lifes a beach and im eating the sand

Elliott can't fucking say this shit when I'm dressed like THIS

What made him see me leave the house and kiss him looking like THIS

I got this dialog for the first time so naturally I had to go and look what the hell was in there

Between this and the fact his room is full of pictures of half naked dudes and muscle magazines... like the boy is just gay

I read it as comphet personally! He's trying so hard to be this specific person already, right, because he was abused in his past so he is trying to be this cool tough guy that is so confident and can never get hurt or show weakness— the kind of guy who always gets the girl, naturally. He has this other dialog that struck me as so interesting too, I don't have a screenshot of it but he says this:

“The beach is a cool place to hang out and soak up some rays. You gotta spend some time in the sun or else you'll get all pale. sigh… I wish there were more girls in this town, know what I mean?”

Which if you take at face value is just him being a cad, right, but it's phrased so oddly to me. Like he's saying it because he feels expected to say it. It's part of his cool guy persona after all. But despite him always orbiting around Haley at festivals they never seem to be interacting at all, if you notice. She's the pretty fashionable blonde, that's gotta be the stereotype he goes for if he's gonna match this person he's built himself up to be in his head— but he never makes a move or even attempts to get close to her because he is just going through the motions. He stands near her and makes vague comments like "I'm enjoying the view" but isn't all aflutter about her in the same way that say, Harvey is about Maru or Clint is about Emily. They don't even seem to have conversations as friends. She fits the narrative, so he keeps her close but just at arm's length enough for nothing to ever really happen between them.

The dialog he has in his 10 heart event for a male farmer does talk about him not having feelings like that for men before, but he also states he never felt that way about anyone before. So it's entirely possible he had not even considered addressing his sexuality until faced with it after beginning to crush on the player. At least, that's how I read it anyway!!

I'm sure you could read it as someone who thought he was straight turning out to be bi in the end, but to me it reads as someone who did not even have romance on his radar suddenly realizing not only is he interested in that after all, but that he never felt like this before because he was trying to force himself to be around women because he was "supposed" to.

Doodle dump of Harvey!

SHANE NO

thinking about how last year I was in the middle of a SDV portrait mod but I gave up