Gabe Adalhard

Gabe, a character in the Immortal Desires series, is the Senior Class President of Crimson Beech High, and one of your love interests. He/She is first seen in Book 1, Chapter 1.

Appearance
Gabe's gender and looks are determined by the player.

The male version wears an orange pinstriped button down, that is tucked in with the sleeves rolled up. He wears blue trousers with a brown belt. On his left wrist he has two bracelets and a silver watch, along with a silver ring on his pointer finger.

The female version wears a ruffled, red blouse with polka dots that bares her midriff. She has two necklaces and a gold bracelet on her left wrist. She wears faded blue jeans with a black belt with two circles for the buckle.

Personality
Gabe is very popular, out-going, friendly and sweet, and can be considered very protective. This can be seen from how he/she vows to protect you by teaching you self-defense and giving you things such as the Talisman and the silver key in order for you to defend yourself against vampires. Gabe is also not afraid to stand up to Cas. According to Cas, Gabe is very noble and upright.

Gabe feels that vampires aren't natural and that there has to be another way of living that doesn't involve being a freak of nature. The Venandis feel Gabe does not accept who he/she is and believe that spending time with you will change him/her. Cas feels Gabe is self-loathing and self-righteous.

Background
Gabe is descended from the original inhabitants of Crimson Beech, as well as the town's most infamous vampire hunter, Captain Adalhard. While most of his/her family's history had been forgotten over the centuries, Gabe's grandmother, Sarah, took it upon herself to research their history, learning the truth, and pass her knowledge to Gabe.

Book 1

 * Chapter 1: Monsters in a Small Town
 * Chapter 2: Into the Lair
 * Chapter 3: My Date with a Vampire
 * Chapter 4: Small Town Charms
 * Chapter 5: The Autumn Festival
 * Chapter 6: Second Chances
 * Chapter 7: Tensions Flare
 * Chapter 8: Toxicology 101
 * Chapter 9: Sneaking Out
 * Chapter 10: Enemy At The Gates
 * Chapter 11: On the Run
 * Chapter 12: Enemy Camp
 * Chapter 13: Homecoming
 * Chapter 14: Evacuation
 * Chapter 15: Your Final Stand
 * Chapter 16: The Aftermath

Your Character
When you arrive on your first day of school, Gabe takes an instant liking towards you and gives you a tour of the place. Afterwards, he/she invites you to a party in the woods after school, and there, you can play musical chairs with him/her, his/her friends, and Cas. In the same party, you find out that Cas is a vampire, and Gabe shows up and helps you escape. He/She also gives you a Sensory Talisman, which alerts you if there are nearby vampires with hostile intentions. After leaving the Nexus, you tell Gabe about what happened, and he/she decides to help you dig up information about the Crimson Beech vampires by visiting the school's library. In Chapter 3, Gabe offers to teach you how to fight and defend yourself, and if you choose to do so, he/she gives you a silver key that helps you protect yourself against vampires. When you go to see your mom at the hospital in Chapter 4, you see Gabe playing the guitar and singing to the pediatric patients, and you have the opportunity to join him/her and do the same. Later, he/she takes you on a date to the arcade where Libby exposes Gabe's secret, that the latter is descended from vampire hunters. Gabe then tells you about his/her bloodline, and takes you to town's graveyard and tells you about his/her ancestors and about the Crimson Beech vampires. During the Autumn Festival, you hang out with him/her and his/her friends, and you can ride the rollercoaster together. If you do, he/she tells you about his/her first kiss, and that he/she wants it to be with you. Gabe also tells you that he/she will make sure you and your mom are safe.

