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Part 21 of Kiribaku
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Fellow Redditors, Is My Son Gay?

Summary:

“I was flabbergasted. My son has always insisted that he’s straight every time we’ve questioned it – when he said Crimson Riot was “husband material” while his friends were over, when he complained about everyone in television being straight, when we realized all his friends are queer in some way, and when I accidentally saw his search history last March while trying to help him restart his computer (my wife ended up knowing how to do it, because she’s good at everything).”

Chapter 1

Notes:

Hey y'all! I know I'm way behind on literally all my other writing (and I'm hoping to post the first chapter of my iidaroki wip soon, whoops) but this just popped into my head, and I had to write it!
I'm still not at ALL a fan of Bakugou's parents, but I'm trying to see them in different lights to improve my writing/character depth, and I also just thought this was kinda funny, if I do say so myself.
Anyway, enjoy!

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

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Fellow Redditors, Is My Son Gay?

Fellow redditors, is my son gay? First off I just want to say that I love my son and will support him no matter what. I don’t care who he loves as long as they make him happy.

I’ve (M43) always assumed my son, let’s call him K, (M17) was straight. My friends always ask me if he’s gay, saying that he gives off incredibly gay vibes, but I’ve always told them that it’s just the eyeliner, and he’s just being edgy, because I didn’t want any rumors to get in the way of his career (he’s studying for a very public career), and because until this afternoon, I never considered that he might be gay.

He never hung out with any girls his age, but he wasn’t particularly close with his school friends either. Now that he’s in highschool he finally has his own friend group (4 boys and 1 girl counting him), and they seem pretty great, though until recently he hasn't brought them over much because he thinks his mother and I are “embarrassing”, even though we would never embarrass him in front of his friends.

His best friend (M17), who I’ll call E, has been over a lot lately, and I hate to make assumptions about people, but I can not imagine a world where this boy is straight. He constantly talks about things being “manly”, and every other word out of his mouth is about how cool or manly K is. The weird thing, though, is that K praises E, too, which is new. He’s never had anything nice to say about anyone other than himself before. Though he does call E “Shitty Hair” a lot, but it seems to be some term of endearment, because E always grins at the insulting nickname.

He’s also constantly touching K, which wouldn’t be gay in itself, but our family has never been big on physical affection between my wife’s (F42) lack of emotional skills and my son’s “I’m too cool to have parents” phase. E practically hangs off K 24/7, he’s hugging him, dragging him around, grabbing his hand, punching him in the shoulder, or hanging an arm around his shoulders and leaning right up against his ear to whisper things I didn’t understand to him, though I believe they’re largely references to memes that I’m just too old for at this point.

They have sleepovers all the time, and they always share my son’s twin bed, saying setting up the air mattress isn’t worth the trouble since they “do this all the time at school” (they go to a boarding school related to their future career choice). My son had a pretty traumatic incident during his first summer break at this school, and E has really been there for him through all of that, which my wife and I really appreciate.

They also wrestle constantly, which of course I did with my straight male friends growing up, but I feel like the way they wrestle is sort of homoerotic, especially because K gets really embarrassed if my wife or I enter the room while they’re doing it. They also sometimes just lay on the floor tangled together afterwards and just talk, which I’ve never done with any of my straight male friends, and one time I saw E running his hand gently along the side of my son’s face and smiling almost yearningly at him, so I’m pretty sure E has feelings for K, even if K doesn’t feel the same.

They talk a lot about starting their own agency together and getting an apartment together after high school. They do pretty much everything together – cooking, studying, video games, they even shower together to “save water”, which I’ve always found strange, but I know they shower together in the communal showers at school, so it probably doesn’t feel weird to them.

They also do nice things for each other, like K makes sure we always have E’s favorite flavor of gatorade in the fridge (one of the red ones, but I don’t know which) even though he doesn’t drink it, and E is constantly feeding K when they go out, even though we always have food at home. 

One time K had a blue popsicle and E had a red one, and then their tongues were purple, and my wife laughed and said something about the joy of being young, but I figured they just wanted to try each other’s flavors like my friends and I used to do as kids. 

I never thought too much about it, even the other day I came home from work early because my boss thought I should take the weekend to relax before my big pitch on Monday (I work in the fashion industry, as I’m sure anyone who’s seen my posting industry could guess), and when I opened the front door, K and E were curled up on the couch in a blanket watching a movie. The weird thing was that K was literally on top of E, and they might have been kissing, but I’m not sure.

As soon as they heard me come in, they jumped apart so suddenly that K actually fell off the couch. E laughed at him, and they played it off as being surprised to see me back so soon, but I noticed a hickey on my son’s neck. I didn’t say anything, because he could’ve gotten it with someone else, and honestly, it isn’t my business. I apologized and went upstairs to ask my wife what she thought, and she burst into hysterics and said they were obviously dating and had been since first year.

I was flabbergasted. My son has always insisted that he’s straight every time we’ve questioned it – when he said Crimson Riot was “husband material” while his friends were over, when he complained about everyone in television being straight, when we realized all his friends are queer in some way, and when I accidentally saw his search history last March while trying to help him restart his computer (my wife ended up knowing how to do it, because she’s good at everything).

What really made me start questioning my son’s sexuality happened this afternoon. K has had some pretty bad panic attacks since the previously mentioned traumatic incident, but today’s was something else. I don’t even know what triggered it. Apparently they got pretty bad at school sometimes, but I wasn’t there for that. All I knew was that his therapist had said he was making a lot of progress and that the nightmares haven’t been so bad at least since he’s been here for the summer.

