a story in which katsuki's bratty son tries to blackmail his mother! how terrible
— characters. katsuki, reader, katsuma (the son)
— contents. fluff, katsuma is a little shit
— word count. 600
— authors note. GJFCK MFGVFDXK GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDOMESTICTRASFJNRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGJBJFNVDSLM
Your son is alot like his father, in good ways mostly.
He stands up for himself at school, and is mostly independent. For the most part, Katsuma was a pretty easy kid.
However, he can also be the most major little shit on the planet, much like in the situation you're in now.
He's learned what blackmail is, and he loves it.
You were in the kitchen, baking cookies, when you heard Katsuma’s voice from the living room. "Ma! What's this?" he yelled.
You turned to see your five-year-old holding the pregnancy test you had thrown away earlier.
Oh no.
Your heart skipped a beat. "Katsuma, where did you find that?" you asked, trying to stay calm.
"In the trash," he said with a mischievous grin. "I'm gon' tell Dad unless you give me extra cookies- and I wan' that brand new hero figurine at the store...AND I wan' my own bb gun- AND!!! I wan' a brand new pair of boo-"
"Katsuma." you sighed. You've known your son to be a major handful all his life, but also know realizing he did indeed have you in a tight spot.
"Katsuma, this is important. I wanted to tell your dad in a special way."
Katsuma pouted, crossing his arms. "Fine, but I still want extra cookies...and the figure...an' can I still have the bb gun?"
You sighed once more.
"Alright, you can have two extra cookies- AND the figurine... but you have to promise to keep this a secret for now," you said, hoping to buy some time.
"Deal," he said, his eyes gleaming with pride.
As you handed him the cookies, you couldn't help but feel frustrated, yet a bit amused. Katsuma was a lot like his father—brash, stubborn, and always wanting to be in control. You watched as he stuffed the cookies into his mouth, crumbs falling everywhere, and shook your head with a small smile.
Just then, you heard the front door open. Katsuki walked in, looking as intense as ever. "What's going on in here, hm?" he asked, sensing the tension.
Katsuma jumped in before you could speak. "Mom's got a secret, but she won't tell me!"
You shot a look at Katsuma, then turned to Katsuki. "It's not like that! I just…I found out something today and wanted to surprise you..."
Katsuki raised an eyebrow. "Yeah? What's that?"
Taking a deep breath, you decided it was now or never. "Katsuki, I’m pregnant. We're having another baby."
For a moment, he just stared at you, processing the news. Then, a rare, genuine smile spread across his face. it was sadly short lived, and replaced with a smirk instead. "Oh really?".
Katsuma looked between the two of you, his earlier mischief forgotten. "So, does that mean I get a little brother or sister to boss around?"
"Katsuma, you will not be bossing your them around." you said, ruffling his hair. "You have to be a good big brother, okay?"
Katsuma's eyes widened. "I’ll be the best big brother ever! Can I teach them how to play hero games?"
You chuckled. "Sure, but you'll also need to help take care of them."
Katsuki walked over and pulled you into a gentle hug. "I'm really happy, you know," he said quietly. "This is good news."
You relaxed into his embrace, feeling a wave of relief. "I was so nervous about telling you."
He pulled back slightly, looking into your eyes. "Why? You know I’m always here for you, no matter what."
Katsuma tugged at Katsuki’s pant leg. "Dad, does this mean we need to buy more baby stuff?"
Katsuki laughed. "Yeah, it does. And you can help pick it out."
"Good! Yknow dad...when we go to the store,I wanted to see if you could buy me a new figurine..or a bb gun...or a brand new pair of boo-"
"No."
"Oh.. DAMNIT!"
The rest of the evening was filled with excited chatter about the new baby. Katsuma kept asking questions about what it would be like to have a sibling, while Katsuki suggested names and joked about teaching the new baby how to be tough like him.
