Can we just start a random chain of canjy headcanons please? Like how I headcanon Caddy as a baker who like, when he's fuccin stressed out from dealing with all the wizard war shit bakes some classic 70s british pastries at 3am. The kitchen smells of cake and cigarette smoke and is also hideously 70s, with a mix of multi coloured tiles and brown-cream walls. He's also baking this shit in his underwear and a tank top which is a health and safety disaster.
YESSSS!! Canjy head canon chain is a brilliant idea! We’ve built these characters from scratch for our RP (and the planned fics!) so they’re vivid to us so let’s spew some of the HC’s we have. Though I’d love to hear anyone else’s hc’s for these boys because anything and everything having to do with Caradoc Dearborn and Benjy Fenwick makes my heart happy.
Benjy wakes up in the middle of the night and reaches over to cuddle into Caddy, but of course he’s not there, his worries have woken him also. That’s when Benjy smells the scent of fresh baked pastries coming from their kitchen and sighs, knowing Caddy is stress-baking again. He pads into the kitchen quietly in just his boxers and leans against the kitchen doorway just watching the love of his life rolling out more dough. He loves watching Caddy’s large hands work the delicate pastry dough, his bulky frame looming even larger in their small kitchen. He watches him work for a few minutes, just admiring the way his muscles tense and move, the cigarette dangling from his lips, so lost in his own thoughts and concentration he doesn’t even realize Benjy is there. Benjy walks up behind him, whispering “Morning, love” so as not to startle him before wrapping his arms around his waist from behind and pressing a kiss between his shoulder blades. Caddy tenses for a moment until he realizes it’s Benjy and then relaxes into his boyfriend with a sigh.
Benjy is a disaster in the kitchen so he doesn’t even offer to help because he knows Caddy will just glare and shoo him out of the kitchen muttering about him setting a cake on fire again, so Benjy just watches and at 4 am, they sit together on the sofa in silence, eating some of the pastries while cuddled into each other, neither having to say how worried they are about their next missions, about their friends who are always in danger, about how scared they are of losing each other. They just reassure each other they’re still here, together, for now, and will enjoy every second they have.
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My babies, I have so many head canons! So Benjy is a former professional Quidditch player who was injured with a terrible back injury but thankfully healed although he can’t ever play professionally again. He’s a bit of a bookworm so he loves working at Flourish and Botts even though its a far cry from his former Qudditch glory. He dreams of one day owning his own book shop with a bakery attached to it for the love of his life, Caradoc.
Feel free to add on any thoughts or head canons anyone has about these barely mentioned in canon boys!
Hello that killed me! They absolutely just enjoy what they can and i see then not just as partners but as best friends. They adore each other, and still find new ways to be awestruck and caught off guard by the other. Maybe Caddy will watch how Benjy gets so invested and enthusiastic about a book he read, giving Caddy the rundown of the plot and gushing for minutes to hours. Caddy is more the quiet type, content with only a few words, but hearing Benjy talk like is one of his favourite things. Benjy is a bit of a loud boisterous lad type jock man. Does that explain him well Jen?
My favourite one that kind of started as a shitpost was his pet owl Clementine. I didn’t originally think I’d get so invested in designing and giving a personality to an owl but I did. She’s a wee little pygmy owl in contrast to how big he is cause we love contrast in animation, and she hates almost everyone, except for her owner and Benjy, and a few others I’m not in a mindset to discuss right now.
Yes yes, yes!! I love this all!
Oh that describes Benjy really well. He’s very much what I would describe as the pretty boy jock who is a secret nerd. And ugh I love Clementine and the hc’s for her and how she loves Benjy.
I can picture our boys lazing about on a Sunday, cuddled up on the sofa, Benjy wearing his reading glasses he hates but needs and Caddy being enamored with the way he looks in them. Benjy is reading out loud a section of the novel he’s been reading and they have a box of pastries Caddy made on the table in front of them. Benjy is pointing out a passage from the book that he finds wrong, has an issue with and goes off about how the author just doesn’t see how this one point is so problematic and how it should have been handled and Caddy is just watching him fondly, listening intently and nodding along with Benjy’s points. Caddy picks up a pastry when Benjy stops for a breath and makes Benjy take a bite. “Here, love, you need some fuel for that rant.” He grins at Benjy rolling his eyes and settles back with Benjy in his arms, “Now tell me more about how she screwed up that character.”
ughhhhh VERN, how did these boys take over our minds and hearts?????
