#they need bonding time
charles lee ray and carrie white friendship headcanons: into the woods
with credit to @adordedmarigold for this idea, chucky and carrie need weird kid bonding time. some suspension of disbelief is needed because there’s no way carrie’s mom is letting her run free with the baddest and saddest kid in town.
- on the occasions when chucky can convince carrie to cut class with him, they go to the woods on the edge of town
- carrie is a little (a lot) freaked out at first
- she doesnt want them to get lost
- or murdered
- but chucky coaxes her in and promises he knows his way around
- because he’s an asshole, he will tease her about being so creeped out
- *cue rodrick heffley’s devil worshipper woods story*
- will pray on her fears
- “did you hear that?”
- “hear what?”
- then he fucking screams in her ear or something
- and does his stupid cackle when she jumps out her skin
- until she uses her powers to fucking whoop his ass with a tree branch
- watch him find a cool stick to carry around with him
- can and will find some poor animal carcass to prod at
- he is very, very interested in it
- whilst carrie turns her back and tries not to throw up
- he actually knows a lot about the decomposition of animals and can tell how long its been there
- and can point out all the different parts and the signs of decay
- “hey look at this, caz, there are already maggots in the abdominal cavity”
- “chucky, if i look i’m going to be sick”
- carrie better be ready because chucky can and will tell her about every single piece of flora they encounter
- he knows so much about flowers and plants in general
- all their properties and characteristics
- (and flower symbolism !!)
- carrie actually really enjoys listening to him talk about it
- she remembers her (and his) favourites for future reference
- chucky is in his element
- (and he tries not to show it but he’s v happy that carrie is willing to listen to him go on and on)
- carrie picks the most common flowers to make flower crowns and daisy chains with
- she makes a crown for herself first and then starts on a second one
- chucky catches on “im not wearing that”
- “oh don’t be like that, it’s fun!”
- he (un)reluctantly let’s her balance it on his head
- just imagine these two losers walking around in the woods with matching flower crowns and chucky with his cool stick and carrie making sure her skirt doesn’t catch on any of the brambles
- when they decide to head home chucky either hangs his flower crown on a tree branch or (more morbidly) puts it on an animal carcass, if they have found one that day
- they climb trees !!
- chucky goes into Big Brother mode to teach carrie
- but she actually ends up being better than him
- (which he is eternally mad about because no way could a girl be better than him at something)
- they sit up in the high branches and talk about all this personal shit that they can’t talk about at school
- (like how sometimes he gets along with his dad but other times he gets hit so hard his vision blurs)
- (and how she hates it in the cupboard and the first few times she cried so much she lost her voice)
- then afterwards they pretend like they didn’t just bare their souls to one another
- one day he gets too cocky with his climbing skills and falls
- but then he doesn’t hit the ground
- carrie catches him with her powers
- and he’s dangling there like a fish on a hook
- the shock of catching him almost makes her drop him again
- when he is safely back in solid ground they are both just like wtf ??
- lowkey makes then realise that carries powers go beyond just tripping bullies in the lunch room
- they’ve both treated her abilities as pretty destructive but actually ?? they just saved chucky’s ass
- chucky is a fucking liability
- “hey carrie look at the wasp nest, dare me to throw a rock at it?”
- “please do not do that”
- “i cant believe you’re making me do this lol”
- cut to them both running away as fast as possible from a swarm of angry wasps
- chucky is a good Brother and takes carrie to get ice cream sometimes
- she has never even had ice cream before so the whole thing is an experience
- “i can pick any flavor?”
- “sure, any flavor you want”
- then he watches in something close to horror as she gets cookie dough ice cream (sensible) with every single topping possible (insane)
- chucky is boring and gets plain vanilla becuase it is reliable
- they sit together and eat and chucky had a crisis
- because goddamn, does he actually like Being Nice to carrie ??
