#hunterofix

"I get it. You're taken in my charm."

"I am immune to it."

"Then why do you stay around?"

"Because I have unfortunately become attached to who you are beneath it."

Like I could continue this series without paying homage to the Mozenrath OTP ;-)

Lyrics are from “I’ll Follow You” by Shinedown, which I know is probably too super cutesy for them, but I think it describes how I’d envision the Huntsman’s feelings toward Mozenrath perfectly. And this isn’t even the lyric that most makes me think of them - that would be the part about “trademarking the color blue,” but that one didn’t lend itself to this edit style.

One song for each.

RedHatBlackHat (Roman Torchwick x Archibald Snatcher): “Hurricane” by Panic! At the Disco.

FireDoll (Firefly x Ragdoll, The Batman ‘verse): “Trade Mistakes” by Panic! At the Disco. (Geez I wonder what JC’s favorite band is)

Jaune Arc x Kairi: “Along Comes a Woman” by Chicago.

ElectroSand (Electro x Sandman, SSM ‘verse): “What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction.

I have to give them both an A (not an A+…HunterOfIx was an A+ once upon a time, fighting with Twilight for the title, but other Mozenrath ships keep interrupting). However, for VERY different reasons.

Jafarath is a beautiful canvas on which Jafar can work his manipulation while Mozenrath is for once pretty clueless. Jafar is the king on the chessboard, and Mozenrath is the pawn who thinks he’s the queen (well, y’know, male equivalent). Mozenrath is a means to an end, but Jafar is such an idol to him that he refuses to see it. I’ve made it so that I can’t really see these two as functional anymore - it has to be Jafar being large and in charge and Mozenrath getting played like a violin, and that makes my “sadistic writer” senses go all tingly.

HunterOfIx is more balanced and functional. They go right together. Moz and Huntsy would start out by bonding over magical things and the various uses they have, then form a sort of “brains and brawn” duo, or maybe “king and knight” - the Huntsman protects Mozenrath and does his bidding, and in exchange, Mozenrath will declare any territory he conquers a space where killing dragons is one hundred percent legal and encouraged. Establish dragon hunting season, if you will. Imagining them combining their magical arsenals is always super fun - just see the Huntsman trying to figure out that gauntlet while Mozenrath tries to figure out the Huntstaff! And they both have that one secret piece of their bodies that they hide from the world (the skeletal hand, the dragon birthmark) but could finally reveal to each other. For better or for worse, there are only two ships where I can actually draw a soft spot out of the Huntsman (the other is Chase Collins from The Covenant, and that ship is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT the fault of @gavillain here).