Editing Alexander Belanger (section)

===Relationships ===
He has poached [[Nicolette]] as his semi-official apprentice from Chase. He has her trapped in a complex deal where she trades time to him in exchange for favors, and if the time traded forces her to remain with Institute past her 18th birthday, he gains greater power over her including the right to marry her off.

Every year [[Eliana Graubard]] would give him a gift, one of which was a modeling board, giving the two of them something to collaborate on and giving Eliane greater influence.<ref name=GT>The board in front of him was a gift, Eliana Graubard to Alexander.  It was one of several ''entreaties'', as Alexander had framed them.  She’d given at least one a year, around a birthday or winter holiday, and in the last few years, she’d offered to collaborate.  A mixture of augury and modeling.  This board.  The dollhouse.<br><br>Which was genius, really.  Because Alexander loved collaboration even more than he liked having powerful magical tools, and because it gave Graubard what she wanted.  A chance to move in closer, to see and study Alexander.  Eliana and Alexander would never have worked, but if Alexander had had but a single chink in his armor, Graubard would have suggested him a ''partner'' who would insinuate herself into that chink.  A carefully crafted Graubard daughter or cousin.<br><br>Wye knew Alexander had a quiet trauma about love and romance, a heartbreak he’d never healed, as much as Alexander could smile and act casual as he told the story.  A perfectly trained and crafted partner would a disaster, less sure to work than, well, anything.  Alexander and Durocher were more likely to become a romantic pair than Alexander and Alexander’s ideal woman, and the idea of Alexander and Marie Durocher was laughable. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/03/29 Excerpt] from [[Gone and Done It 17.y]]</ref>
====Scarlet====
A [[Hangmaiden]] that he had a relationship with however her predations ended the relationship,<ref> - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/05 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.x]]</ref> he never healed from the trauma of it and did not seek out any other relationships.<ref name=GT/>