#if an attractive vaguely dangerous man hits on him?? fidelity? never heard of it sorry

[ladyseidr]

The bingo card has me thinking about shipping with Henry. The few relationships he has before marriage (and possibly including his marriage, depending on portrayal) are all fine: mostly healthy, relatively normal, don't work out for fairly typical reasons. But most of all, they involve very likeminded people. Introverted, mostly playing it safe, etc. But the predominant thing that can drive him fucking wild is someone outside of that scope. I listed "thrilling" on the bingo, and that's sort of what I was getting at. Attractive person + thrill = a very infatuated Henry. Combine this with the person being a man—Henry doesn't (by default) explore his sexuality until after his marriage (either post-divorce or uh. before that.)—and you get an even more head-over-heels Henry. Henry isn't a huge risktaker (minus some exceptions regarding business), so somebody who is and encourages that within Henry can really light a fire under him. Volatile, quick-burning, passionate relationships (particularly if they're both sexual and romantic) can bring out an entirely different side of him. He is absolutely capable of getting into toxic dynamics—mutually, for the most part—and will not complain. Obviously a lot of this makes it really obvious why he's so prone to getting involved with William—he fits right into Henry's definition of "thrilling," no matter how reluctant he'd be to actual say that out loud. While we're at it (happy sinday lmao), this more than slightly extends to sex. This man has had nothing but vanilla sex prior to marriage and (again, by default) only explored beyond that some in his marriage. Anybody who is willing to explore his masochistic side and really explore kink can drive him up the wall.

#˖ ♡ 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝒹𝒸𝒶𝓃𝑜𝓃. » a simple engineer ( henry emily ) #sinday #suggestive #when the headcanon tag is even funnier than usual #anyway this is like his uh. you know. rebelling against the narrative given to him???? #something something subconsciously sick of being 'the good one' & 'reasonable' but you're not into the stuff most ppl do to rebel #so you fuck and fall in love with your serial killer business partner/best friend #<- or somebody near or equally as bad LMAO #early on when i fiiiiiiirst added him i was like 'idk if henry would cheat on his wife' #BUT this is absolutely the scenario where he would #if an attractive vaguely dangerous man hits on him?? fidelity? never heard of it sorry #cheating mention tw