奥妲斯忒

Okay, maybe I’m the only one who sees it this way, but it’s like having a wife who keeps the household running smoothly and a husband out there networking and hustling. We might never get to see them walk down the aisle, but come on—isn’t AE basically their love child? They’re both putting so much work into nurturing it, after all.

And this "couple" even goes on family trips sometimes, like when they worked on Air or The Rip. Or maybe those are more like honeymoons? Either way, they get to spend a few sweet months together, seeing each other first thing in the morning and last thing at night. It’s like a reward for all their hard work.

Like, Ben would get dragged to a tattoo parlor by his friends as a teenager to "practice" on him, and he’d end up running away halfway because it hurt too much (I think it was supposed to be a spiderweb tattoo? Something like that, I don’t remember exactly). Meanwhile, Matt didn’t get his first tattoo until he was 42, and even then, it was only because his wife suggested it—just the names of his wife and kids, plus a small design he happened to see on the tattoo artist’s computer that Heath Ledger once had.

It’s wild to imagine them being so inseparable and sharing everything when they were young, but then Ben would just come home one day with a permanent new mark on his body, like they had totally different ways of engaging with the world—yet it never caused any conflict between them. It’s such a fascinating dynamic.