The orphan headcanons aren’t stopping today

-orphan girl falling asleep on Balthier at a restaurant while he and Vaan meet up after a while (they spend a lot of time apart at first w Balthier doing Balthierthings/avoiding this very matter), insert Balthier covering up his excitement at her comfort with him by drawling, “in all my days with women I’ve never met a little lady who I’ve manged to bore to sleep”. He carries her back to Strahl with Vaan at his side

-additionally insert orphan girl running up to Balthier and hugging him and declaring she wants to hang out with him all day, and Balthier saying to Vaan “well what can I say. Ladies love me.”

-and lastly, Balthier returning from Balfonheim after a month or two with the new cat, says to excited orphan bab “you can come meet her on my ship if you like”, as some first way he reaches out to her, and Vaan laughs. “Okay (insert her name i didn’t bother making up), rule number one. If a man who dresses weird and talks funny ever invites you on his airship with the promise of kittens, Do Not Do That.” Balthier glares, Vaan grins. “But this guy is okay. No one else though.”

I am more and more confused about my (headcanon) feelings towards Vaan and Penelo’s relationship. For the longest time I’ve shipped them romantically, but I was actually interested in how they would get together. Penelo having no doubts about her feelings, and Vaan being Vaan, not noticing anything because for him being close to Penelo is obvious. Also, Vaan being super protective.

But the more I read @skystones vision, the more I’m craving for Vaan and Penelo’s brother and sister relationship. Still being super close and protective and everything, but no romance bs lol

@skystones what did you do to me ?

I can’t ship Vaan and Balthier because of my personal twisted crack headcanon multiverse AU where they’re brothers, and I can’t ship Penelo with anyone else either…

Now, romance is not a goal at all (I’m aromantic myself) I just don’t know how to headcanon their sentimental development anymore lmao

at this orphan girl headcanon: Balthier using her to win arguments when the three of them are together bc as much as she likes Vaan she thinks Balthier is super cool and wants to impress him (also he’s prob right anyway). Conversely Vaan uses her to win the fun arguments. She definitely enjoys Fran (and also Basch?) bc how can they not be part of this fam somehow. Balthier acting like a cat bc kids are slimy and gross but the kid is nice and learns boundaries so he eventually eases up.

skystones:

WHY DO YOU FEED THIS YOU KNOW I WON’T EVR SHUT UP ABOUT IT

orphan girl headcanon that she’s actually superduper shy and she clings to vaan really hard at first; she barely says a peep and she’s this rozarrian little thing with dark hair and BIG BIG BIG brown eyes and vaan just adores her. so much that while she’s with penelo and filo/kytes at the orphanage he’s kept up at night in bed with balthier just thinking about her and how he misses her and bal is just like, eyeroll, it’s only been three days away, come on vaan. and vaan’s just like. i want to see her i promised i’d see her soon aahhhHHHHHHHH

i had a situation where bal takes her for the day while vaan does. something. maybe vaan asks him to take her for the day. and bal has never spent time 1×1 with her and he’s like. oh jeez. but she’s so good and quiet? she just colors and draws a lot. and bal is doing maintenance on the strahl inside and she asks what he’s doing, and he explains, and she just. plops down in the corner and starts coloring quietly and keeping him company, and she’s just occupied for a while and then when he’s done she’s like “i drew u and vaan!” and it’s a terrible fucking drawing but bal is like, aw, let’s go show vaan i guess, whatever i’m supposed to do, uh. and they go show vaan in town and vaan like – holds the drawing, slowly falls to the floor, this is the most beautiful thing i’ve ever seen . in the entire life that is mine. faram. by ultima. fates.

balthier is like, jesus vaan. but it makes him smile anyway. and the lil girl holds balthier’s hand. he buys her cute scarves to put in her hair but she asks vaan to tie it around her neck like a cool bandana so he does and balthier is like FINE.

anyway yes once she opens up more around balthier she senses that he’s tougher to please than vaan so she tries to get him to warm up to her. but she still snuggles vaan like a lifeline and vaan is. so god damn sweet to her i wnt to CRY. she talks a lot around vaan but is def one of Those Kids that clams right up around other people. she opens up to penelo eventually but it’s a PROCESS. penelo is like JESUS I THOUGHT I WAS GOOD WITH KIDS WHAT’S WORNG WITH THIS ONE.

fran definitely doesn’t like kids but she appreciates this one is QUIET. especially around her. lil girl is like O___O constantly at fran. she clams up. in fact fran tries to get her to open up and the kid is just like O_______O and vaan is like lmao. chill. fran won’t bite. kid is still like O_____O until one day she just reaches out and touches fran’s hair. fran freezes and then relents.