Here's the thing: they're definitely writing two distinct relationships with the two boys. She's actually better at communicating with Tarvek: they fight less, talk more, and seem to understand each other better. She turns to Tarvek when she wants comfort or reassurance. The novel does make it clear she also finds him not just cute, but sexy...but it's a dark chocolate thing, not a brass band: seductive and lower key than Gil's Big Brass Band effect on her.
Gil's sexy, fun to work with and fight with, charming, maddening, fascinating, confusing. She and he love to spark together, that's really clear. They're the two hot-heads, they're both inclined to action. He's a sunshine lover: if Tarvek's smoke and candlelight, Gil's rainbows and parades.
If Tarvek and Agatha do get that kiss, I am not sure how either will react to it...and frankly, from what I think I see, his "best" kiss may prove to be something slow, sexy and quiet when they're neither of them under too much other pressure.
I felt a little for the poor boy when he was talking to Violetta after The Great Kiss. It nearly melted his glasses... and he felt he had nothing to offer that could top it.
That does make me tend to think Lu is right about his lack of experience, and feel strongly that he still thinks Gil's got more practice in than he really does. It sounds too much like an inexperienced and insecure young man who figures he's just not in the same ballpark: between sensing that Agatha's more interested in Gil, and fearing he's not nothing to match his rival's abilities, he's counting himself out of the running.
Re: Agatha and Sexuality
Gil's sexy, fun to work with and fight with, charming, maddening, fascinating, confusing. She and he love to spark together, that's really clear. They're the two hot-heads, they're both inclined to action. He's a sunshine lover: if Tarvek's smoke and candlelight, Gil's rainbows and parades.
If Tarvek and Agatha do get that kiss, I am not sure how either will react to it...and frankly, from what I think I see, his "best" kiss may prove to be something slow, sexy and quiet when they're neither of them under too much other pressure.
I felt a little for the poor boy when he was talking to Violetta after The Great Kiss. It nearly melted his glasses... and he felt he had nothing to offer that could top it.
That does make me tend to think Lu is right about his lack of experience, and feel strongly that he still thinks Gil's got more practice in than he really does. It sounds too much like an inexperienced and insecure young man who figures he's just not in the same ballpark: between sensing that Agatha's more interested in Gil, and fearing he's not nothing to match his rival's abilities, he's counting himself out of the running.