Talk:Blake Belladonna/@comment-43485709-20191125012919/@comment-4010415-20191125014542

Apparently, just because Ilia's page in the book has a quote from her voice actress saying that Ilia's feelings for Blake felt like "when a gay person has a crush on a straight person" due to Blake having romantic feelings for Adam at the time. Some people are apparently taking that as 100% confirmation that Blake is totally straight, when it was just a comparison.

This is especially considering that the circumstances that Ilia's voice actress talked about took place years before Volume 1. In other words, when Blake was younger - like, middle school age. You can't expect Blake to have had full understanding of her sexuality back then. As Monty once said in regards to LGBT representation in the show: the main characters were not adults yet in Volumes 1 and 2 and had not fully figured themselves out yet. (God, I wish I had a link to the source for that, but I do remember it clearly.) Even now, Blake and Yang are... what, late-18, early 19? Even at that age, you can still be figuring yourself out.