Ok, you know it was going to come.

How did Alaric and Gesla meet ( what can I say, love bitch character full of flaws like Gesla)?I mean, I'm looking overall at the world where they live and it seem almost impossible to find or choose the person you really love there, except that these two somehow did...

Or are they actually faking it like most noble family in 40k and cheat on each other, actually don't care if their children are happy/safe/with a good partner and just think about securing alliance( if so, I am officially NO longer team GeslAric)?

Thankx and have a good day!

Alaric and Gisla are definitely in love, don't you worry!

Both come from fairly well-to-do noble families on Guisorn III, and they were betrothed at a fairly early age for the sake of an alliance. They likely didn't interact much as children, since Alaric was in Knight training, and then was away on campaign. But there were probably a few balls were they were expected to speak and dance.

As it so happened, theirs was a marriage that grew from mutual physical attraction into friendship into love.

Flails in Knight!AU

Meeting the family...

In an adjoining receiving room, Lady Gisla had then introduced her to the two women that would become her sisters in marriage, the Ladies Agatha and Sylvie de Gauvain. By the look their mother gave them, Aurelia guessed they had been lurking there despite being told not to. Aurelia liked them both upon their meeting, finding not just that they were of an age (though perhaps Lady Agatha being slightly older), but also that their countenances were charming and their questions pleasant. Lady Agatha, the oldest of the two, had asked after her hobbies and if she liked to read. Lady Sylvie had wondered what the food was like on Alera II and if she’d had any pets growing up (Lady Sylvie had been allowed only fish, due to Lady Gisla’s allergies). 

Lord Alaric de Gauvain had been seated with his son in the guest wing’s study, engaged in a game of regicide. Neither man looked up when she and the rest of the de Gauvain women entered. Aurelia could see from the pieces that her soon-to-be groom was losing.

“Your brother is losing,” Aurelia had whispered to Agatha.

“Against father?” Agatha had replied, a half-smile on her lips. “He always lets him win.”