Being their significant others headcanons but with a low self esteem.
Feat. Zephyr, Ned and Lucius from Doom Breaker/The return of the suicidal battle god.
Female!LowSelfConfidence!Reader
Note: this was a request but I lost the message with the ask, anyway I hope I understood what you asked!
Zephyr
Zephyr is the type to compliment your strengths.
If you feel insecure about your body, he'll distract you by complimenting all the things he likes about it.
If you feel like you're not skilled enough, he'll praise all the things you're good at.
If you feel like you're not very smart, he'll recount all the times your ideas were of help.
If you even try to think he should date someone "better" oh honey, you're in for a treat.
He will reassure you of course, but he's also a bit of a bastard. I said what I said.
He'll have fun with public displays of affection to show you how much he loves you.
If you're really uncomfortable with PDA then he'll just show you off, like whenever you do something good or remarkable he'll say "That's my woman", "I'm so lucky", "Sorry friends, she's mine" and so on, he's just so proud of you and loves you so much.
His idea of helping with insecurities consists on making you focus on the things you're good at and accept your imperfections, insisting that he loves them as well.
For days when you're not like super insecure, you're just like "Meh, not really feeling it" he'll joke saying that you don't have to worry, he's enough for the both of you.
Bonus pet names, I feel like he's the type to call you by your name a lot, sometimes nicknames that are just a short version of your name. But also "kitten" when you two are alone, I don't care if you're taller or shorter than him it just seems something he would call his SO in private.
Ned
Ned is the type to help you get better.
If you're insecure about your body he'll still compliment your good features, but he'll also offer ways to help with it (example: you feel like you're overweight, he offers to help you with specific exercises to lose weight).
If you're insecure about your skills, he'll pick up a weapon and take you to the training ground. «Come on, we can work on it until you're proud of your abilities.»
If you feel like you're not smart enough he'll just offer to play strategy games like chess, so that you can get better.
Let's be honest, all of the above just give him reasons to spend time with you, and this takes us to our next point.
Because if you ever say that he should date someone better he's not going to let you go. Ever.
He'll get very clingy. Whenever you go, he's coming with you.
He hopes that this way you can see that he intends on staying with you no matter what.
He's been abandoned by his own teacher so I feel like you thinking he could just leave you for someone else tugs at his trust issues. He won't leave your side until you take back what you said and he's sure you're not afraid that he might leave you.
His idea of helping with insecurities is fixing them whenever it's possible, this way the insecurity will eventually disappear. Of course he loves you as you are, but he thinks it's important that you also focus on yourself and work on the things you don't like.
For days when you're less insecure about yourself he'll give you lots of praises and compliments, knowing that it's easier to accept them when you're feeling better about yourself and that it's also easier for yourself to actually see what he's complimenting you for.
Bonus pet names, I see him as the type to use "Love" a lot. He's a traumatized child and you were the first thing that reminded him of what it means to be loved, so he feels like this name suits you. He'll use your name during serious occasions or if there are a lot of people around, sometimes when you two are alone, but mostly you're his "Love".
Lucius
Lucius is the type to compliment your insecurities.
If you feel insecure about your body he'll compliment exactly the things you don't like.
If you don't feel great with your skills he'll just praise you for all the times those same skills proved to be perfect for the task.
If you think you're not clever he'll just say that you're adorable and you actually have your own ways of being smart, giving examples of it.
But... you say that he should date someone better?
Well yes he could do that of course, but he doesn't want someone "better", he wants you. He'll say that loving someone just because they seem perfect isn't true love, and that to truly love someone is when you love their imperfections as well.
But he's going to be more attentive whenever you bring this thought up.
He'll be more careful of what, when and how he compliments you. Maybe he did something to make you think that he wants someone better.
Alright he low-key panics, let's be honest. He's just really good at hiding it.
He's going to spend way more time with you, but will also be very careful not to be too much and will give you space whenever you seem uncomfortable.
He will give you letters. Even if you two live together and see eachother almost everyday, whenever he has a busy day he'll give you a little letter where he tells you how much he loves you and cherishes you.
His idea of helping with insecurities is making you see the bright side of it, making you see how your imperfections are actually really beautiful and adorable.
When you don't feel too much insecure he'll give you gifts, mostly things that actually make you go against your insecurities (example: you're insecure about your body, he gifts you a dress that suits you).
Bonus pet names, this man has a vocabulary only of names for you. Your name, "dear" and "darling" are for when you're in public, depending on the circumstances, but in private he goes all out: "my love", "sweetheart", "my treasure", the list goes on and on. This man melts for you.
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The Power of Not Saying Sorry
So recently, I caught myself apologising for not keeping up with some chords in a session. I’ve been collaborating on a song with a really cool brass band, but just writing solely with this one lovely dude. This guy arranges, writes, sees, breathes and shits music. That’s my very earthy way of telling you that he’s very. very skilled.
But he worked so fast; I could feel that old familiar sensation of fear creeping up my spine. Could I keep up? My strengths don’t lie in musical theory, I feel they lie in sounds, in feeling, in scribing my emotions.
So what followed was a soft explanation of this, and I apologised before I realised the sin that fell from my mouth. I then politely retracted my apology, held the sin up in my hand, making really hacky eyes at it, and thus informed him that I was trying very hard not to apologise for something I’m GOOD AT.
Because in essence I wasn’t saying sorry for the things I couldn’t do, I was asking forgiveness for the things I could do; I was acknowledging my skills as something less than his. And that shit won’t fly, son.
I used to apologise a lot. I did it so often it was a reflex. I said sorry for being myself, for being weird, for saying something funny, for not knowing the answer, for getting an order mixed up, for just being...for being HUMAN. I don’t know where this stemmed from, but I reckon it’s as closely tied to my being a woman as I am to my cosy, cosy, polar bear dressing gown.
^^^DEAD.
Obviously I can’t speak for every woman that ever has been but I have a strong inclination to believe that from an early age we’re taught not to rock the boat, talk too loudly, be too assertive, or cause a scene. There was something deeply ingrained in me, that, when faced mainly with male industry professionals in close quarters (studios, bedrooms (don’t even)), strengthened. These guys knew more than me, that much is true. But instead of navigating that particular world with an attitude of learning, wherein I could softly caress my own talent, nurture what I already knew and take every experience to build upon it, I used it as a reason to berate myself. To me, it was evidence that I wasn’t good enough. So when I didn’t know what I wanted, I apologised. If I sang a note wrong, I apologised. If I asked too many questions...you get the picture.
What that resulted in was seriously low self-esteem with a spine constructed from fear; I perpetuated the notion that I would never be any better because to try and learn would expose the naked truth; that I was coasting, sailing through, and relying on others.
Whilst I can say through a small mouthful of humble pie that it isn’t wholly false, I also spit out some of the crumbs. I won’t accept that admitting your weaknesses makes you weak;m. No, it’s when you insist your strengths aren’t as good as others.
I’ve had this in me all this time, but I got in my own way, simply by apologising.
So saying sorry is no longer my vibe. It’s the reason why I forced myself to look like a crazy bitch and raise a finger to myself next to that piano and that highly talented dude (who I’m sure just accepted that I was little bit mental. Note: I am), and remind the part of me that still felt the need to ask forgiveness for nothing at all, that there was no need for such a word in my vocabulary.
It goes some way to acknowledge the way we use, “kind of,” “sort of,” “I guess,” “Maybe,” when we’re asking for what we want. I half committed for so long, and in doing so half committed to myself and my goals.
Celebrate yourself! Appreciate what you got, remember what you don’t, and use every opportunity to add to one list and take away from another.
xxx
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