stein and marie legit have THE MOST unconventional, totally bonkers pathway to getting together. imagine you're a child who moves to Nevada to attend magic powers boarding school because you have magic powers and there you meet your friend group and one of them is this boy who is definitely ostracized from the rest of the school because he scares everyone and you're like 'fuck you, actually, that's my future husband!' and you're friends for years even when you find out that he was legit dissecting his roommate in his sleep which throws the whole friend group into disarray but doesn't really affect your crush on him so you're still close and anyway eventually you graduate and move to Australia because you landed a job immediately because you're exceptional at what you do and he is too but he ends up sequestering himself in his laboratory in Nevada and distancing from everyone because he's a tortured genius and he DOESN'T EVEN CALL so you're like okay cool, childhood crush was for childhood, i'm grown now, and you live a good 10 years dating scrubs who disappoint you until you're like 28 and suddenly get called back to Nevada because uhoh! the world is in danger! and surprise! you're partnered with your childhood crush who is somehow like 7 feet tall now??? because your boss (who is the God of Death, don't worry about it, this is normal) is worried this dude will just snap one day so he's like 'hey, you have a calming presence, the two of you should partner together' and you end up living together and working as teachers at the same school you went to once and getting all cozy together and everything is going okay until your ex shows up and you plan to go on a date and catch up and then OH NO he's MURDERED
and everyone's like 'yeah, your partner did it' but your friend group as a child (who are also all there) are like 'listen, i don't think he did it. we're gonna send him off to find who the real killer is' and you're like 'i'm going with him' even tho your friend tells you that's maybe not a good idea but you don't care so the two of you go on the RUN FROM THE LAW together and end up hooking up (whether this is before or after you find out he didn't actually kill your ex is unclear, but enough about that) so now you're sleeping with your childhood crush and partner but you can'T TELL ANYONE so you keep your relationship a secret and uhoh you got preggo spaghetti-o and STILL don't tell anyone because there is a battle for the earth's survival happening on the moon and you're not gonna miss that shit!!! so the two of you fight together on the moon to save the world and you avenge your ex by killing the person who murdered him (who is like. . .a teenager dressed as a priest who slowly started transforming into a creepy clown because he was being corrupted but anyway) once you do that your partner asks you to go back because it's dangerous as hell and you've done what you came to do and you're like fine, okay, but then things get dicey and you end up transforming into a hammer (which is your magical power, but enough about that) and getting thrown back onto the moon to keep fighting and then it looks like you're going to die up there whilst he's back down on earth and in an absolute hail mary you get sent back to earth and survive and you and him watch the celebrations because you did it!!! you helped saved the world!!! and he lets it slip to your friends and your new boss (who is the son of the God of Death, don't worry about it) that you're preggo and he's the daddy and the two of you live happy ever after in the laboratory you helped make a home
and that's what Marie Mjolnir lived through and you expect me NOT to stan???
