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🧡🍂Luke Headcanons🍂🧡

Because him and Zander are my favorite Music Club members (besides Jake) and I feel Luke is incredibly underrated. I get he doesn’t have much to his character compared to the others, but I personally find his character really sweet and comforting. I just wish we had a little more, so I wrote these.

🧡Luke has either already taken a culinary class, or is currently taking one.

🧡Similar to Sean, Luke can also do the cooking and the cleaning.

🧡Prefers baking over cooking. Knows everyone’s favorite desserts and does his best to make them often.

🧡Tends to make hot chocolate for the Music Club during winter.

🧡Always has a stash of Reeses candies.

🧡Luke is probably known for having a terrible spice tolerance.

🧡Has younger siblings. (Specifically, younger sisters. This is less of a headcanon and more of a prediction. He just gives off older brother energy.)

🧡Tends to personify inanimate objects. (Like his drums.)

🧡The best at remembering birthdays.

🧡Known for having stupidly good luck.

🧡Loves watching romance movies. (And will watch them with Jake and cry.)

🧡Sean has taught Luke some cool broom tricks.

🧡A bit of a pushover. Always trying to make those around him happy, even at his own expense. (Zander is working with him on telling people ‘no’.)

🧡Will send Zander the cheesiest ‘Good Morning’ messages.

🧡Uses the pleading eyes emoji way too often when texting.

🧡Always getting Zander little gifts. (From little trinkets to giant plushies he won in claw machines.)

🧡Will give Zander little love-bites randomly when they’re in private. (Zander was flustered the first few times it happened, but got pretty used to it.)

🧡Gets the dumbest grin on his face whenever Zander’s in a room.

🧡Has been begging Zander to write a duet with him.

🧡Golden Retriever Boyfriend.

🧡Tries to avoid venting to Zander in case it pushes him away. (This is not the case. Zander actively tells Luke to talk to him if he’s stressed. Luke tells himself it’s okay to vent to Zander. Luke’s intrusive thoughts tell him otherwise.)

🧡Can get overwhelmed a little easily due to academic or social pressure.

🧡Has high grades, but still wonders if he could do better. (He often holds himself to very high standards.)

🧡Cuddles with Zander is enough to ease like 60% of his worries.

🧡More Pride Posting💜

Have a little angsty Luke prediction I came up with on my late night drive home:

So, in my LGTV post, I talked about how I believe Luke has homophobic parents. I figured this would make for a pretty interesting plot point, and I started wondering what I would do with it. Hence, my idea was born: What if Luke’s parents were under the impression Luke was dating Hailey?

Think about it. Him and Hailey have been friends since childhood. Luke’s always hanging out with her and her brother after school. He goes over to their house frequently, and probably talks about them all the time. So, it was really only a matter of time before his parents jumped to that conclusion.

And Luke, seeing how excited his parents got at the idea of him finally having a girlfriend, decided to go along with it. After all, it would explain why he was over there so often. And it’d finally stop all the teasing and pestering. And it made his parents happy, which is all Luke really wants.

But does he tell Hailey and Zander about this? Hah, absolutely not. He hasn’t even told Zander his parents are homophobic! Because he doesn’t want to worry them. (I’m sure this won’t come to bite him in the back later! 🫠 Insert Jake crying on the club floor in Episode Nine due to his lies becoming too big to handle.)

Everything’s just fine for a while. Until Luke’s parents start saying things like: “Oh, you should invite Hailey over for dinner tonight!” And: “Oh, we’re going to (insert place here) tonight! Would you like to invite Hailey along?”

And obviously, Luke refuses, finding every excuse in the book to avoid his parents meeting Hailey again. Because then, he’d have to explain the whole situation to Hailey and Zander, which would then result in him having to explain everything he’s been hiding to the two of them. And he can’t do that. He can’t worry them like that. But his parents are growing suspicious, wondering why their son seems so keen on hiding his girlfriend. They’d met Hailey in the past before. Why now was he trying to hide her?

His parents start questioning him, asking him why they never get to see Hailey anymore. Luke tries to tell them it’s simply because she’s busy, but that’s almost never the case when Luke wants to go over to her place. (His parent’s aren’t necessarily mad at him, just confused and a little suspicious.) Luke promises that they’ll meet Hailey eventually, putting on a little smile for them only to start panicking the second they leave.

Because now, he almost has to keep up this lie. If he pretends to break up with Hailey, he wouldn’t be able to hang out with them without even further suspicion. But if he keeps this up, he’ll have to tell Hailey or Zander. Then he’d have to open up about his parents and then Zander would get worried and stressed and-

Luke bottles it up. Puts on a smile while his mind races in desperate search of an answer. But his facade isn’t flawless. He becomes quieter. He zones out more. And gets this… almost somber expression when he thinks no one’s watching him.

And Zander immediately notices this.

He tries to bring it up, but Luke brushes it off, telling him he’s just a little tired. And Zander believes him. Until several days pass and Luke only seems to have gotten worse. He zones out more while Zander’s talking. Rushes home after rehearsals. And he’s suddenly much busier helping his parents out with stuff he refuses to elaborate on.

Now, Zander’s obviously going to worry. I think with his whole: “He doesn’t tell me anything anymore!” Comment made it very clear he values communication and honesty. So for Luke to be so distant suddenly with almost no explanation, Zander immediately jumps to the worse case scenario. What if he made Luke mad in some way? Or worse, what if Luke’s gotten bored of him?

He talks to the Music Club, and they all give him different responses. Hailey and Milly tell him to confront Luke directly, but Jake and Sean tell him to give it some time. Wait it out, and see if he comes to him. Ultimately, Zander listens to the latter, giving it a few more days while trying to be as supportive as possible, making it clear that he’s willing to help.

But nothing changes, and Zander’s intrusive thoughts grow louder, eventually boiling over one day after school, when Zander finally decides to confront him.

And as always, Luke lies. He puts on that pretty fake smile and lies straight through his teeth. Causing Zander to snap. All his worries and doubts and insecurities spill, tears welling in his eyes he asks if Luke’s upset with him.

He starts asking if he’s made Luke mad, bringing up small little ‘mistakes’ he made that Luke has long since forgotten about. He’s barely able to keep it together as his mind starts spiraling, and he eventually asks if Luke had been wanting to break up with him. If he wanted to leave him behind, too.

And Luke shatters.

Finally, everything he’s been bottling up is brought to the surface as he holds onto Zander, desperately trying to assure him that he’s not leaving and that he will never leave him. And he finally admits to what’s really been on his mind. He admits to every lie he’s been telling, clinging desperately to Zander as he cries against his shoulder, choking back sobs between desperate apologies. Practically begging for Zander to not be mad.

And obviously, Zander isn’t. (He probably feels guilty now for escalating things so much because of how insecure he was.) And obviously, Zander helps him through this. Or hell, maybe Jake could, too. I mean, Jake knows a thing or two about how easy it is to get caught in what seems like a little harmless lie. It’d be a nice parallel between the two, and show how much Jake’s grown while helping Luke develop as a character.

And at the end of all this, Luke explains everything to his parents. They’re probably very shocked. A little weirded-out, but they’re not going to disown him or anything like Luke was worried about. And they still love him, they just… have to get used to it.

So… yeah! That’s all I got for now. I don’t know if TMF will actually go in this direction, since homophobia hasn’t yet been explicitly explored in TMF, but if it doesn’t I might honestly just write my own AU for this. I love Luke so much I could easily write a good 20k words about him.

(Oh, yeah. After this whole arc Zander’s issues would definitely need to be touched upon. Maybe that can be its own post one day.)

Anyways, Live Laugh Lander everyone. 🧡💜