||✶ hiii hiiiiii it's been so long I've sent you an ask if ever 🥺🥺🥺🥺 I think ur so cool I only do this when I have something meaningful to say 🥺🥺🥺
||✶ which isn't the case... Do you believe ever in Pale x Ink I failed to keep up with Pale's and Template's lore but I've always had this ship in the back of my brain... I thought someone sooooo smart and experienced and cool could give their opinion... Maybe it can help... Hii I hope ur having a nice day 。◕_◕。
OMG HII MOOTIE !! Feel free to send asks whenever ur so sweet!! <3 sorrgy this is gonna be long whenever i get asked about template or pale i turn into an extreme yapper
I think pale and ink’s dynamic would definitely be interesting!! Not necessarily in a romantic way (but maybe??) I think ink would largely be discomfited by pale.
Ink is (rightly) portrayed by a lot of ppl as like chaotic neutral, unpredictable, mischievous, but i think he still has a few pretty important self-imposed rules: don’t interact with incodes so you won’t mess up the timelines, don’t let other outcodes mess up timelines, don’t directly confront people, let things run their course even if they suck, etc etc. u get the idea u know this.
PALE on the other hand has None of this self awareness or restraint. pale is all of ink’s latent impulses just manifested. He’s extremely naive and self-centred. He messes around in timelines for fun and then destroys them just so he gets to feel something for a while. He indulges in emotions that make him violently aggressive (Pale admits in his ‘wow he gets emotions’ post series that he has tried to kill template several times when on these extreme mood swings).
So I’d imagine ink views pale as all the things that ink sees wrong with himself, wrapped up into a whole person. Ofc pale isn’t deliberately malicious, but his desperation to feel things ultimately causes harm to ppl around him. (Random incodes and template, ig).
Conversely, i think pale would like ink!! :3 he’d probably enjoy the fact that they have so much in common. They are the same person, essentially, and they just have very different ways of dealing with their issues!! I think if pale was on a positive mix of emotions ink would enjoy talking to him because they are both very like-minded and enjoy similar things (dancing, crafts, anything artsy)… they might bond over their struggles to connect to people due to the lack of empathy caused by their soullessness !! also, ink is canon aroace obv but pale has no confirmed sexuality to my knowledge, so theoretically pale could try and flirt with him??? For funsies.
^their dynamic is perfectly encapsulated by this image i feel
so yeah tldr i think ink would be weirded out by pale but they should get over their differences by kissing and template can bleed out from his nose in the corner