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(Which are obviously correct, because I have the url /joking)

William and Desmond have had mutual hatred since the day they met. It's not a passionate hatred, they just annoy each other. Desmond lets his superiority over William get to his head, but William neither respects, acknowledges, or despises him being his replacement. (Which bothers Desmond, cause now he can't rub it in his face.)

In some of my AUs, Alton and Buck are cousins, but this isn't a hard HC of mine; it's just a good reason to throw two separate Texans into Nova Scotia and London respectively. Related or not, they've known each other a long time, and know everything about how to get under the other's skin. Er... um. Whatever the Cog equivalent of that is. They yell at each other in board meetings. They punch and wrestle each other on the regular. They argue over who's to pay whose repair bills. I think Buck is the younger of the two, but he pretends to be the older. Despite all their animosity, which is genuine, if one of them really needed help, was really stuck in a bad place, the other would come get him out of there. And then he'd hold it over his head for the rest of time.