In honour of Pride Month, I'm going to share my LGBTQ+ headcanons of various fandoms I'm in. It's the 3rd of June and I only decided to do this today so I'm just going to post the first 3 days today and continue it properly for the rest of the month.
DAY 1: Heathers
Beginning with my favourite film and one of my favourite musicals.
I honestly believe every Heathers character except Heather Chandler is bisexual, because she is a lesbian dealing with comphet. I totally got the vibe Movie!Chandler had a thing for Veronica. And during Me Inside of Me, some Musical!Chandlers have a really cute moment with the female ensemble member who says "Heather touching me".
In some productions, Musical!Veronica does seem canonically bisexual (saying "a hot girl smiled at me" rather than a hot guy in some versions of Big Fun).
I've seen a lot of Transfem!Duke content and I like the headcanon a lot, I'm not sure if I necessarily interpret her character in that way but I love the concept! Also this girl for sure is jealous of both Veronica and J.D. in their relationship.
I don't have much to say for McNamara honestly. There's the fact that old lyrics in Candy Store had her yelling out "sleep with me!" whilst singing to Veronica.
This is a really random rarepair but I think Martha and Betty would be cute as hell together. I have no clue what their ship name would be, that's how rarepair they are.
You know what, the straights can have Kurt and Ram. I know a lot of people like to ship them, and do whatever you want obviously, but these two just feel like the straightest men ever to me.
And of course, we cannot forget the several Female!J.D.s we have had, including the ever famous 2021 Stanford production where J.D. was genderbent, and the script was rewritten for her and Veronica to be explicitly queer. Truly iconic, and has caused me to desperately want to play either Jason Dean while in drag or Janie Dean.
⚠️ | Mild tw for for comphet / gender dysphoria, I'm going on an insane MMX sapphic ZeroIris tangent
Thinkin of transmasc / sapphic Zero and Iris as a ship and getting to know one another, but it's a case of as they're opening to the idea of dating, Zero just has to admit he is masc stealth presenting and just feeling so conflicted and confused over his feelings towards Iris and his own gender, given he lacks the terminology
And Iris just lets him ramble on and on without judgements, bc she's aware Zero is so deep in the closet and confused / conflicted, especially as he's so used to seeing heteronormative romance and really has no outlet for nblw thoughts, and just wants to be " normal " to justify being lw/lnb, and explore his own sense of self ( failing to realize he's defs stone )
So the ship basis forming on Zero being allowed to feel more open with his identity being sapphic and vulnerability in private, without the pressures of passing off as an openly queer couple and being bombarded with constant questions — as most tend to assume Zero is a very masc / male aligned reploid already ( especially given complex feelings towards X, so two openly masc reploids together just is too much attention for him to handle while he's figuring himself out ) . So publicly, they just seem like a cishet couple, but privately, they're both allowed to be — even if it hurts both in the end by hiding themselves, but they're young, stupid, and this is their first romance ( on top of it being queer ) . So Iris' big heart does ultimately hurt her bc holding this secret feels like a betrayal as she starts to establish her own identity at a pace Zero can't keep up with, and it builds to the occasional instance of conflict — but she's passive enough to where it doesn't click, until Iris' last stand through her death ( with her wanting to create a world for reploids as a soft admittance as a means of thinking of both her and Zero to exist as themselves — but also pursuing the better or all ) .
I think if it weren't for her death, they'd still be very deep and loving friends towards one another, realizing as they matured from teens to young adults, they just — weren't compatible, and that's ok. Yet, she died so young and by Zero's hands, that he never had a moment to really come to that conclusion himself, so it's just the entire self blame and grief, especially hearing those words that cut deep like a knife.
So a scene like this becomes :
Zero: Iris, there's no world just for Reploids. It's only a fantasy.
Iris: Yes . . . I know . . . But I wanted to believe it . . . I wanted to live in a world where only Reploids exist . . . with you.
. . .
Zero: Nooo ! This isn't happening ! There's no reason for me to go on ! What . . . WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOR ?!
An outcry for the fact he could never come to his own thoughts and feelings, and unfortunately dragging someone else into his glass coffin, but she's permanently gone now, and he has no closure to a relationship that should have never ended so abruptly. They're both still so young, still struggling to grapple the idea of a world that could fit even reploids like them
Anyways this is inspired by my own personal experiences in that wild time i accidentally was put in christian conversion therapy for a few months. This I do tell as a funny story nowadays, so don't worry, I'm genuinely over it and use it as a means to explore X and Zero lmfao
i would love to see a fic where Kurt kind of confronts jude out of jealousy for Summer and also some of the shit he did to her in the past
Dead Girl
Summary: Kurt confronts Jude while also reflecting on her relationship with Summer
TW: Mentions of sex, drug use, going to jail, mentions of abusive relationships and being forced to convert, being comphet, mentions of cheating
I looked at Summer in the crowd as I performed the song about our relationship: I knew she knew it was about us by the way she grimaced before kissing Jude, possibly trying to distract him from the lyrics. I was shocked when I saw her hooking up in the van with Jude and even more shocked when she told me they had been dating for 6 months. A little over a year ago, Summer and I started whatever it was we had going on. She had been the one to initiate the hook-up after she kissed me in my bedroom and almost begged me to touch her. Summer didn’t even have to beg, I would’ve done anything she wanted. It had been going on for almost 4 months: I wanted to be with her so badly but maybe it was my own fear and her compulsory heterosexuality that ruined us. We both knew she was bisexual but she’d rather be dead than admit that.