Later, after dinner, you all sat together in the living room. Katsuma was snuggled between you and Katsuki, half-asleep from all the excitement.
Katsuki looked over at you, his expression softer than usual. "You know, I never imagined myself having a family like this," he admitted. "But I wouldn't trade it for anything."
You smiled, feeling a warmth spread through you. "Me neither. We’ve come a long way, haven’t we?"
He nodded, reaching over to squeeze your hand. "Yeah, we have. And it’s only going to get better from here."
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Kidnapped by the Boss Part 8
Synopsis: Val is a secretary to the Prime Minister. But when the political summit between the city states goes awry, she finds herself kidnapped by the very boss she tried to protect and nothing is what it seems.
Part one here
Part seven here
Val could tell now Rook’s knocks from those of the servants. He rapped at the door in exactly three staccato beats — almost as a warning rather than an announcement because he would open the door anyway if she didn’t answer it within a few seconds. Thus, she didn’t bother rising from the edge of the bed where she sat.
The door swung open moments later and he leaned against the door frame, arms crossed.
“My king has had breakfast sent for. You’re invited to join but he stresses that it’s optional,” he announced, sounding almost bored.
She snorted. “Is it now? That’s a first.”
Yesterday she spent the rest of the afternoon and evening in her room. The invitation to explore no longer tempted her. She wanted to hide instead. The irony of this was not lost on her. Rook had delivered her dinner, citing that the king was too busy to actually have a sit down meal.
Whether that was true or the king simply didn’t want to deal with her theatrics, Val would never know. Rook stayed long enough to ensure she ate a healthy portion before leaving. He didn’t bother her with small talk, which she was grateful for.
“If you decline, I’m to have it sent to your rooms and babysit your eating habits,” Rook added unhappily.
She almost wanted to make him do it out of sheer spite.
“I’ll come,” she said instead.
She couldn’t hide forever, as tempting as that could be sometimes. And she was tired of feeling afraid.
Rook raised his eyebrows at her, clearly surprised at her answer.
“After you,” he said with a little bow, gesturing past him.
“Such a gentleman,” she said as she walked past.
“It’s so I can shoot you in the back if you try anything.”
“Of course it is,” she muttered.
By the time they returned to the king’s study, breakfast was already spread out on the table. What mess she made on the carpet yesterday had disappeared, as if it had never happened. But judging from the cautious smile on Aris’s face, he hadn’t forgotten either.
“Good morning, Val,” he said, pulling her chair out for her. “Did you sleep well?”
“I did,” she replied with a side eye glance at him. As if she wouldn’t recognize his Politician Voice a mile away.
“I slept like shit,” Rook piped up. “Thanks for asking.”
Val choked on a laugh and covered it up in a bite of toast.
“You always sleep poorly,” said Aris. “It’s because you don’t shut both eyes.”
“The last time I slept with both eyes closed, someone nearly shot my hand off.”
“Well that’s what happens when you don’t shut your mouth before going to sleep,” Val added, taking an innocent sip of coffee.
“You’re fucking hilarious,” he snapped.
She smirked. “Thank you.”
“Is this going to be a pattern?” Aris asked, somewhat exasperated.
Val and Rook shrugged in unison and then shot each other wary looks. It was eerie how different they both were and yet could act in unison without a second thought.
Aris gave them both a speculative look. “I see,” he said, before settling his attention back on her.
For the rest of breakfast, they made painfully awkward small talk. Val refused to engage fully, giving Aris terse answers and not contributing anything in between digs at Rook. If he wasn’t such a bastard, she suspected he sniped at her for the distraction. She could almost muster up some gratitude for him.
“And what are your plans today, Val?” Aris asked.
By then they had eaten most of the spread. Rather than answer, she turned to Rook instead.
“Can I talk to him?” she asked.
He gestured to Aris. “Nothing is stopping you.”
“Alone,” she added.
He went still at that, his gaze sharpening, eyes roaming over her features. It felt like getting scanned with a laser.
