Victim 2: Isadora and Diego (IT ENDED UP A PAIR)
1. Isadora: I have a scaly rash that follows me.
Diego: I recruited a beekeeper that I rather enjoy.
Man likes woman, woman wants to strangle man but is slowly warming uo to him.
2. There is no room for dates on the run, but the two stargaze quite frequently. Granted, there isn't much entertainment on the trail. The two enjoy being in comfortable silence and staring at the stars.
3. Isadora will never get tired of Diego's endless quips. He always has a response to what she says.
4. Diego likes to watch Isadora use her stand. The way she holds her gun, straightens her back, and loses the world around her is riveting to him. Isadora finds how enthralled he is with her shooting kind of endearing.
5. Diego would rather die than admit jealousy, however if he does fele that emotion he systematically finds a way to remove Isadora from the situation he's jealous over. Isadora is a little more composed and doesn't act on the jealousy.
6. They don't sleep together. However if they were going to, it'd be a fight for the blankets all the way, eventually culminating in the two basically sleeping on top of each other because they both want the blanket.
7. You'd pry it from Isadora's cold dead hands but yes, she has had dreams about Diego before. She will never, ever discuss them.
8. Most of the stories told about them involve them fighting in some capacity.
9. They don't navigate their differences well. Isadora finds Diego to be cold-hearted and arrogant. Diego sees Isadora as naive and too empathetic. They get along out of necessity and mutual attraction, and often ignore the differences instead of facing them.
10. No PDA. Ever. Not even if they actually ended up together. You'd never see them engage in affection.
11. Isadora falling through the ice. It was the moment the two realized that they needed each other in more than a surface level way. Diego realized that Isadora stabilized him. Isadora realized that Diego emboldened her. Had there not been the overarching issue present, that may have been the moment they really fell for each other.
12. They spent a lot of calm days on the trail together, just enjoying the air and company. However their ideal days look different. Isadora prefers the more slow paced navigation days. Diego lives for the races. They don't ever have a true happy medium.
13. Fighting. Their communication comes from boiled-over annoyances and final straws.
14. Diego's gloves stay on. After Colorado, Isadora was terrified of Scary Monsters's power. While working together, Isadora made Diego swear never to remove his gloves because she was so scared of it.
15. Getting each other through the race. Isadora trusts Diego's strategies and Diego trusts Isadora's navigation. Its unspoken, but the two can't deny their strengths.
16. Since they never really got together in the end... for good reason... the two never really said I love you. It was always an unspoken thing. Diego's attempts to keep her by his side, and Isadora's attempts to understand why were their I Love Yous.
17. That they're never gonna end up together. It's a lost cause.
18. Isadora threw a tin cup at Diego once because he was snoring too loud. They then got into a massive knock down drag out on the plains.
19. Isadora bites her pencils while she's working, and for some reason it absolutely gets Diego going.
20. Diego is a deeply insecure person. His only goal in life is to never go back to where he began, and Isadora being from that echelon is a reminder of where his origins lie. She can't ever really reassure him because he feels she doesn't understand true suffering.
21. Isadora didn't expect to love Diego's charisma. He's charming, and Isadora definitely was not ready for it. Diego didn't expect to fall for Isadora's bravery. He mistook it for foolish overconfidence that came with having money, but as life on the trail unfolded he learned that her bravery was her personality.
22. They never really discuss it, but Diego's past marriage definitely looms over their partnership. Isadora was wary of him, not quite knowing his true feelings towards his first wife and not being able to decipher them. She keeps to herself about it, but she never really understood. Meanwhile Diego doesn't understand Isadora's lack of experience. Its as if she was never motivated to try, like her head was somewhere else. When he finds out that she would be a sole inheritor, it began to make sense. Heir and a spare, and all that.
23. If they lived together, which would be incredibly interesting, I feel like the two wouldn't spend much time together. Diego would handle estate matters, Isadora would run the company, and the two would cross paths at mealtimes and in the evening. But it wouldn't be a bad arrangement. I feel like they would prefer it that way, in love or otherwise.
24. Isadora wouldn't touch Diego with a 10 foot pole after Colorado, except in one instance. When she drowned. But inside her head, she secretly relishes when Diego puts his hand on her shoulder or back. Something about it is slightly thrilling to her. Not that he would discuss it either, but when Isadora clung to him after falling through the ice, he wished he could get that feeling again. He runs colder than average due to Scary Monsters, so having a warm body lying on top of him woukd be great, he thinks.
25. They don't, because they have the conflict. If it ended up boiling over, though, they would show love through discussion, or through beating the hell out of each other without judgement.
26. For Diego, it oddly enough is compliments. He isn't someone who gives a lot of genuine praise, so his recognition is very much a gesture. Isadora is a generous person, and gives gifts whenever she can. Supply run? A few pieces of candy or a book might make its way into the rucksack.
27. 'Stupid Reptile' is Isadora's go to. It began as an insult, though if their relationship progressed, it may have become a pet name. Diego would probably call Isadora 'darling' in the most sarcastic tone you could imagine.
28. The MacKinney Racetrack, Edinburgh. Where they first met, and both got a surface level crush on the other.
29. Isadora typically makes supply runs, including water and food. Diego sets up camp while she does this. Isadora is also in charge of lighting and stoking the fire while Diego cooks. Diego typically takes the later watches too, due to his heightened senses.
30. This one I don't quite know how to answer, as both never really concern themselves with their home. They're so focused on their end goals that the idea of a home is kind of abstract. Isadora's home is lost, and shes about to lose it even more. Diego abandoned his original notion of a home to pursue something better. They're both almost nomadic in their idea of home, and they each represent something the other wants. Isadora, to Diego, is power. Diego, to Isadora, is determination.
31. Banter. Again, these two are physically incapable of being kind. They also show care for the other's wellbeing. For example, when Diego finds Isadora in Philadelphia, or when Isadora realizes Diego is dead on the train.
32. Isadora: He's strange. A power mad lizard, but he has a reason for it. A driven, arrogant, cocky, and at the same time charming and disarming gentleman.
Diego: She's a foolish heiress in over her head, but a tenacious beauty. The trail suits her, she's truly something of a wildcard.
33. At the fire, the two discuss their thoughts. At first, it was about the trails and things, but it morphed into getting to know each other pretty intimately.
34. Diego will always think of Isadora when he sees the book she carried with her, Pride and Prejudice. Isadora things of Diego whenever she opens up a book about dinosaurs.
35. They're both quiet. As if waiting for something. They feed off of each other, their energy. When one is gone, the other isn't quite sure where to put the excess.
One Cute Headcannon: Diego and Isadora both were interested in the other from the time they met on the racetrack, to the point where Thomas Meyers considered inquiring as to whether or not Diego would want to court her.
One Sad Headcannon: After Diego died, Isadora took in Silver Bullet, and cared for the horse until it died.
