Relationship between Beauregard and Mollymauk

Relationship
Beauregard and Mollymauk were friends. Their relationship was rocky at first, with the two of them arguing often. However, they slowly began to trust and respect each other, and they went on to develop a close, sibling-like relationship.

History
, but after Molly's backstory reveal Beau admitted to liking him better. The two got high together off the skein they bought in Trostenwald, and their relationship had become less antagonistic. At the Harvest Close Festival, Beau used the two wooden swords Nott won to impersonate Molly, and after Beau drank numerous half-empty mugs of leftover alcohol from a bar, Molly called her a "trash person", but paradoxically not in an insulting manner.

Molly was initially annoyed by Beau's abrasiveness. When describing her to fellow carnival members, Molly said, "She’s helping, she’s awful, you have a lot in common." Beau's natural suspicion of people combined with Molly's flamboyant lies and deflection caused frictions.

At one point while in Zadash, Molly and Beau took skein, a shroom-like drug that could have had massive side-effects, but instead allowed them to see into the ethereal plane while high.

The night before Molly's death, the two of them took watch together. Molly asked Beau to gamble with secrets and pulled out his tarot deck. Beau initially told wanted nothing to do with the cards, but was intrigued by the question he offered to play on - "What's the best lie you've ever told?" Molly revealed his best lie, then Beau decided to tell hers as well. Molly and Beau were impressed by each other's cons.

After Molly's death, Beau displayed a new tenderness towards her fallen companion, speaking in particular about how she doubted his "leave things better than you find them" attitude at first, but eventually grew to understand it and tried to follow in his footsteps.

Beau asked Orly Skiffback to give her a magical tattoo of the All-Seeing Eye, like the one on the back of Molly's neck, using the design from the matching card in his tarot deck.

When Lucien asked about his previous life, Beau offered her old journals to him. She warned him that she might have written about Molly in a bad light, but that she did care a lot about him.

Trivia

 * According to Taliesin, Molly would have thought that his death enabling Beau's survival was worth it, and he joked that Molly would forever have a "one-up" on her.