“My king?” he asked, looking over her head.
“It’s fine, Rook. Meet us in the hallway, if you would.”
Rook slowly stood from his chair, the languid posture disappearing for something dangerous and predatory.
“Only because her right hook sucks,” he added, the joke at odds with a warning look in his eye. Almost like a professional courtesy.
The door shut with a soft click and just like that Val was alone with Aris for the first time since her kidnapping. The last time it happened, he had just been Eugene, her good-hearted, intelligent, disorganized and vaguely infuriating boss. The last time it happened she was chasing him out of his pajamas as he languished at the breakfast table.
That moment felt like years ago.
“Val,” he prompted softly.
She swallowed against the sudden lump in her throat and held up her wrist, the tracker humming every so faintly against her pulse.
“Is this my life now, Eugene?”
He tilted his head, brow furrowed. “Is that what had you so angry yesterday? It’s only temporary.”
“Yeah, I know. I can earn my way off of it if I act like a good little girl and follow the rules. Because if I don’t you put me in time out until I learn my place to be more obedient.”
Bitterness oozed from her tone like venom. She couldn’t have stopped it even if she wanted to.
She didn’t want to.
All night those words looped around her head. The fucking audacity of him.
To his credit, he winced in response. “I — I didn’t mean it to sound so —“
“Condescending?” she offered. “Disrespectful? Infantalizing?” She narrowed her eyes and leaned over the table. “I had to pick out your socks for you so they would match. I had to remind you of your own birthday. I organized every fund-raising event you ever had and I made sure you didn’t mix up the donors’ names. You were a fucking mess without me and you think you can talk to me like that? After everything you have put me through in the last several days?”
For a long moment, he didn’t respond. In fact, he didn’t even look at her. She knew prolonged eye contact made him uncomfortable sometimes and so she did not let up her laser focus on him until he could meet her gaze again.
“You’re right,” he said simply. “I have no defense, not really.”
“I’m not going to buy your lip service,” she warned. “I know when you’re bullshitting. You say that now, but I have to wonder if you really think so little of me when I’m not calling you out for it. I thought I had your respect.”
She swallowed hard against the lump in her throat, biting her cheek down to stop an errant tear. She would not cry in front of him.
A flash of pain crossed his face. “You do have my respect. . . . And my terror. I need to know if I can trust you or not and no way to get an honest answer.”
Her mouth fell open. “You are worried about trusting me? Are you fucking kidding me?”
His fingers tugged at a thick lock of hair — a compulsion driven by sudden discomfort or anxiety.
“I may have lied to you about where I came from, what my goals were, my past lives. But you know things about me no one else does,” he admitted softly. “Not even Rook. You have seen me when I had no mask on. You know my quirks, my mannerisms, my fears, my faults. You can read me like a book. I could be glamored to look like someone else and I bet my entire treasury you would still be able to clock it was me in minutes or less.”
Val had to roll her eyes. “You make me sound like I can read your mind. I was just your assistant, Eugene. I’m not that important in the grand scheme of things, especially since you have literally hundreds of servants at your disposal for the kind of stuff I did for you.”
He let out a bark of harsh laughter. “You have no idea. I was a mess without you. I’m disorganized with a horribly unreliable memory. I can’t focus my full attention on something for more than five seconds at a time. I get overwhelmed at tasks with more than two steps and you have to put a gun to my head to start my own laundry. And yes, I have servants that can take care of some of those things, but no assistant has ever compared to what you could do.”
“Now you’re just kissing my ass,” she said, leaning back with her arms crossed.
And gods help her, it was working, if only a little. Eugene had never been ungrateful when she worked for him, but never had he acknowledged her skills to such a degree.
