Stayla

Stayla is the het ship between Layla El-Faouly and Steven Grant from the Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom.

THE GOLDFISH PROBLEM
Upon finding Marc's phone hidden in one of the wallboards of his apartment, he charges and opens it to find several missed calls from Layla. He calls back and she refers to him as Marc, explaining that she was texting and calling the phone for months for indication he was alive and safe. He is confused, telling her that he's not Marc and he doesn't know who Marc is. She hangs up after that, frustrated and confused.

SUMMON THE SUIT
Steven and Marc speak in Marc's storage locker about Marc's job before Steven steals Marc's bag of supplies and tries to leave the storage building to check them into a psychiatric facility. However, Khonshu is there to scare Steven into running out of the building and tripping right in front of Layla's moving motorcycle as she was looking for Marc. As Layla takes them to Steven's apartment, she explains, still believing Steven is Marc, that she was worried for Marc's safety and that her and Marc are married. Steven questions her and she grows frustrated, believing that Steven is some kind of false identity Marc created to hide from someone in the area. Steven tells her that he will tell her everything after she drops him off at this apartment.

At his apartment, Layla looks around and finds a book of French poems on Steven's bookshelf. They recite a few lines together and Steven explains that the poet is his favorite. Layla then turns and disagrees, saying that the poet is her favorite, still not understanding Steven is not Marc. She continues into the apartment, seeing that Steven is also studying and learning to read Egyptian hieroglyphics. The two connect on the subject, because Layla is both Egyptian and can also read hieroglyphs.

After yet again thinking that Steven is still somehow Marc, she produces divorce papers that were sent by Marc that she signed, requesting Marc's signature to make it official. Steven is baffled at the papers, wondering aloud why Marc would divorce someone like Layla at all. Layla asks what he's doing, and he explains that him and Marc are not the same person like she had been previously assuming. He tries to explain his situation by showing her the scarab from the bag from Marc's storage locker, but Marc tells him that showing it to her will get Layla killed and Steven stops suddenly, telling her that it's nothing. However, Layla is already invested at that point and pushes Steven aside to find it for herself.

She finds the scarab and gets upset, telling him that she had been trying to find it with him for years, only for Marc to find it on his own and hide it from her. Steven insists that she take it because he doesn't want the trouble, begging her to help him because he thinks that he is in danger and she is the only person to help him out of it. She asks if he remembers anything about trying to find the scarab with her and he says that he doesn't.

Layla is able to track down Steven's location after he is kidnapped and taken to one of Harrow's compounds, where she asks Steven to "summon the suit" to get out of being attacked by Harrow and his men for carrying the scarab. Steven tells her that he doesn't know what that means or how to do it, while refusing to give Marc control of the body to handle things. After running to hide in a room, Layla tries to push Marc to front instead of Steven to get them out of the situation. Steven panics as both Marc and Layla are pressuring him and he collapses, saying that he can't do it. Layla reads him and understands, telling him that they will find another way out.

When a jackal invisible to Layla appears and pushes Steven out of the window, he is finally able to summon his own version of the Moon Knight suit and him and Layla fight the jackal together in the street. As they begin to lose, Steven finally allows Marc to front, where he leads the jackal away and kills it. After he succeeds, him and Steven get into an argument about Layla where Steven claims that Marc abandoned Layla and that he only breaks things around him.

THE FRIENDLY TYPE
Marc lets Steven help him and Layla read and decipher the hieroglyphs on the sarcophagus to find Ammit's tomb without the scarab, but insists that Layla doesn't see.

Fanon
Steven/Layla is the seventh most popular ship for Moon Knight (TV Series) on AO3, and is the second most popular ship for Layla El-Faouly and fourth most popular ship for Steven Grant.

Fandom
FAN FICTION