#leovin

[dbhrarepairs]

Welcome to our seventh Detroit: Become Human Rarepairsweek!

We are here to celebrate all the DBH pairings that don’t stand in the spotlight and deserve more love.

Date: June 10 - June 16

Prompts

Day 1 (Monday): Captured • Coffee Shop

Day 2 (Tuesday): Wings!AU • Getting Together

Day 3 (Wednesday): Virus • Red/Blue/Green

Day 4 (Thursday): Road Trip • Unlikely Allies

Day 5 (Friday): Wedding • In The Rain

Day 6 (Saturday): Exhaustion • Reverse!AU

Day 7 (Sunday): Free Day

Rules

The DBHrarepairsweek will be held from June 10 to June 16, 2024

What pairings are allowed? Any pairing except for: Gavin/RK900, Simon/Markus, Connor/Hank, Connor/Gavin & Connor/Markus

What kind of media is accepted? Anything, pretty much! Fanart, fanfiction, GIF sets, videos, cosplay… there are no limits to your creativity!

Make sure to tag entries with #dbhrarepairsweek or mention @dbhrarepairs in your posts!

You can do as many or as few prompts as you like. You can even combine prompts for the same day

If your entry contains sensitive media, please make sure to properly tag it

If I failed to reblog your content, please send me a message

It’s no problem if you’re late with an entry or missed a day, if it’s properly tagged, I will reblog it

Don’t bash any pairings or people. And most important, have fun!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

#detroit become human #dbhrarepairsweek #luthara #connara #traci x traci #norkus #chlonnor #connorth #conniel #jeralph #chloski #kamcon #hankvin #leovin #simosh #gavski #chlonorth #northara

[simping-for-kamski]

Leo deserves love so he's getting some from Elijah and Gavin!

It is, of course, Leo's flat. Carl gave him that painting and then Leo made it better. Gosh there are so many details, I can't go through them all, just look, see what you find :D

ALSO THANK YOU FOR BEING MORE THAN 50 FOLLOWING ME NOW!! AND GARDENGATE HAS 150 KUDOS HOLY SHIT!!! (that fic is on fire, this fandom isn't so dead yet)

#detroit become human #dbh fanart #elijah kamski #dbh elijah kamski #dbh leo #leo manfred #dbh gavin reed #gavin reed #leoski #leovin #my art stuff

[rainbyotes]

The urge to write a Halloween leovin fic on the second day of summer is so strong. These idiots have me in a chokehold

#leovin #rainy s thoughts

[leosbiactually]

So kinda forgot about this account but don’t worry Leo posting will resume, starting off with stuff I saw at the antique mall that Leo owns

#leo manfred #dbh leo #dbh memes #leovin #cats #yeah that’s it for now #Gavin is torn between hating all of them and loving all of them #he hates the 6th one bc the eyes are really creepy #anyways

[getoutofthewater]

Fic Authors Self-Rec

in response to this tag game, my answers requested by @gauzyfruitcake! (sorry it took me so long friend!)

“Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite  five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other  writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💗” 

sincerity is scary – a Leovin fic from Detroit Become Human. My longest work yet, still so very proud of it.

faux cat day –  Another Leovin fic. Comedy is my one true love despite it being so hard to write, this is my fic with the most shenanigans. I need to return to this vibe.

milk tea – Tina/Chloe again from Detroit Become Human. Just a sweet little thing, I need to write more lesbians.

zoetrope – A gen Schwarz fic from Weiss Kreuz (an ancient fandom and one of my first) I wanted to write something I actually liked for this fandom for like 20 years! I’m very happy with how this one turned out. I still want to write more for them, there has never been enough Schwarz as family out there.

axia – Ikki/Shun from Saint Seiya. My problematic ship I guess, but you know Kurumada himself ships them also, because if not why are they Like That

Tagging (if you want to <3) @indigo-a-creeping, @rainbyotes, @archadianskies

[suspicious-pools-of-blood]

Hi there buddy, my name is Athena. I'm coming to say hi, see how you're doing and this is a chance to ramble about your wips. How many ocs do you have, how many have been through a lot and do you keep everything tracked and organised with tables and stuff?

Hi Athena!!

I've finally finished the first draft of 1 billion years of a plate tectonic simulation for my world, so I'm doing great!