“I’m being honest,” he countered. “I am in the most crucial and potentially vulnerable part of my plans. And you are the one person who could bring about its downfall. You know the most important leaders in every category. You have their personal contact information, for Gods’ sake. You know exactly who to go first to warn of an invasion, you know exactly how to organize against it, and you have enough information about me and how I think to give them everything they needed to stop me. If you were to escape it would ruin everything.”
He dragged a hand over his face, another tick that showed his worries. Maybe he was on to something.
“You’re so dangerous, in fact, Rook had been nagging at me to execute you since you dove into the car,” he continued. “And in all honesty, it’s the smartest choice to make. But I can’t do it. Not to you.”
“So this is your solution?” She shook the tracker at him. “Imprisonment for crimes that I could do instead of anything I have done?”
He pinned her with his gaze. “Would you stay if I took it off? Or would you leave for home at the first opportunity?”
Of course she would run. She would give anything to be far far away from him and this whole mess. Not that she could.
“You’ve made it impossible for me to go home,” she spat.
This time he leaned over the table, eyes narrowed.
“I didn’t force you into that car, Val. You can blame me for a great many things, but not for that. You wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for a choice that you made.��
Val chewed at her lip, unable to argue this and hating it. Her choice was based on her feelings and he wasn’t responsible for either. That was on here alone.
Godsdamnit.
“What would you do if our roles were reversed?” he asked, head tilted. “What other solution is there?”
She snorted. “Have you thought about moving on? It’s been a century. This is the way things are now.”
Aris stood from the table so suddenly it shuddered, the vase of flowers nearly tipping over. She jerked back reflexively as he slammed his hands on the table. Fury sparked in his eyes, more than she had ever seen, running hot enough to make her gaze flinch away.
“They murdered me, Val!” he shouted. “They murdered me and stole my home from me and then they’ve systematically destroyed it for their own gain.”
She had never seen him raise his voice before. His fingers dug into the table cloth, his gaze a brand upon her, as he continued in a softer voice that shook.
“The Coalition is in shambles. You saw it when we worked together. The bribes from lobbyists are what drives laws. Family ties rule the senate and parliaments just as iron clad as a dynasty. The wealth disparity is a chasm while trade stagnates in Three and roads are impassable in Two and we’ve sat through three drinking crises alone in One in my first term alone. You can accept it because you have no conception of what things were like before. But I cannot stand by and accept that this is the way things are now.”
His words finished in a growl, his breaths heavy. Val swallowed, trying to calm her own racing heartbeat. He had never shown any signs of violence in the time she’s known him, but neither did she ever witness a loss of temper like this.
Could she have taken him on in a fight? Maybe. If he didn’t have a gun on him. But not Rook, who waited just outside and undoubtedly heard all of this.
“And you think you can fix all that?” she finally dared to ask.
Because he wasn’t wrong. Which she also hated.
He stood up and took a few deep, calming breaths, fingers combing his hair back. Putting himself back together as if he had never lost his temper.
“I know that I can,” he said as he sat back down, his voice even again. “Those sorts of problems don’t exist here.”
“That’s because your political infrastructure never really changed,” she pointed out and if he threw another fit, oh fucking well. “You have to change a hundred years of laws and politics to model it after here.”
He nodded. “I am aware. I’m under no delusion that it would be fast or easy. But it can be done. And I will do it. Even if it takes me ten lifetimes.”
“You know, there’s a certain kind of word for someone who starts running a country and then never steps down.”
He rolled his eyes at that.
“I’m going to give you grace for the conclusions you’re drawing out of ignorance and youth. But if you are so concerned about what I’m going to do to our home, then why don’t you help me?”
From prisoner back to assistant? Her suspicions rose like hackles.
“Help you how? Match your socks again?”
“I’m the king. If I were mismatched socks no one would dare comment on it save for Rook. And now you. I’m more interested in your mind. Your organizational skills. Your guidance. Your knowledge and experience.”
“I thought I was young and ignorant.”
She would not be tempted by this, she would not.
