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there's zero chance that david fucking brittlesbee canonically identifies as bisexual. I bet he doesnt even realize he is. thats not to say that I don't love fics with him as an openly bisexual man, because theyre awesome and all of the writers are awesome too, but come on guys. the man is very explicitly the opposite of what most women in the show are attracted to (as seen in the episode where brad helps him find a date), and yet he continues to market himself specifically toward women and it seems as though men never even cross his radar.

therefore, I propose that we need more fics of david realizing he's not straight, rather than just knowing from the very beginning. give me david brittlesbee suddenly blurting out in the middle of a conversation that he likes brad, or fantasized about another man, and then blaming it on sleep deprivation or stress or something because there's no way thats anything besides a lie his brain made up in some impaired state.

give me david brittlesbee continuing to have dreams involving himself and ian, or literally any other man, and at some point poppy really can't keep telling him it's just because of a power struggle or dominance or what-have-you, because david is so obviously coming to terms with his own sexuality and he's the only person who doesnt realize it. give me ian snapping at david for complaining about accidentally staring at a man's ass ("no, I have no reason why, but the conversation we had after that was VERY uncomfortable" david says) and saying some shit like "yeah, david, you're fucking gay. or bisexual or whatever the fuck you people call it. good for you! I don't care! just stop talking about men jesus fucking christ!" and david just has an entire existential crisis when he gets home that night. give me david openly struggling with his sexuality, because it's not something that most people take in stride and adapt to immediately. give me david going to a gay bar for the first time because he wants to know more about his sexuality and how he should act because he thinks it changes literally anything else about him. give me david talking to rachel and dana about what he should do and them looking at him like he's a fucking idiot because he genuinely thinks that being bisexual somehow changes who he is.

I mean, really I just want more david-centered fics, but ESPECIALLY ones involving him having trouble adjusting to the realization that he's bisexual. or maybe im projecting because I was all sorts of fucked up when I realized I was bisexual as a kid (but on the bright side it did make identifying as a lesbian easier when I stopped liking men as a teenager). but also like, that's an incredibly common reaction. especially in people that discover their sexuality is Different later in life.

but basically I want david to feel lost and confused because he's realizing that he barely even knows himself, but he wants to change that. give me a fic where he comes out happier than he was before and more comfortable in his own skin 😌

#mythic quest #david brittlesbee #brad bakshi #ian grimm #poppy li #dana mythic quest #rachel mythic quest #headcanon #we are fleeting we are feeling #wafwaf #im definitely incorporating some version of this in wafwaf but itll be in the background because this is a brad centric fic #as much as id love to write this myself I hate writing from david's pov I just can't get his character right it feels like #hopefully SOMEONE out there is better than me though and willing to write it #please..... if you do send me a link ill read the SHIT out of it #im begging

I commed my (unfortunately great) friend @n0phis to draw me a brad bakshi + his bugs icon for tumblr and ao3 and here's the final result >:))) pls don't steal I just had to show it off in full detail because it's PERFECT

#mythic quest #brad bakshi #we are fleeting we are feeling #wafwaf #headcanon #tw bug art #tw tarantula #tw centipede #tw cockroach #tw spider #LOOK AT HOW GOOD HE LOOKS #AND LOOK THERES SHAKTI #AND A DEHAANI #AND SOME ROACHES (HE HAS A LOT OF ROACHES)#AND THE YELLOW GARDEN SPIDER THAT LANCE SURPRISED ME WITH BC IT WAS THE SPIDER ZACK MADE BRAD EAT #AND BRAD LOVES THEM #AAAAAA ITS SO PERFECT AND IM GONNA COMM THEM TO MAKE ME A MATCHING HEADER IN THE NEAR FUTURE SO KEEP AN EYE OUT

my biggest theory for brad is that, even when the rest of mq inevitably realizes what's going on with him and try to help (namely david for obvious reasons, dana because she's so far one of the few good people in the office, and cw because him and brad have been shown to have a closer friendship than most), he's not even going to realize it.

because brad is clearly used to being seen as the bad guy, an evil person, so the idea that anyone might show him compassion isn't even on his radar. he's not looking for help, so he doesn't expect to receive it, so when he does receive it he never even notices. people tend to not notice the completely unexpected, after all.

it's going to be little things, too. his coworkers making more of an effort to talk to him casually. maybe carol even organizes some office parties and morale-boosting days like therapy dog visits. (my dad's office brings therapy dogs in a couple times a month just to hang out and destress the employees. mythic quest isn't a great place to work, but maybe as people start to become more self aware they'll try to be better.) dana brings him lunch every day, and every day brad gets annoyed because he doesn't eat lunch, but sometimes it's his favorite food or something he's craving in that moment and he can't help but nibble at it. sometimes he doesnt even hate himself or make himself sick after he does, either.