How many OCs: depending on which ones count, I think somewhere in the general vicinity of 40, though plenty of them aren't really developed (and some are unnamed though I have a decent mental idea of them). Actually, y'know what, just for fun I'm gonna see if I can name them all without checking my notes:

Elvan of Aileron (main character), Hakan/Emir (Elvan's little brother), Asenath (Elvan's lover, initially a slave in the palace), Tyros (Elvan's son with Theos), Theos of Orontes (Elvan's husband and next in line for the throne of Korsan), Calyx/Esir (Elvan's slave), Xayanat (Calyx's friend), Khadagan (Elvan's servant), Nazorat (master of the slaves in the Orontes palace), Khiana (pirate captain of The Promise), Amenset (Khiana's best friend and second in command), Amarsin (also on the crew), Leovin (crew), ��pek (crew), Enitan (crew), Leyla (Khiana's protege and Amarsin's best friend), Lucian (Leyla's first master), Aletheia (Lucian's wife), Tanis (cook in Lucian and Aletheia's household), Hadrian (Leyla's second master), Vojan (Hadrian's foreman), Demir (healer in the palace), Daxe (Theos' body slave), Petros (Theos' father), Valide (Theos' mother), Pallas/Voris (Asenath's child), Sinan (gladiator and Elvan's childhood friend/frenemy), Ahmet (Emir's childhood bully), Hekate (courtesan and Calyx's mother), Hekate's madam, Kuvvet (captain of the guard), Calvio (one of Elvan's Shadows), Hafiye (Shadow), Casus (Shadow and Hafiye's twin), Katil (Shadow), Namir (gladiator), Taymiir (khagan of Saldırgan), Ruxşet (distant cousin of Theos and potential successor to the throne of Ganimet), Quintus (captain of The Promise before he was overthrown by Khiana and co.), Elvan's mother (the khagan of Atalar), father, and aunt (who essentially raised Elvan and Emir). Just checked my notes and I only forgot Melis (Theos' cousin) and İsyan (another member of Khiana's crew). So I think that's 44, not counting all the other unnamed side characters. 45 if we count Jupiter, who is Amarsin's cat.

How many have been through a lot: all the ones I like lmao. Basically any character that I develop a backstory for has been through a lot, save for those who are purely there to put other characters through a lot (looking at you, Theos and Ruxşet). There are plenty who haven't been through a lot solely because I haven't gotten to them yet. Khiana's whole crew falls into this category; Leyla's the only exception because the rest of them actually started out as side characters in her story (which is almost entirely Leyla Going Through A Lot).

Organization: boy do I! I use Notion for most of my writing stuff (I modified an existing template). I'm gonna explain using screenshots, so you get to see my notes for free :P

The bulk of the actual writing happens in this kanban board:

Idea dump, as the name would imply, is where I put ideas that I intend to turn into a full scene, chapter, etc. When I don't feel like working on any existing WIPs I usually go to the idea dump column and pick one to start elaborating. Once I've got more than a few sentences, it goes into the in progress column, and that's where it stays the longest. To be honest I rarely actually edit before posting, because otherwise I get caught up in perfectionism, so the editing column is more for pieces that I don't quite love yet and that I know I could improve, but it's not a prerequisite to pass through editing before going to the completed column. Sometimes I'll edit a piece after posting, and sometimes I don't want to post a piece at all, so rather than having a separate column for that I've got it as a checkbox property.

As for individual pieces/cards, this is how I've got it set up:

Status just indicates which column of the kanban board this piece is in.

The story property currently has five different options, but three main ones: Child of Korsan, Tribes of Atalar, and A Promise of Change. CoK is my main story with Elvan, starting when she goes to Korsan as an adolescent. (Fun fact, when I first came up with the name, the child in question was Tyros, but it has since evolved to metaphorically refer to how Elvan essentially became a new person because of that place.) ToA is everything before that; it covers Elvan and Emir's childhoods (currently the earliest event I've written anything for in ToA is Elvan's birth), but anything set in Atalar before that would go here. APoC is the (currently somewhat secondary) storyline that covers Leyla's life and everything with the pirates; this overlaps with ToA once Emir meets Khiana, and later on overlaps with CoK when Hakan gets arrested. These all fall under Legends of Kainat, my overarching WIP, but separating the storylines makes it much easier to handle parallel plots.

