anon-chan · 4mo
Oh the intense meta grief of being a gay character in love with the protagonist in a mainstream MxF story and knowing you won't have happiness because from the very beginning it was decided you can't win and asking yourself why you have to be the one to suffer and to move on instead of the other but it's pointless because you didn't stand a chance, you were never meant to be or to have a role or to say anything in all of this.
You have to watch it unfold while your heart breaks because stories for you aren't written or accepted...
Just the grief of knowing your love can't be requited and you never belonged to this story...
Yes. yes. Absolutely. You understand. This is the appeal of Virgilius and Battler to me but also it's generally a ship dynamic that I love. The idea of not being part of someone's story, doomed to never be the one chosen, the one loved. And having that be tied into their queerness as the protagonist is meant to be cishet and sanitized.
(I feel like this is also sliiightly Kim Dokja from ORV.)
