#then there's the aftermath of abraham's final attack. gabe was a little late to do anything there

[princepipper]

First of all, I want to say I'm so sorry you had to deal with those invasive anons. While I do like to keep my identity private, please don't feel like you have to keep anonymous questions open if you're not comfortable! And secondly, I was reading your post about Pip's and Gabe's relationship before dating, and you mentioned that Pip is very protective of him! I want to ask if Gabe is the same for her? What would he do if someone hurt Pip in front of him?? 😨

Ahh, it's all good, I can't let people online get to me too much. It's fun to keep anon on, I get to talk to people like you after all. :^) And like I said, I'll just block anyone else who bugs me haha.

And what a concept you've given me, oh my!

To answer you straight away, Gabriel is quite protective of Pip, but he often doesn't have to display it in manners of aggression like she would with him. What I mean by that is with Gabe being who he is, bullies and rude people are very common for him to encounter, and Pipper will literally step up and fight them off if she has to.

But for herself, if she deals with someone rude, she's often capable of handling them. Gabe is more in charge of keeping her from making people mad over misunderstandings. See, Pip tends to be rather... quirky, and her brain doesn't always process things the same as most others. So she can ramble, go off on tangents, and sometimes even bring up things that while technically applicable to the conversation, may confuse or even offend those listening. So Gabe, despite being anti-social, has to learn how to communicate what Pip means to prevent any conflict from arising.

With all that said, Gabriel absolutely would defend Pip in the case of assault! In fact in one of my fics (still in progress), he does speak up when his mother is unfriendly to Pipper, the text mentioning that he doesn't like to see her treated poorly.

And so if someone were to be bold enough to hurt her, let's say physically, Gabe would not take it well at all. Depending how harsh the attack is, he might justify some serious violence as retaliation, not above using self-defence as an excuse. I do think Gabe has enough control as he gets older to know better than to hurt someone too badly (or kill them), but we do see him lose himself to his emotions during the encounter with Swag at the end of his first visit on One's blog... also when he got an ask saying Bitter (his "boyfriend") was in trouble, his first response was asking whose arm he had to break. So it's probably a safe bet that something triggering, like seeing his best friend/partner being hurt, could make him snap.

I don't have any written scenes of such events, but there is an instance regarding another OC of mine named Isaac who has a dangerous obsession with Pip, where he actually grabs her by the hands with Gabe right there. Gabriel sees Pip is distressed and promptly shoves Isaac away haha. That was the only encounter he ever had with Isaac, and Pip ends up having to deal with him herself later on (which is rather disturbing due to what nearly happens).

Anyway. I wouldn't mind an off hand story about Pipper being a bit of a damsel in distress, but in my current timeline, there's not really a lot of room for something like that.

#then there's the aftermath of abraham's final attack. gabe was a little late to do anything there #but he says in the fic that he would have killed abraham himself for hurting his family #ask #pipper #gabe #ths