dec being gay makes me SUPER SUPER HAPPY cos the overall landscape of lgbt characters in star wars has leaned way to heavily towards imperials and the more seedier sides of the galaxy for my tastes, so it’s AWESOME to have another positive, good, heroic type character who’s gay.

and in a junior novel series for kids!!!! this feels so amazing :’)

anyways i REALLY REALLY recommend the join the resistance books, they’re ridiculously fun and sweet and i love all the characters so much, and there’s a lot of really fun cameos in it.

they’re pretty goofy, have quite a bit of breaking the fourth wall and are definitely for younger audiences but i think they’re SUPER FUN and charming books. give em a try!!

did anybody else get the impression dec in the join the resistance trilogy is gay?

cos in escape from vodran, dec tells cost a story about how he realized he was different from other kids and was scared it would make people hate him, but when he told his brother, aygee reassured him and he was able to tell his parents and friend and everybody else.

but he never specifies WHAT the “thing that made him different” was

what do you guys think?

and then later in ‘escape from starkiller base,’ when sari tells mattis that she likes dec, mattis asks her if she thinks he might like her back and sari says “Dec and I have talked about everything under every sun together, and Iโ€™ve never known him to like a girl. Itโ€™s just not how he is.”

and also for what it’s worth, there’s also a scene in escape from vodran where mattis calls jo lorica’s boyfriend and she shoots back by dec mattis’ boyfriend and both are treated as equally realistic

each of these things on their own has me raising an eyebrow but TOGETHER i kinda don’t think it’s just in my head….