pls to expand on cael/yain brotp?
Cael & Yain [ can’t stop won’t stop ]
He gets her on a level that very few people are able to – arguably instantly, when it comes to them. And Yain, for all her paranoia and faults, can appreciate what he brings to their partnership (and by appreciate, I mean deeply, on an emotional level, comes to not just rely on, but need for his presence to remain, but that she has difficulty expressing and so doesn’t try).
He’s one of the first people to be “let in” on her secrets. Not just the ones she’s paid to manage and trade, but the ones no one is supposed to know.
In exchange, she watches out for him – even when maybe he doesn’t expect her to, and maybe when he doesn’t know she is (but maybe he suspects it, because Hutts are pretty reliably predictable until they’re not, and so far so good, he’s somehow managed to keep his head attached to his neck).
She’s not good at this, though. She’s never been good at friendship, even when she was young and in the perfect environment to foster it.
And she falls off the grid sometimes, more than once, but she always came back (until she didn’t).
And maybe they both share terrible things in common. Terrible, terrible things.
They’ve killed people, for profit or for pleasure, or both. They’re hooked on stims, or chems, or something something else – high functioning addicts who self medicate to dangerous degrees, to cover the things they’re lacking in their personal lives maybe (family, friends, support, anyone at all).
He’s better at saving lives, than her.
She’s better at the bedside manner.
And taking a punch. (But what mandalorian isn’t? he asks himself sometimes, to defend his honor however weakly and to no one in particular.)
When she resurfaces he’s angry, of course. Angry enough to express it out loud. Angry enough to press on some old wounds that don’t need pressing.
But unlike every other person who has tried the same with Yain, she takes his anger quietly. Not because it’s deserved (though it most certainly is), but because she never meant to make him go gray years earlier than he was prepared for.