#review by pinkkiwis <3

[meowdarame]

I had another enlightening moment, please bear with me

How about blacksmith!Mattsun who has been working in his father's small shop for a few years to let his old man retire.

Blacksmith!Mattsun who is this giant hunk of a man always black in the face, with big rough hands yet a killer smile that makes all the little ladies twirl their hair and giggle at him.

Still he knows he has a job and he needs the money to hopefully one day create a family, so he rarely goes around or at the tavern in order to take as many commissions as he can.

Blacksmith!Mattsun who forgets about how tough his job is because he really likes it but also tends to forget that he leaves the shop in the late evening completely covered in dirt and one night as he's taking a stroll he sees a new small shop close to him with lotions and handmade soaps. He walks in only to have you shout at him because he's making your precious bars of soap turn black.

That's how he comes to know you, his pretty neighbour who sells soap and perfumes to all the fine ladies and ultimately can't stand him, apparently because he's dirty.

Really, it's because they have warned you about him and his ways with girls and there is no way you're going to fall for his smooth, deep voice (at least you hope so).

But you two slowly get to know each other, mainly because you close up at the same time and you find out that he's well liked by girls because he's a total sweetheart without bad intentions.

You don't get the time to become too close, however, because you receive a big order of perfumed oils from the imperial palace and have to move there for the time being to assure everything goes well and the morning you leave, when the sun has yet to rise, Mattsun is there, clean for once, holding a little parting gift for you: it's a small straight hair pin with a small red gem on top.

You want to say something, hug him even, but you settle for a thank you, before climbing up the horse they sent from the palace.

As you get farther and farther, Mattsun can't help but wonder when he's going to see you again.

Months pass and he's back on his routine, trying to get his name out there. Sometimes his mind wanders away thinking of you and your new life at the palace. How are you? Do you miss him? Do you miss you old little shop? He still walks by sometimes to greet your mother who has taken your place, maybe even help her when muscles are required. Still, no sign of you.

Until one day, one late afternoon to be precise, he hears noises outside his shop and decides he needs some kind of distraction anyway because the fumes are starting to hurt his eyes. Peeking outside the door he sees a couple of horses, two men (are those guards?) and two women talking animatedly to each other.

Is- is that-

"Mattsun!" You call running towards him, but you stop once you reach him because while you'd do anything to hug him right know, the clothes you're wearing are borrowed and it would be impolite to turn them black.

While you ponder I'm the fact that the is really no way to touch Mattsun without ruining the white fabric, he looks at you as if he's never seen you before: of course he recognizes you, how could he not, but you just look so different. You're well cured, with a glowing skin and well kept clothes who look like they're made of fine cotton, your hair is neatly styled with his hair pin and your eyes are sparkling.

You're back.

You explain that the emperor has taken a liking to your products and you could not pass on such an opportunity; that you've started making personalized scents for the emperor's lover, and that you've become good friends with a gladiator's wife (the gladiator and the emperor are somehow friends? Mattsun may not believe you).

There's so many things you want to tell him but you don't have the time: you came here because your friend's husband, the gladiator, asked for a gifted and capable blacksmith to produce weapons and such and you told him you knew exactly who to call.

He's a bit skeptic at first but does follow you to the palace and accepts his job.

He starts making swords and daggers, shields, helmets and even small objects like hairpins.

Things start getting downhill once he starts visiting the emperor's consort chambers in order to stay closer to you: as an excuse he brings handmade gifts to the emperor's lover and as the two start getting closer (as close as a blacksmith and an almost empress would be anyway) you start regretting every choice you've ever made.

You don't know Mattsun is doing this for you, you just think he's infatuated with a partner so unattainable that he might as well lose his life if word gets round.

You want to warn him in order to save him but jealously gets the best of you as you ask him to stay away from the chambers.

Poor Mattsun is heartbroken and begins working like crazy, never leaving his own space to avoid you, or anyone, for that matter.

Emperor!Oikawa, however, who is known for having a good eye, notices something different in his trusted blacksmith and starts inquiring: once he's informed of your backstory he decides to meddle, another thing he's known for, along with his lover in order to pass time.

Eventually you and Mattsun get to talk and as you explain that you sent him away for his one good he tells you loud and clear that he was actually trying to get you through the emperor's lover.

