Comforting Glorfindel
Having an Anxiety Attack
Request: If there's still headcanon slots available and one of these ideas strikes you: maybe how Glorfindel and/or Penlod would react to reader having an anxiety flair up where their normal coping mechanisms aren't working and they need extra help (platonic or romantic)? Or if that doesn't strike you, maybe vice versa where they need help from reader? I haven't been on Tumblr recently so I'm about to scroll through your blog and play catch up. Looking forward to reading what I've missed/what's coming up! I hope you're well ❤️
A/N: I decided to do this vice versa, and comfort one of our beloveds for a change. So I hope you enjoy! <;3
♕ Glorfindel isn't afraid of his feelings, but he does struggle with showing his most vulnerable emotions with anyone, especially when it makes him feels so weak.
♕ Not to mention Glorfindel doesn't want to worry you about what the toll of war has taken out from him.
♕ Glorfindel will often try and put on a stronger persona in an effort to try and soothe any concerns that you may have about him.
♕ But that doesn't mean that despite all his best efforts that anxiety attacks don't creep up on him.
♕ Usually he can feel when they're about to happen, and he is quick to dismiss himself from the public place if he can.
♕ Even if you try to press if he's okay, he will only assure you he is as he hurries away.
♕ Following him out is the only way you're going to come face to face with the fact that he's having a panic attack.
♕ At first Glorfindel doesn't realize that you've followed him out, so he begins to loosen his collar and breathe shakily and heavily, his hands starting to shake and feeling like he can't breathe.
♕ By the time he turns to see if he's alone, it's too late to hide his symptoms from you, that you recognize immediately for what it is.
♕ Glorfindel is used to having deal with these himself, and he doesn't have the best coping skills, so at first he tries to thwart you from helping him.
♕ But if you persist, albeit, gently Glorfindel gives in as you reach for his hands and gently help him sit on the ground.
♕ You sit in between his legs as he cries and shakes, trying to catch his breath, helping him take slow deep breaths guiding him through it.
♕ At first Glorfindel is a bit hesitant, but your voice and the feel of your hands in his is just so soothing and he starts to listen to what you're saying.
♕ Especially as you reassure him he's safe, and that everything's going to be okay.
♕ IF anything Glorfindel is also panicking that you're going to be mad at him for having kept something like this from you and he profusely apologizes between the tears and his shaky breathing.
♕ Reassuring him calmly that it's okay, and that you're far from mad at him helps ease the anxiety, he is very receptive to your words as he trusts you implicitly.
♕ Glorfindel doesn't just respond to verbal affection and soothing, he also responds well to physical affection.
♕ Now that he knows you're not mad at him, or that you're not going to embarrass him, Glorfindel will take the opportunity to lean forward and rest his head against your shoulder and hold you close to him.
♕ When you embrace him back, he loves the feel of one arm around his neck and the other carding through his hair.
♕ It makes him feel safe and protected, even if he's the one that has to do the protecting more often than not.
♕ Holding him like this, and rocking him gently helps lift the weight off his shoulders and he rests his body weight against you- carefully.
♕ His symptoms start to die down slowly.
♕ Glorfindel's breathing becomes even, his hands stop shaking, he feels more relaxed but tired and most importantly comforted by you.
♕ He's internally kicking himself for not having brought this to your attention sooner, as going through it with you there to help him has made it a less stressful experience.
♕ As you start to check in on him asking if he's okay, Glorfindel is sheepish and confesses to you that he is not okay but he does feel better having you there with him.
♕ He doesn't part from you, but instead clings to you tightly as if he's afraid to let you go.
♕ Finally Glorfindel will start to open up to you, especially as you start to question him and what was going on.
♕ He explains to you what set him off, how long he's been suffering through these still clinging to you.
♕ Glorfindel tells you how much he loves you, and thanks you profusely for your patience with him and your lack of judgement over his predicament.
♕ Your reminder to him that of course you'd do this for him, and that you love him and his partner warms his heart.
♕ Glorfindel knows he's got his perfect one, being with you and the fact that you'd go out of your way selflessly to care for him when he was so vulnerable.