#2p spain

🧪 He isn't public about being in a relationship, sure you can tell your friends and family, but he's going to ask you to not post it on social media. Surely you can understand that working as a cop makes a lot of enemies who would see that and get some funny ideas.

🧪 Like I mentioned before, he's not emotionally unavaliable he's just super stiff about getting affection from anyone. He's going to be really awkward for a while.

🧪 Once he's comfortable, he's going to use your lap or shoulder as a pillow. He's going to come home from work tired and just collapse right into your lap somedays.

🧪 You're going to have to get used to him wandering around the house at night checking locks when he can't sleep. He's got heavy footsteps but he's too in his own head to know he's even woke you up until you're already in the same room.

🧪 His love languages are: Quality time, acts of service, and physical touch

🧪 He's pretty monotoned during disagreements unless he's already at his breaking point, he doesn't want to scare you by being loud, he just want his point to get through to you.

🧪 Can and will get rid of stalkers the moment he clocks their ass, doesn't really mind if the case he makes isn't clean either. He doesn't want anyone getting close to you with malicious intent.

🧪 Going on roadtrips with him is nice since he knows a lot of hotels you should never stay (drug labs, crime centers, or other illicit activities happen there) at and will put your ass back in the car if you get out to check one of them out.

🧪 He's the type to say 'I love you' only when he thinks or knows you can't hear him, cause it's easier on him that way. If you hear him though, it's best not to make a big deal about it, just say it back so he doesn't feel ten layers of embarrassment.

🧪 The more people see you out with him when he's not working, the more they like you. Of course, most will assume you're just a close friend at first (but you may get free food because of the whole 'A friend of Andres is a friend of mine' mentality.)

🧪 Calming him down is rather easy, all you have to do is rub his shoulders for a few minutes and he'll give you his full attention again.

🧪 He will call a lot more often than he would call you if you're not living together. If you don't call back for a few hours, he showing up at your door to check on you.

🧪 He can get jealous easily, but he only takes it out on the person flirting with you, giving them the signature glare before putting an arm around your waist. If the person still hasn't taken the hint, and you're visbily uncomfortable he'll threaten to arrest them for harrassment. That usually will do the trick.

🧪 He likes the idea of promise rings, and if you get him one, he'll wear it on a chain around his neck, and rarely take it off.

🧪 He's the type who prefer low effort 'stay inside' type of dates, or just to drive around outside of the community lines to see what you might find out there.

🧪 When your out to eat, he'll never let you take a window seat. You can call him paranoid, and he knows you just want to be able to see outside, but better safe than sorry.

🧪 He will set you down to teach you how to use a firearm just in case something goes wrong. No, you can't walk away from that conversation, you need to know how to use them to protect yourself.

🧪 He'll follow you around his home or your home just to keep you company. He won't always talk, but if you ask for help with something, he will. He won't know how to fold a fitted sheet correctly, so keep that in mind.

🧪 If you fall asleep at his home, he will pick you up and carry you to his bed, and depending on how close he feels you two are, he'll either lay down with you or go crash on the couch.

🧪 If you're close, he likes laying down with his head on your chest listening to the sound of your heartbeat until it lulls him to sleep.

Personality

He isn’t introverted, even if it seems like he is. André isn’t very talkative, doesn’t bother with niceties, and is the first to leave a party the second it turns lame. If someone tried to talk to him about the weather, he’d just go, “sure,” before turning away. But he is the happiest when he’s around his friends, even if he’s just sitting quietly in the back. When they do ask for his thoughts on something, he’ll reply with, “I don’t think you guys need my input. This conversation seems stupid enough already.”

He’s incredibly hard to read. He has a neutral expression most of the time, and with the way he looks, he comes off as really intimidating. Only the second he opens his mouth, he says something dumb. You don’t know why, but you always expect him to say something wise. But this is André. He’d rather say something offensive, lewd, or off-putting than to put his intelligence toward anything remotely useful. “No thanks. I’d rather go home and jack off.”

He’s a very sardonic person. He loves teasing and poking fun at his friends to the point of being annoying. And the thing is, he will be irritating on purpose while acting like he isn’t trying to be. After all, he tends to speak in a monotone voice on top of having a poker face, so it’s almost impossible to tell whether he’s being sarcastic or not. But hey, that’s the beauty of it. Once you’re finally able to tell the difference, that’s when he starts letting you in.

“Right, so you actually wanna plug in the kettle if you want it to work.” He plugs it into the outlet before facing you with an unreadable expression.

