#tbp bruce

[lukesirlgf]

Dating Vance Hopper headcannons

Okay first of all he’s not calling you babe. Ever.

He calls you dumbshit (affectionately), fuck face, dick weed

Can, will, and has gotten into fights over you

He checks you out all the time with absolutely zero shame.

Sneaks into your room all the time (everyone knows that he’s there they just don’t care)

You gets free slushies at the grab n go bc you are Vance’s babysitter

Vance won’t hug you in public

But when you two are alone oh god

He won’t let you out of bed and tells you if you try to get up again he’ll kick your ass

He won’t ever be aggressive with you and will punch everything else but you

But you do play fight

He won’t let you win but he does think it’s kinda cute that you try

He only comes to class to see you

He always sits next to you in class and once punched a kid for stealing his seat

He gets jealous easily but he knows you won’t leave him

You steal his denim jacket and he punches your arm and takes it back. But he thought you looked good in it so gave it back, saying “Don’t let it go over your big fucking head”

Man is whipped.

He’s never going to admit it ofc but he follows you like a lost puppy

His mom absolutely LOVES you she loves how soft he is with you

He’s a bed hog but he won’t let you leave the bed so don’t try

You and his mom are the ONLY people allowed to touch his hair. Don’t ask to braid it because he’s going to say no but he may let you brush it

He has really warm hands so you’re always holding them at home when you’re cold

He hated it at first but now he’s the one who grabs you

Vance is metal fan and his favorite song is cherry bomb

Vance hates kids but he adores griffin (his little brother because I said so)

He and Griffin play fight all the time which you think is adorable

He lets griffin win

You always clean him up after fights

He’d teach you how to fight if you didn’t know

You get in a fight and the girls boyfriend tried to jump in but Vance beat his ass

Shit talkers

You guys have weekly movie nights with Griffin and his mom

Vance will lay right on top of you the those time and crushes you

You’re his personal therapist

He didn’t open up at first but eventually he did

This bitch ALWAYS tries to scare you

Don’t let him near the kitchen without supervision

He’s known for chasing people with knives

When you come into his house, there’s a framed photo of you, Vance, and Griffin

Griffin is sitting behind you laughing about something you said while you laughed to

Vance on the other hand has the tiniest smile

He really loves you but doesn’t know how to show it so give him some time

[mirrorballshiningjustforyou]

Head cannons of Vance Hopper with a shy and sweet girlfriend? I love the grumpy x sunshine trope so much.

Vance Hopper x Opposite Reader

Vance loves having somebody to protect. (you)

Normally nice and optimistic people make him annoyed and he gets iritated, but for some reason you don't irritate him much.

Wouldn't try and make you less shy. He would prefer a quiet gf than a loud and crazy one.

Because then he'd be less distracted from pinball-

He loves how sweet you are, it reminds him of his mom.

So he's really attached to you (but he doesn't like to admit it)

In private he really loves hugging but he wants you to hug him first (he doesn't like saying he's a softie sometimes)

If you have plushies he's gonna get super jealous, he'll throw them off of you if you're holding them.

Hold him instead, he loves being held more than he likes hugging you

Anyone bullies you and they're dead. Especially since you're shy already

He's not against saying things for you if you don't want to say them (like ordering food, etc.)

(Sorry it's so short I got writers block)

[star122234]

ASKING THE BOYS FROM THE BLACK PHONE TO MARRY RING POP

Summary: you pretend to propose to tbp boys with a ring pop

finney °congratulations you made the boy look like a tomato ♥️🍅 °he took 2 minutes to answer you because he wouldn't stop stuttering °he sure said yes °when you put ring pop on his finger he was staring at the ring pop smiling promising himself that he would ask you to marry him °he didn't eat the pop ring he kept it as his most precious asset

robin °robin replied yes without thinking twice °he takes the ring pop and puts it on his finger and is showing off to the others °and from now on he refers to you as his bride/fiancé °he ended up not resisting and ate the ring pop

bruce °he also replied yes without thinking twice °he put the ring pop on his finger and never took it off °also shows off to others and spent the whole day smiling °after your proposal he spent days planning your wedding

vance °I didn't know how to answer °he ripped the ring pop out of your hands and put it on his finger and said he accepted and called you an idiot °he pretended he didn't care but you can be sure he spent the whole day thinking about it °he didn't eat the ring pop he kept it and sometimes he stares at the ring pop and thinks about you °you made the boy feel loved

Billy °like finn he looked like a tomato °he accepted and let you put the ring pop on his finger °then he was talking to his dog about his marriage proposal °he didn't sleep that night he stayed the whole night planning your wedding

Griffin °the boy had a silly smile on his face °he 100% accepted the marriage proposal °was showing off the ring all day and saying that his bride/groom proposed to him ° in the end he ended up eating the ring pop He regretted having done that and went to buy another pop ring.

