#gods this took 800 years but im so fuckin happy with it

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Context: SJ is dissociating to avoid reality, choosing to imagine himself and YQY back in his secret spot in one of the bamboo groves of Qing Jing Peak.

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Vile/Mevolent, hmmm?? please feed me i am but one hungry addict in need of crackship content.

okay so

it’s been confirmed now by Dirty Laundry that the Divergence Point in the Leibniz universe was that Ghastly was orphaned young, his family never took Skug in, and as a result Skug wasn’t close with him or any of the other dead men and therefore there was nothing to bring him back from being vile. thus, vile remained the dominant personality and mevolent won

HOWEVER (hereafter be nothin but crack and monsters)

back in ye olde days before that confirmation, i was chatting to a friend about what the Divergence Point might have been and i jokingly suggested “they fuckin”. now, the reason they fuckin even came to mind was twofold: 

a) in the original universe, vile had the opportunity to kill ghastly, but didn’t, and this was the beginning of skug reasserting himself and taking back control. in the leibniz dimension, whether or not they still had that confrontation, vile didn’t snap out of it. so something overrode his friendship with ghastly and, as i was going by the assumption that they were as close as original ghasdug were, that something has got to be pretty powerful. 

b) the leibniz universe, before val shows up, is? more or less in peacetime. mevolent has won, past tense. the resistance still exists, but it’s a gnat on a horse’s flank; it’s outgunned, outnumbered and a hair’s breadth from being wiped out completely. whenever there’s a confrontation with the resistance, it seems mevolent sends vile, so technically the resistance should’ve been obliterated already; it’s likely the only reason any of them have survived a vile attack is because if they run out of good guys, there’s no one left for him to fight. he’s a cat toying with a mouse rather than killing it outright.

now vile’s main motivation for joining mevolent’s army in the first place was that he wanted to kill as many people as possible. in skug’s own words, “finally, here is someone who shared my appetite for destruction.” he doesn’t want the war to be over, he’s not interested in peacetime. he doesn’t know who he is without the war, and he defects because mevolent’s offer beats the sanctuary’s (mevolent’s army has fewer rules, and he gets to kill more people, and maybe even a whole race of gods if in fact they exist and mevolent brings them back). 

but in the leibniz universe, 150-ish years down the line, the best he’s getting is occasional skirmishes with resistance forces, which are clearly not a challenge for him. he’s not levelling battlefields by himself anymore. and yet? he’s still there. he hasn’t turned on mevolent yet, hasn’t started world war three for funsies, hasn’t just started indiscriminately murdering everyone in his way. nor is he pushing for mevolent to bring the faceless ones back. so...why? what’s keeping him there?  

so, my original joking conclusion: they fuckin. 

except i was picturing a not-quite-friends with benefits type deal. allies with benefits belligerent sexual tension? mutually using each other with added angry sex? but...150-ish years is uh. a long-ass time, dude. and relationships shift. people get comfortable with each other. walls get dropped. and at some point it’s entirely possible to have a moment of crisis where you realise that you’ve accidentally been exclusive with your fwb for the past few years, you...actually don’t remember the last time you fucked your wife, and oh gods, you’re fond of him. 

and then i reread that one scene where mevolent is interrogating val and she thinks she hears skug coming to save her, but it’s vile and he just walks right in like he owns the place while mevolent is in the middle of conducting business and leans on the throne and mevolent a) knows who it is without even turning to look and b) smiles when he arrives? except this time i had ship goggles on. and. for a man who seemed to command a lot of deference from his subordinates, that’s a pretty familiar entrance. no knock, no “hey are you busy”, no “pardon me for interrupting”, vile just waltzes in and joins him. so? maybe they do this regularly? interrogate prisoners together? i’m not saying date night but date night

and anyway as with all ships you suggest to be facetious, i ended up shipping it for real and now i find excuses to make it romo, and thus, my primary ship has become a crackfest of lunacy with absolutely no basis in canon, and i give not a single fuck because it makes me happy and very little does that in this fandom anymore

as a postscript, a couple tropes that make me love this dumb ship more:

a) mevolent has been around for a hot minute. he started the war ~600 years before canon -

- and was apprenticed to the Unnamed before that, which makes him, what? 800+ by canon times? vile is 400-450 during canon (as, iirc, is serpine, since he and skug are in the same age bracket). yall know i love my age gap ships.

b) the absolute flip in power dynamics for mevolent??? like he is much bigger, stronger and more powerful than everyone around him, so he’s used to getting what he wants, when he wants it, and is very, very rarely told “no”. but? he needs vile to win the war - far more than vile needs him. the og dimension shows that if vile walked away, mevolent would’ve lost. vile is the only sorcerer near mevolent’s power level, and therefore the only one with a hope in hell of fighting him to a standstill - their fights can get Ugly. so he’s the only person mev’s intimidating obey-me bullshit doesn’t work on or impress. they’re equals. that is New and Intriguing

c) Even Evil Has Loved Ones. fuck me up.

c) mevolent is over a foot taller than vile and presumably correspondingly bigger, and i am a massive slut for size difference ships where the tall one is chill and level-headed and the “little” one is an explosive ball of barely-contained rage with a hair-trigger temper. 

EDIT: IT GOT BETTER

Even i hadnt noticed this but im 👀 at them conveniently arriving together in the middle of the night at short notice

anyway yeah i have feelings i hope this crack content fed you well anon