#i love them so much augghh.... they're not even real but i don't caaaare

[raptorrobot]

hey.... you should tell me about.... icarus and gabe........:3

hmmnh okay. i was going to go into a full spiel about their relationship dynamic in violent sun but halfway through typing a paragraph i realised i was getting into shit that is like 5 chapters ahead of what's been published and i ain't gonna tread into full spoiler territory for that . instead take a bunch of miscellaneous little semi-canon things abt them that i have stacked up in my brain (with a post-primeification icarus focus)

gabriel is utterly enamoured with the visible heart/nervous system under icarus' transluscent skin. he'll just sit there looking at it all in awe like an ipad baby watching a fruit sensory video

icarus is So Cuddly at all times. his arms find their way around gabriel at every chance he can get

their petnames for eachother are 'angel' (icarus @ gabriel) and 'bird' (gabriel @ icarus) respectively. 'dear' and 'dearest' get thrown around occasionally also

icarus 'deer-brained' prime comically springs several feet into the air when startled. this amuses gabriel greatly and he will spook him on purpose sometimes to elicit this reaction (icarus is fine with this. it's enrichment)

gabriel looooves icarus' big talons. he'll grab onto them and feel them and carress them relentlessly bc they're so sharp and dangerous but icarus is so so gentle with them

icarus is the heaviest fucking sleeper imaginable. gabriel has yet to find an effective method to reliably wake him up

icarus snores also. gabriel doesn't mind though he finds the noise relaxing

gabriel will make them 'kiss' by pressing his helmet into the front of icarus' face. gabriel is gleefully amused by this and icarus is often unimpressed by the futile attempts, rebutting with such things as "we don't have mouths, you know we can't do that"

icarus is aroace and doesn't harbour any attraction towards gabriel, while on the other end, gabriel is beyond infatuated with icarus in all matters physical and psychological. they still love each other deeply regardless and have many an enlightening conversation discussing how they feel about each other in this regard

gabriel collects the shed feathers that fall out of icarus' head wings. he'll use them for little purposes such as quills and bookmarks just so that a piece of icarus can be with him at all times no matter where he is or what he's doing