#cassiantheyapper

dottore is a big and psychotic evil guy but not to pantalone. to pantalone dottore is a doctor. his doctor, in the most literal sense. whenever he has a problem that’s who he goes for. dottore is homoerotically playing the piano for him right now and bearing his soul for him. i’m so sick omg.

was it pantalone, who was getting sicker by the day? or was it dottore, who watched pantalone double over coughing during meetings?

or do you think pantalone just collapsed one day, and dottore had to find a new pair of lungs at breakneck speed?

cut to pantalone sitting alone at an empty coffin, saying a eulogy into the silence. yes, he thinks, dottore's death was a grand affair... but feofan could not say the same for his funeral.

pantalone was probably the one who was given the task of getting the people to do it and find people willing to dispose of.. whatever was left in there from his experiments and keep quiet about it.

do you think he was there for it? do you think he watched them take apart what was left of dottore’s existence? or do you think he stayed in his office, trying to work so he wouldn’t have to think about how it was final this time and dottore was gone.

do you think that pantalone took a final walk through dottore’s lab, smoking all the way and thinking about how dottore would’ve told him to put out the cigarette or he’d throw him out of the lab. or do you think pantalone wouldn’t want to go near it now that dottore wasn’t there.

and on that note, do you think pantalone takes alternative routes whenever he has to walk near where the lab was? so he doesn’t have to see people that aren’t him going in and out like they own the place. even though it’s their space now.

you’d certainly think pantalone would have a great deal of malice towards dottore after that, right? wrong. 400 years later they have a sort of partnership that neither of them will back out on.

pantalone admits he never expected dottore to win in the events of the 6.6 main story quest. but he came anyway. dottore gives half of his soul to pantalone to store in the vault of the northland bank because that’s the most logical thing to do. give it to pantalone, who he’s been partners with over the past few centuries.

pantalone develops an allergy after his incident with the chemical burn, and dottore literally makes it so pantalone will never have an allergic reaction again.

and despite how pantalone loathes the gods, he had no problem with dottore attempting to become one. or attempting to create one. dottore literally says “at first, i thought you’d be furious” and then pantalone remarks that “the world regards those who rise to godhood on their own with suspicion, even if they are a compatriot”. he then says he feels bad for the man who considers himself dottore’s compatriot. dottore calls him out by telling him not to be so self critical.

a fatui agent hands pantalone a letter with genuine blood smudged on it and pantalone’s like omg dottore’s stupid ass wrote this at the vivisection table didn’t he.

so in return he sprays an obnoxious amount of perfume on the responding letter and dottore inhales so much of it he can only taste and smell lavender for the rest of the day.