10. If they have one or more hatchlings, is it significant to them which of them bears the first egg?
There will be no eggs or hatchlings. There's simply no time for it. And by 'no time' I mean, the Driftwood-verse is set in the game's canon timeline.
IOW... they're only together for a few weeks before the supernova hits. And in this timeline, there is no 'everybody lives' ending...
Intimacy:
6. Who plays little harmless pranks?
Mostly Hal. They're still young and excitable and (being besties with Reg), are fairly sassy and cheeky by nature. Nothing big though (not like Reg's 'bucket over the ajar door' prank).
They'll usually do little things to get Slate's attention.
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11. How much time do they like to spend together? All, barely anything, or something in between?
They're both fairly busy people, so it's usually the just an odd couple of evenings a week. Not as much as they'd like, but a tree keeper's gotta do who what a tree keeper's gotta do...
Communication:
3. Do they disagree often? About big or small things? If they generally agree on things, is there at least one thing they disagree on?
Not really. Again, they're not together long enough for these sorts of things crop up.
But there was that one time Slate learned just how bad Hal is with technology and laughed at them a little. Hal probably got slightly miffed at that (not for long, though... Slate was standing behind their chair and leaning over them when it happened – very distracting :3)
Preferences:
3. Have they ever read each other's favourite book?
Slate doesn't read much outside of what's necessary to know how to do their job. They don't have the time for it either.
Hal spends most of their time studying linguistics and dendrology. Not sure if they'd dedicate any time to learning physics/engineering/advanced mathematics 🤔
8. Are they each other's "type"?
For Hal, absolutely. Genetic hardwiring again: Slate=tall, therefore, good match 👍 But Hal's pretty easygoing when it comes to personalities, so they simply like Slate because they're Slate.
Now, Slate on the other hand...
Hmm, I'd say that according to historical records, they have a thing for the cheeky outgoings types, so I guess Hal falls in that category 🙌
At least these two got to have fun for a little while 🥹
Uzi and N have suffered so much together bro, I may not be a psychiatrist but those two have suffered so much psychologically it would make sense that they would be each other’s comfort person and despite being drones there’s literally no way they’re not severely traumatized
I mean Uzi has been treated like a freak and has been ignored all her life and gets left for dead by her own father and literally watches a hologram of her dad get torn in half and eaten right in front of her, sees another hologram of her first and only genuine friend betray her, has an entire emotional breakdown over her body doing things that she has no control over like killing and cannibalizing her classmates, getting held hostage and getting tortured by one of her mother’s former friends watching a person she finally built a friendship with sacrifice herself after being told she trusts her and then learning her mother was responsible for everything horrifying in her life and to top it all off being controlled by the solver and being forced to watch herself hurt the only one she genuinely loves and cares about.
Then theres N, who lost his memory has also been treated horribly by the people he knew his whole life one of them he had a crush on, also being left for dead when he starts questioning who he is what he was made for while trying to be helpful, being pulled away from his first genuine friend because her classmates didn’t like her, getting memories back just to learn he had an unwilling hand in destroying humanity that was forced by his possessed sister that he genuinely cared about, him witnessing his first crush trying to kill him unwillingly, also learning that he might have to kill his first genuine love that he felt his feelings reciprocated in, getting trapped under rocks and sawing his fucking ARM OFF saying “I deserve this” getting his arm ripped off then dragged and tormented by his sister and a hologram of the person who sacrificed herself for him and his lover then being forced to fight said lover that they both unwillingly want to do but have no choice, being forced to kill the person that presumably was like a mother to him to protect his lover just to learn she died years ago and was killed by his sister again used her skin and voice to mask as her and then attack him and his lover and watching said lover sacrifice herself and being forced to not help just so he could he safe so not only does he believe his closest and longest friend and lover are dead but the one person he first met as his own person that he probably considered his mother and not just as a friend, he probably thinks he’s responsible for everything that’s happened.
Man these two are so tragic I hope when everything’s done they get closure and feel safe enough to live with the past behind them happily,
They remind me of Everlark (Katniss and Peeta) where they are surrounded in a world of fear and everything comes down to them while they’re literally just kids being forced to kill to survive
If they ever in a thousand years ever decide to have a family It would make total sense if they had to have a long long LONGGGG talk about having children, I would too, who would want to bring a child into a world of violence and fear?
I am like a lot of the fandom anxious, nervous, freaking out about 6.6 and what will happen to our Chenford. I am thinking I may wait to watch the episode until after I read reviews or see the updates here from all you lovely people. If I know they are still together then I go an watch but if not then I can walk away. Because I know if a break up happens this one will kill me. I have not loved a couple like this in such a long time. The last time I really shipped a couple this hard was in Younger Omg that break up, if it was not for my love of Sutton Foster I would have stopped watching. We need our Chenford support system to help guide through this. Here is hoping our babies work through this. Because it will be devastating to the fandom. I need to stop reading stupid reviews that are someone's pov. I just read one from Screenrant where the author was talking about how this season especially the last episode is foreshadowing a devastating break up. Why do I let these people get into my head? Oh yeah tons of ship Trauma. Looking at you Scandal, Arrow, Grey's Anatomy, Outlander (I still watch because it is one the best shows on TV), Bones, Castle, Younger, Sex and the City, Friends...the list goes on.
Maybe that is part of the reason I hate angst so much I just always think it will lead that direction. Although I do have to say ST Voy did help a little when Tom and B'elanna got together yes there was angst as there will be with a human and half human/half Klingon who tends to lean closer to the Klingon side. They showed that it is possible to put a couple together let them have their differences and work stuff out without breaking up. I think more shows are going this way now.
I remember reading an interview that Alexi said (take what he says lightly). God I wish I could remember the interview because I laughed and shook my head yes when he said it. He said something along the lines of if they did anything to Chenford that he knows the entire fandom will hunt him down and cause a riot. I also read I am not sure if it was here I think it was in the notes of a fanfic I loved that Eric had responded to someone not sure where that they will not break up. Not sure how true that is, not that I am denying what the awesome fanfic writer, wrote in their notes. But would he really spill something that big? Also read somewhere not sure FB or here that Melissa said that the season finale was going to be big for them. Again who knows how true that is. I don't have IG, Tik Tok, Instagram.
Sorry for the long post. I started watching the Rookie because I love Nathan but I have kept watching because of Chenford. My PTST (Post Traumatic Ship Trauma) is coming through and rearing it's ugly head. I am a literal person so unless it is said directly I tend to not believe it and even then I question. So here is hoping our babies stay together and work this out. Because otherwise I think I will be broken, and will probably stop watching.
