REDEMPTION: who MOST deserves to be in the straightbait tournament?
kit tanthalos and graydon hastur from willow
kagome higurashi and inuyasha from inuyasha
tan from manner of death
entrapta and hordak from she-ra and the princesses of power
pat and ink from bad buddy
Voting ended onAug 31, 2023
MAY THE BEST BAIT WIN! propaganda under the cut:
kit tanthalos and graydon hastur:
Classic arranged marriage trope but the she-hates-him part never goes away because she’s in love with her best friend/bodyguard Jade
kagome higurashi and inuyasha:
Long time until they get together, with teasing moments
tan:
ok so it's complicated? like he's the lead love interest in a show that was very explicitly marketed as queer but I'm calling him straightbait because he literally straightbaits like every character in the show? So there's this girl (Jane) and everyone jsut assumes that he's dating her? Like she gets (spoiler!) murdered in ep 1 and the police are like "the body was found by the victim's boyfriend" and they mean Tan. Bun the main character drunkingly kissed Tan in the first episode as well and then saw Tan and Jane at an event holding hands and he was like....... wow this is awkward and also is he cheating on her with me??? (he was best friends with Jane). Anyways like this continues with Tan being under suspicion for Jane's murder because he's was her lover apparently and Bun is like living with this guy now and Tan is like laying it on thick about his attraction towards Bun but Bun is still suspicious and then Bun's talking to one of the kids that Jane and Tan taught and the kid is like "yeah so Miss Jane's boyfriend...." and Bun is like "right, Tan." and the kid is like "what??? mr tan never dated miss jane she was with this other guy." and Bun is confused (rightly) until like a few episodes later or so they're staring at their red string board and Tan is like "yeah so I was literally never with Jane we were just good friends" and is then also implied to be like gay as well so he's not even bi. Which ok straightbait over right? Wrong! Jane's actual boyfriend gets murdered and Tan gets arrested for it and he's like "what motive do I have to kill him??" and the police are like "well you two were fighting over Jane's love clearly" and he just kinda scoffs and smirks with a whole "these idiots have no idea that i'm currently planning on how to propose to my boyfriend of like a week" but just doesn't say anything?!?!?!?! he actively makes himself more suspicious and a greater target by pretending to be straight instead of just being like hey guys you know I was just buddies with Jane right? and i'm currently hooking up with the doctor who keeps giving you guys problems?? Anyways he's not straightbait in the sense that it was any surprise to the audience that he ended up with a boyfriend. but he did pretend to be straight for no real reason and literally endangered himself by doing so (this universe didn't seem to have like any actual homophobia stuff)
entrapta and hordak:
Heavily heavily heavily hinted/slow burn
pat and ink:
Pat has a crush on Ink early on, and it seems possible at first that she may feel the same way. However, it is later revealed that she actually has a crush on his sister and is a lesbian. It's okay though because then Pat realizes he's in love with his childhood rival and they become wlw mlm solidarity! Everyone wins!
The fact that Tan and Bunn didn’t hear Jane go off at the party because they were too busy flirting, like... they could have solved it ages ago if only they weren’t being gay disasters, I... sjhdjakdhsjakdsa
Look at this adorable baby's face, feeling so offended and attacked.
Tan *trembling* : Hey, what are you looking at? I am completely innocent and probably the most honest and loyal boyfriend you will ever get in your whole life.
Bun : You still have the audacity to claim yourself honest after you straight up lied to my face that your fucking mammoth villa has only one bedroom???