Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25614818-20150410170303/@comment-25614818-20150415185845

Gilgameshkun wrote:

BlazeinBoots wrote: I'm not saying that I like the whole "everybody's gay- thing", but you have to admit, it's funny. And when it says "Splinter was the first to know"...it is just funny. Well, I wouldn't think that. April, Casey, Donnie, Karai, Kirby, Leo, Shredder and Splinter have not been given any gay moments, nor would I necessarily expect them to. :) My adult TMNT fan friends and I who watch the show together were pretty sure that:
 * Mikey and Leatherhead are in love. The show has driven this point home as many times as they can. Even Korrasami was a lot more subtle. :P But Mikey seems to still likes girls, especially if he will fall in love with Renet. In fact, it's uncertain whether he fell in love with Leatherhead as a male or simply as a person. A lot of people might think "same difference," but I've met pansexuals to whom this distinction is important. It actually seems to make Mikey more like the real Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, who famously had chaste romantic relationships with many different men and the occasional woman. I tried to add this as a trivia bullet in Mikey's article once, but the consensus at the time was that it wouldn't be a good idea. And yes, I would think Mikey is probably just as chaste, if at least because Leatherhead wouldn't want to risk harming him. But kissing? After all the affectionate body rubbing that effectively amounts to second base, kissing is entirely within the realm of possibility.
 * At the very least, Slash was in love with Raph, being a possessive romantic or "yandere" in . Slash is now more in control of his emotions and has been more polite when he meets up with Raph, but I also think that's a bell he can't unring&mdash;he really felt those strong romantic emotions for Raph, whether or not he still harbors them now. Raph is complicated at best&mdash;he had an ambiguous pet love with Spike, but still seemed to treat him and talk to him like he was a real person, which has been the case as early as when he spoke tender romantic words to an unseen guy (punctuated with "I love you, man.") and then it was revealed to be Spike. "Are you talking to your pet turtle? That's adorable!" When Slash mutated, Raph seemed ecstatic that Spike became not just a real sentient person, but could now become a real companion to him, but it went south because Slash went axe-crazy on his brothers. The events of  showed that Raph's love for Spike/Slash is undiminished, as a photograph of Spike/Slash was revealed to be Raph's most precious possession. All that said, I was at first disappointed that Raph and Slash didn't so much as hug when they reunited in, but a friend reminded me that Raph is a discreet romantic with an aloof tough-guy fa&ccedil;ade, only sharing his most tender emotions in private, and probably would be more affectionate in some way with Slash if they get a chance to be completely alone together. This is what partially inspired the scriptlet I wrote. I assume that Raph and Spike slept in close proximity many times before, and Raph and Slash might want to do the same if they still have all the same emotions for each other. And I mean just sleeping&mdash;I tried to keep my scriptlet TV-Y7&mdash;hence Leo likening Leatherhead and Slash to warm blankets. :) If Mikey and Leatherhead could get away with sleeping romantically together in the living room, so could Raph and Slash in private, no problem.
 * Donnie and Casey both love April, and have not been shown being in love with anyone else. April has been famously evasive.
 * Leo is in love with Karai. It's not certain Karai feels the same way.
 * Splinter loved Tang Shen. He hasn't been shown loving anyone else.
 * Shredder was also infatuated with Tang Shen, but then he killed her. I wouldn't consider him a very loving character in general. Possessive, yes. Loving, no.

Now, out of curiosity, when you say you don't like the whole "everybody's gay-thing", did you mean you had an issue with the way the show deals with the characters, or the way my scriptlet dealt with the characters? I suppose it's the show, 'cause I honestly don't see them being gay or anything. And your scriptlet was really creative and funny, and I don't mind the "whole gay-thing", it just didn't quite seem what the characters would actually be like...