1. Like actual spiders he can taste/smell/hear with them. So gloves= less input
2. It’s stylish
3. Hell is icky and he doesn’t wanna touch it
4. Covers scars/track marks.
5. Valentino enforced style
6. He’s been taught not to leave finger prints at the scene of a crime
7. Relationship with touch is all messy because of work, this keeps him covered from skin on skin contact while still being stylish.
8. His gloves actually act as a pocket dimension for his guns- to get access to the guns he needs the gloves.
9. Getting his nails done every other day got too expensive so he needed to make financial cuts somewhere
10. Actually really sensitive to a lot of sensations/textures so gloves make life bearable
11. So when he commits the murder he doesn’t need to wash the blood off, just swap out gloves
12. To hide spider markings/stripes
13. He doesn’t wear gloves. His fur actually just changes colors.
14. They aren’t gloves. They’re arm prosthetics. What you think is him without gloves? No those are just prosthetics made to blend in.
15. Val wouldn’t let him get tattoos so these are the next best thing
16. Alternatively: the markings Angel has ARE tattoos/branding forced on by Val so he prefers to keep them covered. Also why Val has him take them off on the studio, to show he “owns” him.
17. The markings are tattoos but rather than being forced by Val Angel got them when he was really high and now regrets them.
18. So when he’s doing arts and craft his fur and hands don’t get covered in super glue
19. Because he can smuggle slight amounts of drugs in them
20. He was never allowed to wear gloves like that growing up so now he REALLY likes so
21. His brother told him gloves like that was for sissies so he did it out of spite.
22. Molly died before him. One of the only things he has remaining of her was a lone glove, now he incorporates stuff like that into his style to stay close. Takes them off in the studio when he can to “keep Molly away from it all.”
23. Same as above but instead of it being Molly’s glove it was his mother’s. The siblings maybe have a shared attachment to them.
Could you do Val x reader headcanons, maybe cuddling with Val?
Pairing: Valentino x afab!reader
Relationship: between FWB and established
Genre: fluff
Format: Headcanons
Warnings: mentions of sex and NSFW topics. Put simply, there will be some suggestive content, but it’s not explicitly NSFW
Word count: 372
With Valentino being Valentino, he isn’t usually the type of person to like to cuddle with anyone
Val is more into sexual intimacy than cute, loving acts of affection
But when you are able to get him to cuddle, he’d be really grumpy about it at first, but after a few minutes he’s just the sweetest little cuddle bug 🥰
Especially when you’re alone. That’s when he’s most likely to give in. Even with just the other Vee’s in the room, he’s going to keep putting on the “I’m only interested in sex” act.
Unless he’s somehow feeling extra vulnerable for your love and affection.
Velvette probably has at least one video she took of Val cuddling with you without anything sexual going on, including dirty jokes.
Val’s cuddles are surprisingly warm and comforting. It’s like a drug, and you just can’t get enough.
My personal favorite headcanon, is that Val smells like strawberries (sometimes chocolate, sometimes normal) because it fits the “charming” and “romantic” aura that Valentino is said to give off in the show.
And this leads me to believe his cuddles—and just presence in general—is even more addicting.
One night specifically it was such a hard day for you and you really were not in the mood for sex at all, so you fell asleep in each other’s arms and you two were just so comfortable in each other’s presence that you wouldn’t get out of bed and Vox had to run in and wake Val up, only to see you two tangled up together in the bed get your head out of the gutter
So now of course, Val is going to be teased about it because he was caught by both of the other Vee’s, but eventually he’ll get used to it.
And finally, because Val is busy and still into sex more than genuine caring love and affection, cuddling with him is very rare (probably once every 3-6 months), and you’ve learned to just enjoy the moment while it lasts and savor being under his touch because you know that he’s going to go back to being your normal pimp Valentino in just a few seconds.
Blink, and you might miss the affectionate side of Valentino.
SOMEONE POINTED OUT IN THIS SCENE VOX AND VAL LOOK LIKE THEY’RE A STRAIGHT COUPLE ANNOUNCING A PREGNANCY ON FACEBOOK AND I CANNOT GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD
Kinda fucking wild that Val just straight up did not react to Angel being at ground zero for the extermination. Like, I know he's a bad fucking guy (understatement), but like... sir, that is your top hooker, spare him a crumb of concern? Redeem yourself even a little? Not even a hint of jealousy about Husk protecting him and being all cute and shit with him? Nothing???
Vox and Valentino had a, complicated relationship to put it simply. Ranging from huge (and petty) fights to being almost obsessed with each other, only to find a new stupid thing to argue over. They were nice sometimes, even if those moments of being nice never really lasted long. Yet deep down they only had each other, no one else would put up with their bullshit besides Velvette, but even she needed a well deserved break from them sometimes. So complicated really is the only suitable word for them.
Vox never really went out by himself, he almost always was out with at least one of the other Vees. He was a busy man, he had stalking work to do. Although recently some company Vox has been working with (secretly sabotaging would be a better word) insisted on a stupid face-to-face meeting which took most of the day. Then a quick and not so pleasant trip to a bar before coming back to the Vee's tower pretty late at night.
Vox silently made his way up the tower, his screen cracked in a few places and also dimming more and more by the minute. He really needed to charge.
As he walked he eventually had to cross Val's room. Vox wasn't a religious man, it was hard to be when you're in literal hell. But as he opened the door he prayed that Val wasn't going to throw another tantrum today, he doesn't want this day to get any worse.
Valentino thoroughly enjoyed his relationship with Vox. It always entertained him. The anticipation of passionate moments followed by heated arguments exhilarated him. Vox, or 'Voxy' as Val liked to call him, meant a lot to Valentino even though their relationship was complicated.
However, today had been particularly exhausting. Vox was busy in a meeting, and Valentino busying filming adult films in his studio. Today has been especially exhausting for him as well; His actors were uncooperative, set changes were incessant, and worst of all, the content being filmed was painfully vanilla. Enduring a day filled with boring scenes left Valentino feeling pent up and irritable.
"Fucking pathetic! This is all garbage!" Valentino, draped upon his heart-shaped bed, hurled random pillows at his VoxTek TV. One of his films from that day played on the screen, which only added on to his erratic behavior. "It's as if they've forgotten the essence of it all! This vanilla nonsense is an utter waste of my talents and time." Consumed by frustration, he remained oblivious to Vox's entrance into the room. He continued to throw things near him at the television, which caused a few cracks to begin to form around the edges.