painfully obvious. Oh.

⚔️So you two started dating after that.

⚔️She's not used to saying nice things and you've learned when she's insulting you but like /aff versus when she's actually kinda mad and it's /neg. She's working on not just spewing out insults and she knows it hurts you when she's being genuine about her words!

⚔️Holly will also feel like she has to protect you from, well, almost everything. She will cite that if you two had a 1v1 fight she would absolutely destroy you as her reasoning for wanting to constantly protect you {yes Holly, attacking someone 3 times when they only get 1 tends to put you at a greater advantage in a 1v1 setting}.

⚔️If she starts to get too overprotective just remind her that you can in fact do things by yourself and you managed to survive [age] years before dating her.

⚔️At least she's good at getting what you/she want{s} from others. Staring at them with her red eyes and not saying anything tends to make people cooperate more readily.

⚔️She would be SO embarrassed about the huge loss of reputation if her coworkers found out she was dating a toon, so if you visit her while she's working she tries her best to treat you like any other toon. It's actually pretty funny because if you get really flirty with her she doesn't really know how to react.

⚔️In general PDA makes her very flustered and not know how to respond.

⚔️Need something done? She's already working on it and it will be done to even higher standards than she already has because her partner deserves better than perfection. Be it helping you fix your computer or getting you a new shelf, she will make sure it's the best you've ever seen and will ever see.

⚔️Holly can get a bit nervous about physical affection even behind closed doors because she's just not used to it, but over time she will warm up to the idea more and more. She'll even start to initiate it eventually.

⚔️Expect to hear a lot of attempts at compliments like, "Thou art but a pathetic- I meaneth... low skilled amateur. However, thou has madeth an attempt."

⚔️It's hard for Holly not to judge every tiny thing about you when it's her general personality and her job, but she'll get better about just appreciating you for who you are and acknowledging that's why she loves you in the first place.

⚔️Overall, your relationship might start off pretty rocky with a lot of judgement and being insulted a lot but Holly will learn how to give compliments and not be judgemental about everything. But she'll still always be protective of you, that's never going away.