what are some of your gender / sexuality hcs for RE film characters? Are there any interpretations you agree or disagree with?
OOH. Sorry, this got super long.
Alice: Bisexual with a slight lean toward women. I think before the nerve gas and while she has her thing with Spence, she considers it just experimenting on the side. After, she's like yeah. I'm not straight.
Vaguely unrelated, but I do wanna talk about how I think pre-nerve gas Alice remained detached to avoid things getting in the way of her false marriage/security position. Post-nerve gas Alice falls hard and fast (w/Rain, Carlos, Claire...), but she tries to close herself off because she's afraid of losing them. She does. Rain and Carlos, I mean. Claire lives. How can Alice open up and let herself love when she directly/indirectly causes everyone around her to fucking die? Time to isolate in the desert!
Rain: Like I said in another ask, I can picture her as bi, but I've always written her as a lesbian. There is no universe where I can see her as 100% straight. Her general attitude is "If you don't like me, I don't give a shit," so she's never tried to hide it. Usually just describes herself by saying "I'm into chicks", but not opposed to blatantly calling herself gay or a lesbian.
J.D.: I go back and forth between writing J.D. as gay and bi. I can't decide what I think. Either way, he's closeted. Maybe he's messed around with some dudes in the bedroom, but has never considered a relationship because of that. Rain knows. She walked in on him and saw more than she wanted to, he denied it, but not for long because hey, she's not closted.
And also, she cuts off at one point to tell him she "doesn't give a shit who he fucks", so he can relax. They are MLM and WLW solidarity to me.
Jill: Bisexual. Also true of Game Jill to me. She doesn't really lean one way or the other. Regardless of the gender of who she's dating, she's a bit private when it comes to her relationships, so while she's not necessarily closeted, you probably wouldn't know unless you're close to her.
Terri: ...Also bisexual. Heavy lean toward men. Doesn't even realize she's attracted to women. If confronted with the thought, she'll talk herself out of it. Very "Don't be ridiculous! All women think about other women that way! :)" If she does figure it out, she'll stay closeted or semi-closeted due to fear of how people would react.
K-Mart: Transgender and pansexual. When her bio family is still around, she isn't out and doesn't know what she identifies as, but they ask her if she's gay like she's being interrogated and make her feel like something's wrong with her. The apocalypse is a fresh start. She finds a lot of comfort in using labels. She feels free to be herself in the convoy. They don't know her deadname. She doesn't tell them. They just call her K-Mart because that's where they found her, and they care about her and make her feel loved, so... she's K-Mart now.
Claire: Bisexual with a lean toward men. Also true of Game Claire to me. She's open about it. Figured it out young and was kinda hesitant to tell Chris at first since he's her only family. Older Claire knows that, whatever, her brother will always love her.
...I do think Chris in the games is attracted to men (gay), but I don't feel that as strongly with Movie Chris. Maybe. I probably wouldn't write him as queer myself but I'd easily buy it if someone else did. The same kinda goes for Leon. I feel strongly that Game/WTRC Leon is bi, but Movie Leon feels pretty straight to me.
Good Rain: If you didn't already know, Rain has a heart-shaped pride sticker on her car! I think it's most visible after it flips over and Suburban Alice kicks the door open. Like the person she was cloned from, I think she's a lesbian. I dunno why, but I find it harder to imagine her interested in men than the real Rain. She's out of the closet.
This is sort of a headcanon I'm all over the place with, but since the clone troops are created for work and nothing more, I can picture them falling on different parts of the aro/ace spectrum.
Bad Rain: Rain experiences no romantic attraction and a small amount of sexual attraction. She wouldn't call herself a lesbian, but she wouldn't consider getting in bed with a dude. They're alright to look at sometimes, though. She's never heard any aro/ace terms in her life. Even if she had, she wouldn't call herself those either. What are her preferences? None of your business. Fuck off.
Bad Carlos: Carlos is gray-aromantic, so he might find a woman he's romantically attracted to, but it's rare. He feels basically no sexual attraction at all. Sex is okay. He could probably live without it. He doesn't use the labels. Maybe would call himself asexual if he knew it's a thing?
Bad One: James is as far on the aromantic and asexual spectrum as a person can be before they, like... fall into the repulsed categories. Doesn't know the terms, just says he "doesn't think about those things". Would absolutely not pick up on it if you tried flirting with him, he'd just look at you like : |
Ada: I am a demisexual Ada truther. I think she knows that the way she experiences sexual attraction is "different" so to speak, but has never gone beyond occasionally thinking to herself, "I wonder why I'm like this?"
Wesker: Aroace. This is also true of Game Wesker to me (shocker). He is far on both spectrums and could not give less of a shit. Sex is a waste of time. He has better things he could be doing. He tried it once and was bored. The thought of romance bores him even more. Would maybe refer to himself by both terms. Not in an LGBT way, but exclusively in a... "This is why you shouldn't bother me," kind of way. Does that make sense?
Cobalt & Abigail: Grouping them together because because I have basically the same thoughts about both. Openly lesbian. They came out in their teens. Cobalt vibes more with the term sapphic.
Vance Drew: Asexual. This is the last aspec headcanon, I swear. He'd partake in sexual acts to make his partner happy and show affection, but he never craves those things. Uses the label and only open with partners.
Mikey: Bisexual with a lean toward men. Earlier in the apocalypse, before he met the convoy, he had a boyfriend. He turned. Mikey's confided in Claire and nobody else.
Chase McAvoy: Closeted gay dude. Picked up this headcanon from @chrisitsraining (miss you <3). I haven't formed many thoughts on him beyond that, but it feels right and he seems gay to me in the way Joe Baker does.
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