User blog:HazelQuill7445/Headcanon

Headcanon,  we all have little bits of ideas that we personally consider as being true to the show, even though it has never been outright said. I feel a little guilty today for telling someone that a headcanon sounded like fan fiction to me. So, to be fair, I'm going to share one of my own pieces of headcanon and let people tear it to shreds.

That AWKWARD moment between Cinder and Torchwick in Best Day Ever.

Roman wants in on more info. Cinder's response is to go all "sexy" and touch his face while refusing. There is this half-second after she does this when Torchwick looks at her and ever so slightly Cinder's face falls. (Accidental Pun Alert!)

So here's my headcanon about that moment: Cinder realizes that she no longer has the You Find Me Attractive card to play with him.

I can back up the idea that at one point Torchwick did find her attractive because in season 3 we learn that when they first meet Torchwick says, all confident come-on, "Well hello, Gorgeous." (or something like that will fix to word-for-word later) I suppose it's possible he said that to Emerald, but considering how he treats Ms. Sustrai, it's more likely he said that to Cinder.

However, when Cinder decides to flirt in that moment, Torchwick doesn't go for it. Bitch is keeping him out of the loop; he already knows she's scary powerful (evidenced by his humurous change of attitude when she shows up in that scene); she's treating him like a lackey she has under her thumb (or, in this case, palm). Her sex appeal is just gone for him. We can even go so far as to say if he had his druthers, he wouldn't be working for her at all, thanks to his final speech in volume 3.

Whether or not anything ever happened between them, I don't know either way.

But I do have the headcanon that Cinder lost a little bit of power in that moment, and she was not happy about it.

And Torchwick's way of getting out of it? "Eh," he says and looks away.