<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=324786.msg15586720#msg15586720">Quote from: Lyron on 08-09-2020, 18:58:54</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Good to hear!<br/><br/>And sure! I admit I've been glancing at Ramon's sheet every so often these past few days. I feel like the challenge is that a lot of the substantial possibilities for backstory require mutual connections that either don't yet exist or have yet to be established. Like, it's very possible Marc was a friend of a bully, in which case he was, depending on the moment, just as likely to join in as he was to sit back and watch, laughing his ass off, at the bully's expense, when Ramon turned the tables. At the same time, I could see him having tried to befriend Ramon if he thought it would give him a better chance with one of Ramon's girl friends, or if a girl he was dating at the time basically challenged him to it.<br/><br/>Marc would have been open to exploring his own sexuality in high school in secret, but even if Ramon would have been interested, ehhh...I imagine Marc would have expected Ramon to kick down the closet door any minute. :P It doesn't inspire trust, especially if the bully connection existed. Maybe a mistake could have been made, something spur of the moment or a miscalculation.<br/><br/>Maybe there could have been a friendship when they were kids, due to being in the same class or maybe living in the same area, and it could have drifted when the convenience was no longer there, or because they became too different, or because the other boys started looking at Ramon funny.<br/><br/>Just spitballs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Oh! Childhood friends. Now<em>that</em>has got the idea wheel turning. With a surname like Morales, I'm guessing Marc speaks Spanish? If so, Ramon's mom totally would have arranged playdates between Marc and Ramon just so he'd have another kid to speak in Spanish with. Maybe their moms, or Ramon's mom and Marc's dad, were friends? If Marc doesn't speak Spanish or not that well, maybe they arranged playdates between them in hopes that Ramon's Spanish fluency would rub off on Marc. Sometimes forced friendships can become real friends! I like the idea they might have drifted away from each other once they got older and their relationship downgraded into a more classmate/friend of a friend thing. And I also dig the idea that Marc purposefully drew away from Ramon once the hints about his sexuality moved into obvious territory. Ramon could still be a bit bitter it.<br/><br/>I could totally see Ramon dropping tid-bits here and there about girls that Marc was interested in. Ramon would have lots of "insider info" about the girls. And love the tidbit Marc enjoying the show when Ramon bullied back at bullies.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=324786.msg15587397#msg15587397">Quote from: Levi on 09-09-2020, 08:06:46</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Freshly approved! Hello :)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Welcome!  :-)