Mm, got any cute HCs about Dirkjake, especially Dirk-oriented? I just love seeing your thoughts lol
ok some earth c dirkjake (this turned out more jake-oriented though)
Jake actually loves being a public figure as far as press conferences and TV appearances go, because there’s a huge celebrity barrier between him and actually interacting with people. He can be himself and interact with an audience without having to deal with the cerebral real-time of it, there’s distance and structure and scheduling – when he feels himself getting burned out on it there’s a definitive end time he can look forward to and then he gets to go home to his consort island and decompress however he wants.
Dirk, on the other hand, stays as far away from the cameras and celebrity glitz as possible, he’s far too self conscious for it, doesn’t like how fake and posturing the culture is, Jake makes fun of him for this all the time – like wow Dirk, really? You’d make a piss poor businessman and an even worse movie star!!
So people are always surprised that Dirk takes point when they’re out and about outside of that specific celebrity structure. Impromptu and candid encounters? Jake gets flustered and tongue tied without a script and overwhelmed in a crowd he hasn’t planned for, and this is when Dirk steps in and clears a path, absorbs the brunt of it, handles whatever he needs to handle to get Jake somewhere comfortable again. He’s really effective at dispersing overzealous admirers, but publicly Dirk has this reclusive reputation and Jake seems more charismatic, so people are always like ?????!!!
Jake makes fun of him for this, too. Wow Dirk. So cool. Hella bodyguard. A+ intimidating boyfriend shield, would hide behind again. Good thing they don’t know what a softie you actually are or this would never work, eh?? He is doing this to hide how insecure he is about needing this so Dirk bites his tongue until it bleeds because he wants to argue about this alleged softie accusation so fuckin bad, like what did you just call me do you need a demonstration of my impenetrable hardness, wait, fuck, that came out WAY fuckin wrong –