templehill replied to your post “My favorite thing about Victoria’s lone gay ship (aka : ‘Drumfred’*)...”
Always took it as read that this was the case ��
There were signs before of course, but the scene that really exemplifies that the best to me is the restaurant one tbh. Drummond is being so naive in this scene and it’s adorable but you can almost heard the record scratch in Alfred’s head like ‘wait puppy, no’ and Drummond just...not getting it at all at the time (and we can’t know if he would have gotten it later on but I suspect whatever the end result there would have been more than one frustrated discussion about it bc from the look of things the ways in which they were going to handle their situation would have been pretty different, and I’m willing to bet Alfred’s ‘let’s not ruin our futures’ attitude would have rubbed Drummond the wrong way, et least for a while).
arianna4president replied to your post “My favorite thing about Victoria’s lone gay ship (aka : ‘Drumfred’*)...”
Ahhh, I've had the same impressions and nobody to talk about it with!
Ah, the bane of minor ships with little screen time ^^’
Honestly though, I got sold on this idea pretty early on bc even in the tinderbox scene Alfred is like ‘Oh you absolute PUPPY’ while Drummond spends unbelievable amounts of time in ‘nope just friends’ land. I’m not sure he realizes he’s got particularly strong feelings for Alfred until they go swimming with Albert, and to me he doesn’t seem to put them in a romantic context until shortly before Victoria and Albert go missing in Scotland (‘you believe they were friends’ ‘i wouldn’t know what else to call them’) which honestly only makes the story even more tragic.
Although it does have the advantage of making his behavior from the pond scene onwards even more adorable and hilarious.