[finn8yblak3xo]

(tbp) What they would get for your birthday

Finney Blake

this man would be thoughtful and get u something big like a huge teddy bear but if your not into stuffed toys he would get you a huge hamper with all of ur favourite snacks and obviously you’d get a lot n i mean alot of cuddles.

Robin Arellano

he wouldn’t get you something he would go somewhere with you, such as the arcade. he would win you prizes and lollies left to right because to be honest he probably goes there a lot with finney.

Bruce yamada

same as robin he would take you somewhere but not to the arcade, he would take you to… the park but not to just hang out he would be prepared and bring food, picnic cloth and have the whole day planned out! bc this man is probably so organise.

Vance hopper

Not gonna lie he would actually just bring you to the grab and go to get some gas station food but of course you’d have a budget of like $5 because he would be playing his pinball game trying to beat his high score. ————————————————

hello!

me again, hope you have liked this chapter i also realised that people like prefences more that imagines so i think i’ll do more prefences but i’ll do a few imagines. pls request ideas!

[cossmiicxx]

bring back the black phone fandom i says 😭😻😻

[kookidough]

analysing vance hopper because he lives in my head 24/7 !

tw for like. literally everything the black phone covers!!!!!!

also there's some special effects gore rather far down in the post idk just i feel like i should warn you just in case

okay so before anyones like "but bee!!!! he only had 6 minutes of screen time in a 102 minute long movie!!!!! he was only on screen for 5.8% of the movie!!!!!" and to that i say i Know it was a real tragedy so a lot of this will be built on personal interpretation and subtext and stuff said behind the scenes and whatnot

so firstly i wanna rot about what his childhood/upbringing might've been like..... i havent quite decided on something definitive but i think we can take one look at his character and realise that is glaringly obvious he had a bad childhood, in one interview the actor that plays him (brady hepner) says "the background i had set up for vance is that the reason he was the way he was is his home life was fairly difficult, you know maybe his dad was either not there for him or he wasn't supportive, maybe he was fairly abusive, and so that creates a hair trigger sense of rage in vance" hair trigger meaning his patience is literally as thin as a strand of hair it does Not take a lot for him to snap

there more to it after that which i'll get into soon but yea thats the gist of it it's clear he had absent/neglectful/abusive parents and that would certainly contribute to why he's so angry all the time, maybe acting so explosive was the only way to get his parents' attention, either good or bad, so he just internalised that. obviously rage and anger issues like vance's lead to violence (not in all cases but in his case it does) and i think a neglectful and abusive upbringing would obviously expose him to more violence than a normal childhood would, therefore normalising it and desensitising him to it, whether he's seeing it play out in his own home and/or on television or something like that (because i doubt his parents would be the kind to monitor what content he's viewing)

i feel like he has little control over his life and that only adds to his anger, which in his case leads to a fight when his buttons are pushed too many times. i think he probably takes great pride in being the toughest in town and whatnot and winning fights and being perceived as strong and scary is good to him and helps him regain control/power, something he doesnt have at home. the rest of the quote from the interview i mentioned earlier states "this pinball machine could have been the only thing that he has in his heart that's like, good, like 'holy cow i did this, i set the score,' so when someone comes along and messes it up for him, it takes away the only thing that he has. i think that that's when he switches to a 'now you're gonna pay for that'"

similar to what i said about fighting, the pinball machine and his high score is something he has control over and its an important part of his reputation/image like. hes literally pinball vance ! and the whole thing about that high score being the "only thing he has in his heart that's good" implies that hes. well. pretty shit at everything else, which is pretty much canon if you remember that gwen said vance was held back twice in school. makes me think that while he's not the brightest in school he's certainly street smart

moving onto ermmmmm him getting kidnapped era because im sure youre wondering "well bee if he's so street smart then why did he get kidnapped" so may i raise two theories (this is. literally all i got and its not even concrete, me and my friend gray (@staggersz) tried to figure out how this could even happen and this is the most plausible thing we've got. so shoutout to him real quick he has had to deal with me being unnormal about vance for like a year and a half thanks king couldnt have done all this without my rotting buddy)

so either he got taken by surprise (most likely option) or vance's trust was gained first via getting given quarters at the pinball machine and small talk and shit like that but this is unlikely because i feel like it'd take a loooooong time for someone like vance to trust a some random stranger adult man when he clearly has issues with trusting and respecting people older than him and people with authority (e.g. cops, his parents, or school officials) so yea being taken by surprise would probably be the most realistic option, i always see people on tiktok being like "how did the grabber kidnap vance hes so strong!!!!" dude its a 15 year old boy against like. a 45 year old man who's already claimed two lives its really not gonna be a fair fight here