Next up is the year; in universe I'm probably going to have a more localized calendar system (leaning towards a "year x of y's reign" type of system), but I just wanted a way to keep track of timelines for myself so I picked a random event (Elvan and Theos' wedding) and assigned that to year 500 and based everything around that.

Setting and characters are pretty self-explanatory. I actually only have Korsan, Ganimet, and at sea as settings currently since all the ToA scenes I've written are via flashbacks.

These properties in combination are super useful for keeping everything organized. The story property I mostly use just for filtering views, so I can look at just Child of Korsan pieces, for example. Having year (or time period/date/whatever), setting, and characters together is fantastic for avoiding plot holes, especially with multiple storylines that overlap characters, because I can keep track of where each character is at a certain time, so I don't accidentally have a person from one scene showing up in another scene hundreds of miles away without giving them enough time (and narrative cause) for travelling there.

I have a sticky notes board/page that is just for jotting down individual ideas that may not be formed enough to warrant putting in the idea dump column on the kanban board. This is also where I put a lot of more general worldbuilding ideas/notes that wouldn't have an actual scene associated with them.

Here I have a timeline page, although I don't use this as much as I probably should. It's a more centralized place to keep the who/what/when/where information. This is also nice because I can filter to a variety of different views, such as only looking at one or two of the stories, only seeing what events a certain character is involved in, or only seeing stuff that happens in a specific location. It's off-screen in the image, but this is also where I've noted down each character's birth as an event. This was actually one of the main reasons I started keeping a timeline; these stories are set over the course of characters' entire lifetimes, and I never had a good sense of how old they were relative to one another. With this I can quickly check the birth year of a given character and compare it to the year a certain event took place to get an idea of their age without needing to root through my character notes.

And on the topic of character notes, I've got some of those too. I use a pretty standard character sheet type of setup here; this is mostly for keeping track of details that I won't necessarily remember but might want to refer back to, as well as keeping track of side characters who I don't spend as much time thinking about. Here's Elvan's character sheet:

And that's about it! I also have another page for notes about the conlang I'm making for this world, but I'm not going to open that can of worms right now lmao, I have put conlanging into a box on a shelf for now and need to not open it until I finish geographical worldbuilding.

#Thank you for the ask! #:D

[poisonousash]

Leo: You should get the French 75 it's amazing

Gavin: Okay..

Bartender: What would you guys like to drink?

Leo: French 75

Gavin: I'll have a Sazerac

*Leo looks at the Gavin with a shocked face*

Elijah: Me too Sazerac please

*Leo's jaw drops when he heard Elijah ordering the same drink as Gavin, Leo looks at Elijah feeling betrayed*

Leo: I am so shocked..

#elijah kamski #gavin reed #leo manfred #leovin #kamleo #detroid become human #dbh #dbh gavin #dbh elijah kamski #dbh leo manfred #gavin x leo #elijah x leo #3 way relationship #love triangle #date

[gauzyfruitcake]

Some sappy Leovin, featuring some of Gavin’s cats from the tales of @getoutofthewater

For the DBH Seven Kisses prompt: A kiss to talk about (cats may not talk but you know they’re gonna be gossiping about this for months)

Color palette inspiration

@connor-sent-by-cyberlife 

#leovin #leo manfred #gavin reed #dbh #detroit become human #cats #my art #dbhsevenkisses

[connor-sent-by-cyberlife]

🎄 DBH Advent Calendar 2021 🎄

By @gauzyfruitcake

Tags: Leo Manfred/Gavin Reed, Furbies, Post Android Peaceful Revolution, creepy dolls, mild violence/peril

Rating: Teen

Leo tried not to think about the possibility that yet another of his electronics was haunted.

Not that it was even his electronic. He was just wandering around near the junkyard at midnight on winter solstice, like ya do, and tripped over a pile of snow which turned out to be a dead body, which turned out to be a shut-down android. This was a lot for his nervous, cardiovascular and other bodily systems to take. While he sat in the middle of the road catching his breath, he guessed that the android fell off a dump trunk, one of the old ones no one ever found. Leo had a mind to show up on his brother’s doorstep with him and totally freak him out, and then also win a bunch of brownie points for saving an android. He grabbed the android's arm and pulled, and, uh...yeah, no way his video-game-playing arms were gonna move him without help.

