#leochlan

That will be an option when you volunteer/are sent back to monitor Ramiel’s children.

Good show.

Michelangelo isn’t in the story. ((I’ll be nice and not make the ninja turtle joke here I was going to make, since I got the second ask))

1. Leonardo da Vinci loves to explore. He wants to run his hands over every inch of his lovers.

2. He doesn’t necessarily think of his actions as being sexual, so much as wanting to satisfy his curiosity. For instance, what do angels taste like?

3. Doesn’t tend to get physically aroused very often. Likes to give pleasure, but is so distracted with thoughts racing through his head it takes a great deal to get him to focus on his own pleasure (though asking him to do so works well).

Leochlan has been done here.

Laniwynn doesn’t enjoy being submissive at all. She prefers to fight for dominance.

Would love to leave you tied up and needy, walk away, and leave you wondering when she will return.

Nope. The Council gave specific orders. Defying them to that degree isn’t possible in the flashbacks (or we would have no present b/c Gabriel would have been kicked out.)

Spoilers below.

Not well. It’s complicated, because he wouldn’t outright hate Gabriel, so he isn’t going to be cruel intentionally, but it’s not a position he wants to be in.Here’s how it might go:

“Don’t look at me like that.”

You shift from where you were leaning against the tent flap, coming to stand behind the fae, looking over his bare back as he makes some notes with his left hand while stirring a boiling pot of herbs with his right.

“Like what?” you ask, playing dumb.

Leochlan sighs, setting down the quill.

“Like a lovesick human.” He shudders, the response to your emotions causing your next words to taste bitter.

“I can’t help being in love with you,” you say, softly, wanting to reach out to him.

Leochlan surges up, turning on you so fast you take a step back out of reflex. “I told you, fae don’t do love,” he snarls. “How do you think it feels to have this alien emotion rattling around my head? I don’t want it! I don’t need it, and I can’t return it. So take it and go!”

His slit-pupils are dilated with rage, the angry orange ring of color drowning out the soothing cerulean. “I know you cannot control it, but it pricks and preys at the back of my mind, lurking. You cannot know how it feels to feel something that is impossible for you to feel. It feels like you have turned my own abilities into a torture, a cage from which I cannot escape.”

His chest heaves with his furious breathes, and after a moment, he speaks again, more composed. “From what I’ve gleaned, if you love me, then you will respect my wishes in this and leave me alone until you can rid yourself of these emotions, or at least conceal them better so I am not assaulted with them when you are in my presence.”

“I--I didn’t mean to--” you fumble for words that will fix this situation, but there aren’t any, and you both know it. You whirl, fleeing his tent as you feel your heart breaking.

It will flavor the second part of the flashback, but there’s a few reasons that it won’t change much.

1. Gabriel might be aromantic, but the society they come from (Heaven) favors love and kindness and a bunch of squishy feelings the fae aren’t very fond of, so they hold some stigma against them. They’d be more willing to fool around with Gabriel, but for the fae, their definitions and functionality of a relationship doesn’t mesh well with what they believe angels expect from a relationship.

2. This is a spoiler, but I will say that this is straight-up the main reason they aren’t romance options to begin with, and it won’t change with an aromantic Gabriel. Not going to say what it is though.

Can? Absolutely. Will they? MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW.