Feeling Very Sane And Normal Rn

Edmund "Bunny" Corcoran, and his possible bisexuality. First of all, I'm aware this is a very common concept on the fandom, but I'm still willing to write about it.

Bunny is well known for his deep rooted hate to homosexuality, which in their context makes sense since the homophobia wasn't unusual back then. The thing is, even if we don't consider the fact that he studied the greeks (which we can argue that he wasn't very aware because he got into that career because of Henry), he does give a lot of signals about his bisexuality, repressed, of course.

First of all, and one thing that I don't see people talk about: just the way he talked to Richard first. In their conversation, as soon as Francis was brought up and his homosexuality was implied, Bunny got defensive and claim that what Francis needed was a girlfriend to distract himself; and what did Bunny do inmediatly after? Talk about his own girlfriend.

This could be easly read as Bunny, unconsciously showing that Marion is a distraction of his likings, that he does get the attraction towards men, but he focuses on his girlfriend instead.

And clearly there are a lot of more hints, like his relationship with Charles (which I alredy talked about on a different post), and his need to assert dominance to Camilla when he told her to iron his clothes, emphasizing on his "role as a man", or his clear disgust towards Francis that could be understood as envy since Francis is not repressed as he is.

However, if I were to talk, Henry is the most evident. When Bunny and Henry were arguing loudly (mostly from Bunny's side), he called Henry a lot of things he considered negative: jew, nazi and gay. And after this, he fell sleep on Henry's bed.

All these things, that Bunny considered terrible and negative were meant to be hurtful, and it is obvious that the concept of gay stands out on these other adjectives because Bunny finds to be gay at the same level of being nazi.

He's deeply terrified of his own sexuality, yet he tries to fill this void with Henry's attention. He somehow tries to be as close as he can be to Henry without crossing the line of friendship: whenever he's in trouble, whenever he needs money, whenever he needs comfort (like sleeping on Henry's bed after a fight with him), all these are the clear signal of Bunny taking a partner role with Henry, on his own way. Which, of course, Henry isn't bothered about (as I said on another post, the greek class seems to take something alike a harem-dynamic, where their center is Henry).

Today I discovered that a couple of TSH characters were based on actual people Donna Tartt knew at Bennington College- amongst them were students Todd O'Neal and Matt Jacobsen, who were the inspiration for Henry and Bunny respectively.

AND JUST—

There's even their own comments about it and it's so funny wait:

Here's the source

Ненавижу себч

idea and text stolen from this post:

Personal headcanon that Henry has shed real tears over the burning of the Library of Alexandria and the fact that he'll never be able to study there like so many of the scholars he idolizes.

Peter Pettigrew core

I mean thank u for chapters yiub already wrote. They are marvelous. 🖤🖤

Please continue writing ur fic it’s amazing

Thank you! 💜 I'm promising nothing, but I have been thinking about it, at the very least. I like it myself, too, and I would like to finish it some day, but if I'm perfectly honest, I don't really know where I'm going with it right now... ^^;; If I ever get struck by inspiration (and I hope I will!) I'll probably post it on AO3.

(the fic in question, for anyone curious, is this untitled thing in which amnesiac Asano tells his dad that no, there's no way you could be my dad) (I did continue it a bit recently, after a year had passed since I started posted the beginning here)

ykw yes, whenever i see a tsh ship, i go: “okay, yes, that’s exactly what i’m talking about.”

winterbunny? yes, they had a secret history and woohoo toxic old husbands!

papenathy? BASED SO HEAVY.

winterpapen? yes, they’re queer. winternathy (?) ? okay pop off girlie pops!

henrymilla? HEAVY YES.

chenry (charles + henry or uhhh)? okay we roll with the toxic yaoi yet again!

and several other ships! they’re all just some love polygon, love that! they’re all so toxic for each other! yes pop off everyone!! maybe they’ll all get a couple discount on therapy and marriage counseling!!

characters going “we were lovers once”: eh, it’s okay i guess. it’s nice enough

characters going “we were friends once”: absolutely devastating. one hit knockout i’m gone