Rain
Comic 1468 - Serious Relationships(?)
Author Notes:
I'm sure there's a lot of questions. Like how? And when? And why? Perhaps also WHAT!? Some of these may be answered next time, and some may not.
I hate to say I expect a some apprehension here too. Partly because "yet another person is coming out" (which, honestly, after 11 years of this comic, everyone should really be used to by now), and partly because of "who it is". Either way, I expect people will be sharing a lot of different opinions. All I ask, whether you like this development or hate it, is that you please be respectful of others.
Thank you. And I hope you like it. :)
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That said, I like that character development from her. Seeing her going from transphobic and (if I remember correctly), somewhat homophobic to.... well, at the very least, Bi is... well, true to life.
Honestly, I'm not apprehensive about the "yet another person coming out", as you said in the commentary. This is a story about LGBT+ folks, and their allies. They tend to congregate together, or find each other.... so while unexpected, this is definitely welcome.
I'm sure her relationship with Heather helped her come to terms with a lot of things.
Not that I'm not loving it. Actually, I'm extremely happy, but yes, it's a shocking surprise! I'm crying and shaking in excitement! 🥰
Also if she’s dateing Heather how has Rain not caught wind of this already? Has she just not been hanging out with Ky at all? It seems with Ky being trans/genderqueer their sister dating a former transphobic might have been something that would have been a stressful outcome at first. Even if Kellen has grown to a safe point and Heather can trust her, doesn’t mean she had earned Kys trust,
There is a good chance that Heather calling her judgemental was tough friend love, but with a 6 year gap there's a lot of time for stuff to change, and for them to have gotten romantic feelings for each other after that conversation.
I'm wondering how much Heather openly, frankly and honestly telling Kellen what she thought on Prom Night might have had to do with it.
Still gonna ship them tho
I accidentally typed Hellen in there once, and I guess that's the ship name isn't it lol. I wonder if you can cajole "of Troy" out of their combined last names lol
Considering that iirc Heather's more casual approach was typically more like one off instances with people (see: her incident with Fara lol). So if they're like a couple I'm guessing that they're at least somewhat serious even if not 100% committed to being with each other forever.
The string of bad luck in trying to find a boyfriend very early on jumps out. As well as probably plays at least a part into her transphobia, that she couldn't accept the idea of Rain as a woman because it was rubbing up against the tension in her own mind about why she also felt like she was ignoring a part of herself. So seeing Rain as a woman basically was taken as a direct challenge to her own internalized refusal to acknowledge that what she was doing didn't feel right and refusal to want to change because she's scared.
Obviously that doesn't erase any transphobia, but I think it provides an insight into her character and at least part of the motivation for why she acted out in the way she did. She felt compelled to act out and reject Rain so that she wouldn't have to confront her own discomfort with her identity.
And I would suspect that it's the case that her coming to terms with that and then starting to date Heather is also what spurred her to want to reach out and talk to Rain, and apologize for her really messing up and lashing out.
That whole "I'm upset because you're showing me that I can be comfortable but doing that would require me to change" thing, and maybe some shades of "and other people who are like I am right now wouldn't like me, because clearly I don't like people suggesting to me that I could be what I want to be."
Also, a lot of the time, that's at an unanalyzed level with no conscious awareness, because when one has stuff like that going on, introspection is incredibly uncomfortable. Introspection is usually something that people can put off, and they have a lot of motivation to do that.
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Well that's an unexpected but very welcome development
Getting that embarrassed about it shows how much she actually cares, and Aiken confirming that its totally serious, despite her trying to downplay it because she knows how Rain's gonna get X3
God, I Love this interaction between the siblings.
i mean, Heather getting with a girl was almost inevitable.
but Kellen... i'm interested in seeing where you take this.
WOW!
Interesting.
I wonder how long, (if at all), she was in denial and whether or not that influenced her reaction to Rain's coming out?
This could serve as a segue to see how Ky is doing.
While I love this comic, it seldom had me laughing out loud like this revelation.
and then turned out to be gay. It seems to be, for some, a reaction to being
unable to accept their own feeling, because they have been taught, or at
least picked up from their social circle, that those feelings are "wrong".
So they have a sharp fear of their own internal feelings that they haven't
learned to accept yet, and express it by lashing out at those who DO
express those sorts of feelings openly. That doesn't make it pleasant for
anyone, but I suppose it could be considered preferable to being deeply
depressed and suicidal. Because, ( again, for SOME people ) the acting
out can lead to them having to confront their own feelings and come to
terms with them. Others, for some reason, just make themselves numb,
and seem to accept all sorts of double standards in their life. And some
start blaming those feelings for all the bad stuff that happens in their life,
and start 'self medicating' with drugs or alcohol, and spiraling into a REALLY
bad place. I lost a REALLY close friend who I THOUGHT had found
self acceptance and happiness, and seemed on a road to what looked to me
as REAL success, and when a relationship ended, just spiraled down,
out of control. Still get really bummed about that at times.
This was a really welcome surprise and I, too, laughed out loud.
Embarrassed Kellen is sort of adorable.
Maybe the damage she did can be repaired a little.
I really appreciate this discovery it shows that (I’m not excusing this) but that sometimes acting transphobic and homophonic is just a mask.
Though I do not forgive Hellen for what she did but people do mask up these feelings
I personally pretended that I was clueless about the LGBTQIA2S+ community even though the opposite was true😅)
So thank you for creating this world we’re I could see myself threw it.🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Uh... wow... I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this yet....
Heather grew as a person and become a better person for Ky and herself. She said she saw herself in Kellen, that doesn't mean she just saw the bad in herself but the in herself for Kellen.
I just wish I could've seen their relationship bloom as Heather helped Kellen better herself with knowledge and fall in love while doing soo ಥ_ಥ
Definitely Ship it! Keather or Hellen? Definitely 🚢💕Keather💕🚢♡(> ਊ <)♡