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This has only been sitting in my askbox for a million years now, but better late than never~
I'm only gonna be doing the main cast (with the exception that I'll do both Bens), because that's all I really have headcannons for.
Before you ask, yes they are in order of their numbers because I think I'm funny.
Luther:
A lot of people, including him, feel like he's more ticklish than he is in actuality because he tends to react explosively to being tickled.
Definitely the type to start giggling and nervously backing away when threatened, but he's actually pretty chill about it if you catch him by surprise. The anticipation more than anything else is what gets to him.
Worst spots would be under his arms, his ribs, and his feet, though most people don't know about that last one as they're not often on display.
I saw a headcannon from @ssnicker-doodless that said that due to his monkey form he'd be less ticklish, and once it's removed at the end of season 3 he's far more sensitive, and I 100% agree with that.
Doesn't directly hate or enjoy being tickled, he's just kind of neutral about the whole thing. Probably prefers being on the giving side a little more.
Diego
Very fucking ticklish but he's grown good at resisting it in the beginning to deter people from trying. He'll scrunch up his face into this almost pained grimace while tensing every muscle in his body and holding his breath. Bro looks like he's dying lol. If you get at it for more than a minute or so however, the giggles will start to slip through, and from then on the whole dam breaks and he's a flailing mess.
Does and doesn't like being tickled. Most of the people he was "close" with throughout his life were his siblings, and he's not on the greatest terms with them. When he met Eudora he became more okay with it, and then immediatelly lost all of that growth when he met Lila.
The two are super competitive at first, and their entire love language is being dicks to each other, so he's a bit hesitant about letting himself be that vulnerable with her. But once she finds out that he is, all she does is tease him a bit, but doesn't try to initiate anything. I think ultimately that bit of respect is what lead him to eventually ask her to try tickling him.
Worst spots would be his neck, sides, and ribs, with ribs definitely coming highest on that list. Has a very growly laugh, deep, but desperate, and he'll squirm a lot when being tickled.
Doesn't genuinely tickle people a lot, but he'll do that annoying poke in the side thing with his siblings all the time, and he'll sometimes do it to Klaus if he knows the other has been craving it lately.
He tickles Lila a lot though and usually receives revenge for it, but once he admitted he liked it to her, he's found that this provocation method of seeking tickles is far easier than forcing himself to ask for it up front.
Allison:
Does not take kindly to being tickled, and she will let you know it. There are a few notable exceptions, such as Raymond and probably Luther in canon but I'm trying to block out that part of the show.
She's definitely more okay with being on the giving end however. Little pokes and squeezes from behind show up a lot in her day to day with her siblings, with Viktor or Klaus ending up on the receiving end of it more often than the others.
She'll sometimes tickle Five, if she wants to risk it, but it usually results in him not talking to her for days and the consequences outweigh the rewards.
Most ticklish on her thighs, stomach, and ribs (ALL the Hargreeves got the ticklish ribs genes, and they all hate it because it makes them easy to get too).
Has a very airy laugh that tends to go silent after a while, and snorts if you get a good spot.
Knows everyone's spots in her family; no one is sure how, she just knows.
Used to use her rumor power to restrain people when she was younger a lot, but as she grew older she stopped as she felt it gave her too much of an unfair advantage.
Klaus:
Not the most ticklish, but the most likely to react to it in a genuine way, so most people assume he is.
Loves being tickled and isn't ashamed to admit it. He doesn't bug people about it too often, unless it's in a teasing way to a Diego or an Allison, joking about how if they're so annoyed with him they should just tickle him. It works about 50% of the time, so usually he'll resort to being annoying, or splaying himself out to and waiting for the inevitable.
He tends to admit it more when he's high/inebriated, and will fall, giggling and swaying slightly on his feet, into people's laps, with slurred requests to get wrecked. This is how he met more than a few of his lovers in high-school and his early twenties.
Curls up into a ball when tickled, and doesn't actually squirm that much, but he'll squeal like he's being murdered, and protest just as much too, only to stare at them in confusion when they stop because "those were fun screams, what are you talking about??"
