🏳️🌈 Happy pride month!!! 🏳️🌈 I wanna share a School Spirits pride month headcanon I came up with, and absolutely fell in love with.
Whenever pride month started to be something outwardly celebrated in Split River Highschool, it brought up mixed feelings among the queer ghosts.
Charley tried to hide it with jokes, but he would get really sad about never being able to celebrate his identity the way the kids could now. At some point, Mr Martin integrated some pride activities into group during the month, but all it ever did was make him feel uncomfortably singled out.
After a few years of Rhonda watching Charley’s mood drop during June, she approached him and offered for the two of them to have their own private pride month celebration. This is when she tells him that she’s queer for the first time. (The first time she’s come out to anyone)
So, it becomes a tradition that they spend quite a bit of alone time during pride month. They do things like steal little pride flags from classrooms or find somewhere private to exchange stories and read whatever queer literature they can get their hands on.
Rhonda doesn’t talk much about her sexuality. Eventually other ghosts kinda piece together that she’s queer through things she says, but she never talks about it. She tells Charley that it’s because since she only fully understood her identity in death, it’s irrelevant to her. But Pride month is different, it’s the time once a year that she talks about things like celebrity crushes, locker room nervousness, and how after meeting Joyce, the puzzle pieces of who she was started to fall into place.
Pride was relevant, even after death. Because pride gave Rhonda and Charley the chance to connect in a way neither of them had in life. And now with Quinn, Yuri, and a broken barrier, they can lean into pride in new and exciting ways. Expanding their community, and proving to themselves that queerness and pride, is timeless.