He was yelling and screaming and insisting that there were people in the house, and his quirk was going off, and my wife and I didn’t know what to do. She was flinging open closet doors and yelling at him just to look if he didn’t believe her, because there was no one here. I was trying to call his teacher, but he wasn’t picking up. E grabbed K’s shoulders and squeezed. He’d said “I’ve got you”, and K started sobbing and buried his face in E’s shoulder. E had just held him like that for two hours (they moved to the couch at some point during that) and whispered over and over that everything was going to be okay.

It’s not that I don’t think friends can support each other, because obviously they can, but something about the way they looked at each other made me wonder if maybe there is something more there. I have known my son his entire life and always been as involved as I could, and I have never seen him look at anyone like that. He’s never really let anyone in, but in that moment, I’m one hundred percent sure he would have jumped off a cliff if E told him to. I think my son might actually be in love with this kid, but he’s always insisted he’s straight.

So what do we think, Reddit? Is my son gay?

Notes:

Kudos and comments give my life meaning!
Thanks for reading!

Also, HUGE bonus points to anyone who comments in the form of a reply to Masaru's post. <3

Chapter 2

Notes:

Hey y'all, I'm honestly surprised anyone actually read this silly little thing I wrote lol.
I wasn't originally planning to adding to this, but it isn't a true reddit post without a somewhat unnecessary update, so here we go!
Enjoy!

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

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UPDATE: Fellow Redditors, Is My Son Gay?

Hello everyone, I want to start this off by thanking all of you again for all your advice. It’s taken me longer than I intended to update this, but quite a bit has happened since I originally posted this.

After posting this, I did invite K’s friend group over for dinner in order to determine whether or not they were a polycule. I wanted to have a barbeque as one of you suggested, but my wife wasn’t comfortable having K and his friends around open flames (the last time my son used the grill, he threatened to set my wife’s best friend’s son on fire). One of them mentioned his girlfriend being mad at him, two of them made jokes about being single, and K and E just looked awkwardly at each other.

Next I tried having an honest conversation with K about his relationship with E. He’s old enough now that I thought we could just talk man to man, but I was wrong. I waited until my wife was watching her favorite show, and then I knocked on K’s door. He let me in begrudgingly, and I sat down on the edge of his bed in an attempt to make him feel closer to him. After only a few minutes of conversation, I realized that I had underestimated my son’s deep-rooted shame and sexual repression. 

He told me E was his best friend, and that he was tired of everyone assuming they were gay just because they wore eyeliner. I barely stopped myself from saying that wasn’t the only reason just in time. I tried to show that I wasn’t trying to assume anything by saying that friendship was great and asking if he had a girlfriend, but he just called me a homophobe and started yelling about how it shouldn’t matter to me who he slept with, even though I tried to explain that it didn’t matter to me as long as he was happy. 

I tried to give him some space to cool down for the next few days, but he took every opportunity to glare at me and flip me off. E kept telling him to stop, but he didn’t listen. He refused to talk to me, so eventually I just left him a note telling him how much I love him and accept him no matter what in with his laundry (which he seemed to have no issue with me doing even though apparently we weren’t on speaking terms). After that, he stopped trying to pick fights with me.

It took quite a bit of mental preparation, and dare I say – bravery, but I finally decided to talk to my son about safe sex, as one of you suggested. I waited until my wife was out with a friend, figuring that my son was less likely to get flustered if it was just the two of us (our last attempt at giving him the talk did not go as planned), and I casually invited him to my office. 

I told him that I loved him and that all I want is for him to be happy, but he needs to know how to pursue happiness responsibly. Then I showed him a very useful chart I had found on Pinterest about preparing for anal sex and started playing a video about consent with tea as a metaphor, and he went on a rant about how straight he was that lasted almost half an hour. As much as I hated to do it, I decided I needed backup.

When my wife got home, I told her about what had happened, which she found hilarious for some reason. I told her that a friend had suggested talking to E and K at once (I am not ready to show her this post as she would only make fun of me), and she thought that was a great idea, though she had that mischievous, scheming look in her eyes which I fell in love almost twenty years ago now.

We waited a few days until E was next coming over, and then we pounced. My wife just walked up and turned off the tv, telling my son to stop complaining and listen to us. He looked like he was about to completely lose his mind, but E said they were glad to hear whatever we had to say, so K just grumbled and went along with it.

This time my wife took the lead, beginning with saying that she didn’t care if they slept together, but they needed to use condoms. She talked about more types of condoms than I’d previously known existed, testing for STIs and STDs regularly unless you were in a monogamous or closed relationship, how important it is not to use random cleaning chemicals to prepare for anal and how to do so safely, how dangerous putting anything without a flared base inside your backside is, the importance of enthusiastic consent, and that lube is your best friend in the bedroom.

By the time she had finished talking, not only K and E were blushing furiously, but so was I. My wife looked incredibly pleased with herself, clearly she’d done her research. She asked if they had any questions, and a very red, laughing E said they’d figured most of that out already. K looked like he was about to scream, but he just smacked his hands over his face and groaned instead. My wife burst into hysterics and congratulated them, and my son finally admitted that he was gay. Honestly, I can’t believe it took me this long to realize that my son had fallen in love right in front of my face.

Notes:

Kudos and comments complete me!
Thanks for reading!

Here's the link to the consent is like tea video, because it's awesome and everyone should watch it at least once

 

Tea Consent (Clean)

 

Again, HUGE bonus points and my eternal love to anyone who comments in the form of a reply to Masaru's update!!! (:

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