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Joey Drew is Gay and there's no way around it (Pt 6)

Finally, to finish my Joeysplaining.

Firstly, Donaldson and Eckhart.

Joey seemed to get along well with them, and Nathan gives us the not-so-needed confirmation that these two men were in fact real people. Nathan also notes that Joey relayed their personalities with a great deal of accuracy.

Joey mentions later that they went overseas and died in the war.

It's open to interpretation whether or not he was interested in them, but I feel that's irrelevant. Their presence in his life and later deaths seems to have left a lasting impact.

(I could go on a whooole tangent about how losing his friends to war could have played into his fear of death AND how it was maybe another reason why he tried so hard to keep an iron grip on Henry, buuut that's frankly bordering on theory territory sooo I'll reel it back in.)

Since that's about it for Donaldson and Eckhart, we'll hop skip and jump over to Bertrum now.

There's this interaction, which happens towards the end of the autobiography:

Here we see Joey missing the point entirely. Bertrum was making a joke, the joke being "funny" because they aren't actually on a date. Them dating would be a silly concept from his perspective.

This flies over Joey's head. Joey is literally tipsy and still trying to figure out if Bertrum is playing hard to get or not. WHICH WOULD BE IRRELEVANT TO A STRAIGHT MAN. I'M JUST SAYING.

He also calls him "Bert/Bertie" a few times which just leaves me with more questions than answers. Sir, how many of your original staff do you have a crush on? Be honest, now.

Bonus: Joey serving his country by wishing that his fellow soldiers would change uniform a little slower.

Bonus 2: Joey what is this

TL;DR

At this point, it makes more sense narratively speaking if Joey is gay, or at the very least, queer. This mainly shows in the way he went about trying to create a family, his attitudes towards the various men in his life in both Illusion of Living and the Bendy game series, and finally, the fact that he shoved a bunch of art and band kids in the same brick rectangle with no air conditioning and expected things to work out.

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Joey Drew is Gay and there's no way around it (Pt 5)

So what about the women in Joey's life? Well, we hear a fair amount about two women in particular- Lottie, and Abby Lambert.

First, there's Lottie, a telecommunications girl who befriends Joey. She takes a quick liking to him, but Joey seems to have an aversion to any displays of affection she shows him.

In fact, he claims to "not have time for girls" in general, and this seems to be his reasoning behind not pursuing Lottie romantically.

Immediately following this...watertight explanation, Joey goes on a little side quest. See, Lottie notices odd initials on his boots:

She goes on a long search to find the previous owner, updating Joey with her findings often. However, she gets very down on herself when the effort seems to lead to nowhere, and grows weary as many of the men she's been sending messages to are continuously reported dead.

Note how Joey responds to her more somber attitude as the days go on:

He creates an elaborate lie in order to "solve" the mystery, entertain her, and spare her some of the pain of her depression.

It seems the "I don't have time and I'm too selfish" excuse doesn't really hold up. How odd, I was quite sure Joey Drew was being honest and introspective here.

This story gets even weirder, though. Nathan points out via footnote that he couldn't ever find the correspondences between Joey and Lottie- so the legitimacy of this tale is immediately called into question.

If it is completely fabricated, then Joey literally made up a story in which he keeps 99 feet away at all times from an extremely attractive and sweet woman who was very interested in him. If this is the case, it also seems to be some hardcore fishing for cool guy points. Joey comes out looking like a saint, AND he doesn't actually have to go out and catch girl cooties.

This brings us to the end of Lottie's tale, so let's talk about the (only?) confirmed real woman friend of Joey's.

Abby Lambert is the initial artist friend that introduced Joey to Henry. She seems to be his closest woman friend and confidant, and he ends up trusting her to run the art department as a whole.

Notice both her and Joey's reaction when she invites him as her date to an art salon.

In the middle of the skit they perform at said art salon, Joey takes a second to emphasize that they were just friends- an already stated fact.

It's all fake, but even during something so simple, he still makes it a point to clarify that they aren't involved romantically in any way.

If Abby and Lottie are anything to go by, he has a weirdly hypervigilant attitude when it comes to romance with women.

Regarding Abby specifically, here's more food for thought.

While not outright stated, Abby is very queer-coded herself. She's outside the "norm" for women at the time, both in wardrobe choice and attitude. She has a commanding presence, a streak of "rude" humor, and seems to be uncomfortable in dresses, preferring not to wear them at all if she can help it.

While there is no outright confirmation of her sexuality or identity, she sits outside the strict male/female roles of American society at the time.

This has no bearing on Joey's sexuality in a direct sense, but it still does beg the question: could there be a reason why Joey felt more comfortable around a woman who was not as rigid in her gender presentation? He doesn't seem to care that she wears men's suits, in fact he seems to be drawn towards her differences rather than repelled by them.

Even if there is no gaydar involved in how they found each other, there is a marked difference between the women Joey keeps close (Abby), versus the women Joey does not keep so close (Lottie.)

Now, to attempt to end this juggernaut. How about I cram in some odds and ends in the final part? Because yes, believe it or not, there's STILL MORE.

Part 6>

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he's so cunty