“Right.” You shake your head quickly.

“Are you okay with doing the rest, or do you want me to do make your noodles for you?” He asks, his eyes piercing into you with a stifling neutrality, but you now know for a fact that he’s taking the piss.

“And here I thought you were being nice to me.”

“I’m offering to make food for you, I think that’s pretty nice,” He closes his eyes for a relaxed look.

“Piss off, André.” You mumble.

“Now, that’s not very nice.” He lifts his head some.

Being so sharp and witty, you can go back and forth with him in a banter for as long as you can handle him. There’s nothing you can get past him without him picking up on it, so be careful of what you reveal to him. He’s also one of those people who are funny without trying. At a Halloween party when he’s in a traditional matador suit and people come over to compliment him, he will tell them, “thanks. It used to be my grandpa’s. See this big hole?”

André is actually really sweet, he just tries to hide that. He would sacrifice a great deal for someone he cares about, even if he makes it seem like he doesn’t give a crap about them most of the time. He’s the type to tell it to his friends’ faces to eat shit, but when they’re not around, he’ll do nice things for them in secret. If he gets caught red-handed, he will play it off as something he did for himself. “I actually only did it so I can hold it against you later.”

André is really nonchalant about messed up situations. He’s eerily calm in moments where other people would be freaking out, but it’s hard to faze him when he trusts in his abilities to make it out somehow. But he does use dry humor to cope, so if his friend’s car somehow flipped over on the side of the road with him inside it, leaving him hanging upside down and fucked up beyond comprehension, he’d breathe this out while bleeding from his head. “I don’t think we’re allowed to park like this.”

Interests

André likes to read. And he’s got quite the range in taste — he’s read so extensively that he’s covered everything from Twilight to War and Peace. He will pick up anything he finds interesting, and would rather form his own opinion on something than let someone tell him what to think. Ask him about his thoughts on any book, and he’ll usually have something interesting to say. “The werewolves in Twilight aren’t even actual werewolves. They’re literally just giant wolves. That’s false advertising.”

He’s an amazing cook. André knows a lot of recipes by heart, and can move around the kitchen like a pro chef. He can chop things really quickly, gut and debone a fish, and will literally flambé something then act like he didn’t just flambé something. When people ask him where he learnt to do that, he’ll just shrug it off like everyone can do it. “Didn’t your parents ever teach you how to cook?”

It’s not exactly an interest, but he smokes. Fortunately, André has the decency to do it outside whenever he has company over. He’s also meticulous about the ventilation in his home to make sure it doesn’t leave a smell.

He’s a really good singer. He never sings in front of other people, not even you. It’s only if he were piss-drunk would you have a chance of hearing his voice, but don’t count on it.

André knows a lot about cars. And not just about the mechanics, but about racing them. He can drift and drive backwards too. None of this he advertises because he used to street race illegally for money, which is pretty ironic when he’s a needlessly safe driver otherwise. If you ask why he didn’t make the yellow light, he’ll look at you and go, “want me to crash?” knowing damn well he used to do the most diabolical shit on four wheels and an engine. So knowing him, it’s just him being a little shit.

You can typically find him doing high-risk and cognitively demanding jobs. He can stay calm in stressful environments, and even likes the thrill—meaning he’d do well as a paramedic, fighter pilot, or investigative journalist. Just imagine him in someone’s house after they called 911, and he finds them in the bathtub sitting in their own shit. He won’t even bat an eye. “I thought I’ve seen it all, but this is new.”

Psychology + romance

The only way to know André in the first place is through mutuals. Typically, your extremely extroverted friends will introduce him to you (probably Mathias), and break some of the ice in the beginning. He won’t think much of you at first because he assumes he’d be too much for you—so just imagine how taken aback he’s gonna be when you actually find him funny.

There’s electricity right from the start. André will test the waters with a mindless question, like asking you why you even hang out with these losers. If you don’t get put off by that, he’ll keep talking until he realizes you’re able to follow along with him, and seem to enjoy his company. He will be intrigued, impressed, and turned on at the same time. That’s when he tells you there’s probably something wrong with you. Hit back with “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours,” and he’s sold. André will look down at you and hum lowly. “Oh, yeah?”

He’s really forthcoming with the people he’s interested in. He makes it known that he likes you, and not just out of attraction. Whenever a function comes up, he’ll say he’ll only go if you go. André will even get you to go out with him against your boyfriend’s wishes. He wants to check out a sports bar and have a drink with you, then play pool after. When you complain about it while he’s potting balls, he notices you’re only worried about how your boyfriend will react, not how you feel about the ordeal. “… So? You don’t even like him anyway.”

