Look, I know it's never happening, but I think the ideal way to put raincloudshipping in the show is to have it take place almost entirely off screen.
Turns out Benthomaar and Vania been living out a full six season romantic soap opera in the background ever since the merge that's still ongoing, and whenever we happen to bump into one of them there's some wild new development the plot refuses to go into actual detail about. You make it a forbidden romance somehow, but they've fallen in love in secret and betrayed each other and got caught up in arranged marriages. There was an assassination attempt in there somewhere and tampered love notes and blackmail and a long lost twin brother all mixed in for good measure. Every time any character tries to get clarification on what's going on you just end up more confused.
So like, you get a scene with the ninja just chatting it up with Bentho at some diplomatic function, they see Vania enter the room and Lloyd is just like "Oh hey! Vania's here too! You know Vania?"
And Bentho just starts tearing up, looking longingly into the distance as the violin kicks up in the score and he's like "No. ~Not anymore~" before running off and everyone is just left standing around like "wtf is happening?"
