[History???? History???? Thinking about the passage of time? No. Connor hates that shit. Still, he's gay and he knows enough about history to know... yeah. Growing up gay just after the Reagan era? Oof.]
Yeah. I still regularly got called a fag in 2015 and we've got gay marriage.
[He starts fiddling with a stray strand of his hair. There's the kick of a drum from somewhere and Connor breathes out shakily.
he was, he was lying in the back of my beat-up car half groaning, half crying, but he was my star the music played softly, with nothing to come the remix of memories, the loop of the—
Connor didn't come out, when he was alive. Half of that was fear of his father and half of it was seeing the shit that Miguel had to deal with as an out teen and fearing that too. There were already so many problems with being Connor Murphy. He didn't want to add another one. He couldn't add another one.]
Somewhere between the second and third birthday after I died, I stopped caring what other people think. I learned how to braid my hair. I started figuring out what I like to wear. [He shrugs.] I'm not, like, saying it's easy. I'm saying it fucking sucks, actually, but I dunno. I'm happier, I guess.
cw: homophobia and homophobic slurs
Yeah. I still regularly got called a fag in 2015 and we've got gay marriage.
[He starts fiddling with a stray strand of his hair. There's the kick of a drum from somewhere and Connor breathes out shakily.
he was, he was
lying in the back of my beat-up car
half groaning, half crying, but he was my star
the music played softly, with nothing to come
the remix of memories, the loop of the—
Connor didn't come out, when he was alive. Half of that was fear of his father and half of it was seeing the shit that Miguel had to deal with as an out teen and fearing that too. There were already so many problems with being Connor Murphy. He didn't want to add another one. He couldn't add another one.]
Somewhere between the second and third birthday after I died, I stopped caring what other people think. I learned how to braid my hair. I started figuring out what I like to wear. [He shrugs.] I'm not, like, saying it's easy. I'm saying it fucking sucks, actually, but I dunno. I'm happier, I guess.