Being Dottore's assistant and all the segments agree that you are expendable. Except... all of them are regularly feeding you a little elixir of immortality.. every single one of them.. all of them asking for a kiss in return and telling you that it's your little secret..
He asks you something and you struggle to answer? He's leaning all up in your face and waiting, even if its only making you struggle more. working on something? He's leaning over your shoulder and talking in your ear and yes hes definitely doing that on purpose and honestly if he presses up against you and digs his chin into your shoulder any harder you'd think he's trying to be your own shoulder bird mantle cape thing whatever
He keeps a very respectful workplace distance of an inch between you two when you're talking to someone else. he starts fiddling with your clothes if the conversation isn't very engaging. pinch him at your own discretion.
Dottore becomes infatuated with you hard and fast, while Pantalone is slow and steady.
That isn't to say that Dottore falls in love immediately. He is not that type of man; but he watches you for the telltale signs that you are a kindred spirit. That you have been rejected by the norms of society, that you are lonesome, that you too are looking for someone like him. He asks the questions meant to dig and find out those answers, and each time you respond in the affirmative - You've been so lonely since coming to the Fatui, you've always been a bit of an outsider, you wish you had someone you could be yourself around - the Doctor’s chest grows tighter with his fondness for you. He seeks excuses to have you in his lab to pepper you with questions, seeking your approval; he wants your focus on him entirely, never mind the other Fatui or, Archons forbid, the other segments. And when you, too, start to feel the budding blossoms of a crush building within you...well, by that point, he is all too happy to make you his as soon as possible, slow and steady "courting" be damned.
Pantalone is, in a sense, the opposite; he is immediately attracted to the way someone carries themself, how they speak, whether their words have any value at all... If you have what catches his eye, he does not go all in, all at once, however - he takes his time. Not savouring it so much as making sure his instinct was right (it is) and then, finding the best ways to approach you. What smooth and sultry words have you squirming and flustered, what offers of outings - a walk through Snezhnograd, a fine meal at a local restaurant - have your eyes glistening in anticipation? It's curation and calculation, surely, but...it's also caution. He has been hurt from mistrust before - those who offered to help him only to harm him, those who sold him out after luring him in, and the pain (physical and emotional) that followed thereafter. He doesn't want a repeat of it, even as he convinces himself he is strong enough to withstand it today (he isn't). So he eyes you purposefully for months, letting the anticipation in your belly grow, until at last he takes your hand in his and brings it to his lips for a chivalrous kiss and says, "My dear, after all this time beating around the bush, would you do me the honours of accompanying me to next week's Fatui banquet?"
Eldritch horror Pantalone accidentally coming upon a human that he found cute enough. It started with simple following and messing with their mind. Then he finally got to meet them in person, become their friend. Soon enought he developed feelings he never would've expected to have. He started caring for them, looking after them, wanting the best for them.
And then he couldn't imagine living without his baby by his side.
Random pre! Murkoff Franco Barbi headcanons (featuring Franco lines that inspired me)
Except his usual indulgences, I feel like Franco enjoys shopping for suits. Don’t you see him having new suits every day? I do.
“Watch the fucking suit.”
I also see him rocking a couple huge rings on his fingers (not golden rings he thinks it’s too much, too yellow and shiny), so he seems more intimidating, more worthy of respect.
“You make all that money, you want to make sure it shows.”
Speaking of respect, we always see mafia guys in media smoke cigars. What about Franco? Well, I think he doesn’t like them very much but smokes the fattest and most expensive one whenever he must make a public appearance since that’s what all the big shots are doing. Also, it’s something he saw as he grew up, all big and intimidating men smoking cigars so for him cigar = intimidating/important.
“Thought for a second I might be able to get a decent cigar in here but that thing smells like a dead man's cooked cock. ”
I personally think Franco struggles with his appearance. (big shocker I know, with how many quotes centered around his appearance it’s such a surprise) Meaning, I think he tries to hide his huge head with hats, the fedora kind of hat we see mafia men wear. He tries to act all big and mighty, as if he didn’t care about his appearance: “Fuck you, you think I’m getting any uglier.” Unfortunately, he very much does care about his general look so he wears the hat slightly tilted (since not one hat covers his whole head) over the red and inflated part of his head (which would be the left side of his head when facing him). He thinks it makes him look slightly more palatable.
If Franco were to flirt with a woman, I’m sorry but I just know he’s smooth with it till he’s not but then he is again? If that makes sense? It makes sense to me. I just know he’s smooth one time then says something and you’re like “what?” It’s because of the way he speaks; it’s entertaining, its smooth and he has that tone that always seems like he’s flirting or joking. (I think it doesn’t help that he has a nice accent on top of it but that just might be me.)
“Come here, Sweetness.”
“We could just… put a bag over that goose puppet. Pour a little Chianti, put old blue eyes on. She’d crush me like a hot little grape.” Based on that voice line about Gooseberry, we can imagine that Franco may tend to drink some wine from time to time and not only his Wolf’s milk. Furthermore, “ol blue eyes” is a popular nickname for Frank Sinatra (maybe it’s common knowledge but if it’s not well there it is.) So, with this we know that Franco most likely listens to Frank Sinatra, which doesn’t surprise me since Sinatra was one of the most renowned singers from the 20th century. (Frank Sinatra being from Italian descendance certainly helps the fact that Franco, also from Italian descendance, listens to him.)
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