This is why I love Alucard yumeshippers bc he canonically has fallen in love over and over again through his life and that means all of you can be canon.
Most men are gay. They're literally gay. Because they don't really like us women. Our natural bodies, they think it's gross. Our interests, they think it's cringe. Spending time with us, they think it's like a responsibility. And if a guy has a girlfriend, and instead of date night with her, he genuinely wants to be with the boys, and he feels it's a punishment that he can't spend time with his boys, he doesn't really like her. So I genuinely think most men are gay but they haven't figured it out because being gay is like also too feminine for them and they don't like feminine things.
(TW: Suicide)
👹: About 8 years ago, I lost a friend to suicide
👹: He had been going through a lot for a very long time
👹: In the months following his death, the whole town came out to greet each other
👹: It felt like this guy knew everybody
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Before Caleb’s new main story update arrives later this year, I think it’s important to gently remind both Caleb mains and non-Caleb mains, especially those who’ve taken issue with Homecoming Wings of the kind of character we are engaging with. Caleb is canonically a deeply traumatized and mentally unwell character. From infancy, he was treated as a government lab subject, subjected to over 1,200 experiments. His right arm was physically altered through repeated experimentation, leaving him with a lasting disability. He is a chipped super soldier, and that chip exists to regulate his emotions and enhance his cognitive abilities for combat. As a result, he is constantly fighting against his own mind to avoid becoming the emotionless weapon he is being conditioned to be.
On top of this, he has endured the repeated loss of the girl he grew up with since Gaia, watching her die and be revived over and over again, each time with her memories of him erased. This cycle happened so often that he developed the habit of reintroducing himself to her, even when it isn’t necessary. That alone speaks volumes about the depth of his trauma. This is a young man trapped in a continuous cycle of abuse, exploitation, and loss. Even the official trailer describes him as “wild” and “unstable,” and that description is not accidental, it reflects the psychological cost of everything he’s endured. Caleb is written with immense emotional depth and instability, and not every player will be comfortable confronting that reality.
When we chose to main him, we signed up for a morally grey character. Someone shaped by cruelty rather than kindness. A person who, realistically, could never emerge from that level of trauma as a perfectly “green flag” lover. He has his green flags, but only with the one he loves and those who do not threaten her or him.
And yet, despite all of this, Caleb still chooses to love. He chooses to trust. He tries to improve, to give, to protect, and to provide, even though the adults in his life repeatedly failed him. His flaws don’t negate his capacity for love; they contextualize it. At the end of the day, this is a story. A visual novel. Caleb is not meant to be sanitized or easy to digest, he is meant to feel raw and complicated. He was brought back to us in January 22nd 2024, not as “sunshine and rainbows” but as an intense character, none of his preview trailers ever misled us or ever made us believe that he’d be a soft character. I chose him because I’d been craving for a character like him, loving him is meant to feel shameful, controversial, all consuming and raw, give me all the drama.