#tldr: justice ends up trusting marcus bc anders does

[kirkwallguy]

this has probably been asked before but whats between marcus and justice

it's KIND of hard to pin down, i mean what i've been saying about enjoying anders and justice being emotionally inseparable so it's kind of hard to say - they're the same person to marcus so he doesn't really feel the need to earn justice's favour once he has anders'. there's maybe a little tension there at first -justice is the distrustful side of anders and is the reason he pulls back from marcus or acts out, justice is also super aware of anders' negative experiences with nonmages, which makes him more reactive and jumpy when marcus acts unpredictably. but after a while together marcus is no longer a threat AND is clearly 'just' (treating anders well), so that protective justice side of him doesn't react so often when marcus is around because he knows anders is safe with him. marcus also really respects the passive traits justice shared with anders (being argumentative, not backing down, etc) so when justice DOES act out dangerously and anders threatens to hurt people he generally keeps a cool head and knows now to deal with it. ofc all this happens after a looot of trial and error and arguments lol. also marcus thinks it's hot when anders gets angry enough to start glowing