#jake is aroace but frenchie is his boyfriend hope this helps :)

[mockiery]

(crawls out of manhole grinning) hello beloved! for your ask game: frenchard and jakethony meeting? it interests me greatyl.

ah yes. frenchwad and jakobi

I am. Of the opinion that Jake and Frenchie meet while Marc's in his mercenary era. Frenchie knows Jake before Marc does. And for some of that time, Frenchie doesn't know it's Not Marc, because, after all, Jake is quite good at playing Marc, and had been doing so for most of his time fronting throughout their life.

A lot of my previous discussions of this are directly tied to my fun mk polycule hc's and Jake stepping in when Marc is a complete idiot about how he feels about Frenchie, big "You're fucking this up so bad, I'VE GOT THIS, OUTTA MY WAY PENDEJO" and then makes out with Frenchie. And Marc excuses it as like. A drinking blackout, not a dissociative blackout.

But in general terms, I think Frenchie starts to pick up on Jake. Jake is stepping in when Marc is self-destructive, gets too in over his head and gives up the fight, and in the occasional social scenario Marc is fucking up like kissing. At a certain point, I think Jake lets his guard down around Frenchie, lets the mask of playing Marc fall. A lot of the time when he takes the front, it's a life or death scenario, and it's gonna take all his spoons to get them out of there, and he doesn't want to always throw Marc back to the front following that kind of stuff. So, a bit tired, and trusting Frenchie, he let's himself be himself. And Frenchie notices. It'd be a lot to get Jake to admit he isn't Marc, but I think he craves it to a certain extent. Connection, that is.

Bonus fun from convo's I've had:

After mercenary era, Marc and Frenchie end up working together on some Khonshu job, and Marc tries to tell Frenchie about Khonshu and Frenchie is like "I know you're autistic, mon ami, it's alright."

"I'm WHAT?" and then they kiss

ASBFDGJRGEJN ANYWAY

Marc: "What? No, no." (talking about khonshu) "I mean the. The... Voice." (deep, belaugered sigh) "In my head that I... talk to sometimes."

"Oh, you mean Jake?"

 "Who?"

 "Merde."

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[mockiery]

jake lockley is aroace but frenchie is his boyfriend hope this helps :)