Shipping a villain with someone who goes “I can fix them” is all fine and good. So is shipping a villain with someone who goes “I can make them worse.”

But what about a ship where Character A thinks they can fix Character B, Character B thinks they can make Character A worse, and both of them are correct?

Was bored and without internet for a couple hours the other day, so I decided to get some Ren'Py practice in by using my Elder Scrolls fanfiction as a script. Unfortunately, Ghaurug and Anushipal are much more long-winded than your average visual novel character, and I had no visual assets to work with, so I couldn't do character sprites. I tried to circumvent this by snipping up their dialogue a bit and using Ren'Py's novel mode and the monologue mode for the same, but it still rendered each chunk of text overlapping with the one above it... Which led to things like this happening. This also happened when I didn't use monologue mode. I'm fairly certain I did something incorrectly, but I'm not sure where I went wrong. Probably when I decided to use my verbose fanfic prose as a script to practice making visual novels with...

Text transcription:
Eventually, the silence stretching out between the two of them became too much to bear.
Ghaurug: "It's late, Anushipal. I'm going to pay for our rooms and then get some sleep. You ought to rest as well. Soon--likely tomorrow or the day after--I'll make a day trip out of obtaining a handwriting sample from Vlarimil Orius's estate, and then we'll have a lot of work ahead of us."
Anushipal said nothing to acknowledge him, and simply stood up from the bed and left the room.
End transcription.
The text is not vertically aligned very well, with the portion "Vlarimil Orius's estate, and then we'll have a lot of work ahead of us." overlapping with almost all of the portion "nothing to acknowledge him, and simply stood up from the bed and left the room." and making both portions difficult to read.