But I Feel As If It Gives A Bit Of Depth To Alexis As A Character - Tumblr Posts

I just came up with an angsty headcanon that when Alexis was fairly young (like around early elementary school), they had a crush on this boy. Their parents had indirectly expressed disapproval of LGBTQ+ people, so they weren’t going to go through with doing anything to express their crush. At least at first. And then they decided that they should take a chance and make a note on Valentine’s Day. So they did, and came up with a fake name that sounded vaguely feminine to cover their tracks.

The boy found out, and instead of getting excited as Alexis had hoped, the boy is disgusted and confused, and makes fun of the note, never finding out that Alexis was the sender. It’s not completely the boy’s fault, as they’re young and at that age where they say other people have “cooties” and all of that. And young kids just tend to be immature. He probably also just didn’t have the emotional intelligence to react properly (maybe he was even on the Spectrum, making this even harder for him, but I don’t want to inadvertently stereotype people on the Spectrum as being insensitive, even without meaning to).

But Alexis is devastated, and is hesitant to take that sort of chance with anyone again. So when they eventually work up the courage to give Gene secret notes (which takes a long time because they need to try to get past their own mental block and how they’ve been rejected in the past and how they don’t want to bother anyone, even though this isn’t really bothering anyone), they immediately expect Gene to reject them. They’ve been burned before and want to get the pain over with. But imagine their surprise when Gene doesn’t reject them, and things eventually end happily for the two. They kept having to ask Gene if he meant it when he said he enjoyed the notes. Gene doesn’t mind saying he did multiple times, though ☺️