As he listened to Markus' ringtone, Leo saw something fuzzy clutched in the android's other hand.

“Hey, little guy…” Leo picked it up. The fur was matted, and one dull eye fell half-open as he turned it in the moonlight. “Oh shit!” he yelped. “A real Furby!” Furbies were worth, like, a ton these days, even crappy ones. He danced around with it so much that he, uh, sort of almost got hit by a semi. The android was totally toast and Leo decided to pretend nothing happened, he did his best (though he did regret the chance to prank Markus).

Fast forward to Christmas Eve, and he was driving through a blizzard toward the cabin outside of town, windshield wipers going crazy but not nearly as crazy as his heart, which was not going nearly as crazy as the shoe box next to him. It took Leo hours to get the Furby into the box, and then only with RISK-levels of strategy and subterfuge and maybe some allies (he enlisted his cats as backup). Who knew Furbies could, like, hop around? With malice? He thought they just opened their eyes and did baby talk.

The thumping and rustling stopped, and Leo breathed a sigh of relief that fogged up the windows until he heard a slow, methodical tap. He slowly looked over in time to see a small round yellow beak disappear into the box, and a glittery blue eye stare out.

Then he almost hit a tree.

Thankfully he slid into a snowbank, though this buried the front of his car in ice and he definitely didn’t have snow chains or whatever. And he was woefully unprepared for the blizzard. He hopped out in his house shoes and cutoff sweatpants, grabbed the box, and sprinted through the trees, past the animatronic dinosaurs decorating the area (asleep for the winter months) and to the door of the shack in the back. He knocked and didn’t stop knocking.

“What the actual—” Gavin hauled open the door like an angry bear awakened from hibernation (an accurate assessment, he always spent his winter break in this godforsaken cabin). Leo didn’t waste any time, and tackled him.

“COLD!” he yelped. “So—flipping cold—”

“Ay, ay!!” Gavin attempted to extricate himself from his frozen boyfriend but it was hopeless. “What’re you doin’ here? I thought you were spending the holidays with your deadbeat dad and loser brother—”

“I-I was,” Leo stammered, “But I found this thing—in the snow—had to find you—”

“What thing?” Gavin pushed the door shut and squished the shoe box in the process, sending the Furby catapulting out of the box like a cork out of a popgun. The Furby landed on its feet and glared at them. It was pretty cute, really—its fluffy yellow-and-black leopard print a really nice contrast to its glitter-blue eyes.

“Whoa!” Gavin stared. “Is that a real Furby?”

“I think so,” Leo said, then squinted. “What the heck are you wearing?”

Gavin looked down at himself, clad in a pair of red, skin-tight long johns like and a hat with flaps. “It’s cold, or didn’t you hear? Where’d you get a Furby?”

“Found it,” Leo said, guiltily. “I think it belonged to some android but—”

The Furby spoke, or—screeched. Whatever Furbies did. Why were these things so popular?

“You just ‘found’ a Furby?”

“Yeah, well—what’s wrong with that?”

“It sounds shady, you know how much that thing is worth?”

“Who cares, it’s possessed! Clearly! Did you see it glaring? Furbies aren’t supposed to be able to do that, right?”

“Well, maybe it’s a mod or something,” Gavin said. “That’s a thing—hey, where did it go?”

They looked around Gavin’s tiny cabin and quickly located the Furby, which had somehow waddled over to the kitchenette, hopped on the counter, and was digging in the kitchen drawer for a knife.

“GAVIN!” Leo yelped, hiding behind his usefully-buff boyfriend even if he was unfortunately-attired.

“Don’t panic!” Gavin said, clearly panicking.

The Furby screeched again.

“What’s it saying?” Leo pulled out his phone. “Maybe I can look up a dictionary.”

“Don’t worry,” Gavin said, calmly, “I speak Furby.”

“Yeah, right!”

“I do! My mom was obsessed with them! Of course she left her Furbies to my deadbeat cousin instead of me—y’know, gender stereotypes are really dumb—”

The Furby launched into a small speech as it hopped methodically toward them, knife in beak.

