Can we question Odo's sexuality?
Can we question Odo's sexuality?
For right there we see him stating he can not read clues from women or he's not signaled enough to notice it.
Does it mean he's more accustomed to signals from men or he's just completely senseless?
I don't really question my gay sadistic Odo headcannon, but I find that quote to be a welcome guest in many redpill threads,
Odo has no biological sex. He's a puddle of goo that is part of a large collective goo puddle. Any sex with Odo would be simulated, or at best, that 'cover you in goo' thing he's done.
So I would say Odo's sexuality is 'Changeling.'
He's a puddle of goo that is part of a large collective goo puddle.
Isn't that the description for all our sexual activities .... or have I been doing it wrong?
I think he went with Kira because she was the first person loud enough with her signals for him to pick them up. :)
The real answer is always in the comments.
Just the first one stubborn and bull-headed enough for him to get the hint.
Me, as a flesh and blood human with all the expected life experiences by age 15, could not figure out that when a girl wanted to play "the awkward game" (try to make your "opponent" feel awkward and bail on whatever is going on, you win) and she took off her bra, pulled it out her t-shirt, threw it at me, then straddled my lap, that she was trying to up her flirt game (which she had been steadily increasing for awhile apparently) .
Instead of picking up on the hint, I bailed because that was way too much in front of other people. Didn't find out she was literally throwing herself at me until a few years later when a mutual friend told me she broke down in tears after that because she thought I hated her or thought she was ugly (super pretty but middle-eastern in post-2001 USA, so a lot of issues stemming from looks)
I figure if that's something I could miss, what chance does odo have, given the circumstances of his discovery/raising?
Golden.
Did he not actually fuck Kira? I could've sworn that happened but maybe I just really wanted it to... 🤔
I don't now about that, but I also don't know why it shouldn't happen.
He's excellent at observing other people, that's the problem. He is completely oblivious when it's directed at him because the behavior defies his expected patterns. That's my supposition, at least.
I don’t really question my gay sadistic Odo headcannon
And that mental image of Odo as Quark's dom is NEVER going away...
Odo seems to me as someone who acts dominant in public but then would be extremely subby behind closed doors.
Kira and the female changeling definitely wore the pants in their interactions with Odo.
Odo is a dom in the streets, and a sub the sheets.
Personally my headcannon has always been that Odo was Ace, and eventually through enough immersion in normal (ish) society, and not just a science team on a slave-run ore processing station, he figured out interpersonal relationships enough to develop (or recognize, I think) his romantic feelings for Nerys.
Although I feel like he could have gone either way in his romantic life. If there were someone who acted just like Maj. Kira, but male, with their same history, i could see Odo going for that too.
His only reference for things was the relationships he saw, which from what we saw in the show (in a very 90s RICK FUCKING BERMAN way) the majority of relationships we knew about were heterosexual, therefore Odo would be more likely to see it as desirable to fit in with the largest crowd.
The real question is whether he questions it later on or not.
Also, being what he is, do you think later in life he would begin questioning his identity and his status, thus resulting in a(n) (a/bi/pan/etc)sexual female/andro-presenting odo?
For how strict and conservative he acts, I feel like he is enveloped in a hetero male representation, but it can take one right partner to switch him to the dark side, hehe.
Because he knows that "that kind of reaction" means and has never personally perceived anyone acting like that towards him.
He knows what it looks like though. Odo is very perceptive.