#tho boxing them up with labels is a bit boring.. n its better to leave them fluid..flawed... n undefined...

[leona-florianova]

Has to be said, that while I do think that Jack and Stephen love each other vey very very much and that they are in some kind of symbiotic and queer relationship.

I also firmly believe that Jack is just... The most vanilla, heterosexual leaning and disappointingly bad at sex guy to ever exist.. BUT... Hes also deeply bi romantic and so so so friendship-eager that hes dangerously capable to quickly form a friendship/ fall in love with just about anyone who seems nice and shows him a bit of decency n affection... especially if they share a meal with him.

Which...Combined with his inability to notice any queer activity and more subtle advances at all (anything compareble to less than a direct attack with a sledgehammer)...makes him extremely confusing to all the sodomites... and tbh to everyone else too...

Meanwhile Stephen is... Even putting anything like a label on him feels wrong.. he could decide on something else on a whim or when the drugs wear off ... or kick in ... but he seems like some flavour of kinky acespec to me (demi?)...

An extremely secretive acespec whos waaaay more into taking people and animals apart and studying them than anything else (both bodies and minds)..... except maybe the idea of being mauled (body and especially mind... bonus if the person tormenting him is a beautiful powerful independant woman comparable to some carnivorous beast)....Oh yeah... and also chasing a concept..

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Anyway...

The thing is, if Stephen actually proposed anything....(and he would have to be the one to initiate, because for all of Jacks repetitions of the "Go straight at them", he rarely does, does he? More often He waits and surveys untill they "Go straight at Him")

He would propose it in such a roundabout and awkward way that it would necessarily include at least about two hours of detailed descriptions of mating habits of some amphibians.

And if Jack didnt zone out through all that and actually caught the drift... Hed probably go tomato red and be like "Haha what a lewd chap you are, Stephen. Anyway I have to do something very important elsewhere, excuse me" and hed promptly walk into a door frame because his whole mind would be occupied by some hardcore compartmentalizing.

But if they get to something after that I think it should be only right if it keeps with the theme of the books.. A sort of monkey paw situation

-> Sex so awkward and disappointing they dont mention it again, but Stephen doubles down with his castration jokes/genuine suggestions....But they still love each other.

*i do like when they suffer