Ooh, ooh, I got a crush on you.

For years, Reynaldo has had a crush on someone he saw once and will never see again. This crush has persisted through several dates and flings, a few relationships, and even Isaac.

Isaac knows about it. He thinks it’s hilarious.

Reynaldo and Isaac have decided that if they have children, regardless of gender, their names will start with S and contain a Y.

They’ve also decided to hyphenate the children’s surnames. They’re still debating which order the surnames should be in (Isaac likes Sowka-Glick, Rey likes Glick-Sowka), and whether or not they should hyphenate their own surnames.

Being Alone Sucks

Isaac wants at least two children. He’s not entirely sure how many, sometimes he thinks three or four, sometimes he just thinks “lots,” but he’s sure that if he has children, he wants at least two.

He has a specific reason for this: He saw how isolated his mother and Reynaldo felt, being the only ones of their species. Even Isaac sometimes felt strange, not quite being the same species as either of his parents- but he had his siblings.

Whatever species his children are, he thinks they shouldn’t have to be the only one of their kind.

My…

Reynaldo: “They-” ::briefest of glances to Ryan and Shelly:: “-make my ghost nervous.”

While Reynaldo does have some of the mine/yours mindset, that isn’t why he was referring to Isaac as his ghost. He was deliberately avoiding using anyone’s name, to keep the others from knowing who they were talking about.

He doesn’t particularly think of Isaac as his ghost, or his were-owl, or his thrall, or even his lifemate (it’s just a useful explanation).

He thinks of him as his Isaac.

I do like expensive atlases.

Isaac is a competent melee fighter (best with hand-to-hand and swords), and decent at using his powers in combat, but his real strength is in tactics and strategy. This led to him collecting obscure maps of demonic places and learning to draw his own, because knowing and controlling the terrain is excellent advantage in battle.

After some convincing from Reynaldo, he took up cartography as a hobby and then a career. He found that he enjoyed exploring, and that there was a market for maps in the demon community- people like knowing how to find things. He was even hired sometimes by business owners who wanted people to be able to find them more easily.

He mapped a large portion of the Los Angeles underworld before he died.