#cassiantheyapper

[iamcassian]

dottolone isn’t toxic yaoi it’s radioactive yaoi. they aren’t toxic to each other but they are toxic to other people. do you see the vision.

[iamcassian]

i’m in love with the way pantalone looks at dottore here

dottore is a big and psychotic evil guy but not to pantalone. to pantalone dottore is a doctor. his doctor, in the most literal sense. whenever he has a problem that’s who he goes for. dottore is homoerotically playing the piano for him right now and bearing his soul for him. i’m so sick omg.

it’s the way they just naturally gravitate towards each other because they are pretty much the only people in the world who would agree with the other. the methods they use and the way they go about their lives. they are the only people in teyvat who can stand each other. everyone hates them but they have each other.

[iamcassian]

go, my sparxielings

[iamcassian]

who do you think was the one who proposed the idea of lung replacement.

was it pantalone, who was getting sicker by the day? or was it dottore, who watched pantalone double over coughing during meetings?

or do you think pantalone just collapsed one day, and dottore had to find a new pair of lungs at breakneck speed?

do you think that was the day they realized they needed more time. do you think that was why dottore made the elixir?

[iamcassian]

i really enjoy dottore and pantalone’s dynamic because it’s something like love that isn’t love. it’s not a word they’d ever use and they wouldn’t ever label their relationship like other characters might. they are soulmate-esque in my opinion. dottore probably had pantalone ready to be experimented on before he noticed that pantalone (aside from the cuts and internal hemorrhaging) was healthier than his other subjects. his vitals were unstable and he was still coherent enough to plead his case and convince dottore not to hit him with the beam of evil experimentation.

you’d certainly think pantalone would have a great deal of malice towards dottore after that, right? wrong. 400 years later they have a sort of partnership that neither of them will back out on.

pantalone admits he never expected dottore to win in the events of the 6.6 main story quest. but he came anyway. dottore gives half of his soul to pantalone to store in the vault of the northland bank because that’s the most logical thing to do. give it to pantalone, who he’s been partners with over the past few centuries.

pantalone develops an allergy after his incident with the chemical burn, and dottore literally makes it so pantalone will never have an allergic reaction again.

and despite how pantalone loathes the gods, he had no problem with dottore attempting to become one. or attempting to create one. dottore literally says “at first, i thought you’d be furious” and then pantalone remarks that “the world regards those who rise to godhood on their own with suspicion, even if they are a compatriot”. he then says he feels bad for the man who considers himself dottore’s compatriot. dottore calls him out by telling him not to be so self critical.

their relationship can literally be described a thousand different ways and still not encapsulate the complex dynamic and i love it.

[iamcassian]

dottolone but one of them is on a work trip and they exchange progressively more unhinged letters.

a fatui agent hands pantalone a letter with genuine blood smudged on it and pantalone’s like omg dottore’s stupid ass wrote this at the vivisection table didn’t he.

so in return he sprays an obnoxious amount of perfume on the responding letter and dottore inhales so much of it he can only taste and smell lavender for the rest of the day.

but when the one on the trip gets back they act like they’re seeing each other like they were out at war.

[iamcassian]

pantalone discovered he was allergic to alpaca wool and crawled to dottore and bribed him to make him un-allergic because he’s picky is actually destroying me because what do you mean dottore was just like yeah fuck it let’s go

[iamcassian]

i’m a firm believer in the “dottore is arrogant but he is also extremely self-deprecating” agenda. and i like to think that when pantalone catches dottore saying some so casually self-loathing, he grabs dottore by the face and goes “zandik that is some ridiculous bullshit” and if dottore tries to refute it he just chants “bullshit, all i hear is bullshit”