“I am going to unite the Coalition back under my rule, Val. It is not a hope but a certainty. You have the choice to watch helplessly from the sidelines or help me create an end result we can all live with.”
“I . . .” A cocktail of complicated feelings twisted and writhed in her gut.
He was right about so many things. But he also knew how to twist the truth with his own ideas. She’d seen him do it countless times, to run circles around lobbyists and constituents and other politicians. It was impossible to know what she could trust.
“I would have to think about it,” she said finally.
He smiled then, a small quirk of his mouth. “You have some time. Now, is there anything else you would like to rightfully scold me for or can I call back in Rook before he has a stroke?”
“I’m done for now.”
“Excellent. And — one more thing, if you wouldn’t mind.”
“What?”
He gave her that crooked smile again. “Call me Aris.”
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Painting
Pairing: Bucky Barnes x OFC!Theo
Summary: Bucky has to marry a woman who surprises him more and more as their story goes along.
Word count: 1,514
Warnings: buckys a dickhead in this. Wanda and Theo's friendship starts to blossom, swearing, mentions of being made to have sex with someone.
Translations: дорогой - sweetheart
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The next day Wanda strolls into the kitchen where Bucky was sitting at the kitchen counter, she smiles softy at him.
"Morning Buck"
"Morning. Hey how was yesterday with Theo?"
"Jumping straight into it?" She chuckles whilst shaking the strawberry milkshake "I'm going to go to the craft store today to get some paints and things so me and Theo can learn how to paint"
"Paint?"
"Yeah it's going to be fun! Also Buck, um I'm going to be teaching her how to read"
"She doesn't know how to?"
"No, but like I said I'm going to teach her" she smiles.
"Did you find anything else out?"
"She's really good with numbers, she likes the colour yellow, the only film she's ever seen was The Great Escape, nothing much else and oh her laugh is so cute".
Bucky's heart sank.
"Yo-she laughed?"
"Yeah, but she looked terrified after though"
"I-oh. I'm going to take the day off tomorrow to spend the day with her"
"That would be great Buck, hey listen just remember to go slow with her".
"I know, I know. Will you be taking Theo with you to the store?"
"I wasn't planning on doing that but if you want me too I can”
Bucky thought about it and decided that it might be good for Theo to get some fresh air "yeah take her with you but Wanda I want you to double up security alright"
"Yes boss"
Telling Theo that she was allowed to go to the store with Wanda made the redhead smile at how excited Theo's eyes were.
At the store Wanda let Theo push the cart, said cart was getting fuller and fuller as the pair made their way down the aisles; a rainbow of paints, brushes in all sizes, paper, canvases big and small, everything really that Wanda could get her hands on went inside the cart.
"I think that's everything don't you?" She says watching as Theo nods.
After paying they work as a team loading everything into the boot of the car and Wanda drove them back home.
Not even an hour later they were covered in paint.
Wanda loved the look of pure happiness on Theo's face, the look of freedom as she painted.
"I-I don't think I'm very good at it"
"Neither am I but it's okay we're just having fun it doesn't matter if it's good or not" Wanda smiles to her.
"I really like yours"
"I really like yours too, the colours-" Wanda's interrupted by a knock on the door. "Come in"
The door opens revealing Bucky, he smiles at both of the women. "Hey, you two look like you're having fun"
"We are look at all of our masterpieces we've done so far" Wanda beams up at him. He moves over to where they've placed their artwork "the ones on the left are Theo's and the ones on the right are mine" he hears from behind him, his eyes more focused on the left side now.
"These are wonderful"
"Why thank you"
Bucky turns to face them again catching a quick glimpse of Theo's smile before it faded but not before he noticed the dimple on her right cheek, he smiles softly at the sight.
"Um Theo did Wanda tell you that I'm taking the day off tomorrow so I can spent the day with you?"
Instantly regretting the words ever coming out of his mouth as he sees her shoulders tensing and how her head drops lower.
