ok. ok i started writing this whole yap and hyperfocused on it and i feel better and am able to think more rationally now sorry for all of that ido not think i can stop myself from doinf these occasional breakdowns anytime soon unfortunately
i think azuretime is indeed very codependent but they are also loving and very important to eachother. is the codependency healthy? no. but as long as theyre together they're fine for the most part, they WANT to be together they do not want to leave eachother?????? they're not controlling ????? they do not want to hurt eachother either?? the only time i'd call their relationship toxic is during forsaken because of. obvious reasons (azure lacking any control and killing two time many, many times which is NOT good!!!!!!! not!!!!!!! and this is something he later feels immense guilt for and is traumatized by in postsaken!!!!!!! but getting turned into a killing machine is NOT his fault he is NOT evil!!!!!!!!!)
the cult and its grooming is what straught up fucked up their relationship, without it they could be happy(postsaken is supposed to show this). i interpet azurw as having little faith in the spawn and wishing he could leave this place WITH two time, he wishes they felt the same as him so they could just run away. but he bottles that up & keeps it to himself like most of his negative emotions in general. it still creates this tension between the two however, two time notices he isn't as enthusiastic about the spawn as them and he always dodges the questions about it.
it only worsens as two time grows more and more obsessed with the spawn due to the cult's grooming, making the two grow apart more and more, HOWEVER EVEN THEN THEY STILL LOVE EACHOTHER. if they didn't love eachother even at this point a lot of the impact would be taken away??????? azure feeling so betrayed and full of rage and resentment would have less impact, two time feeling so so so much guilt would have less impact?????????
i also never liked the 'i love you' render, azure would not react like that. i think he has intense abandonment issues and getting killed by the person he did NOT want to be abandoned by felt genuinely world shattering and the worst thing that could've happened to him. saying he felt UTTERLY betrayed and horrified would be an understatement. it hurt not only physically, but emotionally. these feelings would turn into resentment and rage.
but even during forsaken he still has that inkling of love for two time. he wants them back, he wants the past back, he wishes they could both live happily, he wishes this never had to happen, he wishes that everything could've been different. but he also feels hatred, he wishes they never met, he wishes he never got attached, he hates both them and himself.
two time was absolutely fucking devastated when sacrificing azure because they too STILL LOVED HIM. i imagine they did not know they were going to have to kill him. the cult made it sound like they both were going to be rewarded. they were only told what to do not even a day before the ritual, and they DESPERATELY tried to plead for there to be another way. someone else they could kill. just not him. anyone but him. but the spawn already decided. they already were suffering from religious psychosis and everything was tellinf them that both they and azure would be punished by the divine if they let him live, even if they ran away. besides, they would finally get what they came here for in the first place. i imagine they hated themselves, thought they were inherently tainted and broken(neurodivergence and stuff aha). The only fix to their suffering would be rebirth. Rebirth into a new, bright person that the spawn could provide - as their recruiter said. the other option was committing suicide.
two time during forsaken also still feels love amidst grief and the smiley facade they use to push down any of these feelings. They wish they didnt do it, they wish they didn't have to do it, they wish he was still here(which oops they got their wish just not in the way they thought. azure's arrival to the realm is when they break. horribly)
their relationship got fucked over by the spawn they loved eachother so much idgaf postsaken azure redirects most of his resentment towards the cult hestill cares so much about thrm despite his mixed feelings and insists on staying with thrm even when they're in a catatonic state of depression after everything because he's really stubborn and really scared of losing them and being apart from them again and seeing them in such a horrible state hurts is him insisting on taking care of them and trying to fix everything while also being horribly traumatized himself healthy? no. but this man is not going to make rational decisions in these circumstances he wants his fucking theythem man
the early days are bad but slowly they heal and are eventually able to live a good life in eachothers comfort because Fuck you . tehyre victims not of eachother but of a manipulative piece of shit place and they deserve happiness And azure would forgive thwm. hell he might've forgiven them far before he's aware he did andi have other perfectly good explanatiosn for how they act thag might not have been mentioned here and i wont be forcibly makinf them toxic because i do not want to fuck offff seeinf thrm happy often brings me comfort especially because i see msyelf as two time and love azure dearly so bullshit like this influences me really badly cAn you tell im tired of typing ok yay