💓 for Vane!

{ Learn To Make A Heart Flutter }

Alright well first off the big trick you have to pull off is getting this giant triangle of a jungle cat to trust you enough to even get close enough to do this. At present the grand total of people who can tame Charles with this particular method amounts to three and all of whom manage it on a purely platonic level – that said, it can work on a romantic one shockingly well if the romance in question is not based in mutual destruction and manipulation. That’s a whole other headcanon though.

The thing is, getting Charles to melt requires trust inherently because he doesn’t like to be vulnerable – and if he knows he is manipulating you or you are manipulating him or you are both manipulating one another he is obviously not going to let you into his orbit where softness comes into play. He is capable of incredible softness if that trust exists but without it – without that trust, seeing Charles Vane at rest and in a completely gentle state of being is simply not in the cards for you.

That said, those with the power at present ( Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny and Edward Teach ) really need only stroke his hair to get him to grow still. He’ll remain wary depending on the situation at hand, but eventually he will sink into it and possibly even fall asleep with his head on their lap or shoulder. It is a gesture of extreme trust for him which is why, again, it is mostly a platonic matter because he straight up has no lovers he trusts that implicitly with that kind of control. 

It is possible to earn that level of trust though, and it is also possible for it to gain a romantic angle that will result in him being fairly snuggly, which is honestly hilarious because he is a very big man who often thinks he is smaller than he is at such points. Like a giant dog that thinks it still belongs on the couch and in your lap when really it could probably serve as a pony for small children.