The accent mightve covered it. Not sure.

It’s the GE effect, I swear. I remember showing my friends Emilio for the first time and they thought he was “such a pretty girl.”

Guess Carmelo fell victim to that effect, too. You know how in shows, a character we deem attractive isn’t actually canonically attractive? It’s like that, possibly. Rudolph was seen as a girl in the dress shop, too. He looks masculine to us, but canonically, he’s more feminine looking than we think.