It took me a while before I actually started shipping fyolai because at first I didn't care much for Fyodor's character. It kind of took me joining the fandom, and then me taking more interest in Fyodor, for me to start paying attention to their dynamic and then start shipping them. So I guess my first impression of them wasn't really anything remarkable, it was clear to me they both liked each other in their own weird way but at the time I didn't have much interest for them back then. (and I'm not someone who's very crazy into shipping as well so I already didn't have much interest in trying to ship the characters when I first got into bsd except for maybe skk)