Drabble: Gay

[strangetomato]

Prompt: Gay
Character: Tank Grunt
Wordcount: 100
Warnings: none

I'm trying to be okay with it, I really am. I am trying. I'm not some bigot who's shut himself off from new experiences. I can adapt.

I say that, but the truth of the matter is that it makes me uncomfortable, plain and simple. It's never going to feel normal to me.

But I'm trying.

If Frances wasn't enough, I now have Beau too. He just showed up one day and started prancing around the place like he owned it. He’s just so… gay.

See, I’m getting better. He is gay. That’s what he is.

So very, very gay.

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Tank does have the ability to change like that, I think. He's not really a bad guy, and he realizes that a lot of his assumptions have gone unquestioned by him, but when he's faced with the real life details, he can't help but begin to see differently. He just usually doesn't put himself into the situation (even mentally) until it hits him in the face. Maybe it's lack of imagination, or just the way he keeps a safe distance from most things. It's just another way he differs from Ripp.

I can imagine a really funny overblown scene with Tank standing dumbstruck in the background. *snicker* I'll have to do that at some point.