before i get into the next part i wanna quickly address a theory i absolutely Hate and it is so easily disproven and that is the theory that vance is the grabber's son or is related to him in some other way and i see it Far too often on tiktok and i HATE it. from what ive seen this all stems from his dream sequence where he kicks open the fence to albert's house and, presumably, goes inside after being dropped off by the police after the grab n go fight. idk if some people just straight up didnt realise this but clearly in real life he is going to his Own House??? in the dream it's only albert's house because this is how he chooses to show gwen the house she's trying to find her brother in, the house that he himself was killed in??? i hate the theory i hate it sm

the dream sequence itself is interesting though as the ghosts seem to only be able to conjure up what theyve seen in real life (like how bruce can picture the outside of the house and show that to gwen but the house number is all flipped and not right beause he doesnt know it) so vance being able to picture the house and the number and the gate and every detail would imply that hes seen it before, but im going to explain that away as either he got out once before like with finney's failed escape attempt, or the house is most likely on the route he walks to school or the grab n go or something and he hasnt actually been there prior to being kidnapped

mini rant over now onto being kidnapped i guess, so i used the missing posters to try and estimate a timeline of how long each ghost boy would've been in the basement for (although the missing posters are notoriously unreliable for details such as looks/height/age/etc, the dates seem to all line up). so we know the order is griffin, billy, vance, bruce, robin, finney, right?? if we use the poster date then billy was taken on may 4th, 1976, a month and two days after griffin was taken (april 2nd 1976). vance was taken on september 23rd 1977, almost a full year later (stay with me im going somewhere with this), and after that bruce was taken on july 18th 1978, again almost a full year later

its established in the movie that the grabber stalks his victims before he takes them (canon because we literally see the van watching finney and gwen as they walk home from school early on in the movie) but we dont know how long he does this for since griffin/billy and robin/finney were taken such short distances apart and then the others were taken such long distances apart, also it's possible he could stalk his next victim while the previous one is still alive, etc etc lots of confusing factors, but if i've done the maths right then the absolute maximum time vance could've spent down there is 9 months and 25 days, or 298 days, so erm . let that sink in !

howeverrrr in the movie gwen states that vance went missing "last spring" and september is definitely not in spring, meaning he could've been down there for a year or even longer. an explanation or excuse i could think of for the movie and the missing poster saying different things (other than the missing posters being known for some areas being wildly inaccurate) is that maybe he was taken in spring but wasnt labelled as officially missing until september, when he was properly linked to griffin and billy's similar disappearances and the mysterious grabber? i can imagine it'd be very easy for law enforcement, especially in the 70s, to dismiss someone like vance as a runaway until they get solid evidence that he was taken. idk though thats just my personal excuse / angsty headcanon for the difference in information

not sure what exactly killed him but we do hear from vance himself that "he took his time with me" so it was probably blood loss from a variety of injuries, if we look at him in his ghost scenes we can see his hair is absolutely covered in blood which indicates head injury, he clearly has a broken nose and bruising around his eyes as a result of it, he has these deep cuts on his abdomen area (apologies for the image quality but i believe they're like. sfx pieces you would wear under clothing)

and he also has just like. minor bruising (like the fingerprints on his arm) and other random blood splatters on his face and neck (assuming the blood down his neck comes from wherever he was bleeding on his head) so Yeah overall very unpleasant way to die obviously

okay now the part thats actually in the movie and it only took me 13 paragraphs to get here: vance as a ghost!! first thing i wanna point out is appearance wise i just want to say that when he's a ghost he's missing his choker and that fact Pains me. anyway personality-wise i feel like being violently murdered has, understandably, kicked his rage up to like. the highest level it could possibly go. he's insanely snarky and downright rude to finney on the phone, showing no empathy to the fact that finney is literally in the exact situation he was in

i feel like the whole "this is the nightmare end of your pathetic little life" and "if you knew what you had coming, you'd be fucking terrified" thing is definitely to scare finney on purpose and to get him to do something, vance might as well have just told him he's never going home cuz thats how it came across LMAOO, it is startling though because vance is clearly speaking from experience, that he was literally fucking terrified, and he is warning finney in his own weird way

the thing i think sets vance apart from the other ghosts is that while he does help finney, he does it for a different reason than they do. the other ghosts want finney to escape, to get out, to be free, to live, but personally i dont think vance cares about that. the only thing he wants is for albert shaw to be dead, for someone to seek vengeance, to do what vance couldn't. vance doesn't care if it's bruce or robin or finney or whatever boy could've come after that, he doesnt care as long as that man gets what he deserves after what he put vance through, and i see this through the scene at the end of vance's call where finney thanks him for his help and vance says, and i quote, "helping you? this isn't about you, fuck him! and apologies for being repetitive but to me it just literally proves that to vance, this isnt about finney or his escape, its just about revenge

