Text UN: 1stStrike CW: Comp Het/Internalized homophobia?

[strikefirster]

[Johnny Lawrence stares at his Omni briefly. Ever since the whole speed dating fiascothe month before there has been something nagging at him. Something that didn't quite feel right to him.

Which is what brings him to his Omni today. And after two or three times where he is accidentally posted on the network one would think he'd learn his lesson, right?]

How not to be gay.

Is doing karate with dudes gay now?

[Wrong.

The network is not google, Johnny.]

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[strikefirster]

[Don't mind the late response. Johnny is just fuming about this privately before he gets back to it.]

Yeah! Because they were offering free karate lessons and preaching that fucking defense only stuff that you do. Just like you did.

That doesn't mean I have a hard on for you or anything.

And you're married.

So it's not like you're even on the market right now.

Open and shut case right there.

[miyagimagic]

[ There's so many things Daniel could say here.

Like why free karate classes or defense talk bother Johnny this much when it's not in the context of Daniel.

Like whether Johnny reads his own texts before he sends them to realise how homosexual he makes them sound.

Instead he briefly pinches the bridge of his nose before sending: ]

Look. Don't worry about this so much. I mean it. I doubt anyone sincerely believes you're interested in me. If anyone says so, they're probably just joking around.

[ He's trying to be SO GOOD, rather than using this prime opportunity to get a leg up on Johnny.

Mostly because Robby asked him to be nice. Ugh. ]

No need to worry about a bunch of dumb jokes if you're straight, right?

[strikefirster]

I mean... I guess.

But that's not exactly something either of us need to hear about, right?

You've got enough on your plate with the whole missing your wife thing.

[miyagimagic]

Honestly, I'm not even worried in the slightest about dumb jokes about either of us being attracted to the other.

[ Hence why Daniel was able to make one himself without doing as much as blinking. ]

We know what we are, so who cares, right?

Besides, even Amanda used to make those jokes.

[ Usually he wouldn't just bring her up, since doing that definitely brings up that same pang of emotion in his chest that thinking about her always does, but.. well, if Johnny brought her up and he's feeling it right now anyway, then he might as well talk about her too. ]

She implied I called you pretty and got all amused about it.

[strikefirster]

I guess.
I don't know. I've put a lot of effort into being manly and everything that goes along with that.
I just think it would be good if people respected and acknowledged that.

...Wait. You fucking called me pretty to your wife?

[The point.


Johnny's head.]

[miyagimagic]

[ JOHNNY.

Johnny.

You're so lucky Robby convinced him to be nice to you. The sheer amount of jokes he's passing up on here... Instead he's forced to just sigh to himself and ignore the fact that went ten miles over Johnny's head just now. ]

I don't think anyone here doesn't think you're manly.

[ Even though Daniel truly doesn't understand what it's like to even care about that, but.. he knows Johnny's different. So he'll let him have it. ]

Besides, do you really think liking guys makes someone less manly?

[strikefirster]

Of course I don't think liking guys makes people less manly.
My star pupil around here is the meat in a three dude sandwich and there's no one manlier than him.

I just- I don't know. Maybe not manly but maybe they think I've gone soft or something. Like I'm too busy thinking about this shit to kick some ass or something.

[miyagimagic]

[ Daniel over here furiously praying that Johnny never says that to poor Paul's face. ]

It's alright. This stuff can be complicated. [ Like finding out you're also into guys through being stupidly attracted as a teenager to a way older guy who turned out to just have manipulated you the entire time.

No way Daniel is going to say that though. You couldn't get that information out of him through torture. ]

Even if you are just straight, it still can't hurt to just try to calmly think about it away from the dumb stuff that's sometimes being said here on the network.

[strikefirster]

[The things Paul has to put up with.]

I guess.

There a lot of dumb people who say weird shit on this.

At leas we're better than that, right?

[miyagimagic]

I don't know. Jury might still be out on that one, Lawrence.

[ At least it should be obvious that Daniel is just joking around here, since he otherwise would never bother with the entire 'better say people's last names in case it might be not manly enough just call them by their first name' shtick.

.. i-it should be obvious, anyway. ]

[strikefirster]

Don't be too hard on yourself, LaRusso.

You'll get better for it.