Tentatively gazing across the sea
Alleo has one blue eye and one green- gazing indicates eyes and the sea is a mixture of these two colors. Is also meant to indicate his Falls citizenship, which is mostly water
They're not who they wanted you to be
*You're on my part. His parents raised him to be a cold hearted warrior but he ended up loving his younger sisters, changing enough to rebel, help kill his father, and eventually run away
Kissing queens on sooty skin, teaching poisonous ideals
Lineage reference. Lakota got her LT leading the Foothills, giving her a status as a prior leader and she has black skin and her LT is the Poisoner - history clue as well, he taught Lakota poisons as a foal
I didn't know your heart could love - were you not taught to despise weakness?
Relationship ref - fell in love with Rasta, the only one aside his sisters he loves, despite being taught to despise and kill the weak of which Rasta is (both in her blindness and her fearful/self degrading personality)
I hope you don't count your blessings, too. There aren't many.
Alleo has a fascination/obsession with numbers as listed under his "Quirks" and the "too" is indicative of a habit of counting something else as well. And well, he doesn't have many blessings!
Plot with me here!