#hate!sans

So first of all they are both French in Nightmare's time period ( 17th century ), Hate is a noble and Toxicity is a bourgeois and a doctor

Hate is a noble but he isn't a "conventional" one, he doesn't go to banquets, doesn't go to balls, doesn't participate in receptions, doesn't host receptions either, ... you basically never see him unless it is an official event organized by the king where presence is obligatory

He really just prefers the intimacy and tranquility of his home and even has as little domestics as possible, just enough to help around but otherwise he likes it better when he's alone and peaceful

But even without going out, there comes a moment where he falls sick and needs a doctor, and since he ain't going out like that, he requests that one comes to his place to heal him

And Toxicity gets chosen ! Yey ! He's reputed to be quite good and doesn't live that far so he gets called and comes over to treat Hate as good as he can because Hate is a noble so it means he's important and shouldn't be neglected (not that he neglects his other patients, just that he needs to be even more careful with this one)

So anyway everything goes well, Toxicity goes home and Hate soon feels better

But, Toxicity gets called again some time later, Hate feels unwell and wants the doctor's opinion, so Toxicity goes, gives advice for him to feel better, and leaves once again, until he is called back some time later for something else, then again later, and later, and later, and later, ... until he just asks Hate "are you going to invite me for some tea before or after you run out of imaginary illnesses ?" And Hate is like "oh shit I've been caught" like dude you were never sleak to begin with

But yeah eventually Hate does invite him over for a casual tea ( do note that his domestics don't really know what to do because it's the first time there is someone over ?? For tea ???? What ????? ) and they start seeing each other outside of consultations

Now since homosexual mariage is still forbidden, they obviously can't marry, but what they can do is Hate can say he's offering him a place to study and pay for his office kinda in a patron way and Toxicity lives with him

Now the great question: what do they add to the story ? Well when Nightmare starts to kinda free himself from his mother's conditioning and starts being his sassy self instead, nobles are gonna come less to his place and his reputation will change, and Hate will hear about him, and a noble who tells other nobles to fuck off on a daily basis ? He wanna see that, so when a tea is organized with the few nobles still present and with which Dream and Nightmare kept a good relationship, Hate goes, meets Nightmare, and the two start chatting and instantly bond over shit talking about the nobility

The two become best friends quite rapidly and hey did Nightmare say he was sick ? Hate knows a very good doctor who could help ! Meet his totally not husband who can provide you with an official diagnosis (and by extent open the way to more soul and magic study) ! Dw the consultation is on the house :)