oceanboydirk:

@revolutionaryduelist i’ve been thinking more about the ask i sent you about the jake/brain ghost dirk/crockertier jane conversation in conjunction with the idea you wrote about in your essays — of dirk as the predatory gay stereotype

at the start of act 6, we have jane with a secret crush on jake, that jake has managed to guess through their interactions and things roxy has let slip. her crush is seen as mostly innocent, i think. jane comes from a very heteronormative place (see: her not realizing that dirk’s gay). dirk has a not-as-secret crush on jake, shown to us through the ar’s continual sexual harassment. jake is rightly uncomfortable with the ar’s behavior. dirk is described to be like a robot (unfeeling, cold, etc.). 

jake admits that he’s not as heterosexual as he might have portrayed himself to be, he and dirk date, time passes, they have problems, jane gets understandably fed up, tricksters + the break up, everyone goes god tier. 

here’s what happens next: jane becomes a robot who threatens to take what jake doesn’t want to give her by force, and jake reaches out to a phantom of dirk and wants brain ghost dirk to protect him from unwanted romantic/sexual advances (because dirk himself makes jake feel safe). 

basically i just realized that from the start of act 6 to jake and roxy in prison, the jane/jake and dirk/jake story lines flip positions. heterosexual love starts innocent and becomes threatening, queer love starts threatening and becomes a protective force for good (see: game over timeline’s brain ghost dirk for way more of that) 

fuuuuuuuck you’re making me want to write that entire essay about Jake and I’m doing other stuff so I can’t yet but this is fucking excellent and I hadn’t put this  together in words at all yet 

I also noticed recently that while people put BGD’s meaner lines on Jake, too, Jake explicitly likens the feeling of talking to BGD as being like talking to the AR, not Dirk himself, which is also interesting. just. urghghgh i want to…write…