▼ childhood

oh god ok um, ive talked about bby andrew before, i have a lot of headcanons… but hey i might as well dump some of them here so

andrew as a kid was super quiet, he didn’t start speaking for a long time (his dad insisted he probably had “brain problems” while his mother was patient and sure he’d speak when he was ready), and he was very antisocial… he was very very bad at relating to other children and had lots of trouble making friends, clinging to matt (who he considered his only friend his age) when he was around but otherwise kept to himself… he was very attached to his mother and liked to spend time with her so he hated leaving for preschool, cried a lot of sad & angry tears (but quietly, he was never a loud crier, always a soft/muffled frustrated tears kind of kid)… he could rarely fall asleep on his own (prone to nightmares & bedwetting) and often came to his parents’ room and asked to sleep with them, which he continued to do for a long time until his dad kicked him out when he was “too old for that” and had to learn to “grow up”… 

all throughout his life he had trouble making eye contact with people (getting his camera later on helped a whole damn lot because with the barrier between him and whoever he was filming, he felt safe to look to them in the eye, and when he couldn’t he could just look down at the camera and see them indirectly on the screen) and he also had(has) trouble EXPRESSING HIS NEEDS, even as a lil kid he had no idea how to ask for things he wanted/needed, his mom would have to check w him a lot and ask him questions to make sure he was happy, bc if he wasnt he wouldnt say anything until it was too much and he’d EXPLODE and yell and slam/lock doors and cry, just like he does as a teen – but his mom was always so gentle w him and would calmly get him to unlock his door and let her in so she could pick him up and hold him and rub his back until he stopped crying (he likes having his back rubbed a lot bc of this, it always calmed him down)…

uhh i have a specific headcanon that he might have had some Anger Incidents as a kid that revealed some of his low-empathy tendencies, like when one of his classmates stole a toy of his he hit them with a rock and they had to go the nurse to get stitched up and andrew got sent to the principals office & scolded but he didnt understand what he did wrong, he just knew he wanted his toy back and they had stolen it and asking for it didnt work so he had to do something ?? and of course this was frightening to his mother and she probably didnt tell his dad what had happened so he wouldnt punish him, she just started trying to teach andrew to be more empathetic and realize hurting others is wrong even when theyre mean to you… and as u can see in chronicle her lessons were eventually forgotten or cast aside :/

general other kid!andrew things are, he loved to draw (and still does), he’s been hanging up pics hes drawn on his walls since he was very little, he shows nearly all of his draws to his mom and she LOVES THEM ALL, he often used a sketchbook or some paper as a way to avoid ppl in social situations (drawing at recess or while at “friends” houses – usually matt’s friends’ parties that he was dragged along to)… he is generally the responsible/party-pooper type who doesnt want to get involved in anything that might get him in trouble (despite matt’s nagging to “live a little”), matt’s friends as he grows older don’t like him and tell matt “dont bring andrew” when he’s invited to things, etc etc… i talked more about the whole relationship with matt in this post here (along w/ a timeline of richards abuse)… uhh digimon & pokemon & dragon ball z were his Gateway To Anime as a kid and he likes star wars a lot too!! >:)

∇ old age/aging

unfortunately andrew DID NOT. GET. TO GROW OLD. but i have speculated what may have become of him if things had not gone Terribly Wrong and steve and andrew had lived; i think that, as their powers grew stronger, it would have brought the trio closer and closer together mentally & physically until they were almost a hivemind, sharing thoughts and feelings without having to speak them… i’m currently writing a fic about this so keep an eye out for that!!! i also think he would have been able to, with the help of the other two, learn to control his anger and impulses thru meditation and become a master of the force (lol), and they would all develop new powers and new ways of using them as they grew (i imagine them getting healing powers, being able to bend reality / visit alternate universes / time travel, even possibly glow ??? the crystal glowed ok let me have this beautiful thought) anyway i hope thats enough haha, ask me if you have any more questions/want to hear any more speculation