User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E8 - Blake Sucks - Impressions/Recap/@comment-4010415-20171207055023/@comment-25396609-20171207063225

Emotions are the driving force behind peoples actions; love, hate, sadness, happiness, etc.

The only thing sexuality determines is who some of those emotions are going to be directed towards.

Sexuality INFORMS a characters personality, it does not define it; and that is what is happening with Ilia. Her being gay wasn't the focus of the scene, her feeling betrayed by someone close to her who she thought would understand her feelings, regardless of the fact Blake is also a girl, was the focus.

The scenario does not change in the slightest if Blake was a guy, or if ilia was.

Either way Ilia was a teenager in a VERY fragile emotional state. Her parents had been killed, she was likely traumatized by their deaths and the reaction of her so-called friends to the accident which caused it.

She finds someone who she gets along with well, who she thinks understands her, and when she develops feelings for them and they not only do not notice them, they actively pursue someone else without any regard for her feelings.

She feels betrayed, realizes this person she thought understood her didn't know her well enough to even notice her feelings, and she gets mad.

The person she cared so much about, who ignored her not only runs off with someone else, they then abandon her and the cause they've both been fighting for.

THAT is what was important, not her sexuality, but the emotions she experienced.

If she was a guy and Blake was still a girl? nothing changes.

If Blake was a guy? Nothing changes.

Hell, if she also liked Adam and felt betrayed because Blake ran off with him while they were still best friends the result would be reasonably similar; betrayal and a broken heart. The only difference being that the person who broke her heart and the person who betrayed her weren't the same.