#judezero

*Enters Edmundo ‘Eddie’ Diaz*

Evan ‘Buck’ Buckley: *Becomes way more obvious about the fact above while also being 😡 and 😳 about Eddie’s arrival*

Edmundo ‘Eddie’ Diaz: Hold my beer, 😍, and look at my adorable son.

Christopher Diaz: *At Buck* 😍!

zude: their first public kiss.

*Remembers that they’re who made this post* *Combines that with the reason why they split established one long-awaited episode later* ... [Insert GIF of an angry Tyra Banks here] It’s all Adam’s fault, but bring on Eve, and all of the delicious drama that she brings!

I’m both impressed by, and scared of/disgusted with, myself because I already have the PERFECT actor to recast as Zero/Gideon if Adam is completely gone and that’s what the situation calls for.

Kind of looks enough like Adam?✔️

Has very recently found himself unemployed?✔️

Has experience playing 'Gets-caught-with-prostitutes smug white boy who feels unwanted by those whom raised him, whom aren’t his parents, and falls for a self-empowered black woman he’s in a sham relationship with when she’s still hung up on her ex who’s also black'?✔️

Has experience playing 'Head-over-heels for a sweet and neurotic gay boy whose crush on this actor’s character made him admit his sexuality'?✔️ ... Did I forget to mention that his character also just hung out at the guy’s house like he lived there with out even being invited?

Has experience playing a basketball player with religion being a major part of his image?✔️

(I can’t make this stuff up. It’s all real.)

... If any one could/has to (I!👏🏽 Don’t!👏🏽 Want!👏🏽 Adam!👏🏽 To!👏🏽 Go!👏🏽), take over as Zero/Gideon, it’s as though Wade Briggs’s entire career so far has set him up to be the ideal candidate to do so.

It’s my take that Jude had always been trying so hard impress Oscar, and the other males in his life, in the role of a son, because of Oscar’s absence that he didn’t even think to try to connect the dots to the fact that there might be an other reason why he’s particularly keen on impressing men. Men like Oscar (the men that Jude has likely has spent all of his life trying to gain approval from as a son figure) place high value on a woman’s beauty, desire to stake a claim to it (look at how nervous he was around Marcus Douglas, and bravo to Zero for knowing that he had boast about his man, because Jude would be too modest to properly assert himself in front of a guy like Marcus), and are often homophobic. Jude asking Raquel out was conceivably the culmination of seeking validation directly from Oscar (Raquel was stunning and well within Oscar’s normal line of sight on regular occasions), bowing to the growing pressure that his subconscious was putting on his psyche due to his underlying attraction to Zero, and the reactionary repression these factors cause in the vicious cycle that self-acceptance can be. You’re right, though, Nony, it is a little strange that it appears as though Jude hadn’t even started to question his sexuality until seemingly his mid-to-late twenties.

(So, I just sent an non-proof-read version of most of this directly to a self-identified straight person - I'm obviously not going to say who - who wants, not just Zero/Gideon, but the whole relationship of Zude, to be written off of the show instead of recasting the one character, because they're a shipper, and they don't think that it'll be the same with out Adam, and they're right, it won't, but I think that the entire fandom should read why that's the lesser argument)

Further disclaimer: Previously in the conversation, this individual seem oblivious as to why they and I are not equal authorities on the subject, and I couldn’t see it as any thing other than ignorance/unbeknownst arrogance.

As a fan of a character, I would think that you would want those whom share a rarely-genuinely-seen-in-the-media intimate part of that character's identity to have representation, and in as many displays as possible. Zero/Gideon's existence on screen represents the potential successes a bisexual person can achieve in a way that no other character I've ever seen has. The fact that some one who doesn't know the plight of being bisexual, let alone any kind of queer, is trying to excuse scrapping the presence of a successful-to-the-point-of-fame, well-written, bisexual who's in a loving relationship with some one of the same sex, and also is successful and kind-of in the public eye, just because the character's (straight) actor can't remain in the role is a major insult to all of us whom would take offense, because we have met the certain struggles that come from being bisexual, and continue to strive for success.

------------------