It does work!!! They kind of found themselves in the middle of the two of them so they have to pull some strings while seeing themselves out of the way…., I like to think that VA works as a kind of middleman. Ratio will rant about Aventurine’s purposeful cluelessness (lovingly), Aventurine will rant about Ratio being obtuse (lovingly), while VA will nod their head then say “but he does this because [psychosexual jargon for ‘he likes you’]. so, you might as well stop wasting my time complaining without trying to find a solution, and go to him” to which both ratio and aven usually answer “no, that’s crazy. i dont like him like that, neither does he”. it……takes time.