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4. How do they most trigger each other?

Oooh, this is interesting because there's something about River that just winds Duffy up and makes him slightly unhinged. And there's a lot of components to it: the nepo baby thing, the lack of discipline, River's entirely unjustified view that he's hot shit, and him knocking out Hobbs in s1. But I think the thing that drives Duffy most nuts is that River's not afraid of him. Duffy's used to terrifying people - and he is scary! He's murdered and kidnapped people in public places and faced no consequences, but somehow even after Duffy's beaten the crap out of him, River still doesn't give him the fear and respect he thinks he deserves.

Duffy probably triggers River in the way that most authority figures do - by not seeing that River's side of the story, which is that he is actually really smart and entirely justified in his actions.

8. What's the worst thing each of them has done to the other?

For Duffy it's probably the beating. Trying to kill River doesn't really count because it was on Ingrid's orders. For River it'd be breaching Park security, which could probably have got Duffy fired if he'd survived longer. Weirdly, none of this is all that bad compared to a lot of stuff that happens in the show.

Bonus thing

Thanks for the ask! Doing this for River/Duffy again because it's the one I've thought about the most...

13. Duffy definitely, canonically enjoys hurting River. River enjoys messing with Duffy but isn't really interested in hurting him.

Thanks for the ask - going with River/Duffy!

2. River triggers Duffy's predator drive, in that he'll focus on going after River (for whatever purpose) at the expense of things that should be more important. Meanwhile River subconsciously uses Duffy as a means of self-harm.

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What the fuck is up with them?

How do they make each other worse?

What would finally drive them to kill each other?

How do they most trigger each other?

What do they most hate about each other, and how much of that is projection?

Why are they attracted to each other anyway?

What (if anything) would make them finally sort their shit out?

What's the worst thing each of them has done to the other?

What (if anything) actually works between them?

Who else suffers because of their bullshit?

Would either of them be happy with someone else?

Is the sex at least good?

Do they actually enjoy hurting each other, or does it just happen?

What the most problematic aspect of their relationship, and how hot is that?

Would they ever work together against someone worse?

What would need to change to make them not toxic?

Thanks for the tag @our-future-is-up-to-us-2!

This is from the writing exercise / collective insanity of the Slow Horses Ship Wheel, in which we randomly generate a ship and then write it. I drew Shirley/Hobbs, which I've turned into an angst fic about not wanting to be alone when the drugs wear off.

He wouldn’t make an attractive woman, and whenever she talked to him for more than two minutes she remembered that he was objectively a fairly terrible person. But somehow this worked pretty well.