like. lament was interested! he was way more open to casual relationships prior to being named the wol & didn't mind this kinda attractive guy flirting with him. then thancred just went & biffed it by accidentally playing into viera gender stereotypes & he's never gonna get a chance now

one time in shb thancred walked in on him while the scions were on rotating light poisoning monitoring duty (wasn't expecting him to be awake) & decided the way to diffuse the perceived tension was to joke about their almost hookup in arr & got something thrown at him for his troubles

i thought it was gonna be one of those "problem temporarily solved but we need to improve our tech & work towards a permanabt fix" plot points