I love your page! Do you think you could do something with Anubis? Like cute headcanons and stuff

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So I genuinely tried to come up with just vague headcanons
but I really wanted to use some of his actual mythology. And it just sort of
devolved into me coming up with more story than cute headcanons. I mean I personally
find a lot of this cute, but it’s probably not what you were looking for. *hides*

• Anubis is a proud single parent of his daughter
  Kebechet and is always talking about her. You’ve met her a few times while
  visiting, but she doesn’t live with her dad currently. She seems nice, but is
  oddly obsessed with snakes and apparently works with them as her job. When you
  ask Anubis if this worries him he says “Not at all! She’s always had a way with
  them; I trust she can handle herself.”
• You first met Anubis at a little café in town
  and were lucky enough to catch his attention. He came and sat with you and
  after that he always seemed to be there when you were. Eventually you came to
  know that he’s the caretaker at the big graveyard only a 10 minute walk from
  your house. He seems excited when you ask him about his job, he explains that
  he enjoys it and feels like he has real purpose watching over the dead.
• When you visited his home in the graveyard for
  the first time you were surprised to find he had dogs. Three in fact, all black
  and shaggy, you swear sometimes you think you see their eyes flash red, but
  amount it to a trick of the light. When you visit now the dogs always seem to
  know and come greet you at the front gate, essentially escorting you back to
  the house.
• In his
  living room above the fire place is a glass case with an ornate scale inside,
  beautiful and untarnished yet he calls it an antique. You’ve never seen
  anything antique look that pristine, but you don’t question him about it.
• He’s quite friendly and you swear the only
  person you’ve ever heard him speak ill of is someone named Osiris. He seems to
  fumble with his words slightly when he tries to explain their story. Apparently
  they were coworkers and Osiris stole a position from him that he’d been in so
  long, simply because Osiris was younger and more able bodied.
• Of course when you first met him you did think
  it was odd for him to introduce himself as Anubis, but you figured he just had weird
  parents or something. But then he talked about other people who also had names
  from the pantheon. It got real suspicious whenever you started asking real
  detailed questions and he seemed to be having a hard time answering them. Plus
  for a dad with a supposedly adult and working child AND someone who was kicked
  from a job for someone younger, he looked really young and healthy. When you
  finally confronted him with all your suspicion he knew he couldn’t hide it from
  you any longer, not that he ever wanted to hide anything. Before you he
  transformed into a burly 7 foot tall beastly thing with the head of a jackal,
  fit with all manner of golden accessories.
• After that day everything made sense and for a
  while you weren’t sure what this meant for your relationship with him. He didn’t
  know either, but he expressed how genuinely he felt for you and how he wanted
  to spend the rest of your mortal life with you in his arms. It was really weird
  coming from a jackal headed god, but oddly romantic too.
• Everything seemed to fall into place then. You
  moved in with him even and shared his bed. He was quite nice to snuggle with on
  cold nights due his soft black fur. Finding out that the dogs were church grims
  freaked you out a bit, but he assured you that they just protected against
  those who would defile the graveyard.
• He was very honest with you about his relations
  with the other gods and where they were and what they were doing. It seemed
  that most of them had taken to hiding amongst mortals just like Anubis. He did
  still gripe about how miffed he is that Osiris took his place as ruler of the
  underworld, but you’ve found that distracting him with scritches behind the
  ears and kisses works pretty well to get him onto a different topic.
• You like that when the two of you are alone he
  reverts to his natural form, because it really shows just how comfortable he is
  with you. He was concerned for a while that his true form bothered you, but you
  assured him that it was growing on you and that he shouldn’t have to hide it.