Later in Chapter 5, several masked vampires attack you in the gym, and to your surprise, they push you towards a feral Gabe, exposing another secret, that he/she is a vampire as well. Gabe doesn't recognize you at first because he/she is hungry for blood and is ready to devour you. Cas shows up and stops Gabe, telling you that the reason Gabe is acting that way is because he/she hasn't drank blood in a month. After they kill the instigators, Astoria catches you all in the gym, angry at the deaths of her covenmates and brings you back to the Nexus. There, Gabe apologizes for everything and tells you that he/she understands if you don't want to hang out anymore. Gabe also explains about how he/she was turned and about how much he/she hates and is ashamed of being a vampire. Gabe tells you that he/she has always been truthful with you, except this lie by omission. Once you're cleared of the charges against the covens and leave the Nexus, you can choose to have him/her escort you home. If you do, you can stop by an ice-cream shop, and then have your first kiss together outside of your house. In Chapter 7, with all Gabe's secrets now in the open, he/she introduces you to his/her vampire friends, and you can hang out and go rock climbing together.

When your mother starts getting closer and closer to the truth about the murders, you, Gabe and Cas decide to partner up and stop her by breaking into her office. Once you're in, Gabe finds the autopsy report and edits it, thus removing any evidence that points to vampires. Later, Gabe discovers that one of the victims was a Clement vampire called Maxwell Lugosi, and you have the choice to sneak into the morgue to examine the body. If you do so, Gabe seems sad and says that Maxwell didn't deserve this. Afterwards, the three of you start talking about the turning process, and Cas reveals to you that Gabe turned a human. However, Gabe says that he/she never wanted to, and that the human he/she turned begged him/her not to turn them. Because of your interest and enthusiasm about the turning ritual, Gabe and Cas offer to take you to the turning chamber, and tell you more about it. If you do, you have the chance to kiss one of the two in front of the other. In Chapter 9, after you are grounded by your mother, Gabe sneaks in to your room, and you can choose to spend time with him/her by doing chores together using Gabe's vampire speed. Near the end of the chapter when you and your mother are taken by the Covens to be killed, Gabe attempts to stop them and save you, but he/she is knocked down.

After Nicole tells everyone about the dead Venandi hunting party, you, Gabe and your mother manage to sneak out of the Nexus. Once Seth takes your mother to a safehouse, you and Gabe decide to look for Cas. At first Gabe is hesitant because he/she is worried that it might put you in danger, but eventually you convince him/her to do so. Shortly after you find Cas, the three of you can examine the crime scene together and gather clues. By the end of it, you decide to team up and travel out of the lay lines to find out the mastermind behind everything. During the trip, you can examine a vampire cave with him/her and Cas, find a deadly talisman, and get to know more about vampire hunters. You can also get closer to Gabe through several instances, such as by having him/her drink your blood after he/she gets sun poisoning, by staying alone with him/her in your tent, or by drinking his/her blood to gain powers and fight the Supreme One's minions.

Cas Harlow
Gabe seems to have a strong dislike for Cas and his/her behavior, considering the latter to be dangerous due to being a vampire. Cas dislikes Gabe as well, and in Chapter 3, Cas tells you that Gabe has a secret that he/she has yet to tell you. In Chapter 5, when the masked Venandis push you towards a feral vampire Gabe, Cas shows up and tells Gabe to snap out of it because it's you that he/she's about to devour. When you're captured by Astoria and Gabe comes back to his/her senses, he/she thanks Cas for stepping in and saving you. Regardless, they still have a fight about Gabe lying to you and almost killing you, but eventually they both calm down.

In Chapter 7, when tensions between the two covens erupt at school and later between in the woods, Cas helps you and Gabe calm their covenmates again. Gabe realizes that Cas cares about you too, and that is one thing they both have in common. When your mother starts digging deeper into the murders, you, Gabe and Cas decide to partner up and break into her office and sabotage the autopsy report. The two also decide to team up in Chapter 10, after the Venandi hunting party is found dead. It is clear that they haven't resolved their issues however, as they constantly fight during the trip. When Shiloh is exposed as a traitor and a follower of the Supreme One, Cas blames Gabe and the Clements, which results in the both of them almost tearing each other apart.