"No I didn't, I forgot all about it I was to focused on shopping you know me Buck my mind goes blank when I'm shopping" Wanda laughs as to ease the conversation.
"That's fine, is that okay with you Theo?" His heart sinking once again when he receives a short nod.
"Okay well I'll let you ladies carry on, I'll see you later for dinner". Leaving quickly as he could.
Wanda hated that Theo had gone rigid. "Theo? Are you okay?" Getting a nod from her, she shut her eyes and breathed deeply. "You can talk, you don't have to keep nodding or shaking your head Theo. You're free to talk whenever you want"
"I'm okay Wanda"
"Bucky's not that scary you know?"
"I-it's not that."
"What is it then?" Wanda leans over to take Theo's hands in hers, squeezing slightly.
"I have to perform my wifely duties tomorrow"
"What do you mean?"
"Have sex with him"
Taken back by this "you don't have to if you don't want to Theo"
"I have to it's my job as his wife"
"Who told you that?"
"My mother"
"What did she say to exactly? It's okay Theo you can tell me"
"That my job was to have sex with James and that it was one of my sisters that would birth him an heir"
“Listen to me, if you don't want to have sex with Bucky you don't have to. You say no. Bucky would never pressure you into doing anything you didn't want to do, I promise. Buck would never cheat on you I promise you that too"
"Bu-but I hav-"
"No. No Theo you don't." Wanda struggles to keep her anger at bay. Hating that the woman who she deems as her friend thinks that she has to do things that she clearly doesn't want to do in order to "perform her wifely duties". Hating Theo's mum for making her think that this is what a marriage should be like.
Unbeknownst to the pair, Bucky was standing outside of the doors both fists balled tightly, the anger coming off him in waves.
Later on in the day Sam knocks on the doors to tell them that dinner was ready as they made their way into the dining room everyone smiles at state they arrived in - paint covering most of their hands, paint on their eyebrows and cheeks.
"Did you two have fun?" Nat asks.
"Yeah, we kind of got carried away" Wanda laughs before sitting down next to the other redhead, conversation picking up between the pair.
Theo moves quickly and quietly to the corner of the room where she sits facing the wall.
As dinner is brought out Bucky walks in, and goes straight to his seat, digging in to his food as soon as it's placed in front of him. Stopping when he feels eyes on him.
"What?" He asks with annoyance lacing his words. Steve's eyes flick over to where Theo was sat before going back to Bucky. "Leave her and eat" receiving questionable looks, he sighs "or don't I don't care" then he carries on eating.
Ignoring the guilt burning their insides, they all follow suit.
After he was done Bucky stands, watching how Theo's body flinched from the loud scraping of his chair.
"Where you going Buck?" Steve asks.
"I'm going to Dots"
"Why?"
"To fuck her. Not like I'll be getting any sex in my marriage" Then he strolls out.
Wanda jumps up and storms out after him reaching just in time. "What the fuck was that all about?" She seethes.
"Which part?"
"The whole dinner James"
"Wanda I don't have ti-"
"What was that all about" she now demands.
"Fine. My so called wife doesn't even look at me, let alone fucking talk to me"
"Right so that makes you think it's acceptable to say that you're going to Dots for a fuck?"
"Yeah like I said I'm not going to be getting any from the frigid bitch-"
Wanda does the one thing that she has never done or thought about doing. She smacks him. "Don't you ever call her that! You want to go and fuck a whore instead of getting to know your wife then so be it. You James make me feel physically sick."
She turns on her heels stopping when she sees everyone standing there, barging past them she goes back into the dining room where Theo was still sat.
"Oh дорогой" She says at the sight of tears wetting her friends cheeks. "Come on, you can come and sleep in my bed with me tonight"
Hand in hand they both stand and head up the stairs, ignoring the words coming from the friend group standing there.
Neither of them realise that Bucky was no longer standing there.
