#affoleine

i mostly started shipping it because madeleine is one of my favourites, and I project on to him and relate to him heavily, and im an affogato yumeshipper ^^

they’re not the mostttt healthy couple,,,, but it works out, it’s not like. really bad. and it’s affogato in a relationship of COURSE he’s going to be a least a smidge manipulative!!

their dynamic to me definitely involves a lot of affogato playing into madeleines high ego, which he started doing as a way to get things from the paladin but at one point he actually starts to develop feelings 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫

madeleines really quick to fall in love with people who treat him kindly, which is why he falls for affogato. affogatos a reallyyyy good liar so madeleine (very sadly) thinks everything is genuine

it’s a cycle of both of them just kind of feeding into each others egos and it works well enough, they sometimes get into petty little squabbles but they force themselves to figure it out really quick due to a litttleeeee bit of codependency,,,

i like to think they met while madeleine was out on some kind of adventure/patrol/just kind of wandering for some reason, and he found affogato. affogato at this point isn’t in the cookies of darkness anymore (dark enchantress is DEAD 🤫) so he doesn’t really have a place to stay, so madeleine through the kindness of his heart is like “you could stay in the creme republic, if you’d like!” and affogato doesn’t have much of a choice but to go along with it. it’s not fun just kind of living on your own in the forest