Étiquette : headcanon

skystones:

doctorcid:

vaan and tomaj cuddle so much. they’re that weird couple that sits on the same side of the booth and cuddle while they wait for their food. they hold hands/wrap their arms around one another as they walk down the street. if there’s not enough room somewhere for them to cuddle, tomaj sits on vaan’s lap and vaan holds him close. they’re so hands-on with their affection and thrive off of pda because it’s so commonplace for any dalmascan (as @skystones and i have discussed at LENGTH) to be lovey-dovey with anyone they’re familiar with. they’re constantly doing little things for one another, like buying flowers or making sweets/food. tomaj jars his own hot peppers (and i mean hot. ghost pepper hot) and they’re vaan’s absolute favorite food other than dalmascan chocolate (which is also spicy). every time vaan returns to dalmasca, tomaj sends him off with several jars and a few letters to read while he’s away pirating again. and vaan brings him back trinkets, books, spirits, and other things he thinks tomaj will genuinely love. sometimes it’s something as simple as a crystal-laden rock. they tell each other constantly how much they love one another, even if it’s through action, it’s always there. it’s so sweet, it makes others sick. tomaj and vaan are that couple. the couple that everyone admires but hates because love like that isn’t supposed to exist. 

I like the part where they cuddle in booths while waiting for their food

skystones:

it’s time for tomaj headcanons that i’m making up mostly as i go!!! and disregarding rw bc i dont fucking know her:

he got teased for his freckles a lot growing up, and got them from his mom. he’s actually extremely self-conscious about them and has a few peppered along the rest of his body but most prominently on his face. vaan loves them

his dad and his dad’s dad and his dad’s dad’s dad etc etc all ran the sandsea tavern and there’s an ale on draught there that’s a longtime family recipe/homebrew type deal. they import the hops from giza where the nomads grow it.

tomaj is big on cuddling. he is very cuddly–much like vaan and penelo. i headcanon they all came from touchy, loving families. 

when archadian occupation took over and cast a lot of orphans on the streets and in lowtown, tomaj was lucky and could take refuge in the property/real estate his family has owned for generations. though he of course was better off for it, there’s still a huge disconnect between tomaj and other children/orphans. kytes, filo, bucco, etc–they know tomaj but they don’t know him like they know vaan and penelo. tomaj would be saddened by that rift but he is too busy to be sad and mother of all FUCK did someone just puke on that table over there, it’s 2pm, ffs

tomaj is so old for his age – he spent a lot of time growing up indoors, watching his dad tend to the bar, or running errands with him. he didn’t get to go out and play much. therefore i headcanon him as rather reserved and cautious. he doesn’t get out of rabanastre much at all unless it’s strictly for business and even then he feels a little uncomfortable and overwhelmed in new places because he’s usually alone. he has to handle so much okay! he is a bar owner and essentially a landlord to imperial soldiers during their residency in rabanastre. his parents owned the entire building the sandsea is in, all 5 stories of it, and so when the occupation took over and essentially kicked out the dalmascan tenants, tomaj had to deal with them too. he has some help–his father still had connections that helped him with the business so tomaj has some older people working for him too. but still. kid sleeps like 5 hours a day and is always running around.

sometimes he forgets to eat and gets extremely hangry. vaan is quick to remind him of it and shoves pita bread in his mouth.

he cannot whistle and envies vaan ability to do so

his weird security/comfort item is his dad’s clipboard, he likes to carry it with him while he bosses people around and it is always holding some important checklist he can’t live without

lists are another thing. he loves lists. it keeps his head on his shoulders. sometimes vaan will steal his clipboard and add things on his list such as 

TO DO:

  • interview new barback prospect
  • fire other barback
  • tasting with archadian distillery
  • fix plumbing??
  • meet shipment for summer vegetables at south gate
  • (bad, horrible handwriting) tell vaan he is beautiful
  • eat a shoe
  • buy vaan lunch
  • make fart noises at migelo
  • (a really bad doodle of a moogle smoking a blunt)
  • eggs

vaanmaj time tomaj doesn’t sleep too well. it’s hard for him to wind down at night even when he’s so physically exhausted. having vaan around even if the bed is so small actually helps him go to sleep, to match his breathing with vaan’s slumber, and it helps him get some rest

he wears that yellow scarf to hide hickeys vaan gives him, and that was my first tomaj headcanon i made up like a year ago lmao

he loves to fish but he never gets to anymore. his dad had a boat, and they’d go on it a lot together. but then his dad passed, and the boat is sold off to the company that imports the fish to the tavern for meals. he dreams of buying it back one day. 

