#dfrnllau

With lapses I mean the moments he's triggered to 'slip up' mentally –man's got a lot of shit going on still, but he's stable to DR!Spam-ish levels and the lapses are much rarer than in DN's canon. His nose bleeds because he gets so worked up and his teeth are ground so tight his jaw can dislodge itself. And like my DR!Spam, who's terrified to be let go even when his body is trying to run away, DN!Spam acts up and runs but wants to be chased and kept, since he's finally accepting and openly showing his love to Tenna, and Tenna rejecting/leaving him would be unbearable. Basically his worst moments lead to testing if Tenna will still love him like that.

(And he will. Even if both of them are too cowardly to say "I love you." Despite being married. They're both terrified that making it "real" that way will drive the other away again.)

The leash is because Tenna is So Trusting and Normal and will actually have the longest, most violent meltdown of the century if Spamton disappears with an egg. Spam's less-present self's too out of it to acknowledge the leash and take it off. At worst he chokes himself limp, not unconscious.

Once he's back to himself, Tenna pampers him –in his roundabout, awkward, attempting-to-mask-affection ways, not admitting that he was worried and wants to take care of him to make sure he recovers well. Spamton knows what he's doing but he doesn't call him out on it since he's just as afraid saying the words will take it all away.