“He says he’s been lied to,” Gavin said. “Said ‘they’ loved him…”

“That’s pretty dark,” Leo said.

“Yeah, well, being a toy probably sucks.” Gavin knelt down and put his hand out, rubbing his fingers together. “You wanna come over here?”

“…Gavin, what are you doing?”

“Look, the thing obviously has trust issues,” Gavin snapped. “Anyway, if androids are alive now, why can’t a Furby be alive, too? Pspspsps, come here…”

Seeing the hard-core cop trying to coax a Furby in a red onesie (complete with feet) did something to Leo’s insides that probably healed everything wrong in his much-abused body. He maybe teared up. He definitely snapped a few pictures. All of Gavin’s sweet-talk soon summoned several cats from various corners of the cabin. They circled the Furby curiously, who held his knife defensively—at least until the first cat flopped down beside him and started to purr.

“See?” Gavin said, as the knife dropped out of the Furby’s astonished beak. “My kids win over everybody.” He scooped up the Furby and brushed down his fur as he patted the cats on the head. “I think they could be better negotiators than Connor.”

Gavin and Leo spent the next half hour cleaning the Furby up, blow-drying his silky hair and giving him cat kibble to crunch up in his surprisingly-powerful beak.

“You could stay here if you want,” Gavin offered. “With the other kids? I don’t throw anything out that’s under a foot tall and wears fur.”

The Furby purred his approval.

“I’ll introduce you to some of my friends, too,” Leo said, “I mean, not my friends, they’re my brother’s friends—and maybe Gavin can show you the dinosaurs in the spring. Hey, what’s your name, anyway?”

The Furby thought for a moment, then produced a series of small chirps.

“E…L…” Gavin shrugged. “Daniel, I guess?”

Daniel seemed to smile, then closed his eyes as he cuddled against Gavin’s chest.

“Well, I’m not going anywhere now. And, uh…" Leo raised his eyebrows. "Those pajamas are really something else…”

“Shuddup,” Gavin said, “I better not find any pictures on the internet.”

Leo shook his head, but only Daniel saw he had his fingers crossed.

#DBH Advent Calendar #Detroit Become Human #dbh #Door 24 #Leovin #Gavin x Leo #Merry Christmas to all of you!!!

[leoeatingfire]

This is my fifth time trying to post this, it’s so messy and the hands look like shit, but otherwise I kind of proud it

I also wanted to say the drawing was made based off of the song La Seine

#Spotify #detroid become human #gavin reed #leo manfred #leo x gavin #leovin

[dbhrarepairs]

Welcome to our sixth Detroit: Become Human Rarepairsweek!

We are here to celebrate all the DBH pairings that don’t stand in the spotlight and deserve more love.

Date: May 22 - May 28

Prompts

Day 1 (Monday): Secrets • Sacrifice

Day 2 (Tuesday): Trust • Cold

Day 3 (Wednesday): Snowstorm • Nightmares

Day 4 (Thursday): Injury • Tears

Day 5 (Friday): Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter • Peaceful

Day 6 (Saturday): First Meetings • Mistaken Identity

Day 7 (Sunday): Free Day

Rules

1) The DBHrarepairsweek will be held from May 22 to May 28, 2023

2) What pairings are allowed? Any pairing except for: Gavin/RK900, Simon/Markus, Connor/Hank, Connor/Gavin & Connor/Markus

3) What kind of media is accepted? Anything, pretty much! Fanart, fanfiction, GIF sets, videos, cosplay… there are no limits to your creativity!

4) Make sure to tag entries with #dbhrarepairsweek or mention @dbhrarepairs in your posts!

5) You can do as many or as few prompts as you like. You can even combine prompts for the same day

6) If your entry contains sensitive media, please make sure to properly tag it

7) If I missed to reblog your content, send me a message

8) It’s no problem if you’re late with an entry or missed a day, if it’s properly tagged, I will reblog it

9) Don’t bash any pairings or people. And most important, have fun!

10) If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

#dbhrarepairsweek #dbhrarepairs #detroit become human #luthara #connara #norkus #traci x traci #jeralph #northara #chlonnor #chloski #kamcon #hankvin #leovin #jorth #conniel #chlonorth #simosh #gavski #rk1700 #connorth

[simping-for-kamski]

I ran into some amazing Leo art so it was Leo sketching tonight. Oh yeah, and you get some Gavin for free.

