I’m obsessed with your sandman x sally ship and I really want to know how you imagine sandman’s first encounter with jack going
Since you said sandman doesn’t like him, but jack still seems cool with sally and that really intrigued me
I could hug you for being interested in my batshit crack AU, thank you for this gift of an ask!
Sandman and Jack actually met before Sandman and Sally were together, as part of an extremely involved project Sally was pulling together to give the children of that general part of countryside their sight back. Still, I don't think Sandman especially liked him even then...he was deeply indebted to Sally, respected her immensely, and was probably already a little smitten with her. The way Jack treated her, promising her the moon in one breath and then just as suddenly forgetting about her, rubbed him the wrong way.
I don't think the feeling was ever mutual, however. Jack adores new things and new people, and was so fucking jazzed about this big undertaking that Sally was proposing, I feel like he probably gave Sandman the same treatment he gave Santa. Not in the sense that he stuffed him in a giant plastic bag, but that he took one look at the guy and decided they were best friends forever.
I don't think that changed even after Sally and Sandman got together. Jack seems the type to have regrets, to wish he'd done things differently, but as long as Sally was happy, I think he'd sincerely welcome any new partner of hers.
And Sandman, for his part, dislikes Jack a whole lot less than he dislikes Finkelstein. Sandman fucking hates Fink.