Lawrellinitez concept where Aldo loves and wants and pines hard for Lawrence, but he (Aldo) is an obligate hard masochist and Thomas just can’t do that. (Thomas has feelings for him too, and they’ve talked about it, and are close still but platonically).
Thomas and Vincent get into a relationship, and Aldo is - trying not to be jealous and grudging and pettily bitter, and not really trying not to have the self-loathing flares, and ‘trying not to be lonely’ isn’t really a thing someone can do. And then all that more so when he realizes he’s also developing a crush on *Vincent*. As though that could ever happen or be anything but even more impossible and doomed.
Except that in fact Vincent turns out to have the compatible kinks.

