Hear me out: Leo as Gavin's informant~ (Leo/Gavin gotta be the most cursed ship of Gardengate as in it's like it's being tailed by a kraken constantly stopping it from sailing)

Also Leo signing autographs of his dad to sell to fans online. Carl is probably aware and mad about it, but what's he gonna do when he's not even capable of calling his son on the phone?

And that sketch in white has too many fingers on it? Leo's having trouble counting them tbh. And they're melting. Jeeesus don't you hate it when the ice melts?

GIVE LEO SOME LOVE HE DESERVES IT!!! SPREAD THE LOVE!!!

#dbh fanart #detroit become human #dbh leo #leo manfred #gavin reed #dbh gavin reed #leovin #my art stuff #dbh headcanons

[rainbyotes]

Hmm imagining a firefighter au for leovin except it’s just Leo calling Gavin bc his cats keeps getting stuck in trees and it’s always a different cat each time so Gavin’s like “why do you have so many fucking cats” and Leo’s like “I only have 2?? The rest aren’t mine I just take them to the vet afterwards lol” and Gavin’s like “I can’t not fuck him” and yeah that’s basically it

#leovin #rainy s thoughts

[allegedlyanandroid]

MERFOLK AU WITH LEOVIN please I’m begging you, sorry for yelling but am excite

Yell away! I don’t know how fluffy this turned out but there’s a lot of snark, @rainbyotes, hope that works for you too :3

‘Stupid,’ Leo thinks, kicking up sand with every agitated step. He’d thought- he’d really thought his father wished to mend bridges. This vacation was supposed to be just the two of them. A month away in his father’s summer place, a house not far from the ocean and a place Leo used to visit with his mother when he was younger. But then Carl had to bring him into the equation and now he was trapped here with two people he can barely stand at the best of times.  

The only redeeming part in this whole mess is how easily solitude is found. Besides… he’d fallen in love with the sea here, the sunlight glittering on water and the gentle sound of waves lapping at the shore. 

He just wishes his mom was with him instead.  

Leo stoops down low to collect a fistful of rocks. He looks at them for a moment and then tosses them as far away as he can. They land with a series of satisfying splashes, not that it helps his mood much, and when the last expanding ring on the water settles Leo turns to trudge back home.

That’s when something hits him in the back of the head.

Leo jerks, startled, and searches the sand bank for whatever it might be and finds a pebble. Wet, with grains of sand sticking to the slick surface, and it looks suspiciously similar to one of the rocks he’d thrown in. He tosses it in the air, catches it, and then lobs it with all his strength. It comes flying back and Leo ducks to avoid having it slam into him.  

“Bitch!” he yells at the waves.

That earns him another rock flying at his face so Leo does the only mature thing and throws it right back. It devolves into a chaotic race to see who can throw the most rocks in the shortest amount of time until the sea goes silent and still again. Leo grins… 

...for all of two seconds before an arc of water slams into him, drenching him from head to toe. He tastes salt on his tongue and he sputters for a bit, wiping his eyes clean, and blinks them open to see the blurry outline of a man staring at him. “Dude, what the hell?”

“You started it.”

Blinking helps clear his vision and he sees a frowning brunet with his arms folded onto one of the jagged cliffs peaking up from the water’s surface. Which fine… it’s not all that strange to see a person out swimming or whatever. What throws him off is the long tail he can glimpse. Dark-coloured gradients with glimmering accents of blue catching in the low sunlight. The caudal fin is flat and partially see-through, just like his dorsal fins, though in a lighter shade than the rest of his tail. Leo zeros in on the scar stretching across the bridge of his nose and the sea-glass green of his eyes. “It’s you!” he gasps, dredging up forgotten memories from nearly a decade ago.  

“Yeah. And you’re fucking late,” Gavin snarks, flinging more water that Leo is nowhere near fast enough to dodge.

“I’m sorry! Would you please stop throwing water at my face,” Leo pleads.

The next gallon of water flying through the air is a clear no.

