pls to expand on cael/yain brotp?
Cael & Yain [ canāt stop wonāt stop ]
He gets her on a level that very few people are able to ā arguably instantly, when it comes to them. And Yain, for all her paranoia and faults, can appreciate what he brings to their partnership (and by appreciate, I mean deeply, on an emotional level, comes to not just rely on, but needĀ for his presence to remain, but that she has difficulty expressing and so doesnāt try).
Heās one of the first people to beĀ ālet inā on her secrets. Not just the ones sheās paid to manage and trade, but the ones no one is supposed to know.
In exchange, she watches out for him ā even when maybe he doesnāt expect her to, and maybe when he doesnāt know she is (but maybe he suspects it, because Hutts are pretty reliably predictable until theyāre not, and so far so good, heās somehow managed to keep his head attached to his neck).
Sheās not good at this, though. Sheās never been good at friendship, even when she was young and in the perfect environment to foster it.
And she falls off the grid sometimes, more than once, but she always came back (until she didnāt).Ā
And maybe they both share terrible things in common. Terrible, terrible things.
Theyāve killed people, for profit or for pleasure, or both. Theyāre hooked on stims, or chems, or something something else ā high functioning addicts who self medicate to dangerous degrees, to cover the things theyāre lacking in their personal lives maybe (family, friends, support, anyone at all).Ā
Heās better at saving lives, than her.Ā
Sheās better at the bedside manner.
And taking a punch. (But what mandalorian isnāt? he asks himself sometimes, to defend his honor however weakly and to no one in particular.)
When she resurfaces heās angry, of course. Angry enough to express it out loud. Angry enough to press on some old wounds that donāt need pressing.
But unlike every other person who has tried the same with Yain, she takes his anger quietly. Not because itās deserved (though it most certainly is), but because she never meant to make him go gray years earlier than he was prepared for.
