#mephistopheles increasingly concerned about the mindflayer his daughter introduced as her partner

[swoleas]

im thinking abt ysali and the emperor both being "monsters", ysali a devil and the emperor a mindflayer, but neither treating the other as such. finding comfort in each other because they don't have to hide their true nature and can simply be

ysali is a soft place it can lay down its head after a long day of scheming and ambition, gives it a safe place to be a mindflayer with all that this entails

and the emperor in turn is someone she can drop her act around, who supports her academic endeavors, and yknow sometimes provides her with potential warlocks to manipulate.

also ik mindflayers are not immortal so my cute nepo baby will use the powers her daddy gave her to make sure the emperor stays by her side for as long as it wishes to remain so