"I Guess Things Haven't Been Easy Without Me."

(potential) ways people find out santos and whitaker are close/living together:

whitaker calling santos "trin" in front of their coworkers, santos not batting an eye and answering to it, and both of them pausing suddenly when they realize what happened.

santos putting an arm around whitaker's shoulders and ruffling his hair at random intervals throughout the day.

one of them instinctively stepping in front of the other when a fight breaks out in the hospital.

accidentally falling asleep while leaning on each other in the break room after a long shift.

santos handing whitaker a shopping list while passing him in the hallway.

one getting injured/passing out and immediately asking for the other when they wake up, still half-asleep.

^ alternate scenario: getting put on meds and saying something disgustingly sentimental. if it's whitaker, santos would get a bit emotional in the moment but will definitely make fun of him when he's sober. if it's santos, she'll be stuck wondering why whitaker looks so pleased with himself until someone tells her what happened.

discussing what they're going to eat for dinner while everyone is clocking out.

adding dr. dennis whitaker to the list of men I want to put in a jar and shake

has dennis seen the sea before. i dont think he has, especially coming from a landlocked state like nebraska. pennsylvania doesn't have a border that connects to the ocean. the only thing close is the shoreline on lake erie (correct me if im wrong). has he ever experienced the sandy shores of the beach, the call of seagulls circling overhead, the feeling of waves crashing against your legs and it's freezing cold but you look forward and the blue against blue seems to stretch on forever. it's a different sort of vastness from the corn fields he grew up in. its nothing like the mesmerizing, rippling digital blues he saw every night on the old tv they were supposed to throw out that he and his brothers snuck into their "secret" treehouse. it's breathtaking. and maybe he'll sit on one of those driftwood logs in cargo shorts soaked to the bone and just breathe, the salty sea air refreshingly unfamiliar. maybe make a sandcastle for the first time. dig up a giant hole in the ground with trinity and fill it up with sea water. and maybe when he looks at her when she laughs as he trips and falls face first into the water at some point, he'll see his older brother's face. think to himself, 'yeah, they'd love it here'.

idk man. growing up in california made me realize just how lucky i am to be able to experience such a variety of settings all in one state. and how it must feel for people well into their teenage or adult years to experience the beauty of the ocean for the first time.

this is what happened right

everyone. i don't know how this just clicked for me.

this is langdon right now:

addict (in recovery, by season two at least)

loves his kid(s)

complicated relationship with other parent

you know who's going to notice this? MCKAY. mckay is going to notice this and when she looks at him, she'll see a 30-year-old cassie in his place. and they are going to have a heartfelt conversation about it. multiple even. walk with me.

trinity santos + dennis whitaker: roommates || post-canon headcanons

whitaker wakes up around an hour before santos does. it's an old habit from when he used to work on the farm. he makes breakfast for the both of them, usually.

after a month of living together, santos started stealing whitaker's hoodies. they're around the same size and she tells him that it's part of his rent. javadi is the first one to notice.

santos practices martial arts after a long shift. when she's back home, she can hear whitaker reciting scripture in his room.

they watch a movie together once a week. sometimes it's horror, which santos is pleasantly surprised to know does not affect whitaker—despite his "really needs a xanax and a weighted blanket" aura.

all of santos' sincere compliments are in filipino. she knows he doesn't understand shit.

since all of whitaker's friends/family are in nebraska, santos is his emergency contact.

the / in ship pairings is the wound btw

gyeong-su died searching in the sea of faces for the man he idolized most.

gyeong-su died with fear in his eyes, not able to process the fact that the man he idolized most abandoned him, leaving him to die.

gyeong-su died trying to get himself back up after being kicked by the man who he idolized most; after being abandoned by people he thought were his friends.

gyeong-su died like this.

tell me, cho sang-woo, does the guilt eat you alive?