dylan

I personally am not comfortable interacting with some lgbt+++ users on the platform because some are a bit too much. Like, I really dont mind how you present yourself into the world but dont cage me in your box, or dictate how I should perceive the world.

I literally get comments that oh character A is literally gay, why is your listener a woman? Why are you kisteners only women? Because I'm a woman, a straight woman, and I don't know or feel that character ABCDEFG is gay!

I respect and dont mind the queer characters. To each their own. But dont come at me, simply because Im straight like what?

omg just stfu 😭😭😭 literally nobody gaf that ur uncomfortable about people being happy and in love with same gender or whatever like what

nice try, get out the way you're in our way, get lost forever

Erik is completely valid to keep making Damien and Huxley be The RA Pride Month BA Couple™.

They are (as far as I know) the only current, canon, exclusive, openly, consistent LGBTQ+ couple currently in the RedactedVerse. Every other Lad who you (the plural, abstract edition of ‘you’) picture as being in a gay relationship with the Listener, two other fans picture them as having a partner who does not identify as male.

All of Erik’s characters are pansexual and panromantic. He makes M4A audios. He is incredibly supportive of LGBTQ+ rights and validations. The issue with being this supportive and catering to his audience all year round is that when it comes to Pride Month, maybe it’s hard to think of how he can do something different than the rest of his BA’s.

Is Damien and Huxley being the BA for June predictable? Absolutely. I don’t think a single person was shocked to see it was them.

Could he do it in other ways? Also yes. Flashback with Gavin and Lasko. Non-Canon or Alt!Canon Relationships (FL/Gavin/Lasko non-canon again; Imp!David and Imp!Asher; Guy x Blake crackship) would also work.

But does this work, and is within Erik’s comfort zone, especially after he’s went through some stuff in his personal life as of late, and also he’s clearly building up to something in the MAAM Crew and Dahlia Vamps and Wolves storylines and probably has a lot on his plate as is? Yes.