🏳️🌈 + erenville ! & also 🏳️🌈 + leandre ♥
— @shardgathered .
a pretty important aspect about erenville is that he's on the aroace spectrum. he's not really interested in romance and sex and doesn't actively seek either out. the experience he does have was mostly for the sake of experimenting in his teenage years, part not wanting to be the odd one out more than he already was and part peer pressure. he's done a few things with men and women, and it wasn't ever terrible, but he's still not overly keen on looking for a relationship.
consequently, he does not fall in love easily. he's not sure he ever even had a crush. it would take a strong bond for him to cross that particular threshold. romantic love just doesn't happen for him the way it does for other people.
the same goes for sexual desire. he's unlikely to initiate anything even in a committed relationship, which is not a sign of disinterest from him, but just... how it is. he'll gladly be intimate with his partner, and he does get a lot more satisfaction out of pleasing them than getting off, himself.
leandre is a very proud trans woman! she's not quiet about it either. she spent way too long denying herself the joy of being who she is, trapped in a box of being assigned male at birth that her mother insisted on—to be the man of the house, carry on the bloodline, give her grandbabies as soon as possible.
it was after her mother's death that leandre finally did what she wanted. dresses galore, heels, makeup, growing out her hair, pretty nails. first, she tried to imitate the noble women of ishgard with their poise and their beauty, and only slowly grew into doing things the way that felt natural and comfortable for herself.
she's happy the way it is now, her hrt overseen by one of the best physician's ishgard has to offer (don't ask how she wrapped him around her fingers), though she still really wants breasts... eventually.
queer identity.
