I love love love Spartacus and Varro's bromance. Varro is the only person who gets underneath the walls and the mask to the real person beneath. I want them to take on Romans together.
I think I could really love the relationship between Spartacus and Mira - not a romantic one, as it's clear that Spartacus will only ever love his wife, but I want the two of them to find some measure of comfort in each other - they both come from such dark places, both are so powerless as chattels, both burned out souls - I want them to find some solace with each other, even if it won't be love. And oh, when he told Mira he won't sleep with a woman who was ordered - I love you, love you, love you! No matter the dehumanizing horrors of this world, he refuses to follow.
These two, so desperate for each other and trying to sneak any time together they can, even if they can’t really be together due to the bars and everything - and how giddy they are with each other (and the adoring way he looks at her) are pretty much my perfect OTP. It’s been years since I’ve shipped a non-kdrama OTP this much. Years!
Crixus sees Naevia flirting with a guard and nearly loses his mind. You know, he is not really the sharpest tool in the shed and he is so alpha it interferes with his common sense sometimes, but he loves her so ridiculously much and is so utterly sweet and adoring with her, and needs her so much, that I melt. He has no filters where she is concerned.
“You are my heart. I will never doubt the beating of it again.” I think I have officially died. Crixus/Naevia have slain me. (That line, btw, was in response to her demand for an apology - when he was so jealous, she reacted by producing the key she stole from the guard (hence the flirting) and demanded he apologize. OMG I ship them like a madwoman.)
