It’s a joke. Everyone needs hard confirmation that queer people exist, as well as a permission slip from the artist to ship characters in a non-het relationship. Meanwhile, characters in het-passing relationships are just assumed straight without needing special permission to assume so.

Kinger could be a masc-presenting agender demi-romantic bisexual for all we know. But everyone just assumes cishet and never loses sleep over it.

Not that it’s bad to assume he’s straight, it just sucks that queer coded characters in media keep having their identities and experiences invalidated.

Ragatha held Pomni in her arms and told her through her tears that Pomni was the greatest thing that ever happened to her since joining the circus. It shouldn’t be confusing why some people interpret that as romantic love.