Bucky stumbled back into the house in the early hours of the morning going straight into Wanda's library he walks over to Theo's paintings and picked the one that caught his eye from hours ago.
He takes it gently into his hands, leaving the room he climbs the stairs. Once he was in his bedroom he places the canvas on the bed before taking his shoes off and climbing on the bed, he removes the very expensive painting he had hung up on the wall. Slowly picking up Theo's he places it on the hook.
Jumping off the bed with a slight tumble due the alcohol swirling around in his veins, he moves to the bottom of his bed and smiles. Climbing back into bed he passes out.
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Hi ik you’re not taking requests but could you share what you think the canon aot characters would think about gay people?
Hi, dear! How are you?
I feel so giggly when people ask for my opinion on topics; I don't know why. So, I'll take a minute from my birthday to reply!
This is such a good question, and I'll do my best to respond respectfully as someone who isn't part of the LGBTQ+ community. I would say that overall, most characters of AoT, or at least the ones we know well (not like the civilians inside the walls), wouldn't "mind it." For example, I don't believe Erwin, Levi, Hange, Eren, Mikasa, Jean, etc., would mind it or be homophobic. I'll summarize the upcoming rant with a quote I heard once and feel encapsulates my view of the AoT characters:
"The woke of today are the fascists of tomorrow."
It's true. Everything you fight for today to normalize, to create awareness, etc., will hopefully be granted in a few years. Society will evolve, and the new generations will think we are "close-minded" to a certain degree. There will always be homophobic and misogynistic people across generations, but probably one kid or two will call us out in a couple of years. This is great because it means society is learning.
With that said, when I get asked, "Would Levi be misogynistic? Would Levi or Erwin be homophobic?" I always think, "They wouldn't… for their period's standards." I don't think the society within the walls is very open-minded by 2024 standards. Even in my own fic, I write that homosexuality is banned inside the walls, which was the case in many countries until not long ago. In some places, it still happens. Even in societies like Korea, being homosexual isn't "illegal," but you could lose your job if your boss finds out. I follow a YouTuber from Spain who does vlogs about his life in Korea, and he's gay. He has to keep his relationship with his boyfriend secret because his Korean boyfriend could lose his job and family if people found out.
It's extremely sad that people can't live their lives proudly and loudly because of this, but it's a reality even nowadays. So, I don't really think being open about your sexual orientation if you're not a cis heterosexual person would be safe inside the walls.
Now, do I think that AoT characters are homophobic? No. The only characters that come to mind who might be openly homophobic, based on the vibes they give me (not on panels or canon proof, just my feelings), are Folch, Porco, Zackly (because he's an old man), and Zeke. Zeke would probably pretend that he doesn't care but be really homophobic deep down and maybe even use it against someone.
The rest, I don't feel they would be homophobic. Maybe they would make some uncool comments, but mostly out of ignorance rather than hate, like maybe Jean. On the other hand, I do feel like they wouldn't have a 2024 approach to the topic, especially the men. I'm not saying women can't be homophobic, but historically, women and homosexuals have had a more "ally" relationship.
I think this is also due to misogyny. I can see AoT guys being like, "Yeah, we're cool with it… as long as I'm not the one that guy is into," or "As lond as nobody thinks I AM gay," which is a very usual approach for men. They fear other men being into them because men are deep down scared of being treated or seen as they treat women. Men often see gay men as "lacking masculinity," which has nothing to do with it but is usually correlated for heterosexual men. Especially in military settings, barracks, shared showers, locker talks, etc., men are supposed to be "men's environments." Particularly in the scouts, as they are all outcasts of society and very few in number. If they got picky about who they decided to get involved with, they would halve their numbers.
In conclusion, I feel like most of the AoT characters wouldn't mind at all. They might not be open about their sexuality because of societal prejudice, but their opinion about it wouldn't be as "supportive" as many of us are these days.
Thank you so much for your ask! I hope this somehow answers the question!
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