#sidenote: a lot of people wanted craig or eli to be bisexual but i don't care for them so that means nothing to me

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in no particular order i'm just bored

- MIKE DALLAS. i wrote a whole thing on this ages ago and i'm currently on s12 in my bilionth rewatch so dallas is in his flop era rn but dear god. i just think it would have been funnier if the joking gay tension between him and drew was real. all of his relationships would be enhanced if he were bisexual. his friendship with adam, with fiona, his relationship with ALLI!!!!!!!! just everything. also he's one of my favorite characters.

- DREW TORRES. ^ the joke tension would have been funnier. also it would have added something to the very bizarre way he acted towards riley in his first season. like idk closet gay vs closet bisexual duking it out to see who will snap first. also i just think he could have played the bisexual and everybody wants him type better than miles. also added dimension to HIS friendship and brotherhood with adam, his friendship with fiona, his eventual reconciliation with alli via dallas. his relationship with bianca. ough. like they'd just have so much more to work with.

- JANE VAUGHN. i mean i just generally don't love the way they changed her fashion as time went on like had they not done her hair like that her emo era would have been so good. i'm gonna start a tangent here and maybe pick it up later, but degrassi consistently did this thing where they were afraid to commit to a butch character. or, on occasion, they could commit to a butch! but she had to be straight. and sure, the argument is there, not all lesbians are butch, not all masculine women and girls are lesbian, but the ONE time (before rasha) they dipped their toes into having a more Generally masculine wlw character she still had to have lovely long hair and wear a full face of makeup, the only thing that really made her look masculine was the fact that she wore pants and her hair up, and shortened her name to jack. but then their other two characters that looked way more gnc than jack needed to be made into a Point that they were straight. which is just like. i Guess. i guess with jane they were trying to say "you don't have to be a lesbian to want to play football with the boys" but the argument should just be "gender neutral sports". anyway. jane shoulda been bisexual and stayed butch.

- MAYA MATLIN AND ZIG NOVAK. i'm putting them together cos they might as well be one person. listen. bi4bi zaya just would have been more interesting. and again as per usual it enhances their relationships to other characters. i know zoe's actress has talked about how she kind of wanted the final reveal with zoe to be that she had a crush on maya the whole time and IMAGINE if maya was bi and there was an actual conflict over if she wanted to pursue that relationship or stay with zig. obsessed!!!!!! and idk the friendship of a pathetic mess of a bisexual boy with a masc goth punk girl is fun. added dimension to zig's friendship with grace. even if maya and zig still got together in the end it would just be more fun. straight zaya is impossibly boring. the added amount of drama from the whole zoe crush on grace grace crush on zig zig dating maya zoe still harboring old feelings for maya cheating debacle. awesome. MESSY bisexuals.

- ELLIE NASH. dear god the amount of shit they put her through with boys. ANNOYING!!!!!!!!!!! literally why not whip out the paige/ellie wild card. WHY NOT!!!!!! also she was goth.

HONORABLE MENTIONS: HOLLY J SINCLAIR, GRACE CARDINAL. i can appreciate them as they are and what they mean, i.e. straight girls can be bffs with lesbians and there's no reason they can't, but also consider this: they would have made fun bisexuals. also grace did what they tried to do with jack 100000000% better.

OVERALL!!! degrassi has like SEVERELY underutilized bisexuality as a plot point. i talked about this a while back, but the first bisexual girl they had was paige in like season 6 or 7, and the first bisexual they had was MILES FUCKING HOLLINGSWORTH THE THIRD!!!!!!!!! IN SEASON 13?!?!?!?!? the only other MAIN bisexual character they had was. imogen? and i think that's literally it? like it's crazy. honestly with they way they do romance in this show you'd think making more of them bisexual would just add more drama to things in a fun way but no. we're left with basically nothing. SAD!

top ten characters in degrassi that would have benefitted from being bisexual