Red Flag
Aug05
on 2005-08-05
at 00:01
Let Jaz make it all better…
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Carly turned to Tony, "Tony, I'd like a word with Ace in private."
Tony shrugged, "OK, I'll go out and see Jaz."
Carly looked at Ace, crossly, "Ace, you can tell my friends outright that you're straight. They'll respect that. There was no reason to pull Tony's leg like that."
"I'm not pulling anyone's leg," Ace said. "It's true."
"Really," asked Carly.
As Rocky and Pixie argued in the background, Ace launched into an explanation, "You know my Aunt Charity. When my Mom was in the Air Force she sometimed had to leave me with her.
"Mom used to belong to the same church as Aunt Charity, but they practically ostrasized her for be pregnant with me, so I wasn never baptized.
"So any time I did something wrong, Aunt Charity tends to let slip that I'm just and unbaptized bastard.
"I suppose that's one of the two reasons I developed a higher moral code. It shuts her up."
"And the other reason?" Carly asked.
"It pisses her off that her kids are out of control, and I'm the 'good' kid."
"Well," added Carly, "it's a good thing Tony's not a gossip. Saying something like that in front of some of my friends is like waving a red flag at a bull."
Jaz appeared lustily rolling out his name, "Ace."
Tony shrugged, "OK, I'll go out and see Jaz."
Carly looked at Ace, crossly, "Ace, you can tell my friends outright that you're straight. They'll respect that. There was no reason to pull Tony's leg like that."
"I'm not pulling anyone's leg," Ace said. "It's true."
"Really," asked Carly.
As Rocky and Pixie argued in the background, Ace launched into an explanation, "You know my Aunt Charity. When my Mom was in the Air Force she sometimed had to leave me with her.
"Mom used to belong to the same church as Aunt Charity, but they practically ostrasized her for be pregnant with me, so I wasn never baptized.
"So any time I did something wrong, Aunt Charity tends to let slip that I'm just and unbaptized bastard.
"I suppose that's one of the two reasons I developed a higher moral code. It shuts her up."
"And the other reason?" Carly asked.
"It pisses her off that her kids are out of control, and I'm the 'good' kid."
"Well," added Carly, "it's a good thing Tony's not a gossip. Saying something like that in front of some of my friends is like waving a red flag at a bull."
Jaz appeared lustily rolling out his name, "Ace."
I like that you named him Ace, and he is basically ace…….
He’s not so much asexual as he suffers from “Male Anime Protagonist Syndrome”; an ostensibly hertosexual male who fully controls his tiny and inoffensive sexual desires like a monk, while a haram of beautiful, aggressive girls circling him like tigers circling a gentle, innocent, passive lamb, each one trying to get closer while simultaneously trying not to spook him into running into the jaws of her competitors.
It’s a very useful plot device to keep sexual tension unresolved for 2-3 dozen tankubons, multiple seasons of an anime… or a good decade worth of webcomic postings (although Andy is more willing to satisfy his frustrated audience –eventually– than most Japanese creators he admires, who often NEVER resolve the romantic stalemates, as they almost never know when their series will end themselves.)
Not trying to ruin what initially looks like an “ace” protagonist for you, but just warning you not to pin too much of your expectations on him to stay that way as the series progresses.