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Now that it’s officially canon that Zander reads Heartstopper, I have a suspicion he’d be a Charlie kinnie.
(And no, I’m not saying this bc both Zander and Charlie are characters I see myself in wym???)
TMF Headcanons!
(Because they’re a precious little found family and I love that for them.)
🩵Hailey spends several hours scrolling through Pinterest.
💜Zander has a massive black cat plushie hidden away in his room.
🧡Luke has about 200 hours in Animal Crossing, and is emotionally attached to all his villagers.
🩷Milly shops at Hot Topic.
💙Sean tends to keep his headphones on during class, and only catches about half of what the teacher says.
🩵Hailey had a horse girl phase, while Zander’s always been terrified of horses.
💜Zander braided Hailey’s hair a lot when they were younger.
🧡Luke has an entire photo album full of pipctures he took of Zander.
🩷Milly had a dragon phase.
💙Sean’s considered the father of the group, as well as the group therapist.
🩵Hailey and Milly paint each other’s nails.
💜Zander has a habit of stealing the bathroom for hours on end just to make sure he looks his best. He’s very particular about his appearance, especially about his hair.
🧡Luke’s hair is usually pretty messy, but it’s always in an aesthetic way. None of the other club members know how he does it.
🩷Milly refuses to wear skirts.
💙Sean has a terrible sleep schedule due to balancing work, school, and club activities. His parents constantly arguing doesn’t help much either, which leads to him passing out sometimes during club meetings. Usually, the group tends to let him rest.
🩵Hailey loves blueberry lemonade.
💜Zander drinks grape juice out of wine glasses to feel sophisticated.
🧡Luke has a stash of grape juice at his house specifically for Zander.
🩷Milly’s really good at Hip-Hop styled dance. She’s tried to get Sean to do TikTok dances with her, and it usually never works out too well, considering Sean has two left feet.
💙Sean really good at both cooking and cleaning. (He’d make an amazing housewife.)
🩵Hailey’s a Swiftie, and has learned many of her songs on guitar.
💜Zander steals Luke’s clothes all the time, and Luke loves seeing Zander wear them.
🧡Luke and Zander have matching bracelets they made together.
🩷Milly listens to death metal.
💙Sean often takes walks late at night, putting his headphones on full volume and allowing himself to daydream.
🩵Hailey hasn’t seen nor read Heartstopper, yet knows several quotes from the series purely from how much Zander says them.
💜When Heartstopper came out on Netflix, Zander and Luke watched it together, and they both cried.
🧡Luke will listen to Zander ramble on and on about his interests, because he likes listening to Zander’s voice, and he likes learning about Zander’s interests so they have something to talk about.
🩷Milly’s love language is giving surprise hugs.
💙Sean’s love language is sharing his music playlists, and creating playlists for others.
🩵Hailey and Zander both drink tea a lot. Hailey tends to put sugar and cream in hers, whereas Zander drinks his without.
💜Zander can walk better in heels than Hailey can.
🧡Every year for the holidays, the Music Club plays Secret Santa. Luke was the one who started the tradition.
🩷Milly has no problem picking up bugs, and as a result, she’s usually the one to deal with them whenever they get inside the club room. (Zander’s also terrified of bugs, and Milly has chased him around while holding one multiple times.)
💙Sean gives the best hugs.
🩵Hailey and Zander host sleepovers a lot.
💜Zander has RBF.
🧡Luke tends to suppress his own feelings in favor of focusing on Zander’s.
🩷Milly’s always getting herself into dangerous situations on accident, and there have been numerous times Sean’s carried her under his arm after she tries doing something stupid.
💙Despite being the group’s therapist, Sean doesn’t like talking about his own problems in fear he’d be seen as a burden. He’s opened up to Milly a bit, but not much.
🧡More Pride Posting💜
Decided to do a lineup of the TMF cast, but the entire drawing looked crunchy so I’ll be posting it in two parts. (Also featuring my fanon designs and headcanoned heights!)
So starting with the taller characters we have:
💜Zander/Lia - 5’8
💛Jake - 5’9
🧡Luke - 5’10
❤️Liam - 5’11
💙Sean - 6’0
🩵Hailey Headcanons🩷
(Honestly, out of all the Music Club members, Hailey’s probably the one I’m the least attached to, but I absolutely adore her dynamics with other characters, so… this’ll mostly about her relationships with others lol.)
🩵Used to be a HUGE tattle-tale when she was young. (Would always threaten to tell on Zander for everything.) (Zander reminds her of this a lot and she cringes every time.)
🩷Loves women’s country music, and will blast it in her room just to annoy Zander.