we dont get to find out what happens to the ghosts once the credits have rolled, and i dont think we quite know enough about tbp's version of ghosts to guess what theyre up to, but i have a few theories :3 maybe theyre no longer bound to those two houses and they can now go anywhere they want in town? or maybe since their shared goal of stopping albert has been achieved, the ghosts can finally pass on to whatever is waiting for them next. i dont think vance would be content to pass on that quickly or easily as anger lingers, but i hope he'd be able to let go of it eventually, and hey we might find out in the sequel. i pray it mentions him cuz i will just die if it doesnt

sometimes, ok thats a lie, frequently i think about an au where he survived or escaped or whatever but ohhhh boy this post is already a train wreck so that au would deserve its own essay of a post :3 if u actually genuinely read this far then Wtf thanks for reading the ramblings of an absolute madman, only pure delusion could get like 20 paragraphs about a guy with 6 minutes screentime but hey thats how i roll, thanks again to my pal gray for letting me rot and thank u to my other pal ana for also enduring all this rot

hope u enjoyed my interpretation of vance hopper im going to crawl in a hole now and probably brainrot some more, thanks again for ur time :3

[80ramiens]

bruce stared at him.

[ghost-wysteria]

Bruce: what do you think hes listening to?

Vance: probably death metal or hard rock

Y/N: *in his car* 4 BIG GUYS. AND THEY GRAB ON MY THIGHS. BLOW UP MY GUTS LIKE ITS THE 4TH OF JULY-

[ghostywispe]

obsessed w gwen's dreams. someone pointed this out and kind of why griffin doesn't have one but i forgot who. bruce, who's the towns golden boy, everybody knows him. people have known him since he was young, this isn't anything new. but, since people have known him, thats what gwen's dream is. stuff about him. but its also mainly baseball, which is something else he's known for. people know he plays baseball, im sure thats a reason he became popular. gwen's dream about vance? him fighting and the cops having to come get him. thats what he's known for in town, so thats what her dream his. and billy's, who's on his paper route. he's s the paperboy and its how he's defined, so much that its one of the only things he knows after he dies. he delivered newspapers. griffin doesn't get one because people didn't know him. his life's a mystery. finney is only in one where he's begging to get out because that's what gwen needs to know. he's fighting for it and she just needs to know where he is.

[bad-grammer]

Vance hopper: *puts salt in tea*

Bruce Yamada : *sips tea*

Vance hopper: …..

Bruce Yamada : *finishes tea*

Vance hopper: …. Wasn’t the tea salty?

Bruce Yamada: yes but I didn’t want to hurt your feelings.

Vance hopper: *starts crying *

[inanothercosmos]

Sunshine boy

[lukesirlgf]

Okay but can we agree on something

This boy is absolutely beautiful. I want to pat his head and keep him in my pocket forever.

[mirrorballshiningjustforyou]

Hiii! Can you please write like ’preferences’ on how the tbp characters would react to their s/o shoplifting or stealing something? Love ya, have a great day💕

The Black Phone Guys When Their S/O Shoplifts

sorry this is so half assed, i haven’t watched the movie in a while, i’ll watch it today so i can get some more requests in :)

Finney Blake

Literally FREAKS OUT

honestly hes freaking out a little more for himself, i mean…you could get him in trouble

if it’s smth small he’ll just end up probably buying it for you “do you want money to buy it? i’ll buy it for you”

if it’s something big/expensive however, he won’t let you leave. like legit

the store needs to hire the mf as a security guard or smth

Robin Arellano

honestly he kinda doesn’t care, he’s used to his friends and stuff doing things like that so he doesn’t make a big deal of it

he’ll probably just block the cameras or smth

unless its something REALLY expensive

“you’re not gonna be able to take that, there’s cameras”

if you do try to steal it he’ll just take it from you, he might even fight you for it.

Vance Hopper

he’s probably stolen something before, so it’s not a big deal at all to him, he probably won’t even notice

whether it’s expensive or not doesn’t matter, he’ll just let ya do your own thing.

unless its from a corner store or a convenience store, he’ll just take it from you and pay for it.

Bruce Yamada

yeah, NO.

if he catches you, he’ll literally just

live bruce reaction

he just tells ya to put it back tbh, he won’t stop you if you steal it though. UNLESS ITS EXPENSIVE CUZ HES NOT TRYING TO GET IN TROUBLE

like, he loves you, but hes not gonna go to jail for you…

unless there was a target in the 70s…target don’t gaf

[nympippi]

Which team are you rooting for? 🔵 or 🔴

[dogguq]

Finn

[iennoganan-aha]

This is stupid as hell 😭