You finally clarify the misunderstanding and settle for waiting to start a relationship: you are still young and have a long way to go before you can comfortably start a family. In the meantime, Mattsun gives you a bracelet to keep on you as some sort of promise jewel (it's not a jewel so it doesn't count as proposal) and he will wear one too.

Hopefully you two can build your own happily ever after.

@pinkkiwis

god thinking about mattsun’s sweaty, dirty body being illuminated by the soft orange hues emanating from the firepit inside his shop <333 god i know the shadows just define every ridge and muscle on his arms and torso GOD HE IS SUCH A HUNK OF A MAN.

please… the fucking hair pin is SO SWEET like i’m so soft for that IT’S SO CUTE and the MATCHING BRACELETS TOO I’M SQUEALING

also oikawa and his lover meddling I’M DEAD LMAO (wait what if i do headcanons on that IM THINKING MANY THOTS NOW AHHH)

once again thank you sm for sending this in bby 🥹🫶🏼

#🎲.answers #review by pinkkiwis <3 #ONCE AGAIN U SHOULD POST THIS

[meowdarame]

G-gladiator iwa, you said?

You mean gladiator!Iwa who is built with muscles and scars all over his arms and legs which only serve to remember his victories even when his opponent thought he was going to lose?

You mean gladiator!Iwa who is tatted and pierced (did you know Julius Cesar had his nipples pierced?? Like, could you imagine Iwa-)?

You mean gladiator!Iwa who is so famous and celebrated that he can asks so many favours without being questioned, so he asks you, a simple handmade of some rich family, to attend to him before going to battle?

Who makes you enter his tent alone to oil his skin to protect him from the sun, thus having to massage his muscles with his big, warm, calloused hands covering your small ones to show you how to do it?

You mean gladiator!Iwa who makes you wait in his tent while he fights in the arena, making you sick with worry because you have no idea if he's still alive or not?

You mean gladiator!Iwa who finally, finally comes back to his tent running as fast as he can (and limping a bit) because he knows you're still there and nobody warned you about him winning the battle, entering the tent to find you sitting in a corner, holding your dress tightly, trembling, pale in the face so that he rushes to you to hug you tight and calm you down?

You mean gladiator!Iwa who has you wash him after the battle, tend to his wounds and dress him again, blushing and trying not to look too much, just enough to know where you're putting your hands?

You mean gladiator!Iwa who laughs when you accidentally touch his lower abdomen thinking it was his belly and you squeal when you realize you're brushing his happy trail (you were used to trending girls and young women, so he can't exactly blame you)?

You mean gladiator!Iwa who gives you an amused look when you scold him for being too reckless as you apply lotions to his clean, patched up body, not realizing how ridiculous you sound scolding a gladiator for getting hurt?

You mean gladiator!Iwa who becomes infatuated with you and your voice after so many evenings in his tent with you being lit by only a few candles as you tenderly scrub the dirt from his back?

You mean gladiator!Iwa who is so famous and strong and masculine and handsome and attractive and lusted after by women, yet cannot think of a way to court you because he's never been in this situation before?

You mean gladiator!Iwa who asks his friends at the tavern and, after being teased by everyone, settles with buying you a jewel with his savings?

You mean gladiator!Iwa who eventually musters up the courage to give his present to you one evening after finishing his routine, only to hear you say that it would be a perfect gift for a lady as a proposal?

Gladiator!Iwa who is hurt by your words at first, who stays up all night trying to understand where he went wrong, why you rejected him in such an indirect way, and has no idea that you went back to your room in your shared house and stay locked up all night trying to accept the fact that of course your handsome warrior would want to marry into a nice family in order to stop working such dangerous job, and your crush is only in the way.

Gladiator!Iwa who waits for you in his tent the following day to begin his preparing and finds out that you are sick and won't be able to come today once another girl comes in the tent.

Gladiator!Iwa who is worried about you - are you actually sick? Are you avoiding him? Did something bad happen? Will you come back to him? Has he lost you forever? - and because of his incessant thoughts about you, he doesn't pay enough attention during the battle and is seriously wounded in his lower abdomen.

