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 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.

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.

Immortal Desires

 * 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

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 mum at the hospital in Chapter 4, you see Gabe playing the guitar and singing to the kids there, and you can join him/her and do the same. Later, he/she takes you on a date to the arcade her friend Libby is working at, and there, Libby exposes Gabe's secret, which is that he/she is descended from vampire hunters. Gabe then tells you about her bloodline, and takes you to town's graveyard and tells you about her family's fate and about the rest of 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.

Later in the same chapter, some masked vampires attack you in the gym, and to your surprise, they push you towards a feral Gabe, exposing yet another secret, that he/she is a vampire as well. Gabe doesn't recognise you at first because he/she is hungry for blood and is ready to devour you, until Cas shows up and stops him/her, saying that the reason Gabe acts like that is because he/she hasn't drank blood in a month. When you're captured by Astoria and held in the Nexus, Gabe apologises for everything and tells you that he/she understands if you don't want to hang out anymore. He/She also explains about how she was turned and about how much he/she hates and is ashamed of being a vampire, and says that minus this secret, he/she has never told you anything less than the truth. Once you're cleared of the charges 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 do rock climbing together.

Cas Harlow
Gabe seems to have a strong dislike for Cas and his/her behaviour, and considers him/her 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.

Lewyn Junius
While the nature of their relationship is not clear, you see Gabe talking to him 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.

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 some great-great-grandfather of his/hers 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 got the vampire population down 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 they took everything from him/her. He/She 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 a lot of research into the family for some genealogy project, and that's how she found out about vampires and about their existence in Crimson Beech. She then told Gabe the truth and gave him/her the Sensory Talisman, which was 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.

Your Character's Mother
They meet for the first time in Chapter 5, but if you already told your mother about liking Gabe, she seems to approve of him/her and likes teasing you about him/her. Your mother seems to like Gabe, and tells him/her to have you back from the Autumn Festival by 10, but instead, Gabe says that he/she'll have you back by 9:50. When you return home after the incident with the vampires attacking you, your mother is angry at you and Gabe for keeping you out this long, 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.

Male

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Miscellaneous

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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
 * Gabriel shares the same forename as Gabriel Amarne from The Crown & The Flame, Book 1 and Gabe Ricci from the Laws of Attraction series. Gabriela shares the same forename as Gabriela Vasquez from The Freshman series.
 * In Chapter 5 it is revealed that he/she is a vampire, and that he/she hasn't drank blood in a month.
 * 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.