Send me two characters and I will tell you what my ideal ship dynamic is for these characters!
I want to start by saying that Bravinto opened my eyes to this one and have converted me so deeply that to me this is now a textbook case of a messy bitch who lives for the drama and the scientist who wants to study him. Illuso literally cannot keep his mouth shut when he should, he is always instigating something because he has too many issues and agendas to know better or ever truly learn from his mishaps, and Melone took one look at this otherwise gorgeous human specimen constantly falling into his own traps and gleefully grabbed his Hello Kitty notepad. He is not exactly enabling Illuso from the sidelines, but he certainly isn’t trying to rein him in either: where he’s not involved, Melone merely observes in amusement because this is the sort of guilt-free trainwreck where the casualties are few but the entertainment value is quite high. This also works out beautifully because on the one hand, I see Illuso as the type of person who might annoy everyone around him, but would more or less spare his partner (he may be a shitcake, but he is your shitcake), and on the other hand, Melone has studied human nature enough that he would be mostly immune to Illuso’s bullshit and even able to throw him curve balls or some light on the issue.
However, I don’t want this to be all Illuso has going for him in the relationship; to my mind, he and Melone have certain tastes in common and would enjoy discussing their more obscure interests. Illuso is the AITA subreddit to Melone’s kin drama tumblr: there is always something going on that will interest the other, and they live for the juicy details and the unexpected turns. Like, this is the perfect couple to watch foreign soap operas together at 2 am because they lost control of their lives, and while Melone loves to dissect the psychological underpinnings, Illuso is keeping track of the more worldly motives and unapologetically rooting for the homewreckers. They then fool around among Illuso’s five blankets and sixteen bed pillows and look fantastic doing it because they both bring an insane amount of genderfluid flair to the party, and with some help from each other, they could get some really great couple aesthetics going. All in all, I want this to be messy but enriching for both.