Gladiator!Iwa who still manages to win but it's a close call and as he's rushed in the tent with a physician, he can't help but think of you and how he'd like to hear your soothing voice scolding him for being a reckless idiot and believes he's entering the dead's realm when he actually distinguishes your panicked voice asking to be let in the tent.

Gladiator!Iwa who sees you barreling towards him with fear stricken eyes and pale cheeks yet thinks that you are the most beautiful creature that has ever blessed his heart and if the Gods let him see you one last time then maybe his love wasn't a waste.

Gladiator!Iwa who slips into a deep enough sleep while remembering that it all started when you accidentally touched his lower abdomen, just like you're doing know, except this time you're trying to stop the bleeding.

Gladiator!Iwa who finally wakes up feeling groggy and overall bad but definitely alive still in his tent, laying on his triclinium, and looks to the side to find you, his fair goddess sleeping soundly kneeling on the floor (you sure don't look comfortable) and he wants to smile at you but then notices the dried up tear stains on your cheeks and your disheveled hair as if you'd been pulling on it.

Gladiator!Iwa who shakes you gently to tell you that he's alright and there's no need for you to be worried anymore, but once you two make eye contact you burst into tears while hugging his neck tightly without hurting him as you beg him to propose to his lovely lady and stop fighting and risking his life.

Gladiator!Iwa who has no idea what you're talking about because he's never once mentioned a lady, nevermind proposing and looks utterly confused when you explain that jewels are usually given as a token of love, a promise of fidelity in the early relationship when the couple has the intention to get married.

Gladiator!Iwa who blushes heavily and bows his head as he mumbles that be was not actually trying to propose and there is no rich lady for him, but seeing that you still don't get it, he grits your name while gliding your hand.

Gladiator!Iwa who almost faints when you burst into tears again and is ready to take it all back but then hears you mutter "thank you"s and "thank you Gods" as you finally smile with shiny eyes and your cheeks turn a lovely pink.

Gladiator!Iwa who finally kisses you in his tent, where it all began, thinking that he's glad he didn't die and his time probably hadn't already come and once you two pull away he asks you for a bath, only this time you're coming in the tub too.

@pinkkiwis

PLEASE I LOVE THIS SO MUCH YOU SHOULD LEGIT UPLOAD IT AS ITS OWN POST LIKE HEADCANONS AND STUFF. IT’S SO GREAT YOU DESERVE RECOGNITION FOR THIS BBY

also please omg iwa with his nips pierced has be on the floor. HE’S SO— ugh his large pecs just accentuated by the glistening silver bars OMFG SO YUMMY.

and please bathing him… giving him the finest scents and soaps LIKE HE DESERVES.

omg bye but imagine kissing all his battle scars. like the first time y’all finally ~consummate~ your relationship you just kiss him all over his body where his skin has healed and it just makes him blush profusely HES SO CUTE OUR GENTLE GIANT. <333

#🎲.answers #review by pinkkiwis <3 #NO BUT NONNIE COPY PASTE UR ASK AND POST IT AS A HEADCANONS #AS HEADCANONS* #THEYRE SO GOOD

[meowdarame]

Thank you for your kind words! To be honest I didn't feel like posting them as hc because it was you who have me the idea so I thought, if there's someone who deserves to see it first, it's you.

So maybe what I'll do now is I will reblog your answer so I'm still giving you credit.

If I manage to write some more about these concepts, would you like to be tagged? I'll still give u proper credit ofc, lmk

@pinkkiwis

(ok this kinda goes as a general PSA, not just directed at you!)

but if i ever post an idea and you (“you” as in the general public who is reading this) feel inspired to write for it, just send me an ask or message me to ask if you could write about it! (just to make sure that i don’t have any plans to write for it in the future or anything, not because i wanna gatekeep ideas or anything LOL)

i say a lotta random ideas in passing (that most of the time, just stay as thoughts and never amount to anything more) so i feel like it’d be a disservice to everyone for me to post a random sentence or thought which inspires someone else to write something, but then turn around and say “oh no this is my intellectual property™️, you can’t write this!!!” as long as you ask first and maybe give me credit in the post, it’s probably fine with me heh

BUT YES! if you do end up posting more, please tag me hehe i really loved all your headcanons :,)

#🎲.answers #review by pinkkiwis <3