It's crazy just how much meat there is to Occtis/Wicander as a ship despite the two of them only having one total nothingburger of an interaction this campaign.
Like, genuinely, there is so much thematic meat on the bone there. Favorite child x unfavorite. The life and death imagery. The fucking angel bullshit. The sharp contrasts in how they handle the idea of exercising power. Occtis' pledge with Arranessa to restore their Houses vs Wick's pledge to burn his to the ground. Occtis' overt victimization by his family making people immediately sympathetic of him in a way that lets him get away with retaining a number of biases vs the suspicion and irritation that Wick is greeted with forcing his nose to the grindstone. Wick's first arc being a nonstop humiliation ritual vs Occtis losing a lot of his anxiety and getting more and more comfortable with asserting himself. I could go on.
There's really so much potential here, it's gonna be so funny when they never talk.
