#it rules when 50 yr olds realize theyre trans or gay or w ever. Love the prevailing of the queer spirit over time

[danggirlronpa]

Peko?

I don't think Peko recognizes herself as queer until well into her 30s, maybe even her 40s. Peko lives a life mired in repression. She's not very GOOD at making herself an emotionless tool, but any time she feels attraction towards Either of the Kuzuryu siblings, it is tied up in a complex knot of loyalty and guilt and desire to be Useful. Her relationships with the rest of the class are punctuated by the knowledge that she will always put the clan above them, 100% of the time. Peko can have no romance without guilt as a teen. It's part of what makes Peko ships so deliciously tragic.

With all of those hangups going on, I honestly think Peko doesn't even consider romance or sex in ANY capacity for at least half her life. There's so much else to unpack first. She has so much to do, so much to unlearn and so much to learn. It's not even on her radar. She'd just shrug if asked. But no one ever asks. Because she's Peko. She just radiates She's Just Not That Into You. She's got her queerplatonic thing with Fuyuhiko, and that's all she needs. Actual Sexuality Irrelevant. Swords First.

Once she does have a chance to think about it, though - sees that Ibuki and Fuyuhiko have started going grey and realizing she thinks that's kind of hot - Peko is the type of person who would want a rigidly defined sexuality with which to associate. I think she very quickly and with little fanfair comes to the conclusion that she likes men and women. And I think it would change almost nothing about her life except that the next June Ibuki hands her a little pin, because Ibuki has a gaydar with 99.99% accuracy.