Essay: On Sexuality
THIS IS A COINCIDENCE I SWEAR TO GOD. I had just started this when I noticed Edward had put one up. ^^a Anyway, as far as camp goes, I have chosen to play Capell as bi with a strong-leaning-towards-girls, and here is where I'm going to explain why. I'm going to do my best to be succinct, but I fail at that at the best of times and I have a lot of
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More seriously -- good points! I think the unblessed/never-got-socialized angle is a really good thing to note, and possibly related to the lack of defensive homophobia: even if there are m/m relationships happening in the world somewhere, they're certainly not obvious; to know that something like that happens, you'd have to, well, know some people who could tell you, which Capell doesn't really (AT ALL) until the Liberation Force conscripts him. Even if there is homophobia (and you know I have no more interest in extrapolating that into the canon than you do), Capell probably didn't get a really good course in it.
...I think, actually, with the way that you've already been playing his identity as unblessed, he'd be likely to be sympathetic to closeted gay people: there, also, is a case of "these people look just like everyone else, but they have a secret that they need to keep so that other people don't throw rocks at them." Blah blah coming out metaphor in Kolton, and stuff. ...I don't think I have enough faith in the writers to believe that was intentional, but fuck authorial intent, it works as such. In Kolton Edward confesses that he doesn't want to conform to the normative type, and that he fears it makes him unfit; Capell responds that he has always been what Edward is afraid he's now become. Touching reconciliation and acceptance for both of them! With...Aya attempting to make it all about her, for some reason. >->
Which is a really long tangent! Um.
TL;DR, you are awesome and clever, and even if Capell only liked girls he'd still have a "straight but not narrow" button on his backpack or something. :3
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It's true! It does make a really good metaphor. I also don't believe the writers were that on the ball, but yeah. A lot of similarities.
The part that I left out, or possibly will have to be its own thing, is the "why I don't think Capell likes Aya as much as he says he does", which has a lot to do with that isolation. He has never had anyone who's shown interest in him (except Faina), and she does, as awful as it is. So he decides that he likes her, too, because that's awesome, somebody likes him, whee. It's not so much a preference as a lack of options, there.
And yes, he totally would. :B
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Capell's Stockholm Syndrome relationship with Aya is definitely worth a post of its own, yeah. ^^;
And she's a pretty girl! And a princess! So she's an important, attractive girl who is paying attention to him, even if it's sort of horrible attention a lot of the time. It's no wonder he's impressed at first glance! God knows plenty of real teenagers get themselves into crappy relationships because the other person makes them feel wanted/special, even when it's clearly a bad idea.
Poor Capell.
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Exactly. And she gets angry possessive over him too, which totally makes him feel wanted. When both Aya and Faina are around, they're competing over him, which only makes him feel more awesome.
And I want to essay on why Capell never sticks up for himself. Capell is just...made of essays, I guess. >->a
He's such a broken little wooblet.
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...I think the part that I really hate is the part where the writers seem to think that being violent and irrational is charming, in a girl. because. just. no, actually. being violent and irrational is not desirable in anyone. Edward has to stop being those things to be a worthwhile friend, but apparently Aya is allowed to keep doing them and it makes her good girlfriend material. >->;
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