Blood, sweat and tears have always been the stuff of love on Greys Anatomy , the record-smashing medical drama that blends ambulance-chasing with swoonworthy, if tumultuous, romance.

The shows 15th season, which wrapped last week, introduced fans to one of its most buzzed-about pairings in recent years: Dr. Levi Schmitt (Jake Borelli ) and Dr. Nico Kim (Alex Landi ), who represent the series first-ever relationship between two gay male doctors.

Over the course of the season, Levi and Nico nicknamed Schmico by the shows cultlike fanbase enjoyed elevator smooches and a windstorm hookup at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital while weathering their share of hardships. The journey has been a professional whirlwind for Landi, who has become a globally recognized sex symbol as a result. But the 26-year-old New York native would like fans to interpret his breakout success as less about his chiseled physique and more of a boon for intersectional representation specifically, for both the LGBTQ and Asian American communities on the small screen.

They told me they wanted this guy to be a strong character I believe the character description was a masculine bro type, but openly gay, Landi, who boasted only a handful of on-screen credits before landing the role, told HuffPost. I feel like those are the types of roles Im attracted to the more powerful characters who are confident but not necessarily arrogant.