Inside My Brain - BookCopy10

Reggie Peters Headcanons!

These are not mine (though I agree with every single one of them), they belong to someone on Reddit called u/_Pastel_Sweets_! They're so genius!

TW: mentions of abuse, but not graphic.

- Cis male who goes by he/they pronouns (mainly he/him but is cool with they/them) and is bisexual.

- ADHD.

- Whenever two or more people are yelling or fighting, he has a panic attack. He always feels like it's all his fault and that'll be the last straw. (Bobby and Luke used to fight a lot and he would always think it was the end of the band.)

- He wears flannel and leather so much because they're comfort materials - it's a good texture for him.

- His necklace is also a comfort item and doubles as a stress toy. He fiddles with it a lot when he's stressed.

- He's an only child.

- The necklace was a gift from Alex and Luke (it has all three of their names engraved onto it - this was from before Bobby).

- Luke and Alex were friends since kindergarten, Reggie joined their friend group in 7th grade and Bobby in 9th.

- He learned bass guitar in order to tune out his parents fighting. (It is confirmed in the show that he didn't have the best home life in terms of his parents being "one fight away from a divorce".)

- He's not good at making friends - everybody always thinks he's scatterbrained and stupid. He's actually very smart (more on that later) but just doesn't have much common sense.

- He's not street-smart but has very good gut instincts and is actually incredible at judging people at first glance. Unfortunately he doesn't trust himself to actually trust those instincts, though.

- Hyperfixated on bass, Star Wars, video games (such as Mario, Space Invaders, old arcade-style stuff) and magic (had a major Caleb Covington stage for a LONG time, like 3 years).

- Incredibly amazing in school; straight A's in pretty much every subject and really good at tests as well as retaining/regurgitating information.

- Scared of authority as his dad was physically abusive growing up and would throw things at him and his mother; his only experience with authority is abuse.

- His mother would scratch him and put out her cigarettes on his arm, she was also manipulative and emotionally/mentally abusive.

- Both his parents were very neglectful.

- The boys had no idea until one night Reggie burst into the studio to cry thinking it was empty, only for Luke and Alex to be there and immediately start questioning what happened. He tried to lie about it and play it off as nothing, but they saw the marks on his arms. It was too late. After about 15 minutes of questioning, Luke went to playfully hit Alex and then Reggie flinched hard. He finally broke down and a lifetime of trauma came flooding out.

- He instantly didn't like Caleb, but didn't think the others boys would trust or believe him. After a lifetime of being told he was stupid, he tended to follow along with the boys instead of actually trusting himself or his opinions.

- Took him a long time to realise he was bi because he thought everyone else thought boys were hot too. He figured everyone went to the beach and stared at the guys AND the girls.

- He taught himself bass from library books and was motivated by a lot of spite and hatred from hearing his parents fighting.

- The bass guitar had belonged to his uncle, whom he was very close to until the uncle died in the war.

- The bass is named Cherry.

- This is after his dog, a small shelter mutt who loved dearly. The dog died of old age a year before he did.

- Had braces as a kid. (The song Crooked Teeth Luke wrote WAS about him and I will die on this hill.)

- He wears eyeliner and nail polish (usually black but also likes red.)

Any other theories or other headcanons you believe? Any here you disagree with? Any you 100% agree with? Lol bye

(Also chapter 2 of Finally Free should be out in the next couple weeks. It would have been this week but I had a new idea for this chapter so I'm starting it again.)