Loves being on the receiving end by a long shot, but certainly isn't opposed to dishing it out as well.
He's one of the few people who will risk tickling Five and, strangely enough, one of the few people who survive the process, which Klaus always boasts about, insisting he's his favorite.
Very verbal when teasing, pointing out which spots appear to be worse and about how funny it is that they can be taken down by something so innocent. Doesn't directly use baby talk, but his own thing that's kind of adjacent to that. Big fan of the "I'm not touching you" shtick.
Five:
Is actually pretty open about the fact that he's ticklish and won't deny it if asked. Usually scoffs out some version of, "Everyone is, what kind of stupid question is that?"
However, if anyone attempts to test that information he immediatelly goes on the defensive and teleports out of reach until he's sure they're not going to do anything.
Hates the image of being tickled more than he hates the act itself. He knows that people underestimate his skill and knowledge already because he's in a younger, smaller body, and he doesn't want to add such a vulnerable weakness into the mix as well.
He actually kind of likes the helplessness of tickling, how he gets to let go of the control he's constantly holding onto and have an excuse to laugh just to laugh. He doesn't mind the feeling either; a couple times in the apocalypse he tried to replicate the sensation, brushing fingers shyly over his knees or scratching at the normally sensitive spot on his palm, but it was never the same.
That being said, he hates how childish it makes him look and he has a hard time giving up that control and trust to someone else. Klaus is one of the few people he'll allow it with, mostly because he never brings it up. He'll tease him during, sure, but afterwards he'll move on like nothing happened. Five enjoys that their dynamic doesn't have to change after it, and he can still keep up his annoyed not-technically-older-brother act around him. So he'll let him do it more than the others, and has gotten stupidly close to being obvious about it a couple times, but luckily Klaus seems to get that he doesn't want to admit it, so he doesn't pry.
Won't ask to get tickled, as I said, but if he's drunk he'll be more touchy-feely with people, tickling them and brushing up against shoulders, falling into laps, giggling over nothing, all of which usually result in him getting his shit wrecked. Five has a love/hate relationship with his knowledge, because on one hand it gets him what he wants, but on the other hand he feels like he's getting too close to showing his hand, so to speak.
Doesn't tickle others a lot, unless he wants to be annoying. When he was younger he did it more, and absolutely used his teleportation powers to manifest on top of people and dig his fingers under their arms, or appear behind people and taser their ribs.
He uses teasing sparingly, but when it is employed, it usually consists of short, devastating comments that make everything a thousand times worse than they already are, especially when accompanied by that annoyingly smug smirk that he's always sporting.
Worst spots would be his neck, stomach, sides, and knees, which, as everyone has collectively agreed lol, is a death spot and will take him out instantly. His hands are also ticklish, though not nearly as bad as the rest of him. Just enough to get him squirming and fidgeting and letting out giggly huffs.
Actually really likes having his stomach tickled, though he'll never admit it, as it makes his insides swoop in a way that's almost pleasant, and feels vulnerable in a way that's not panic-inducing? If that makes sense? Also likes having his knees tickled, but can only take that for so long before has to tap out.
Doesn't laugh right away when tickled. Instead, he'll let out grunts and huffs of breath, with a lot of stuttered sentences and protests. When he finally does crack, his laugh is very giggly occasionally turning into a shriek if a spot gets bad. For the most part it stays at a giggle though, no matter how ticklish the spot is (though he'll snort on occasion if you grip his knees, a fact he vehemently denies).
Ben (normal):
The actual most ticklish out of all of the siblings, a fact he is unfortunately very aware of.
Worst spots would be ribs (which you can assume for basically all of them, with varying levels of sensitivity), calves, that spot where you back connects to your sides, and his stomach, which is his worst spot because it's connected to his powers.
ALSO his tentacles are absolutely ticklish and y'all can fight me on this. I don't think even he was aware of that at first, but once Klaus experimented with it in a sparring match and he nearly hurt them both with how fast he tried to pull them back.
