how do you hc nyssa and e-2 laurel interact/or will interact now that a bit of time has passed?
for the most part they just kind of awkwardly give each other space, though now its kind of a more... comfortable awkward. there’s no more deception and nyssa is pretty confident that enough time has passed that laurel’s not gonna try anything. she’s still kind of >_> though, and laurel kind of avoids her, but it’s less volatile and on edge than it was during fakeoutplot or in the aftermath of it.
while nyssa is worried for sara’s sake after all that betrayal, i think she’s actually... a little more hurt by it than she lets on. she’s still lowkey grieving e-1 laurel, and so that whole mess was kind of painful. plus fakeoutplot was upsetting because laurel actively kept some distance from nyssa and nyssa didn’t... really get that? she assumed that laurel didn’t want to see her, which didn’t make sense to her since they were on decent terms before they saw each other last, so she was left feeling kind of hurt and confused. now she understands it better but that still lingers, even if it was unintentional. so nyssa doesn’t really like black siren and doesn’t go out of her way to try and interact with her
laurel is obviously lowkey afraid of nyssa, since nyssa falls into “people who are pissed about fakeoutplot” and “people who could easily kill me”. so! but even during fakeoutplot she was a bit scared of nyssa because she had no real context for how to interact with nyssa and didn’t want to risk it and slip up and reveal herself somehow. and even now, after she’s pretty sure nyssa isn’t interested in revenge... nyssa was close to e-1 laurel and that always makes black siren kind of skittish. she just doesn’t want to deal with nyssa’s inevitable judgement. it doesn’t help that she gets defensive any time nyssa does run into her and gets a bit >_>, which lends itself to a cycle of them disliking each other
buuut there is the subtext of like... e-1 laurel gave nyssa a chance and tried to help her when nobody else would, and nyssa feels like she owes it to e-1 laurel to give e-2 laurel a chance. maybe not to the same degree, since sara has that covered, but she still doesn’t want to be too harsh on laurel.
there’s also a part of laurel that does kinda want to know more about nyssa, since nyssa is... dating her sister, or sort of, and that’s kind of important.
so i think right now they’ve settled into something awkward and uneasy but probably not what they’ll settle into in the long run. theyre not... at odds, but they both have reasons to keep some distance from each other.
i feel like every once and a while nyssa will try to talk to her a little bit, either by bringing up e-1 laurel, or asking something about e-2 laurel’s past, and laurel just shuts down because she’s still not good about talking about either of those with people shes not very comfortable with. that... doesn’t help
actually the ava stuff might be a good chance for them to be on better terms, since theyre both gonna be awkward but interested for different reasons.