#however i do find the idea of a pre-Fog hux/gabe AU where they have to hide their workplace fling from the rest of the crew to be very funn

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i had some kind of pervert epiphany so heres a bunch of semi-related gabe thoughts (originally titled perversematerialforfreaks.txt)

Gabe is some kind of aro-allo, but leaves his sexuality unlabeled. Both because he's still figuring himself out and because he doesn't really care enough to try and pin it down that much. He's attracted to masculinity regardless of gender and has more of an aesthetic attraction towards femininity, but he is particularly drawn towards expressions of inhumanity (i.e., machines). Gender is not super important to him but he's guaranteed to get a little flustered if you're bigger than him and have a circuit board attached to you. Gabe likes what Gabe likes.

However I do headcanon that he and Sarah had a little bit of a FWB thing going on (@hiddenvalleyrantula this is your fault). Nothing particularly serious, just some fooling around to blow off steam and vent stress after their long, tedious work shifts on the Caracas III.

His sexual interest in robots and machinery did not start with Hux's "perfect body" (citation needed) and it's not quite as uncommon as he thinks it is. Gabe began his life in a petri dish and was kept in a state of cryostasis for six years until Huxlee was authorized to begin work on Dvarka. Only then was Gabe's sample thawed out and injected with the appropriate cocktail of growth hormones to prepare him for the upcoming mission. This process was automated from start to finish - the hands that brought Gabe into the world were mechanical. The only human beings to touch and hold Gabe were the lab technicians responsible for fixing his VR helmet and sizing him for his cryosleep pod on the Caracas III. Although he can't remember this part of his life, Gabe more or less imprinted on machinery. You know how a parrot hand-raised by people will lose its wild instincts and might see its human handlers as a mate instead of members of its own species? It's like that. This is a fairly common sexual fetish among Huxlee's clone labor units, given the fully-automated rearing process and the inherent loss of humanity that comes with being a clone. Gabe gets it twice over, though, because he's also been programmed as an engineer and would have found machinery beautiful even if he didn't already have a massive robot fetish. It's something he found embarrassing at first, and he never breathed a word about it to anybody, lest Dmitri overhear him and take it as a sign of psychological instability. But anyone who spent even a little bit of time watching Gabe interact with machinery during the course of an average working day could probably figure it out. Gabe has a way of interacting with equipment that can come across as almost reverent. He claims that he's just being thorough.

Gabe almost exclusively prefers to bottom. Will top under the right conditions but he's like 80:20 in favor of bottoming.

5". Uncut. Carpet does not match the drapes (dark brown). This is standard for the J15L19 clone model and was decided for Gabe long before the batch of clones that produced him was mixed up by some bored lab technician. He keeps things tidy down there and is fastidious about his hygiene. Since he's from the future there's probably some kind of dumb trend where people laser-shave their pubes into fractal patterns or something. Gabe should be allowed to do this. But he can't operate the laser-razor with shaky hands or else he will slip and burn hsi penis and scream like Tom & Jerry. Then he got a HUX unit responding to the medical incident like "do you require assistance. I will wake Dmitri to initiate treatment" like NO I GOT THIS THANKS NEVER TELL DMITRI ANYTHING. Where was I going with this

Above all else, Gabe is sensory-seeking and a lot of his fantasies revolve around various forms of sensory play. He's the 'drip candle wax on my chest' guy. Being restrained/blindfolded/manhandled is very fun for Gabe under the right circumstances. After the violence that took place on the Caracas III, however, he's become more averse to things like impact play, pain, and restrictive positions/situations that give him shortness of breath.

Gabe is somewhat touch starved and can be very cuddly. This is by design. Though Huxlee discourages workplace relationships between members of its clone labor force, the company does program its clones to be gregarious and seek the company of other crew members - this is to limit the potential for personality clashes and prevent antisocial/potentially subversive behavior from manifesting. All of this is to say that Gabe will cling to his partner after sex like he's a koala and they are a particularly beautiful eucalyptus tree.

Praise kink. Praise him please. Gabe internally blames himself for not realizing what Hux was planning and believes that he could have stopped the massacre on the Caracas III if he hadn't been so focused on the gaps in his memory at the time. He feels godawful a lot of the time and desperately wants to be told that he is Good.

That jar of cryogel in Hux's add-ons can be used for more than one purpose. Its no-friction properties come in handy in certain situations of both the two-player and single-player variety. I'll just leave it at that.