Name: Jake Lake
Species : Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus)

And

Name: Waratah Telopea Kibersin
Species : Thylacosmilus atrox


Jake is working on attaching her armour and weapons before they go on mission.

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Previously mundane things seemed to take on new significance. Bolting armour and weapons on to some one hardly felt like an intimate act under any other conditions. Yet any interaction between himself and Waratah felt loving. Nearly every aspect of the relationship that was now blooming between them was unlike any of his previous experiences. She was not the type of woman he was usually attracted to. His previous infatuations were typically for short females with voluptuous curves that flaunted their feminine qualities. He had never been interested in heavy musculature on females, yet the deeply rooted feelings he had developed for her seemed to paint all her features with a new an unexplainable elegance.

He saw these feeling echoed in the bashful little looks she would give him. He found any prolonged eye contact could make her shuffle in an embarrassed yet delighted manner that reviled the shy little girl he had discovered and hidden inside the 230 pounds of scars and mussels that were all most people would see when they looked at her.

The normal progression of attachments and attraction were not in play here. Rather than being captivated first by by beauty and working to build a bond, this love seemed to fill in with a reversed sequence. As his feeling deepened, her qualities became lovely to him. Her mouth for example, had aspects very much like that of a lion or mastiff dog; imposing, dangerous, even somewhat sloppy, but now he found himself adoring, even longing to kiss her. From some far point in his mind there was a, place still shocked by this compulsion, even as his chest seemed to melt at the prospect of it with longing greater than in any relationship that had preceded this one.

With other relationships familiarity typically eroded passion, eventually turning to annoyance. Yet again this was not the case between him and Waratah. The deeper he fell for her the more beautiful she became. Time, trial, tribulation, or disaster he only loved her more.