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Relationships - Essay and WIP
This is not a CR chart, this is a tl;dr.
Someone like Reynard, having lived forever and having a penchant for taking a liking to people, is liable to having a lot of relationships.
Basically, they can be separated into two categories: Pets and Equals, although the lines blur at times.
Anyone can make the Pet category. Basically you just have to catch his interest for some reason. You can be a lawyer, a revolutionary or a werewolf. Some of them will get more, some less respect. Consent can be optional here and these relationships don't generally mean a thing to him unless he's actually faced with the person in question.
The Equals do have something in common. For one thing, they are immortals, for another, they are in one or more ways much more powerful than Reynard, which makes for an element of danger he enjoys. A possible exception is his wife, though how exactly he views his wife is debatable
The Wolf, his wolf, would be an example for someone he sees as an equal (never mind the things he does to him and the way he talks about him), though whether he likes him is debatable. The feeling is between the notion of needing him, like the straight man, like the other side of a coin, like an antithesis, and disgust at the very concept of his existence. Where Reynard can be good, neutral or evil, but always chaotic, the wolf will always be lawful and the perfect target for Reynard's plans, at the same time the perfect executioner for his punishment. Reynard counts more wins on his side, though, and he does miss his wolf, when he's not seen him for too long.
While the wolf has been there from the start, his archenemy from the very first tale, he has found more he considers important, he cares for, he thinks of as equal.
There is Robin Goodfellow, puck and his love since before he was that, back when Robin still was Bran, the half-fae son of a human mother. Robin had grown up facing the difficulty of being different, being better than those around him and being feared and shunned for it. Reynard found him when he was still young, more man than boy, but not by much. He was fascinated right away and he wanted him and he showed him how he wanted him and he did the things he wanted with him and after a day and a night of passion turning to love, Robin was left to wake up alone with a memory and marks on his body.
But this was just the start, because - for him - Reynard returned. Not just once, either. He was there when Bran grew up and watched him grow more bitter. When Reynard was with him, he never had much trouble to show Bran what life could be, what life was for Reynard. Full of opportunities, full of tricks to be played and love to be made. But Reynard wasn't the type - would never be - to just stay at one place or just with one person, no matter how much he felt and cared for them. So when he wasn't around, Robin's world seemed all the bleaker and perhaps it was no wonder that one day Reynard returned to find that Robin had found someone else.
Reynard didn't listen too much reason that first time after finding Robin taken. Hurt as he was, he felt betrayed, he felt abandoned, he felt self-hatred, even. But even though he told Robin he'd not return, in the end he couldn't stay away.
When he did return, so did his mocking and his snark, showing itself in a complete unwillingness to bother remembering Robin's girl's name and a certain tendency to keep making Robin admit that he loves him, that he's always loved him and that he will always love him. He'd also point out that he can smell his desire and he'd rile him up, he'd turn him on, but in all those years, during each of those visits, he'd talk, he'd touch, he'd come close, but he'd never even kiss him.