He’s shameless. André is kind of cocky like that because he knows how attractive he is, so he has no problem turning up the heat. He’s so bold about liking you, he’ll constantly make passes at you. And it’s not even just one-liners or lewd remarks, because he can, and will, make good on the things he says. André just makes himself so available to you, your relationship with him turns borderline inappropriate. For example, he might offer to ‘comfort’ you after you go through a breakup.

“Want me to help you forget about him?” André drops that bomb on you while you’re lying next to him in bed, so you don’t have it in you to leave.

“What the fuck, André.” You whisper sharply.

“You might like me better.” He closes his eyes.

“That’s ironic, because you’re making me feel worse. Don’t be a pig. You’re not like them.”

“You know I’m just messing with you,” He smiles, chest heaving slowly as he tries his best to drift off. “But I am hard right now. Sorry, can’t help it.”

André’s feelings for you will deepen when you make a move, but not in the way that he’s been making passes at you—you show him your vulnerable side, and he gets disarmed. Maybe you grab his hand to stop him from leaving. Maybe you squeeze him from behind. Whichever it is, you’re asking him to stay, and something just flips inside him. The moment is so raw, emotionally-charged, and intimate, he’ll never think of you the same ever again.

He has a soft side. Now that you lowered your guard, he will lower his too. André knows that everything has a time and place, so he’ll stop being so ‘him’ when you need him to be there for you. That’s when he turns into an amazing listener, so you can spill your heart out to him and trust that he’ll hold all your secrets. When you say his name with tears in your eyes, he’ll smile and whisper a soft “yeah?” over your lips like he’s ready to do anything you ask of him.

Otherwise, he’s still a vulgar person. It’s not news to you at this point, and it’s practically his love language to constantly harass you. André will hold your ass when he’s talking to you in private, then ask, “am I offending you?” Some part of you gets annoyed by how bold he is with you, but another part of you knows he really cares about you. And it’s not like he’d do this with just anybody—there’s something between you two, it just has yet to be known.

He overthinks to the point of shutting down. When he catches wind of you going out with someone, all hell breaks loose. He just can’t understand how you could betray him like that, or was he the only one who thought there was something between you and him? André will smoke and drink his sorrows away. Even his friends know how bad it can get, so when he doesn’t show up to class for a week, they ask you to check up on him, all while not knowing you’re the reason he’s even like this.

When you show up at his place, he looks like shit. He can’t lie to you, so he tells you it’s all because he thought you were seeing someone—only for you to tell him it wasn’t what people were thinking. It was all a misunderstanding. But it’s too late now. André showed you a side of him that nobody’s ever seen, and now you know just how intensely he feels about you. Only you’d be lying if you said you didn’t have any feelings for him. But he doesn’t know that.

André can be timid when he’s in love. And it’s mostly because of the power imbalance from being crazy about you, while not having that reciprocated—yet. He’s sitting quietly on the couch with his gaze averted, not wanting to see how you’re taking his feelings. He doesn’t have it in him to kick you out either, so he just withdraws into himself. This is the part when you have to make a move. Kiss him, because he won’t understand any other way. When you do, it’s only then will André know he’s yours.

He’s really high-strung. He sacrifices a lot for someone he’s crazy about, whether it’s good for him or not. All he needs is to know you love him, and he will have the guts to do anything. That includes fighting with you. If he thinks something isn’t good for his relationship with you, he will push back and pick you apart until you change your mind. “You know you’re not ready to do long-distance, and I’m not either. So I just have to come with you. End of story.”

André will turn codependent. He doesn’t have a healthy attachment to his partners because he has unresolved anxiety and depressive tendencies. For that, he can be an exhausting and demanding lover since he’d always want you to put him above everyone else. So if you blow him off, argue with him in a way that remotely suggests you don’t like him, or even just want space, he will start acting up. André will put his hands on hips, look to the side, and sigh, “okay, fine. I’ll just kill myself then.”

He’s really sensitive and gets hurt quite easily. So while he swears he doesn’t mean it, and wants to come off like he’s just being petty (which makes sense with his dark sense of humor and all), he kind of does. He gets sad knowing you have other people to go to, but he needs you more than you will ever know. He’s a yearner, hopeless romantic, and bad boy all in one. So he’ll look at you eventually after the fight to give you a strained look. “You’re all I have. You know that, don’t you?”