Valentino, bursting into the room: You two are having sex!
Alastor, not looking up from his book: Really? Angel, why didn’t you tell me? I would have put my book down.
Okay I just discovered there two are very different ways people understand the meaning of "shipping characters" (maybe three if someone is an UPS employe) and historically it probably led to multiple dramas (like Raphielle being bullied out of Twitter 🫠).
1) I want these characters to be together, they should be an endgame (or "in my perfect world they would be, just let me into the screenwriters' room"), they make such a perfect couple I JUST WANT THEM TO KISS my heart beats faster when I see them holding hands
2) These two characters have really interesting dynamics that I like to explore through fanart, fanfictions etc. I don't necessarily think they should be together but whatever they have going on makes my brain go brrrrrr
husk loves anthony AND angel dust. he loves everything angel is, the good and the bad. yes, he sees anthony, and he loves him. but he also loves angel dust. he loves the porn star, the addict, the guy who is quick to snap, the guy who comes home from a shoot exhausted and miserable. he loves angel dust. he loves anthony.
i love the way that in huskerdust, husk sees and loves angel for who he is.
compared to valentino, who never saw anthony. as soon as val could, he threw the angel dust title onto anthony and began to use him. to valentino, he always was angel dust – even before it had officially become his name. anthony was just a name to be discarded and replaced with angel dust.