it'll be david bringing him chinese takeout half the times he visits brad's apartment and showing brad all of his favorite shows and movies. most of them are romcoms, and brad isn't a fan, but david pays attention to what he seems to like (dark comedy and slasher films, of course) and makes an effort to watch more of brad's favorite genres. david hates horror and slasher movies, but he asks jo to keep him up to date on new ones being released and give him recommendations. jo, of course, does it because she KNOWS david hates it, so she always recommends the goriest, scariest ones, because she knows david will be squeamish over it. she doesnt know that brad is even watching them, and especially not that he's enjoying all of her indirect recommendations. she doesnt need to know.

brad isn't ignorant. he can tell when the mood shifts in a room, when he's receiving more attention than before. but it isn't for several months before he realizes what's going on, and at first everything comes crashing down around him and he breaks because he never wanted this. never wanted to be exposed and vulnerable without even realizing it. he never wanted people to see him as someone worth saving.

but his coworkers don't give him much of a choice but to go along with it. hell, even ian has stopped speaking over him and shutting him down as often as he used to, because ian can clearly see brad's worth to the company and he'd really like to avoid another casino fiasco, thank you very much. he knows that brad dying might be a bit harsher of a blow to the company than him taking a day off out of spite. well, probably, at least.

so, as horrified and disgusted and weak and patronized as brad felt when he first discovered the new dynamic his coworkers had with him, he can't help but start to enjoy it. he finally feels heard, and he's getting more of what he wants when he wants it. poppy hasn't called him a soulless money-suck in a long time (although part of him thought it was a pretty cool title), and david's stopped pestering him about donating more to charity. and brad's still, well, somewhat of a sociopath, so he takes advantage of how much more lenient everyone now is with him.

everyone else thinks brad is coming around to having people give a shit about him. in reality, he's fully embraced being able to get away with pretty much anything. because he's brad bakshi, and he needs to have some greater, nefarious purpose to accept help or compassion. and taking advantage of others is an easy justification for why he would ever accept help (or. well. acceptance). that's his excuse, anyway.

it'll be a long time before he admits that he actually sort of enjoyed the new attention, appreciated the sympathy the others now extend toward him.

but he will never, never admit that they've saved his life, no matter how many times they do.

#mythic quest #brad bakshi #we are fleeting we are feeling #wafwaf #fanfiction #david brittlesbee #dana mythic quest #ian grimm #poppy li #cw longbottom #headcanon #carol mythic quest #look okay I know this is a long one #but hear me out #brad is the opposite of naive however. people don't tend to notice things they aren't looking for #and he's certainly not looking for sympathy #this is all based in part because a couple weeks ago I went to a psych ward on a 1013 (meaning I was a risk to myself)#and my parents told my extended family and im on vacation with said family rn and I've noticed a dynamic shift since we arrived #and its not BAD but the only reason I've noticed is because I know they know about what happened and I know they love me #so like. I expected this #brad on the other hand would NOT #so im playing around with that difference and what brad would do in shoes similar to mine that just don't quite fit #im happy with this though #tay rambles

totally random: do you think brad was bullied is high school?

so i actually have a LOT of theories/ideas about this! i definitely think he was, because it's almost to be expected that any minority (in any regard) has been bullied in school at some point, but i think it was probably significantly worse in elementary and middle school than it was in high school. partly because younger kids are meaner, and partly because i imagine he was a small and sickly kid from malnutrition and the abuse from zack and their father. but danny pudi is 6'0, and i imagine at some point in high school brad would have hit his growth spurt and all of a sudden he was towering over most of his classmates, so the bullying probably slowed or even stopped completely around that time. he was occasionally bullied after that for random things (being gay, being indian, being a smartass, being soft with bugs, etc), but mostly kids left him alone which he was grateful for.

danny pudi is the tallest of the main cast as well, so i'm going to headcanon that brad is insecure about his height because he was tormented for being small for so long as a young kid that now he has to be the tallest person in a room or he gets very self-conscious. tall people will always be more respected than shorter people by default, so he wants that respect to be directed toward him rather than anyone else. plus there's the underlying, subconscious fear of anyone taller than him, as most of his childhood bullies towered over him as did his father and brother until he outgrew both of them in his late teens and they started to back off because they realized he was big enough to actually fight back.

but basically to answer your question anon yeah i think he was most certainly bullied in high school, but not as severely as he was in elementary/middle school. this was a really good ask, thank you!! i love rambling about my headcanons LMAO