#kaewynn

He married Kaewynn and Pin separately, and both were relatively small. Initially, they were going to wed all together at the same time, but then Pin shipped out for the initial assault on the Broken Shore. She, like many others that day, didn't come back. Leon and Kaewynn, still in mourning, resolved to go to the Broken Isles to fight after that, but before they left, they asked a close friend to marry them so at least they'd be married if they got themselves killed too.

And then Pin got better.

Leon is...not equipped to handle grief well, as he's now demonstrated three times (his parents, Pin, and Terry), and he was just barely out of the constant-sadness part of it all when Pin came back. Hell, she met him at the place where he'd been carving a grave marker for her. He handled it roughly and while everyone was obviously happy as fuck, that is a very wierd and confusing situation to go through, mentally and emotionally.

Leon and Pin were both actively afraid of some kind of cosmic retribution if they got married, and they stayed that way for three years or so. Leon, in a fit of "FUCK it," commissioned a matching tux and dress for him and her, and then presented Pin with the dress for Winter's Veil 2019. "Wanna get married on new year's day?"

He sprang it on her, but they'd been engaged the whole time to begin with, so she said yes again and they sprang it on everybody else in turn. We were both surprised at the turnout, since we gave like... Iunno, a week's notice maximum? And we actually did do it on 1/1/2020? The ceremony was held at Owen’s Wishing Well in Pandaria, and about twenty people in total attended. (Valarin blubbered so much, it was great.)

I half-joked that 2020 was their fault because of it.

18. Who gets the window seat?

17: Tie between Pin and Valarin, I think. Kaewynn probably doesn't see a need for those documents quite so much, and Leon is a reliable guy for keeping things, but he's got other stuff on his mind when he travels and is prone to impulse. Pin is a meticulous planner, and so is Valarin. Valarin also has a bit of a need to prepare and overprepare, so they might actually argue over who holds what, thinking about it.

18: Leon. If he's not driving, he needs something to watch. Doubly true if we're talking about a plane; otherwise he'll fly his own damn self.

"Mistakin' poison ivy fer a safer vine after y've been doin' a bit of impromptu bondage is pretty bad, but I feel like people've done tha' more often than y'd think." He drummed his fingers thoughtfully on his chin.

"...heh. Kaewynn decided one time t' wake me up th' fun way, back b'fore I was really in full control o' when I'd shift...she was pretty far along an' I came 'round t' consciousness right about th' same time th' wolf took over, an' I fully woke up t' find my then-girlfriend pretty solidly stuck, if y' take my meanin'?" He made a fist. "A bit much when yer not settin' out t' take it, y'ken?"

"She was not ready fer tha', an' I was a li'l groggy fer a minnit or two so I was no 'elp, so she 'ad t' keep tellin' me t' stop movin' fer a li'l while. Wha' really blows m' mind about tha' partic'lar incident is she stayed til we were both done anyway. Said it was still 'ot, just a touch painful fer 'er tastes. Didn't do it again fer a while, though.

"I really do live a charmed life."

Leon rubbed the back of his neck thoughtfully. "...nothin' is impossible, I spose. Kaewynn was afraid o' love at th' beginnin'. Pin died once, an' not in a 'fer a few seconds by technicality' kinda way. Val'rin went through so much b'fore I ever met 'im.

"Nothin' is impossible, but even with tha', not ev'rythin's best endin' is th' one with you both in love t'gether, either."

Leon smiled lazily and tapped his initialed collar. “Married t’two fantastic women, an’ just recently started datin’ a lovely lad.

“Kaewynn is my first wife, Pin is my second wife--in purely sequential terms, that’s not some bullshit ‘ierarchy thin’--an’ Valarin is my boyfriend.

“I am, admittedly, prolly gonna be stupidly boyish an’ giddy about tha’ last one fer a li’l while, since it only just became an official thin’, but I think I’m allowed tha’.”

“Oooh, tha’s a tricky one... I think if I were gonna pick fast, I’d ‘ave t’ say...phoo, this’un takes some explainin’. An’ it’s a li’l racy, but. Well. Trust me.

“Me an’ Kaewynn’d called it quits a while ago, because she didn’t see a way t’ make love work, an’ since then I’d started gettin’ closer t’ Pin after tha’. Lit’rally th’ day after Pin told me she wanted t’see ‘ow we worked in a more official sorta way, Kaewynn came ‘round in th’ evenin’ an’ asked me if we could give thin’s a try. Which by itself was already pretty fuckin’ funny, but...

“Well. Me an’ Kaewynn were gettin’ a bit...busy...celebratin’, y’know? An’ we were in my kitchen, so I ‘ad ‘er sittin’ on a counter an’ I was just about t’ave m’self a snack--’ead’s right there an’ ev’rythin’--an’ then Vember poked ‘er ‘ead in, cuz she wanted t’ stop by an’ ‘ave a chat about ‘er day an’ maybe an actual snack b’fore she went ‘ome fer th’ night.

“She was startled, I was startled, Kaewynn was startled. An’ then Vember, prim ‘n’ proper so much o’ th’ time, says ‘Throw in a li’l rejuvenation to keep thin’s int’restin’ on ‘er way outta th’ kitchen.

“I managed t’old it t’gether until I’d gotten th’ door locked, an’ then me ‘n’ Kaewynn both cracked up laughin’ an’ went t’ bed.”

Pin (Hellcat):

1: He feels dirty about wanting her to take transformation potions again, to put her in a bigger body so they can try rougher things in bed (particularly knotting). It’s extremely fun for both of them, and they get that particular brand of intimacy where they otherwise couldn’t (trying that with a gnome would pretty much kill them). She’s said she loves doing that, but he worries about setting off her old self-image issues and tends to grapple with whether it’s really okay.

2: He thinks that they’re not ready to be parents, no matter how badly he wants to be one, and part of it is that Pin is still extremely impulse-driven. While he loves that about her, he also forced himself to be the one to ask if they were really the best choice when they had the opportunity to take in an orphaned child a little while back. He has plenty of his own problems to address there, and he knows that, but that one is definitely one for Pin.

Kaewynn (Minx):

1: There’s always going to be a rift between them, however thin it might be these days, after she took off his collar in anger. He’s forgiven her, but it will always tint his perception of her and slightly temper his love for her.

2: Sometimes he wonders if she wouldn’t have been happier if they hadn’t tried to make things work, and he has no idea whether that’s his own self-loathing talking or her inability to find contentment when things are quiet.

Iloam (Coda):

1: This probably comes as no shock, but he is fully aware that his affection for the man is dangerous and their relationship may very well end suddenly and in flames with one or both of them hurt beyond repair, physically and emotionally.

2: He’s refusing to acknowledge as yet that he’s absolutely getting his own punishment complex fulfilled whenever he lets Iloam get extra vicious. It’s something they’ll have to deal with eventually.

Valarin (Coney):

1: He no longer knows whether what he feels is love or possessiveness* and he’s afraid to find out.

2: Valarin recently asked if he’d be mad if Val went on a date with somebody. Leon was confused as all hell because he absolutely has no right to lay judgement on who Val goes out with, but he grudgingly acknowledged to himself in private that there was a sense of satisfaction that Val asked. And a greasy little smidge of hope that it meant he really cared about Leon’s opinion on the matter.

*(spoiler alert it’s love - the management)