what a fantastic ship. seriously. the fact that toby had this cooking for so long stresses me out. i can't believe they're real. ahem. i really have nothing profound to say here. this is going to become a full squee zone.
i love ships that are shown through implications. it's like my favorite thing ever. i adore filling the gaps in my mind. knowing that spamton and tenna were once so close... and they're still fully mutually obsessed with one another... and they have a fucking baby? jesus christ. i'm over the moon.
i will say my take on their dynamic is kind of... not unique. but rare? i mean. seme tenna on its own is difficult to find. but aside from top/bottom preferences, i love them having a messy and violent relationship full of arguments and miscommunication and sex. i think they way they love each other is completely different, and that's what fucks them over. tenna is so devoted and aggressively affectionate while spamton's love language is far more detached. i love tenna wanting to be 'official' and spamton is like. what for. this isn't to say spamton doesn't care for tenna. spamton doesn't want to be tied down, though. with his need for freedom, a ritualistic married life is like a death sentence. but that's all tenna wants. adoring consistency. the same scene on repeat. to come home to a beautiful family with picture perfect smiles. what's crazy though is that spamton 'freedom' g. spamton still signed that fucking contract. this is huge to me. like. willingly giving up some form of autonomy to be with tenna. that couldn't have been an easy decision to make. yet he did it. for love! love that left him a worse man.
i love the mutual manipulation too. a transactional relationship to get ahead that somehow ends up being Real. i like to imagine that tenna fell for spamton first, and of course spamton uses it to his advantage until he's like. fuckkk. i got attached.