My skeksis and Mystic OCs having a MOMENT. Don't ask, they're not gonna explain. SkekRhot on the left, urHaa on the right.

Actually I'm in the mood to write down some context here. I don't want to write a whole-ass essay (edit: BUT I WILL) but the gist is that after the urSkeks split into half, these two had an even more troubled relationship than the average skeksis/Mystic pair. Just acknowledging urHaa's existence was painful and scary for skekRhot, the thought of being only half a person made them feel vulnerable and raw for reasons they couldn't explain. I imagine that's true for most skeksis, but in this pair's case the feeling ended up being mutual.

UrHaa really wanted to connect with skekRhot right after the split and comfort them somehow, but was rejected by the frightened skeksis. This rejection shook urHaa so bad they couldn't allow themselves to think about skekRhot at all, anymore, as they feared doing so would consume their whole life. Better to accept that you'd failed and move on, right? So these two spent many centuries apart, not due to circumstances, but due to fear of confronting each other.

Eventually, for unrelated reasons (skekMal died lol), skekRhot had a breakdown so bad even urHaa felt it. The Mystic became extremely worried about their other half and started to question whether being apart was good after all. They decided to go and find skekRhot on the off chance that they could do something to help, this time. At first even a simple conversation seemed hopeless, but skekRhot had become so fed up with life at the Castle that one night they asked urHaa to take them away, somewhere. Anywhere. Stuff happened and it took months, but the two did figure out that the better they understood each other, the better they felt about themselves, too. Lots of biting and crying and eventually talking was involved.

They didn't stay together forever, not physically anyway. SkekRhot returned to the Castle after this odd vacation, feeling considerably calmer than before. Life is not so frightening when you know there's at least one person out there who knows every nasty secret of yours and still adores you anyway.