🩵Hailey has REALLY BAD split ends, and Zander’s always getting on her case about it, telling her to just cut it off. She refuses.
🩷Her and Zander used to fight over everything when they were young. They were horrible at sharing.
🩵Sometimes when Hailey gets anxious she’ll typically grab Zander’s sleeve. (Which activates Protect Brother Mode.)
🩷Often asks for Zander’s help planning outfits for special occasions.
🩵Sends Zander a lot of her Pinterest finds.
🩷Vents to Zander about almost everything.
🩵*sips tea* “I know what you are…”
🩷The absolute no. 1 Lander shipper. (Anyone who claims to support them more can fight her.)
🩵If she wants Zander to do something for her, she’ll usually get Luke to ask him. (Because Zander almost never says no to Luke.)
🩷Used to give Luke little hints about Zander’s wants and interests, just to help him pick out gifts and whatnot.
🩵Despite knowing Luke for years, she still doesn’t know much about his own personal problems.
🩷Hasn’t gone one club session without having to yell: “MILLY!!!” at least once. (Either because of something stupid she did, or something out-of-pocket she said.)
🩵Her and Milly are bi and I do not take criticism. They definitely spent a night or two gossiping about actresses they find cute.
🩷Probably the worst with technology, and usually has to get either Zander or Sean’s help. (There was definitely a time where her computer wasn’t working, and Zander fixed it simply by turning off and on again.) (She felt like an idiot for weeks afterwards.)
🩵Sean has given Hailey a couple lessons on how to edit music, yet she still struggles with understanding how everything works.
🩷Finds Jake to be super cute. (And always has, even before he joined the club.) (And the fact he was cute only made her hate him more.)
🩵Hailey has given Jake a few guitar lessons. Her hand grazed his once during one of them and she still isn’t fully over it.
🩷Post competition, Hailey played Taylor Swift’s ‘Love Story’ on her guitar, and could only imagine Jake while she played it. She still doesn’t really know why. (HMMMM I WONDER-)
🩵She thinks back to the time Jake pinned her against the wall randomly and screams internally.
🩷Still thinks about her and Lia’s old friendship sometimes.
🩵Lia probably had a crush on her back in Middle School, but Hailey was too dense to realize. (Hailia has me in a chokehold-)
🩷Both her and Lia love strawberry ice cream, and would often go out to a little ice cream parlor and split a cone or something.
I’m joining Freakblr Month! I might not do all the prompts (because honestly I still don’t really know much about the Freakblr Lore) but I still kinda wanna participate in the character-related prompts soooooo yeah! Day Two! Favorite characters time!
Drew is my obviously my all-time favorite. He’s comfort character, my muse, my entire personality and tbh he became my biggest coping mechanism after a particularly dysfunctional relationship. I absolutely adore his character’s complexity and I found a lot of his actions and feelings to be pretty relatable unfortunately. Seriously this little stinker means so much to me.
Jake’s just a little scrimblo. Just a silly little guy. He’s cute, he makes me smile, and his struggles being a people-pleaser are hella relatable. I like him.
Zander used to be my all-time favorite, up until episode nine, actually. And even though I’m not as crazy about him as I used to be, I still love his character. I actually really like his character development of learning to trust Jake and I love his personality and just like the two mentioned above, he is incredibly relatable.
Luke is just… I love Luke. I don’t care how many people say he’s boring or he’s cardboard. He’s the sweetest character on this show and I don’t care what anyone says, I think his relationship with Zander was adorable. The PDA, the cringey pet-names, the silly teasing and flirting, I ate that shit up. He’s just genuinely such a comforting character, he’s so precious and sweet and kind and he’s a good boyfriend and he’s such a goober and I adore him.
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Day 11! Something I like/dislike about the Music Club!
If I’m being honest, I don’t have too much to say about these guys. I quite like them, they’re very silly.
I think my favorite thing about them is honestly just seeing them all grow to accept Jake over time, each with their own little episode and whatnot. It’s pretty heartwarming, and I love me a redemption story that takes place over several episodes instead of just one. (Lookin’ at Zuko here.)
And honestly, I like all their characters a lot! (Except Hailey.) They’re all just funny little guys!
I think what I dislike though is that they don’t really stick out of me much as a group. I don’t really know how to explain it, but when they’re all together it just feels… boring? I like them more individually. Or when they’re in pairs. But when it’s all six of them, it’s just… not really that interesting. Like, they’re cute together, don’t get me wrong, but there’s nothing really about them that really keeps me invested in them. Like I won’t really be rotating them in my brain for hours on end like I do with the Jomies.
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Day 19! Music Club Headcanons! (Music Edition!)
