09-19-2019, 03:31 PM
[align=center][div style="width: 455px; text-align: justify; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 8.5pt; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"]moss’ internalised homophobia only extends as far as himself — he has no problem with others. given that the new world is lawless and strangely liberal despite that fact, a part of him knows his internal conflict is stupid, but he was raised in a rigid, religious, conservative town, and the people there — adults and children alike — were cruel to those who didn’t fit in. he grew up seeing people like him beaten and killed and hearing people laugh about it, and it sounds horrific out loud, but part of why moss still has no honest issues with openly out people is because they don’t make him a target. it’s having to confront himself that makes things tricky — knowing that even if out here, he’s safe, his memories keep him silent. he doesn’t really know what his parents would even say to him if they knew (if they didn’t already suspect it — though he did his best to show nothing), but so long as he doesn’t reveal anything to anyone, in his mind, he’ll never have to.