Tickling obviously faded out of his life once his life faded out of his life, but once Klaus began to grow more adept at manifesting him, it started showing up in new and interesting ways.
At first it just began with Klaus realizing that he could tickle Ben now, much to Ben's chagrin, and spent forever teasing him with that, especially as Ben was unable to un-manifest himself to get away. After a while however, Ben realized that if Klaus could touch him, he could do the same, and the tables quickly got flipped.
Once they figured out how to let Ben possess him, they discovered something incredibly interesting. If Ben lets the connection flicker just slightly, Klaus can feel what he does, as they're stuck in this weird limbo area, and he takes advantage of that to tickle Klaus while possessing him. It's a dangerous game, however, as spending too long with a cracked connection can allow Klaus to slip back through and do the same to him.
Kind of likes being tickled, but he's also hella fucking ticklish and cannot stand it for very long. Definitely prefers being on the giving end more than the receiving one.
Sometimes Klaus will manifest Ben just enough so that he can touch to play pranks on his siblings by having an invisible Ben wreck the shit out of them.
Ben (Sparrow):
All the stuff about worst spots, tentacles, and the fact that he is by far the most ticklish still remains true about this Ben.
Tickling almost never came up with him as a kid, and if it did, he shut it down almost immediatelly. I don't think even he was aware of whether or not he liked it as a kid; all he knew was that it made him vulnerable, and weakness wasn't something he could afford to show to the others.
When he meets The Umbrella Academy, things change just slightly. Klaus is the most affectionate with him, and the only one willing to give him a chance, and so it's only natural that it would come up with him.
During the night they all got drunk together, Klaus was listing off things that were similar about the two of them, trying to see if there were any key differences with the whole time travel weirdness. Eventually he got to tickling, and Ben, in a moment of stupid drunkenness induced honesty, admitted that he didn't even know if he was ticklish or not. Klaus, of course, had to test that.
The situation was made far worse in that Klaus knew all of his Ben's worst spots and which techniques worked best, and therefore knew immediatelly where to target. Ben of course fell to hysterics and pleading quickly, his body overloaded by all the new, and horribly intense, sensations. There's nothing more disorientating than someone else knowing your body better than even you do. Klaus backed off pretty quickly, only for Ben, still drunk, still being stupid (at least from his perspective), asked if Klaus could do it again, only this time lighter. Klaus, who had never received this permission from his Ben, was happy to oblige~
Enjoys being tickled more than the other Ben, if only because he was deprived of it for so long, but he will violently deny it if anyone brings it up because he is Repressed TM.
Viktor:
Wasn't tickled much as a kid, always the one left out of most of their activities or play. He would sometimes sneak downstairs and watch them from cracks in doors or from a distance when they would have tickle fights. He was never brave enough to engage, though he definitely thought about it often.
As he was closest with Five, at least as a child, he would sometimes approach him and ask about the subject, such as why they always struggled so hard to get away if it was something that was making them laugh. Five would usually respond with a blush and a stutter as he tried to think of a way to respond that didn't give him away. In the end, he usually gave a brief explanation of what it was and simply ended on "It's embarrassing" and left it at that.
Even as he got older, the subject of tickling didn't come up often in Viktor's life, though it happened a couple times with Leonard, all brief, haphazard interactions that usually left him confused and vaguely wanting more.
It came up even more once Sissy came into the picture, and it was then that Viktor discovered just how ticklish he really was, and also why his siblings had always seemed so desperate whenever it was happening.
Does enjoy tickling others, in theory, but gets super shy about it and doesn't engage unless the other person has made it explicitly clear that they like it.
When he was younger, he asked both Five and Klaus on seperate occasions if he could tickle them, and both agreed with varying levels of reluctance.
Worst spots would probably be his thighs, feet, and under arms. His back is also ticklish, mostly on the shoulder blades area, and it's one of the few spots that he can actually relax into the tickling with.