he can’t fight for shit. vaan has to teach him. otherwise tomaj is lethal with a slingshot. vaan is impressed.

i headcanon him a gemini. he’s clever, sociable, energetic, and two-faced. he charms all the archadian patrons and imperials and chats them all up and they think they’re his regulars, but in reality he hates their guts. 

tomaj is a high-functioning fellow often working on overdrive and is used to working 15 days in a row with no break. often he thinks that’s just how it is. but vaan reminds him to take it easy sometimes. but even then he’s still thinking about work. 

he grew up in a normal apartment above the sandsea – several rooms, etc. but when it just became him, he rented that space out, and now lives in a studio flat on the top floor. it’s got a small kitchenette and a bathroom but otherwise it’s just his bed in a corner by the window that overlooks the streets. it’s right next to the rooftop access stairway so vaan likes to drag him up there to hang out and smoke snakehyps probably. 

Tomaj lives on cafeine/energetic drinks (when he remembers to stay hydrated or at least try), but Vaan frequently switches Tomaj’s personal thermos filled up with homemade herbal tea from local flowers or cactus water.

Tomaj grumbles at the first sip, then he is so thankful.

skystones:

My headcanon-Vaan has a repressed knack for mathematics and it impresses Balthier when it comes time to teach him about airship mechanics/engineering. 

He always had a knack for it, but once the plague hit and his parents died, he obviously stopped studying, and never looked in a book since. But the muscles are there, that facet of his mind never left, and the cogs turn quickly again alongside Balthier who helps cultivate it with enthusiasm, because 1) Balthier is a fucking softie thanks and 2) he is thrilled he doesn’t have to teach this dingus mathematics

I looooove this Idea ! As much as I love clueless!Vaan, it’s clueless regarding reading the atmosphere and social interactions. Not knowledge. More street smart and special interest smart Vaan !!

This guy is in prison because he wanted to pray for Lord Rasler and Lady Ashe. In my headcanon, when Ashe (and Ondore) decided she should vanish for a while, Ashe acted to protect her husband’s grave.

Nabudis is destroyed, Lord Rasler was loved by the people, his grave could become a rallying place of remembrance. She was afraid the Empire would be tempted to destroy it. So, the same way the treasure room was protected, Ashe enchanted the access to the crypt of the cathedral with a very strong magic only she could lift.

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skystones:

so i was talking with jay about vaanmaj (what else is new) when i dug my own graves with feels about how vaan is actually probably like, an extremely good caretaker. like the best bedside nurse…because of all the endless, endless hours spent at reks’ bedside, his brother hollow and empty, but vaan would still fill the room with color, with the warmth of his voice ; he’d talk for hours. when he ran out of his own stories he’d read reks stuff from books. reks never said anything but vaan knew he could hear his voice. so he never stopped talking until his mouth ran so dry his voice was hoarse. vaan is a caretaker at heart.

which, ofc adds more into my whitemage!vaan hc. but like, imagine tomaj being so overworked and getting sick because he’s working 60 hour weeks as a teenager running a bar under imperial rule; the sandsea has never been worse off. (dalmascans are losing their jobs + homes, the tavern is losing money, the only way he can scrape together more gil is to serve the shit the imperial customers and archadian tourists want while also posting as many hunt bills as he can find to take commission from) naturally, he works himself sick, but still feels like he can’t not be downstairs at the bar working. but vaan refuses to let him downstairs and nurses him back to health. especially when tomaj’s illness has to get worse before it gets better. he can barely swallow broth. but vaan does everything he needs done; he runs errands, makes deliveries, runs up and down those stairs from the bar to tomaj’s flat 80 times a day to relay messages and news bc tomaj is so obsessed with the tavern. but mostly vaan sits at his bedside and talks with him, even though he really doesn’t have to, tomaj finally understands after the third day that vaan is so happy to be sitting by someone’s sickbed who he can actually talk to–who he can actually make better.  vaan is loyal and stubborn and so good-hearted and he never leaves tomaj’s side unless it’s something tomaj needs done.