Lewyn Junius
While the nature of their relationship is not clear, you see Gabe talking to Lewyn near the end of Chapter 4 outside your house. In Chapter 6, he/she reveals that Lewyn sent him/her to spy on you since the incident in the woods. However, Gabe says that the only thing he/she told Lewyn was that you were keeping the end of your deal, and if you romance Gabe, he/she says that his/her feelings for you are real.

When Gabe's grandmother sought out the vampires to learn more about them, and Astoria Yao captured and tortured her as punishment for the Adalhard ancestors' crimes against the covens, Gabe offered himself/herself in Sarah's place. Lewyn convinced Astoria not to kill Gabe, but instead turn the younger man/woman into a vampire. Gabe doesn't believe Lewyn did it to save him/her but to exact punishment as a fate worse than death. Afterwards, Gabe joined Lewyn's coven.

Ancestors
According to Gabe, his/her forebears were cruel. He/She doesn't know much about his/her family history, aside from the fact that Captain Adalhard, his/her great-great-grandfather, was a chief vampire hunter. He was involved in thinning out the vampire population in Crimson Beech back when they were running rampant, and he was really good because he reduced the vampire population to a controllable number, giving the humans a fighting chance. However, once this was done, he hunted the remaining vampires for sport, tortured them, and then kept their heads. Due to his/her tragic past, Gabe sometimes wishes that he/she could have gone vampire hunting because the vampires took everything from him/her. Gabe also says that he/she hates vampires, and that sometimes he/she doesn't feel bad about what his/her ancestors did to them.

Sarah Adalhard
Sarah was Gabe's grandmother. She had been doing research into the family's history for a genealogy project, when she discovered vampires and about their existence in Crimson Beech. She told Gabe the truth and gave him/her the Sensory Talisman, a family relic she found in her research in order to keep him/her safe. Sarah also found out that the Adalhard hunters developed a whole stash of silver-based talismans that they used to torture the vampires they caught. However, when she figured out their location and tried to collect them all, she found the stash empty.

When she sought out vampires to learn more about them, she encountered Astoria Yao who had previously been tortured by Captain Adalhard centuries ago. Astoria was not the type to forgive and forget, and instead captured and tortured Sarah as punishment for the Adalhard ancestors' crimes against the covens. Before Astoria was about to kill her, Gabe offered himself/herself in Sarah's place. Lewyn convinced Astoria not to kill Gabe, but instead turn the younger man/woman into a vampire. With Gabe taking Sarah's place, it is unknown if Sarah later died due to injuries sustained from the torture or from other vampire-related events.

Terri
Gabe meets your mother for the first time in Chapter 5. However, if you had already told your mother about liking Gabe, she seems to approve of him/her and likes to tease you about him/her. In the beginning, your mother seems to like Gabe, and tells him/her to have you back from the Autumn Festival by 10 pm, but instead, Gabe says that he/she'll have you back by 9:50 pm. When you return home after the incident with the vampires attacking you, your mother is angry at you and Gabe for keeping you out longer, especially after the promise he/she made.

Libby
Libby is Gabe's friend and classmate. They work at the arcade together. She tells you that Gabe is descended from vampire hunters, according to town legend.

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Trivia

 * A male version of Gabe is shown on the cover of Immortal Desires.
 * He/She is the fourty-second
 * He/She is the twenty-sixth
 * The male version shares the same forename as Gabriel Amarne from The Crown & The Flame, Book 1 and Gabe Ricci from the Laws of Attraction series. The female version shares the same forename as Gabriela Vasquez from The Freshman series and Gabbie Navarro from Murder at Homecoming.
 * In Chapter 6, Gabe says that he/she never watched the The Crown and the Flame, but he/she loves Blades of Light and Shadow.
 * He/She also likes pineapple on pizza, and his/her favourite ice-cream flavor is pistachio.
 * Gabe knows how to read and decipher ancient vampire scripts from his/her youth.
 * In Chapter 8, Cas states that Gabe has turned a human. Gabe feels guilty about it, knowing that he/she caused their fear and pain.