#they win for best friend award I think. teal and turquoise are close but a little messy

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Slayer is silly on purpose, a sort of balm to offset the fact that he knows a hundred ways to kill people with just his hands and whatever's around. Rattler is silly mostly on accident, but he loves to seek out joy and fun whenever he can, hence his hobbies. Together, they're possibly the most straight-up joyful of any combination of clones at the outpost, tying with either of them hanging out with Festival. As Rattler says, the three of them have to be fun to be around, to offset Fever's unsettling personality.

Slayer will teach Rattler anything he asks to learn (the hand-to-hand combat didn't always go well, but Slayer was ready and willing for every session until Fever put a stop to it). Rattler, in return, knows he can come to Slayer to vent if looking after his squad ever gets too much, as it often does when people see Rattler's efforts mostly as goofy hobbies or wastes of time. Neither one likes to dwell on sad things, but Slayer gets Rattler to slow down long enough to feel his emotions, and Rattler looks at things differently from Slayer and gets him to recontextualise his own thoughts.