70s!Gene is married, and sleeps around. 80s!Gene is all about Alex, and still sleeps around when he gets the chance. So straight you could use him to draw lines. His philosophy is typically misogynistic on the surface, apart from the fact he really likes strong women who stand up to him as an equal. He gets right off on that, but could never admit it in front of the lads.
Javert and Valjean are both middle-aged virgins (or Javert was until Milliways; sorry, bro!). Javert always raised himself above such human concerns as love and relationships; partly because he was obsessed with being irreproachable, and partly because he thinks he's so firmly outside of society that it's Not For Him. Valjean was working too hard to support his family as a young man for a girlfriend, and then went to prison for nineteen years where everything a normal human might feel was worked out of him. He came out thinking he wasn't fit for anything or anyone, and then he was saved for God and knew he had to set himself apart, and never sin or be a man, and so...ugh, I could go on, but the upshot is that for both of them, love is for Other People.
Which is why they obviously have to end up together.
Courfeyrac....alllll about Valentines Day, bb. If he were at home, and it were a thing the way it is now, he'd have the chocolates and flowers and bad Romantic poetry and pull out all the stops in his quest to get laid for love. He's a proper lady's man. Single at the moment, due to being dead and in Milliways, but he'll get out there as soon as I pull my finger out.
Bruce Wayne - entirely X orientated. Women are to maintain the playboy cover, but he won't touch anybody else. Without M'ways influence, he'd have remained in love with Rachel and probs ended up with Selina, but not now. X is it. He'll probably buy flowers and chocolates, though it's mainly to see the look she'll give him when he does.
Bruce Banner - straight, single, and likely to remain so. He's afraid of hurting another woman by Hulking out, he wants to maintain control and is nervous of sex making him lose it. Still in love with Betty too, though he knows it can never happen as things stand. So mainly just depressed about inevitable loneliness. He'd do something understated for V-Day if he were in a relationship.
Pearly Soames - Valentines Day. *cackle* Well...he might produce a real-live (or...until-recently live) heart for someone, if he was trying to make a point? He's not the romantic type. He likes sleeping with women, and is entirely incapable of emotional connection.
Jim Moriarty - canon plays him as openly flirtatious with both sexes, and camp enough that it's easy to assume he leans towards men. He's just charming to everyone, when he wants to be. Mainly he can't be bothered with 'normals', so I imagine he might use people for sex, and never ask their name and never see them again. And not very often, either; I see him as getting his kicks from power plays and manipulation more than sex. Relationships don't mean anything to him. He's another who's not capable.
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Javert and Valjean are both middle-aged virgins (or Javert was until Milliways; sorry, bro!). Javert always raised himself above such human concerns as love and relationships; partly because he was obsessed with being irreproachable, and partly because he thinks he's so firmly outside of society that it's Not For Him. Valjean was working too hard to support his family as a young man for a girlfriend, and then went to prison for nineteen years where everything a normal human might feel was worked out of him. He came out thinking he wasn't fit for anything or anyone, and then he was saved for God and knew he had to set himself apart, and never sin or be a man, and so...ugh, I could go on, but the upshot is that for both of them, love is for Other People.
Which is why they obviously have to end up together.
Courfeyrac....alllll about Valentines Day, bb. If he were at home, and it were a thing the way it is now, he'd have the chocolates and flowers and bad Romantic poetry and pull out all the stops in his quest
to get laidfor love. He's a proper lady's man. Single at the moment, due to being dead and in Milliways, but he'll get out there as soon as I pull my finger out.Bruce Wayne - entirely X orientated. Women are to maintain the playboy cover, but he won't touch anybody else. Without M'ways influence, he'd have remained in love with Rachel and probs ended up with Selina, but not now. X is it. He'll probably buy flowers and chocolates, though it's mainly to see the look she'll give him when he does.
Bruce Banner - straight, single, and likely to remain so. He's afraid of hurting another woman by Hulking out, he wants to maintain control and is nervous of sex making him lose it. Still in love with Betty too, though he knows it can never happen as things stand. So mainly just depressed about inevitable loneliness. He'd do something understated for V-Day if he were in a relationship.
Pearly Soames - Valentines Day. *cackle* Well...he might produce a real-live (or...until-recently live) heart for someone, if he was trying to make a point? He's not the romantic type. He likes sleeping with women, and is entirely incapable of emotional connection.
Jim Moriarty - canon plays him as openly flirtatious with both sexes, and camp enough that it's easy to assume he leans towards men. He's just charming to everyone, when he wants to be. Mainly he can't be bothered with 'normals', so I imagine he might use people for sex, and never ask their name and never see them again. And not very often, either; I see him as getting his kicks from power plays and manipulation more than sex. Relationships don't mean anything to him. He's another who's not capable.