Over the past few days, I’ve been rewatching Castlevania on Netflix as I work and… Hector and Isaac really are something.

From Isaac’s “is this where we kiss like Benedictine monks” not-joke in season two to the camaraderie and intimacy they share in Carmilla’s castle a third of the way through season four, episode six “You Don’t Deserve My Blood”, there’s something about them that just… works.

Isaac healing and understanding his place in the world (and the place that night creatures can have as well), Hector being vulnerable and betrayed and needing space to heal. The goal of a new world that they can build together after reevaluating who they are as people.

Unwilling comrades to enemies to friends to… lovers (in my mind, of course).

I want to eat that ship up.

Unfortunately, I haven’t managed to read a lot of fic for them yet because… I don’t feel like they’re that much of it that does what I would prefer or am into. They’re not a super popular fan fiction ship – which is weird because I remember watching relative tons of people actually get shippy over them as the seasons aired, but it’s not weird because it kind of makes sense that it just doesn’t translate to droves fic in the face of the charismatic powerhouse that is Team Kill Dracula.

(And I haven’t written much for the pairing either, mind you. All I’ve got to offer is Who Are We When We Are (Finally) Free? and the second ficlet here. I am part of the not-problem here considering the WIPs I’ve been sleeping on for months.)

Anyway, if you’ve got recs or want me to cheer you on on your own WIP journey… I’m here and ready to procrastinate on my writing even more!