ok no but like I don't think newer fans understand just how much it means that Cole has a boyfriend now. he's been gay-coded since 2011, when you couldn't put that stuff in a kids' show so you had to mask it as something else for plausible deniability. some of us have waited over a decade for this, never expecting to get any sort of canon acknowledgement, other fans saying it was crazy to even headcanon him as gay and the subtext actually didn't mean anything. it seemed like he would either be given a random female love interest like everyone else or just remain ambiguously alone for the rest of time, forever remaining in that limbo space of "gay-coded by omission." and then...they...suddenly got some courage. they continued his story earnestly and meaningfully. they gave him a family, kids, a man who clearly loves him. they let them hold hands and caress each other onscreen, look in each other's eyes like they hung the stars. they don't have to say they're together, I don't care. only people in denial try to explain it away. my favorite ninja grew up, and he's like me, and he's allowed to be. that's everything.