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and not just implied canon either. not just an ambiguous confession that could be twisted to be platonic. not just subtext. not just a relationship confirmed by the creators after the fact. they are 100% undeniably canon.

they refer to each other as boyfriends. they talk openly with other characters about the fact that they're dating. they have an audible kiss. they say I love you in a way that is undeniably romantic. they openly flirt with each other.

and like. yeah canon is made up and whatever we want it to be yadda yadda. but like,, canon queer relationships, especially quality written queer relationships, are just,, RIDICULOUSLY hard to come by for some reason and jmart's relationship is so refreshing to me, especially because you can tell the writers actually care about it

and they're not the only ones! there's a canon lesbian couple! there are canon trans characters! there are literal statements with themes of transness and queerness and how that impacts people's experiences! there are explicitly queer background characters/relationships! jon is canonically asexual! (and jon's asexuality could be a whole other post for me—it feels so monumental as an asexual person to see somebody who is both canonically asexual and still has genuine romantic relationships)

Like, he's pretty objectively very suicidal. There's the fact that he used to sit on the edges of towers while waiting for gusts of wind. He was very intentionally putting his life at risk and letting chance decide what would happen. But tf!Avid also specifically mentions that they just wanted to risk their life as a way to remind themself that they were in fact alive.

Hell, I'm pretty sure they've straight up said at one point that they've wanted to die for a long time. But when he still had the mask and tf!Marm confronted him, he practically begged her not to kill him. Even when he very genuinely thought he deserved it, he still desperately begged for his life with genuine terror in his voice.

And despite the fact that there's been many times where he outright states being prepared to die, (when they were being chosen by the initial dragons, and a conversation he had with tf!Graecie about the prophecy books during the dragon tournament come to mind) he also straight up asked tf!Graecie if she could bring him back to life if he died after he found out she took part in reviving tf!Ambear. And as genuine as the moments where tf!Avid's suicidal tendencies are prominent feel, the moments where he makes it clear he does not actively want to die anymore feel equally as genuine to me.