"If we fall, we fall together."

• ex-bffs who haven't quite figured out how to rebuild their friendship & compensate by kicking their enemies' asses
• "and they were war buddies" "oh my god, they were war buddies"

"It's my turn to be the one in control."

• magically bound servant and master
• ilumna is intensely affectionate and physical and starved for validation: north is unimpressed
• at some point ilumna snaps and possesses them. no one is happy about this

"Funny how you keep getting in these situations, huh?"

• xabier is a tsundere disaster and iskane's an all-powerful death goddess who is endlessly entertained by his blustering
• lots of playful flirting and indignant spluttering and slapfights

"I guess we're in this together now."

• outwardly chill but perpetually ???
• hobbies include drinking lots of black coffee and accidentally befriending cryptids
• feel free to draw them with other tma fan-characters!

"We're the end of the world."

• extremely dysfunctional family; ciaran's a petty businessman dead-set on revenge and the rest of them are just along for the ride
• wine mom, radical dad, and their kids team up to DESTROY THE GOVERNMENT

"Little and broken, but still good."

• marginally less dysfunctional sibling dynamic
• they all grew up in the same town until lior and irida fell out and lior moved away: despite his success as a rock star, he's haunted by a physical manifestation of his guilt that won't stop bothering him
• matisse tones down the nightmares after the two reconcile, but hangs around being snarky & being a big brother figure to avalon (who takes the whole "lior's imaginary friend" thing surprisingly well)
• things are still awkward between irida and lior. avalon is determined to mend their friendship with her bare hands if she has to, with matisse as her unhelpful sidekick

"My treasures are here: what use do I have for towers of gold?"

• fae courts ft. political intrigue
• wenes gets himself voluntarily locked up in an ice dungeon for the sake of love, and the queen is a winter spirit who loves like a blizzard or a cyclone or a hailstorm: intensely, violently, often coldly, and with no restraint whatsoever. (their relationship is definitely not safe, sane or healthy. whether either of them know or even care is up for debate.) read their full story here!
• madelon is sikha's successor (specifically she kidnapped them as a child to be her heir) and they have mixed feelings about her; the two rarely interact and when they do it's awkward. wenes is basically their permissive stepdad who turns a blind eye to their adventures on earth

"You love the knife, whether you want to or not."

• immortal crime boss children and their demon servant sidekick. rivals with non's organization: they constantly try to kill each other (heedless of collateral damage) but it never sticks
• 1930s noir gangster aesthetic, but with, like, thirteen-year-olds
• ilyich but it's just this gif