How do you think Arthur and Eames were when they first met each other? How did they interact? They disliked each other instantly or did the animosity come later? It took a long time for them to learn to appreciate each other? Did they become friends before falling into romance? Or the attraction was too much?
(Basically, what trope, if any, do you think they most likely embody?)
hello love! I’m gonna use this as a chance to rant about my own personal favourite headcanon about how they were, so double thank you for this :DD
I think they met on a job, both newbies in their respective fields (or eames starting out as an extractor ~an upgrade from theif status~and finding his true calling in forgery) with their worst qualities as their most prominent. arthur being hyper focused in the task at hand and forgetting everything else and eames getting progressively prickly as the job progresses. so I feel they both hated each other, cause they were both very stubborn individuals with clashing personalities. but as the time inevitably went on and the rough edges smoothed out in to professionalism, they both started begrudgingly respecting each other.. and then they fucked. multiple times. mostly drunk. friends with benefits but sth more waiting to happen.
I feel like during that time, one of them started/or tried to start to date someone (let’s be honest, it’s arthur) , which led both of them to realise their respective feelings for each other; oh god I can’t be anyone’s but his” and “oh god he can’t be anyone but mine”. and at the tail end of a blotched job (the very first inception job, which eames regrets and arthur doesn’t talk about anymore) they ran off together and finally, finally confronted and confessed their feelings and, on a whim, got married.
and obviously got divorced/annulled when the shit hit the cobbs and fucked off to opposite corners of the world. and obviously got back together when shit hit the ficshers. and stayed together hopefully. and forever.