It’s the first time they see each other again in years, though it certainly isn’t the last. Gavin hasn’t changed much in terms of personality. He’s still curious and snarky and a bit of a dick sometimes. There are new scars over his body that Leo doesn’t ask about although he listens raptly the times Gavin offers information. Leo speaks about his life in return, tries to explain things he doesn’t understand under Gavin’s rapid-fire questions. Most of the time Gavin plasters himself to his back while looking at the pictures Leo scrolls through on his phone.

Glimpses of a life Gavin can’t be part of.

-

“I want to show you something,” Gavin says three weeks in, tail swishing back and forth in the water, throwing foam up against the jagged cliffs. “You’ll like it, I promise,” he cajoles when all Leo does is look doubtful.

“Water is wet.”

“I hadn’t noticed.”

“Which means I will get wet. And cold. And sandy.”

Gavin cocks his head to the side and shrugs easily. “Are you gonna stop bitching and come over here?”

Leo grumbles beneath his breath thorughout the time it takes to dress down to his underwear. He places his clothes on a nearby rock, hoping it’ll keep the sand out, before wading into the water. “It’s freezing!”

“It’s tepid,” Gavin replies.

“The view had better be worth it Gavin,” Leo says, diving down and swimming over as fast as he can. Gavin meets him halfway, grinning with sharp teeth.

“I am the view.” Before Leo can come up with a rebuttal Gavin’s lips are on his and he breathes in the salty air expelled from his lungs. It carries a faint taste of kelp and that’s all Leo has time to think before Gavin drags him beneath the water. He doesn’t panic, merely hooks his arms around Gavin and allows the merman to take them further out to sea with a few powerful flaps of his tail.

Leo still has his eyes tightly closed to avoid getting water in them when Gavin sucks the air out of his lungs. The ridges on his neck, gills, close back up and melt away. Slick, cold skin drags over his eyes and Leo cautiously blinks his eyes open.  

The cave is dark but whenever Leo moves his feet or arms a trail of glowing blue follows. It casts strobing light over the slick, uneven walls, creating complex shadows he’s itching to capture on camera. There are parts where it looks like blue waterfalls cascades down the cavern walls, a spiderweb of cracks in the ceiling hinting at a blue sky.

He turns to Gavin with an excited smile and the breath catches in his throat. Gavin’s tail is alight with the same bioluminescent glow, fine rows of dotted light, pulsing in rhythm with his heartbeat. It’s beautiful and Leo unthinkingly says as much.  

Gavin ducks his head down, smiling, and takes Leo’s hand. “To help you float,” he mutters as if Leo can’t see right through him.

“Thank you, for showing me this.”

A careless shrug, one of Gavin’s signature gestures.

Leo exhales sharply through his nose. More amusement than irritation before he presses his lips to Gavin’s cheek. “Thank you, for showing me this,” he repeats.  

Gavin blinks at him, grins slowly. “You missed.”

Leo matches his grin, his sort-of challenge, with one of his own by leaning in close again to kiss Gavin properly.

#allegedly answering asks #dbh gavin #gavin reed #dbh leo #leo manfred #leovin #mini fic #my writing

[archadianskies]

11 for the coffee shop aus with leovin please 👀👀?

We’ve met online and keep suggesting meeting up for a blind date at the café I work at, and does this mean I probably already know you if you’re a regular there? Because you can’t be one of my coworkers, right?

It’s a nice job and he likes the late hours because he likes sleeping in. Give him the afternoon to evening shift over the fuck-ass o’clock one anyday. Also, no one expects anything other than default NPC dialogue from him, which is also great. He takes coffee orders, he makes the coffees, he gives the coffees. Nice and easy. 

It also means during the slower periods he can fuck around on his phone a lot, and yeah maybe there’s this guy he’s interested in. Leo might not be as annoyingly supermodel handsome like his adopted brother but hey, he’s 120 days clean now, 87 days employed, and 51 days living on his own. That’s gotta count for something, right? He even washes his hair every second day!

The guy calls himself Reed. He has two cats, and a housemate he’s fairly sure is a serial killer but can’t prove it. Steady job, funny as all fuck, and Leo’s pretty keen to meet him.

Reed: Blind date Fri. at 7pm? Jericho Cafe? Leo: Sorry! Shift is always 1pm to 9pm weekdays

Reed: ah shit. Sat.? Leo: Yeah sounds cool. Has to be Jericho, tho?

