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While he finds her constant state of panic and never ending stream of paranoia fueled conspiracies irritating, Klaus finds Fennel to be the most trustworthy and valuable member of his crew. When she’s actually calm, he enjoys her company. She’s smart, and a lot of the time she has really good ideas; although he’d never admit that. Half the time, he takes credit for Fennel’s ideas and makes her think he was the one to come up with them in the first place.
Because of Fennel’s various underlying mental issues, as well as her curse, Klaus has taken to threatening her in order to ensure her cooperation. She’s valuable. Without her, Klaus would lose half his client base. Maybe more. Fennel is very easy to manipulate, so getting her to stick around is easy. Still, he constantly exercises his control over her.
Spades’ only real “friend” and current partner. The start of their relationship was rocky, but things have smoothed out over the years. It’s less of an active romantic relationship and more of a “we’re stuck together, so we might as well” type of deal. That being said, their relationship is by no means perfect. Far from it, actually. Fennel’s constant self harm and paranoid ramblings tend to annoy Spades, and she’s gotten fed up with it to the point she’ll snap at her whenever she starts doing either. Still, on the off chance Fennel’s having a good day she enjoys being around someone who isn’t either a complete idiot or evil and self centered