i definitely think they live together post octo expansion and they spend about 60% of their time in comfortable silence, either because 3’s exhausted and recharging or 8’s in the zone tinkering or both are happening at the same time. 3’s default state is still pretty serious even when shes around 8, and 8 isn’t too much of a talker because she’s always trying to make herself busy to keep the memories of OE and the underground at bay. theyre both pretty quiet and communicate their affection through physical contact, but because i love the silly posts where they tell each other funny jokes i’d like to think that 3 can make 8 laugh effortlessly just by saying a single deadpan word and 8 is really bad at making 3 full on laugh. despite having picked up the common language really well by now (and writing the bulk of her poetry (which she likes to do canonically)) she still speaks a touch too formally and loses her jokes to awkward delivery, she’s made it her mission to get more than a pity breath out of the nose and a smirk from 3 >’) every day before 3 leaves to man the squidbeak splatoon 8 is already awake since she habitually gets up at the asscrack of dawn and she tries a new joke on her. im so normal about them