Tannarak and Allura feel. Right. Not in a shippy way, not at all, but they feel like they know each other, even if it's not confirmed. It's probably because I've been reading some of Tannarak's appearances with him and Tala, and Tala and Allura feel 'similar' in that they're power-hungry dark sorceresses with a lot of hands in mortal dealings. Allura's obviously less complex about things, but on the surface she's got a lot of the same maniacal charm. I could see Tannarak liking that if just for predictability. Allura's a parasite. It's easy to figure what her end goal is: eat more, become more. She's stagnant, a leech, but her parasitic nature makes her paradoxically less threatening. With magic, chaos is the real concern. In addition, Allura needs to connect to people to scheme, so she still has to maintain a veneer of likeability. That's more than some people ever achieve. Thus, in Tannarak's eyes, she's all business. And he can handle business. He's been doing exchange for over 200 years. This leads to a potentially interesting dynamic. Allura, knowing full well that Tanny's never going to fall for her old deal shtick, still frequenting Bewitched, because there are plenty of patrons there that will. Tannarak, meanwhile, tolerates it, because bad old deals with the devil are still deals, and they still drive business, the business of curses needing cures and fake cures driving curses. He can tolerate shenanigans. He just doesn't want it to affect his own business. That's the nature of the dark side of magic. Person-to-person, it's some weird mix of cordial and buddy-buddy. Allura and Tannarak can't really name personal traits they like about each other. That big, blazing 'BUSINESS' just circles back: they appreciate each others' power. They like that they don't get in each others' way. They like some of the charm, sure, but they're people doing the devil's work, they see through that kind of thing. At the end of the day, it's business. Fun business, gossipy business, but business all the same. Allura isn't human. She's pure negativity. She can't make connections that way (maaayyyybe). Meanwhile, Tannarak reserves his affections for Tala and his dead wife and possibly the Phantom Stranger, he doesn't have room in his life for another on-and-off dark sorceress relationship. Some things are just casual. And that's just how it goes.
