Jeanist is Pan (a personal rant)
Probably gonna get a lot of flak for this and piss a few people off, but I genuinely hate it when people claim Jeanist can't be anything other than gay, especially when they treat it like canon information that everyone should already know, like it's one of the fucking Ten Commandments of Jeanist Fanfiction, and you're going to Fandom Hell for breaking it.
Now, I don't intrinsically hate the idea of him being gay per se, but a few of these fans are so insistent and hateful about it, it's made me hate the headcanon entirely, and it's always "because he looks like that," or "because he acts like that," or "Just look at him, isn't it obvious?"
Because apparently it's a stone-cold fact that flamboyant men with feminine interests cannot be attracted to women? Did I miss the tablet that was written on? Because the way someone looks determines their sexuality? Does the way Toga look affect her sexuality?
It's a headcanon largely based on a fucking stereotype, and it's infuriating that they just won't admit it's their personal preference and stop clutching their pearls when someone dares to disagree with them. Being gay isn't the highest marker of queerness; liking women doesn't make him (or any other queer person) any less queer. News Flash: Lesbians are queer! (And having an attraction toward women doesn't diminish his attraction to men either, as so many people are bent on diminishing the other side of Bi and Pan sexualities once they enter into a relationship.)
Too many of his fans have pissed me off with this, and I am a spiteful creature, so despite shipping him with other male characters (namely Edgeshot), I actively refuse to say he's gay.
This motherfucker is Pansexual Demiromantic in my mind. He is rated E for Everyone. He finds the beauty in everything and everyone. You got a dick? So does he. You got a vagina? Cool. You got the wrong parts at birth? Doesn't matter. You some weird, scary heteromorph that looks like it came from the Alien franchise? He'll figure it out.
And since I made a big deal out of it earlier, here's me claiming that: this is my personal preference, this is my personal headcanon fueled by my fucking spite, and there is no canon justification for it, nor will I try to find one.
Happy Pride.