Reed: Yeah good spot

Leo deliberates and okay whatever, Simon is there on the Saturday shifts and Simon is an angel and won’t give him shit for bringing his date to their workplace. It’s not like Leo’s going to be working that day anyway.

Leo: Ok, see you then!

He pockets his phone and decides to make himself a hot chocolate. Looking out the shop window while the soy milk heats up, he spots the security guard making his rounds. The guy looks like such an asshole, always has a scowl on his face. Apparently he complained about Simon, calling him a housewife and telling him to hurry up with his order. Danny had recounted that tale, and the asshole is lucky Leo hadn’t been there on that shift or he would’ve punched him out cold. 

*~*~*

“You think he’ll be cute?” Leo only half jokes, leaning agains the counter as Simon carefully eases a tray of freshly baked cookies into the display. 

“I hope so, you deserve someone cute,” Simon, angel that he is, says with a smile and reaches over to smooth down Leo’s shirt collar. “You deserve someone special who appreciates you for the wonderful man you are.”

Okay okay no tearing right before a date! Leo wills himself to remain composed, managing a shaky smile. The smile on Simon’s face vanishes.

“It’s that security guard again,” he presses his mouth into a tight line. Leo looks over his shoulder, watching as the asshole (without uniform this time) takes a seat by the window booth, the one with-

...

The one with the rose in the vase. The one reserved for Leo’s blind date.

“Oh dear,” Simon says quietly, and Leo stomps over.

“Are you the fuc-”

“Leo? Hey it’s me, Reed.” 

“You- I- I fucking work here! You called Simon a housewife?!”

“Wait, you’re the- the scrawny little shit I threw out last year? The one that was high off his face?”

“I’m clean now! Because of Simon! And I got a job here because of him so show some fucking respect!”

Everyone is staring. Leo doesn’t care, he’s too angry to feel anything else. Reed cocks a brow, staring at him as if appraising a feral animal or at least that’s what Leo thinks is happening because he does feel absolutely feral. Even if the guy up close looks less mall cop asshole and...kinda...scruffy-cute. Fuck.

“I’m Gavin,” he says slowly, offering his hand. “How about we start there?”   

“...Leo,” he ignores the hand and plonks down on the opposite seat. “Alright. Redeem yourself.” He pats the table. “Cat pics immediately.”

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[rjhpandapaws]

For the prompt thing Halloween with leovin? 🥺👉👈

//Of course!

Gavin looked at the cheap plastic fangs he had just been handed and then back to his boyfriend, “You’re kidding me Leo.” “Come on Gav, its a Halloween party, you have to go dressed as something or it ruins the fun.” He gestured to himself and his zombie costume, complete with fake blood and a fork stuck into his neck with silicone, stage make up, and fake blood, “At least with those in you won’t need a whole costume with your dark circles and all.” Gavin flipped him off but stuck the fangs in the pocket of his hoodie anyway. “If you get make up on my car seats you’re cleaning it up. Now let’s go, Tina will kill us if we’re late.”

The ride to the party was uneventful. Leo played some of his band’s new music and Gavin hummed along to the few songs he knew. After he had found a place to park on the street he put in the fake fangs with a very put upon sigh. At least this way they wouldn’t have to deal with trick-or-treaters. Leo grinned at him and got out. Gavin followed suit, taking Leo’s hand in his as soon as he had caught up. He personally preferred St. Patrick’s Day to Halloween, but this was Leo’s favorite Holiday, and Gavin would give anything to see him this happy. Tina and Chloe greeted them at the door, Chloe dressed as an angel and Tina as the devil, in a sort of couples costume. Tina gave Gavin a look until he smiled showing the fake fangs. He was technically dressed up. He spent a few hour following Leo around and then went out for a smoke. He had taken the fangs out about an hour in and had no plans on putting them back. He was about to light his cigarette when Leo found him again. “Ready to head home?” He took the cigarette from Gavin and put it away. He was trying to help him quit. “I guess.” Gavin said with a shrug. “Thanks for coming with me.” Leo said as they walked to the car, “I know you hate stuff like this.” “It made you happy, that was all I was after.” He responded, pulling Leo into a brief kiss.

//Sorry its so short

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