Raine Whispers will always love Eda, no matter where they are, there will always be a part of them that will have Eda's needs and feelings in mind, like comfortable brownian noise. However, when they had told Eda they should see other people, they had meant it.
And so they loved and learnt. They loved a fushia-haired witch that taught them how to use words to express themself, instead of only with music, they loved a three-horned demon that taught them the beauty and terror of knowing someone at their worst, and they loved a gui-scar player that taught them how to be a leader.
When Raine broke through the brain washing by merit of Terra's horrendous tea brewing skills, they were mad. Did Belos thought they had been radicalized in just one month? Did he thought that Eda was the one that gave them their rebellious streak? How couldn't they see that the reason Eda and Raine had work for almost a decade was because both of them where ready to destroy a forest if it mean it will grow to be better, stronger, she by fire and them by water? Couldn't Belos see all the people that had built them apart from her: their parents, their students, their other lovers?
If Darius hadn't intervened, Raine will have easily destroyed the palace with the help of a gui-scar and firebees just so that they could shout: I am more than just her! I have love more than just her!
Darius asked them out, Eberwolf tagged along, and they talk politics while slurping a cocktail of fairy tears and pineapple. Raine apologized about their murder attempt, and the three of them started making plans to stop Belos.
Darius taught them how to act through the shadows, how to wait for the moment, and to control their chaos. Then he kissed them and invited them to spend the night in his quarters, after they finished he asked them:
"You okay?" He made a weird sign that meant, physically, mentally, emotionally.
And because they had love more than Eda they knew how to say:
"Not yet."
Darius Deamonne knew that he loved in an unusual way. He didn't understand compromising the Rebellion's plan out of the slight possibility that it would put Edalyn in less danger that she actually was, he didn't understand why Raine said sorry when they left in the night instead of the morning.
He didn't understand having relationships that were more important than the one with himself, not even his with Eber, which was the most important he had after that, and that one was platonic. He just couldn't understand people who rank romance above everything else.
Maybe it was his look out for number one mentality he had develop at living in the Witchlings & Demonlings Home that became less sharp when he met his mentor. He knew he sometimes came off as cold, but it work for him and he hadn't heard any complaints.
It was freeing having multiple romantic partners, having multiple forms of said romantic relationship, but to still get home and it just being him with his cozy throne-sofa and gossip magazines.
Camila Noceda loved how society told her too: a muscular masculine cisgender man (lighter than her because if there is something that Latine communities don't lack is colorism). Manny had been all of that, but loving him had still felt like rebelion.
They met in a Cosmic Frontier convention, both in cosplay, both feeling a little bit like outsiders to the scene. He was weird, and kind, and didn't know how to take selfies.
He didn't care that Camila will start ranting for hours about the relationship between Captain Avery and Chief O' Bailey, he didn't care that whenever she got nervous she would sway and start listing different factors about the health of birds. He didn't care because he would sometimes say things that seemingly came out of nowhere, or need instructions to be repeated 3 times in 4 different ways before he could get them.
They dated, they started living together, they married and they had a child together, just as the story goes.
Luz grew up to be the same kind of weird as them, but neither saw something wrong in it. With Manny, Camila not only loved him and her daughter but she also loved herself and her eccentricities.
Eda Clawthorne's love was wild fire, it took and took as many as it could of herself in order to warm those around them. Raine knew this and hated it as much as they love her but knew there wasn't another way in which Eda knew how to love, so they just focused on returning the same warmth so that she didn't grew cold.
Having a romantic relationship with her best friend made the lines that separated platonic and romantic blurry, until all that it was left was just love. She started to imagine a world, or rather a future, in which they could tare apart ideas about marriage and milestones and look for their own pointers of love.
But then Raine and Eda broke up. And she started seeing people that took advantage of her bonfire and forgot to do the same for her. People who had ideas set on stone about how relationships should look like, how Eda should act, and what would happened if they weren't followed.
It was after a nasty fight with one of her partners that left King in the crossfire that she decided to cut it off, stop the fire, an only leave a candle burning with which to warm King. But it didn't state like that for long, Luz stumbled through her portal and stroke the flames a new, and Eda was imagining again a future and a family that didn't look like the image Belos wanted to imposed into the Isles, but rather a rag tag group of weirdos that stuck together because they wanted too.