MoonScarab

MoonScarab is the het ship between Marc Spector and Layla El-Faouly from the Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom.

THE GOLDFISH PROBLEM
After finding that a table had been dragged around in his apartment, Steven finds a hidden phone and a storage room key in a hollowed section of his wall. Upon charging the phone and opening it, he sees nearly 100 missed phone calls, most from Layla. He calls back to hear Layla's voice referring to him as Marc, relieved he is alive, and reprimanding him for not texting or calling her back for months, explaining that she was worried about him. She hangs up confused and annoyed after hearing Steven reply to her, insisting that he is not Marc.

SUMMON THE SUIT
Steven and Marc talk to each other in Marc's storage locker about Marc's occupation before Steven takes his bag of mercenary belongings and leaves the locker. After Khonshu chases him out of the building, Steven trips and falls right in front of Layla on her motorcycle, driving by. She picks him up and drives him back to his apartment. Layla tells Steven, still assuming that he is Marc, that they are married, and she tracked his location by his cell phone. She explains that she was frustrated and worried about his well-being while he was gone, worried that he had been kidnapped or was in danger, and that she was in a "spiral." Upon reaching Steven's apartment, Marc even insists to Steven that Layla being there is dangerous for all three of them.

After Steven and Layla speak for a bit, Layla tells Steven that she has the divorce papers Marc sent signed, and she needs his signature. She adds that the divorce is "what [Marc] wanted." Steven disputes the papers and Layla asks what is going on. Steven starts to try to explain the situation, to which Marc protests and tries to make Steven stop. He is only successful when telling Steven that the scrab in the bag from the storage locker will end up getting Layla killed if she knows about it. However, Layla is already intrigued and pushes Steven aside to find it on her own after he tries to tell her it was nothing after all. She finds the scarab and explains that it was something that Marc and her had been working together to find for years, and her frustration that Marc had found it on his own and hid it from her. Steven begs her for help and to take it from him, and she asks if he really doesn't remember the years of adventures Marc and Layla had together trying to hunt the scarab down.

After Steven is kidnapped by Harrow's men and taken to one of his compounds, Layla finds him and tries to get him to switch to Marc to take down Harrow and his men. Steven collapses under the pressure and panics as both Marc and Layla try to pressure him to give up control. He is unable to do so, and Layla tells him that they will find another way to escape. Steven is able to summon the suit after being attacked by an invisible jackal and he and Layla fight together against the jackal in the street. As the jackal begins to overpower them, Steven lets Marc front and lead the jackal away to kill it after Layla presents the idea.

After Marc successfully kills the jackal, he transitions out of the suit and him and Steven have an argument. Steven accuses Marc of abandoning Layla, to which Marc argues back that he only "abandoned" her to protect her from being manipulated and taken over later by Khonshu when Marc leaves, because Khonshu wants Layla as Marc's replacement.

THE FRIENDLY TYPE
Layla complains to her mother while she creates a fake passport for her that she's worried about Marc getting into trouble while in Cairo, implied that she's making the passport to follow him to keep an eye on him. While walking around the bustling streets of Cairo looking for information about the location of a sarcophagus to help him find where Ammit is buried, Marc is confronted by Layla. She is aware of his motives and tells him that she has the connections to help him find the sarcophagus. He is hesitant to agree because he worries about Khonshu trying to hurt her, but he eventually complies.

On a boat to visit the man who owns the sarcophagus, one of Layla's old black market friends Mogart, Layla and Marc argue about Marc leaving her suddenly both for Cairo and previously when Steven was fronting. She chastises him for not being able to give her an apology for his behavior instead of just excuses, then tells him that she's only doing this for the people about to be hurt by Harrow finding Ammit's tomb before them. Marc apologizes then, and Layla says nothing. On the boat they are on, a small group of people are having a party, and Marc makes a statement about their wedding, which prompts Layla to soften up and tell him that he should have told her about Steven and what he was struggling with. Marc says that he had it all "under control" until recently, with an event that he refuses to mention to Layla. She holds his hands and tells him that they could have worked through it together, whatever it was. He says that he has troubles opening up to people and that was the reason he left instead of telling her.

When finally given access to the tomb, Marc and Layla are unable to decipher the hieroglyphs, so Marc asks Steven to help after sending Layla away so she doesn't see it. When one of Mogart's guards sees Marc trying to take the cloth pieces needed to find Ammit from the sarcophagus, he goes to attack Marc, who grabs his gun and points it at the guard. Soon, Layla and Marc are surrounded by armed guards ready to kill them both. Just as Mogart is ready to have them killed, Harrow walks over to them, showing Mogart the scarab and describing its properties.

While everyone is distracted, Marc dons the suit and takes down some of the guards with Layla's help.

Fanon
Fans gravitated towards this ship partially because Layla was one of the few other characters in the show besides Steven and Marc. She was already previously in a relationship with Marc before the events of the series, meaning that the ship had previous history for fans to draw from. Marc/Layla is the third most popular ship under the Moon Knight (TV Series) tag on AO3, and is the most popular ship for Layla El-Faouly and second most popular ship for Marc Spector.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * While the Moon Knight television series is based loosely on the Marvel comics of the same name, Layla is not present in the comics at all. She is a show replacement for the love interest for Marc in the comics, Marlene.
 * Layla El-Faouly is both the first Egyptian Marvel character and superhero as the Scarlet Scarab.
 * The ship name "MoonScarab" can also be used to refer to the poly ship of Marc, Steven, and Layla collectively.