Electric Buckaroo

Uh just to let yall know i dont condone smoking :D

First off, he’s way more into this than she is. He’s more attached to the relationship yet treats it liked it’s replaceable while she’s basically putting in all the work and becoming resentful.

Saki’s love language is words of affirmation and Ken’s is acts of service! But quality time is very special between them.

She fell first, he fell harder.

Slow burn, enemies to lovers, secret relationship, single parents, trauma bonded, and everything else mixed into a witches cauldron to create the worst relationship ever!

They have to back each other up: it’s almost a requirement. Due to similar experiences, Ken uplifts Saki’s revenge quest and in turn Saki supports (what he believes 👀) to be Ken’s vendettas — even if her own agendas are a dying flame compared to his burning house fire.

Both workaholics but Saki is a bit 🤏 more healthy (or at least more disciplined) about it. He will force Ken to step back if he needs to. (Essentially just picking her up to take her to bed at 2am while she’s crawling over his shoulder trying to save a document she’s working on).

On that note, despite their relationship being a toxic work environment in itself, they apply a lot of healthy habits to each other. He makes sure she’s more physically active (leading to private ninjitsu lessons that are either awkward or intimate — but also because he’s not 100% she can fully defend herself. What he doesn’t know is that she is an exiled alien first but an American second and she has a certain love for the second amendment.) Ken herself promotes a bit more leniency among troops to keep morale and loyalties high (Earth made her a bit soft in this regard) and also provides proper criticism when needed, which Saki won’t admit is useful. She also makes him less insecure about his scaring cause it’s… lowkey not that bad to her. She’s see worse.

He does try (at least once) to put her on his payroll but she’s not stupid enough to fall for that. Obviously, he needs to have some sort of control over her, so she gives in to his requests when it comes to weapon design to ease the tensions.

Further on the control part, once their relationship actually becomes a relationship he tracks her and sends his own personal warriors to watch her; sometimes even sending them into the public to play the role of friend. But Ken has played this games before (she’s been dodging the Kraang for twenty years now).

As much as it would fulfill his own comforts for them to meet up in his territory, he finds a certain sense of satisfaction in sneaking into her apartment (much to Ken’s dismay; she has a door. He’s capable of using it. He purposely chooses not to.)

Ken, 100% subconsciously, leans into a sort of nagging wife persona whenever the opportunity presents itself. Overtly worried about little things, touchy, talking back, weirdly maternal towards the clan whenever Saki gets snappy at them. She’s been married before and her relationship with Saki isn’t that much different other than the fact that her ex actually has something to hold over her so it’s a state of mind she can easily slip back into.

Their relationship never comes out; or at least they don’t tell anyone. But it’s obvious to everyone else — anyone who has to spend five minutes in a room with them at least.

They don’t put a label on their relationship but just know it’s like watching people be on the brink of divorce half the time.