#love you & bluelovestoship's sense of escalation tbh. y'all really know how to take an idea & run w/it it's a lot of fun to see!!

[mango-dolphin]

EHEHEHE @shieldherostuffs that's a really fun post!! i've always felt that motoyasu (at least for a good while) was the type of person who'd get really good at obfuscating his true feelings from himself. not so much lying to himself—akin to how you started off your queer motoyasu post: he knows [he's queer, at least in this context]. i think you did a great job representing that particular vibe with your prompt, and it was really touching and interesting to see how motoyasu found safety in coming out to someone he knew he had hurt. (ALSO HELL YEAH NAOFUMI x L'ARC x THERESE MOMENT KJFNSEJKFNSEK)

i will admit though. i have , a wildly, different take entirely wrt how motoyasu approaches sexuality, much less his own

i think. it'd be Incredibly funny. if, through accident and happenstance, motoyasu gave constant mixed signals on whether or not he was queer or just a strangely supportive / knowledgeable ally. absolutely the schrodinger's cat of pansexuality here. the vibe i'm trying to articulate here has a difficult balance to maintain but it's like... how do i describe it...

i tried to allude in the tags of the original post that motoyasu would have to know what a bear is in order to claim it'd be his friend kenichi's type. not only that, but he'd have to be comfortable enough in 1.) knowing the terminology and 2.) his friends knowing he knows the terminology to mention such a thing so casually. and yet, he claims he never thought about his taste in guys...? (which. knowing motoyasu. lends a lot of plausible deniability. this man truly has brain empty syndrome sometimes... so perhaps he could even find ways to invoke that assumption of him)

he could conveniently always have an out if you confront him on the gay question just by playing into being obtuse. but he's always been loyal/supportive enough as a person where it just so happens that people's preferences in love aren't that big of a factor to him. not in the sense that it "doesn't matter to him," but rather he can conceptualize it as part of someone rather than a disparate trait of theirs.

he sees an elderly lesbian couple and he's like "aw, how sweet! they must be such great friends!" and it's very tempting to point out to him that those women are, in fact, married and in love. and then they kiss. and motoyasu coos and is like "i hope i find someone like that!" like! okay buddy! either you're that stupid, are trying to be an ally in the weirdest way possible, or you want to kiss your best friend.

that is the vibe i'm trying to strike here: while motoyasu's knowledge of the LGBT community is not in question, his intentions and self-actualization are. is he a clumsy ally? is he knowingly in the closet but trying to toe his way out? does he just not know he's gay? or has he actually been out to everyone except myne and naofumi this entire time and has been trying to suss out if naofumi was bi or not through these unbelievable charades—

iiiiii could also get into my family headcanon for him and how it relates to this but i am sleepy . so please know that i'd like to imagine he has a supportive uncle but also idk the older sister headcanon Alex has is tempting me a bit. (i know that she wasn't supportive in the prompt shhhh i'm not making her supportive tfw the agony prevails etc etc)

EDIT: agreeing with @bluelovestoship 's tags though

motoyasu has totally googled "am i gay" quizzes before. several times in fact, on several different occasions

@small-spark-of-light what i meant to allude to w/my last post but. kenichi was trying so hard man. he was trying so hard and yet.