I’ve already shared most of my Music Club headcanons, so I’ll be keeping this post pretty simple. Just kinda want to share my thoughts regarding their music tastes, because why not?
🩵Hailey mostly listens to country music. Woman’s country specifically. Like, the songs about killing your exes for cheating. If it weren’t for her kindness and strong moral code, she probably would’ve slashed Drew’s tires and bashed in his windshield to one of these songs by now. He may not be an ex, but she hates him all the same.
💜Zander mostly listens to stuff from the 80’s and 90’s. Pop music specifically. He’s one of those people who claims music is getting worse, and hates about 90% of modern artists. (TikTok would be his worst nightmare.) But I do imagine he’d really like Conan Gray. He’s definitely cried to several of his songs. (Also Luke definitely got him tickets to one of his concerts and he cried for like a solid 5 minutes.)
🧡Luke doesn’t really have much of a music preference. He’ll enjoy whatever anyone else is listening to. But on his own, he’d probably listen to a lot of classic rock. (Like something someone’s dad would listen to.) (Also I could totally see him listening to Arctic Monkeys.)
🩷Milly would mostly listen to punk-rock and metal music. Something she can blast late at night. (I have so many artists I think she’d listen to but that’ll take too long to list lol.) Most of these songs are either about how much the government sucks or how much life in general sucks.
💙Similar to Jake, Sean will listen to just about anything. However, instead of having all his songs in one playlists, he’s created countless, all with very specific vibes. (And he definitely has a shared playlist with each member of the Music Club.) His only ‘disorganized’ playlists are his recent faves list, and his vent list. Anyways, despite being down to listen to anything, I feel like he leans more towards EDM. Or anything loud. Anything to drown out his thoughts. (I refuse to stop with the Sean angst headcanons.)
🖤Bonus! I feel like one of the only artists the Jomies (including Zoey and Lia) can agree on is Kesha. I could totally see Drew driving them all somewhere with Joyride blasting out the speakers. Everyone except Drew’s singing along and Drew’s this close to driving the car off a cliff. (Not actually though he loves these idiots.)
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Day 21! LGTV Headcanons! (Music Club Edition!)
🩷Hailey and Milly are both bisexual. And I unfortunately I don’t really have much else to say about this. They probably figured it out by simply having one too many crushes on fictional women and actresses to be considered straight.
💜Zander’s canonically gay. And I like to think this is something he’s always been at least somewhat aware of. After all, he’d never once had a crush on another girl before, and he’d always been more drawn to the princes from the little princess movies him and Hailey watched when they were younger. When he figured out how to put into words the way he felt, I imagine it took him a bit of time to tell anyone. Mostly because he was nervous about being seen differently. I like to imagine the first person he came out to was Hailey, and she was really supportive of him. His parents were as well, and over time, he became a lot more comfortable expressing his sexuality; no longer feeling nervous when it came to telling certain people. (Zander’s only regret about telling his parents though is that he’s no longer allow any boys over for sleepovers.) (Big sad. No Lander sleepovers.) (Oh but you know Hailey’s helping Luke sneak through the window at night so him and Zander can cuddle.)
🧡Luke’s canonically pansexual. (I think?) But he took a lot longer to figure it out compared to Zander, and I imagine Zander is probably how he figured it out in the first place. (He’d only ever liked girls before, at least to his knowledge.) I like to think Luke grew up in a pretty homophobic household, so to suddenly realize he had feelings for his male best friend definitely came as a shock. He keeps his sexuality a secret from his family, and from most people outside of school. He loves being with Zander but a part of him almost feels guilty since it’s so frowned upon at home. But a Luke’s gotta Luke, so Luke’s not gonna tell Zander or anyone else anything.
💙Sean is an ally! I can’t really see him as anything other than straight honestly, but he’s very supportive of his friends and will quite literally defend them with his life. He also probably knows a lot about different sexualities and whatnot thanks to the other members of the Music Club.
❤️Bonus! Max’s Band is just a polycule. Look at these three and tell me they’re not gay. They’re a whole damn pride parade. (And if ALL THREE turn out to be straight I’ll cry.) (PLEASE CLOZY AT LEAST LET MAX BE GAY LET ME PARALLEL HIM TO DREW I BEG-)
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. 🧡💜
ONE MORE MINOR SPOILER:
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LUKE LUKE LUKE LUKE LUKE LUKE LUKE LUKE LUKE-
HE’S BACK MY BOY IS BACK I WANNA PUT BUTTER ON HIS HEAD I LOVE HIM🧡🧡🧡
ALSO ZANDER NEARLY SAYS FUCK LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOO SLAY KING