imagining in my beautiful mind palace that amir and roathe hang out at first purely bc of the drifter. roathe is entirely too sardonic for amir's taste and amir is so Amir that roathe mostly feels blindsided by any conversation they have but they Both love the drifter so they try so hard to make things work. and then weirdly it does. by inches. amir figures out that roathe really doesnt mean a majority of the mean shit he says and roathe figures out how to match (and sometimes exceed) amir's conversational pace. they talk so much on KIM when they cant meet. endless chat logs. the only thing that stops them most of the time is loid forcing roathe off the computer so that lyon and marie can have their time. and then one day amir makes a joke that actually makes roathe *laugh* and he has to take a second to let that wash over him. while amir is staring at him because he's never *heard* roathe laugh before. yeah. 💭