It was past 12 and the club was about to close after I performed. I stood there packing up when Jude came backstage, he looked furious. I don’t know why I was friends with him after all the shit he did: I still can’t believe that the same person who had been arrested 3 times, lied like his life depended on it and tried to snort coke off his fucking skateboard is the same person dating the “good little Catholic girl” and trying so hard to impress her parents and all her friends. I still don’t buy his act.
“What the fuck, Kurt!!” He yelled across the room.
“What’s your problem?”
“That petty ass song you performed in front of everyone!! I’m not fucking stupid! I know it’s about Summer! Whatever crush or obsession you have with her needs to stop. I can’t help she didn’t like you back, I can’t help it you never said anything to her, you have to live with that decision now!!”
I wondered if Jude knew we had way more in common than anyone thought: we both knew the way Summer always smelled like vanilla, the way she only wore Victoria’s Secret for special occasions, her lipgloss or liquid lipstick always stained your face after being kissed, we both knew the side of Summer no one else did. I got my chance with Summer, long before he did.
“It’s just a fucking song, Jude!! No one bitches at you for the songs you or Kai write: Kai writes secretly blasts Aria in all of his songs and you don’t say shit to him!”
“Aria isn’t my girlfriend! You don’t care that this could be fucking embarrassing if anyone else finds out it’s about Summmer!!”
“You didn’t care that you were embarrassing your parents, your sister, me, Kai, or Mindy!! I’ll never understand why Summer trusts you but you’re just an insecure, piece of shit little boy. That’s all you’ve ever been and that’s all you ever will be!!” I screamed. I almost hurt my throat yelling at him so hard.
“Whatever Kurt!! Fuck off!! If you wanna be a petty little bitch for the rest of your life, be my fucking guest!!”
Jude stormed off. If I was as petty as he claimed: I would’ve told him all the times Summer snuck into my room, barely able to get her words out because she wanted me so badly. How she’d get drunk and tell me she wished I was a boy and that she thought we were soulmates. I wasn’t a saint either while I was hooking up with Summer but I never claimed to be: I was on and off with Caleb at the time but she knew that and I don’t think I nor Summer cared. Caleb treated me like shit, he abused me, made me convert when I didn’t want to, I knew he cheated on me too so it wasn’t like he didn’t deserve it. She wasn’t perfect either but she knew that.
Maybe neither I nor Jude deserved to be with Summer but I didn’t care. If I was bad, he was worse.
questioning lesbian culture is i know im attracted to girls but this guy ive never talked to shares one (1) interest with me so maybe im secretly bi???
"if piper was experiencing compulsory heterosexuality then it stands to reason so was jason in this essay i will" WHERES THE ESSAY OP??
that wasn't me, and ik you probably meant it as a joke, but-
jason was born in 1994, which would've still been the tail end of the aids crisis. this meant that a lot of mentions of quietness in general would've been very quiet or even non existent. he was also only raised in a household till the age of 3; at which point he was abandoned in a park, and then, obviously, raised by lupa, and after, camp jupiter. even at a camp of roman demigods, the concept of queer people would've been very much erased.
when we first meet reyna, it's mentioned that she feels the need to be in a relationship with a praetor, and, i may be wrong here, but i think the implication is specifically of the opposite binary gender? either way, reyna's experiencing compallo here herself, which may rubbed off onto jason as comphet.
to the main point: jason was forced into a relationship with piper, after having his memory wiped, and being told by piper herself that it was genuine. with a lack of memories, he's already quite disoriented so any doubt of attraction he may have had would've most likely have just been put down to disorientation. piper's also dealing with dylan (the guy who was hitting on her), so, in a sense, he feels protective, which could be easily mistaken as attraction.
there were exclusively m/f couples aboard the argo ii. this means that, until hoh, he is not aware of any queer people around him. even if he does begin questioning, he probably tries to stash his sexuality somewhere in the back of his mind in an attempt to fit in.
however, at the end of the day, piper has a chance to explore their sexuality and gender, whereas jason doesn't- ahem, i think everyone knows by now, but if you don't have spoilers filtered and you somehow don't know what i'm talking about, this is a spoiler warning- as he dies. jason and piper presumably break up sometime during tdp, which was most likely only a couple of weeks inbetween that and his death to question his sexuality. (i do like to imagine that he has a bf whilst in college, but that's besides the point)