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So, I’ve seen a lot of theories (especially on tumblr blogs, such as the marvelous @thedreamfisher) going around about who this Perfect Bendy is supposed to be in BATDR:
(originally posted on this; do not give me credit)
While I can see why a lot might say this might actually be Henry, another thought came to mind. Dreams Come to Life showcases (spoilers) Buddy Lewek becoming a Boris. The thing that I found peculiar was that in the novel, Buddy actually has little to no affiliation with Boris. He’s constantly with Bendy, especially when he’s coming up with concept art for “Cowboy Bendy”. The only time he ever interacts with Boris is of a cardboard cutout that is displayed in a room with the Bendyland model:
“[I] noticed more things. Like a black-and-white carousel horse and a cutout of Boris the Wolf holding a platter with the word “Food” and an arrow” (page 59).
So, if we follow this logic, shouldn’t he be a Perfect Bendy instead? Well, here’s the catch: what if the rule is that an employer can become a perfect toon is only through their mentality, not who their associated with.
It honestly makes things a lot more clearer (or I think it does, I honestly don’t know; feel free to explain your own opinions on this matter). If the theory about who Allison Angel, Tom, and Twisted Alice are then this matches perfectly with their characterization: in Dreams Come to Life, Allison is shown to be cheerful, always putting on a smile and taking things with stride (especially after Joey fires her on page 248). In the game, Allison Angel is a bit of an optimist, believing that there’s always hope and “a reason”, as well as being surprisingly calm around Henry. Not just that but she knows a lot about the studio. Alice Angel is, out of the main trio, the most sunny and described by Joey as “a character with charm, but brains too. When Bendy is getting up to something, Alice is there to throw a wrench into his schemes” (pages 54/55 of the Joey Drew Studio Employee Handbook).
For Tom, things get tricky. If Tom is Thomas Connor, one can only match the similarities in personality: like Boris, if Tom gets pissed whenever a person ticks him off, particularly through slack or fooling around (i.e. his relationship with Wally)
(originally post comes from this; do not give me credit. Yes, I am aware of the oddity of the link, but unfortunately this was the only gif-turned-image I could find that actually displays this interaction without feeling jarring due to the freeze. I apologize.)
According to Joey in the Joey Drew Studio Employee Handbook (page 48), “Boris stays loyal to his friends”. This perfectly matches Tom being a Boris, as he is shown to be very concerned over Allison in Chapter 5, and then fighting alongside both her and Henry in the Lost Harbor; he even gives Henry Sammy’s axe when he kills the guy.
“But Epsizet,” you might say, “what about Twisted Alice?” Same with Allison really. When she is manipulating Henry, she’s shown to be sympathetic and even promising him “heaven” once he did her bidding. This was of course a façade, but the point being that this matches Susie’s personality well: she might have been naïve, but she was a bit of a sweetheart, just like Alice.
Buddy becomes a Boris because, similar to Boris, he is loyal to his friends. Both of them can also be very clumsy, especially since Buddy basically let out a trapped Ink Bendy from the infirmary.
So what about Perfect Bendy? Well, maybe he’s not Henry. In the cartoons, Bendy is flighty (unreliable/irresponsible; he is a demon), willful, impulsive, and a schemer who enjoys playing various pranks on Boris. This mentality barely fits Henry, as in-game he’s quiet, calm, prone to making comments to himself, kind to his allies, a bit of a rule-follower (I mean, why does he follow Twisted Alice’s orders?) and while he is slightly impulsive in Chapter 1 (the fact that he just turns on the Machine showcases this), he doesn’t really seem to be the type who’d do this deliberately— let alone irresponsible, he does show guilt over Buddy turning into Brute Boris at the hands of Twisted Alice. So maybe Perfect Bendy is someone who mirrors this personality, and if it isn’t a studio employee (I don’t Joey would willingly turn himself into a Bendy), it could be the Ink Demon himself if he gains a soul. After all, he’s off-model because he doesn’t have a soul. I’ll elaborate on this in a future post. This is already pretty long, and I wrote this on a whim. So... yeah.
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