I'm going to write my essay woohoo!
Ralsei x Seth, seems like a crack ship at first but please hear me out.
Ralsei
His arc in chapter 5 shows him being really fed up with everything, hes angrier and meaner, not to say he is not soft nervous fluffy boi, but hes fed up and is tired of being a doormat and mediator, but whenever he lets anything out hes immideitaly downplayed by things around him,(also he is completely right in wanting to destroy flowery, kill that twink) hes tired
Now seth
Seth is shown as the mature one next to aqua, they are handling a lot and trying to furfill that purpose, see the connection. We see seth doesn't know much about this world and being the nerd they are they learn from books. Seth is trying to be human and is probably the closest besides flowey.
Now the connections
Seth wants to be human, ralsei wants to be a lightner, the second one is a bit shakey but ralsei defenitfly doesn't want to be a darkner, he is depressed as hell, second the need to furfill a purpose and sticking to black and white, when aqua is with seth, they are so confused on how they can be enimes and friends at the same time, seth is trying to furfill there purpose of being a human and stopping the @#*^# sqaud, they want to make asgore and flowery proud. ralsei on the other hand is trying to live out the prophecy, his story is more tragic but he wants to change the fate but he still mostly sticks to the phrocey, as the chapters go on we can see him develop more but he still has the weight of the world on him, he just has to keep smiling. Now these two now bounce off each other perfectly. There both nerds, and they both like having imformation, they also through the interactions we see are sorta nice to each other. of course ralsei is just angry through the chapter, but not to seth. They bounce off each other very nicely. And the added tragedy of ralsei knowing he will have to bacilly kill seth and never see them agian is a chefs kiss of a ship. now the interactions I'm talking about are:
this is shipping fuel and your not gonna convince me otherwise, besies them both being adorable, seth blushs, which could be embarsement but its still cute, second interaction they have thats cute is:
there little table interaction were they talk about not wanting to be doormats and not liking flowery, also angry ralsei's my GOAT, theres not much to say since this interactions short but its still cute. Well I've made my case for petalband which is what im calling it, yes its stupid, hope you agree and if you don't thats fine :3
you can also see them as friends, they have a great dynamic, and a tragic one which is perfect, soft ships with a hint of tragedy are great
