₊˚⊹Pairing(s): Leo Valdez x reader (no pronouns/no specific godly parent)
When y’all meet it’s like that one Spider-Man meme
He’s honestly really glad to meet another Latin person, especially if that person ends up his friend and eventually lover.
If you speak Spanish then best believe he gon be speaking to you in Spanish, most times it’s Spanglish but you still understand all the same.
I feel like when people of the same culture/ethnicity meet it’s an automatic click.
So that’s def what happened between the two of y’all.
Now, if you speak Portuguese or anything other than Spanish then lil blud is gonna try to learn your language 😭
I don’t make the rules that’s just how he is.
Doesn’t even matter if he butchers it so badly
(Prolly doesn’t since Portuguese and Spanish are similar (if that’s ur language btw otherwise it’s so bad 😭)
But still 🤷♀️
Now, if your latino then best believe y’all gon understand jokes that others don’t
Especially if someone does something dramatic. then you both automatically reference La Rosa De Guadalupe
And then it turns into this whole worm hole on the momo and ballena azul things on those episodes- and it’s a whole other story tbh
(Sorry if ur reading this at night and got scared from the flashbacks)
Anyway, he’s that one person at Latino parties that’s a lot of stereotypes ngl
Like he’ll be that one older cousin that absolutely obliterates the piñata and then runs all cutely to you to give you the candy as if he didn’t push some 5 years olds.
But also that one guy in the table chismeando with the tías
You can’t tell me he isn’t a little chismoso 😭
He’d probs also be the guy that handles the piñata and purposefully move sit out of the way each and every time.
Continuing from that…
He’d def dance w u on the dance floor
Lil blud got them moves
And he def spends the most time w the little kids
No matter where you are 😭
Moving on, if you ever call him an Edgar or sum shit then he’d get so genuinely shocked
Like you absolutely recked him
How dare you?
Especially since his hair isn’t even an Edgar cut 😭
He’d be so hurt but move on (not at all he’d hold it against you)
Ofc lil pookie loves you so let’s move onto the more affectionate hcs
He calls you mamas or mamacita (fem nicknames) 😔
*insert vine boom effect*
Not to mention if you’re male leaning he’d call u some shit like papi chulo or since he’s kinda a nerd and into anime (personal hc) he’d call u senpapi
Like ain’t no way-
Bro is so embarrassing when he says this shit like wtf 😧 nahh git trippin
Nah but (unlike in the books) him calling u this shit is mostly satire
Especially when y’all call eachother the most rancid nicknames so it’s ok 🤷♀️
-Sometimes…. *insert that wiener dog side eyeing meme*
It’s fun being w him cuz y’all can just casually talk about whatever that involves your culture.
Like even talking about favorite Latin snacks is an actually convo y’all have had and it’s honestly great.
Especially when he says a word in Spanish cuz he don’t know it in English
bro doesn’t know how to speak in English or Spanish sometimes.
Honestly same
I mean lil broski is glad to have you as his s/o at all
Lil homie desperate
But it’s the icing on top when he finds out your Latino/a
Makes y’all closer and makes him glad he can reference things, knowing that you’ll understand.
Cupioromatic Leo Valdez being obsessed with the idea of having a relationship, imagining himself in one ever since he knew what love was. Cupioromantic Leo Valdez never being able to truly put someone in the place of the blank shadow of a figure that played the role of his imaginary lover. This figure being the wrong fit for all the people he thought he had a crush on, yet him pushing them into it's place anyway.
All the people.
Hazel, who was one of the easiest to imagine because for a moment, it seemed like she liked him ‘back’. For a moment only, because then Leo found out she liked Sammy and god did he find it so shocking, so uncomfortable to actually see himself, or someone who looked almost identical to him, in a relationship with an actual, living person. To see someone so identical to himself flirt and feel for another.
He may want it, but he didn't want it.
Calypso, who seemed to be in a similar place to him. She too, longed for something that was so, so far away. She too wanted romance, but it was out of reach, an unfortunate thing that tortured her from above but never fell into her palm.
For a while, they tried to create something, force feelings, and love, and a happy relationship, but it wasn't true, it wasn't real. She left, decided to try and have a real life; something that she had also been denied for so long, but could have now. She left, and Leo was alone again.
Khione. Thalia. Jason. Names that he attempted to force a meaning upon, but failed. They weren't crushes, or loves or anything of the sort. They were just Tantalus' desperate grabs at ripe fruit, a desperate attempt for something deemed impossible by a higher figure.
Cupid or Aphrodite or whatever other stupid love god with their stupid love plans, had condemned him.
All the people, all the fish in the sea, yet none made Leo's heart beat a different tune.
Guyssssssees, Iñaki Godoy who plays Luffy in the live action One Piece would literally be the PERFECT Leo Valdez from Heroes of Olympus I’m losing my mindddddddddd
Waitress, mortified: do I need to call the police?!?
Jason, bleeding from a gash in his forehead from getting hit by a brick AGAIN: I’ll take waffle fries, Leo will have a double cheese burger, and- BABE WHAT DO YOU WANT?!
Piper, yelling from the table as blood drips from her shoulder onto the floor: THE CEASAR SALAD!
I can NOT find any YA green flag guys (probably not counting Percy and Keefe - bc I said so). All of them have done horrible stuff. I want the sweet guy with mild flaws. Why do we always have to popularize the “bad boy” 😭. I understand the appeal, but soft, sweet boys need to rise up with the regular cliches!! Not all of them have to be “boring” is you write them correctly. They deserve their own happily ever after with the girl.