OKAY I AM GONNA MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO TRACK HOW THIS HAPPENED except I haven't archived Kon's threads yet so [waves handsss] well, it'll be true to the general idea. BUT ANYWAY I'm pretty sure some of the blame falls on the fact that they had that Lover game on his first day, because that pretty much introduced him to teasing Red about inappropriate things to get funny reactions, also poking Red's feelings. Kon is a little like that in canon, where he likes to tease and sometimes make dirty jokes, but it's mostly for the easy reactions. Getting into someone's pants isn't the goal at all. That's all it was early on for Ace too, but the nature of being in a strongly team-oriented team and just the emotional charge of the Sabra environment means he got a lot closer to the people around him, especially Red and Yayoi, who are the teammates he feels the most comfortable with. Aaand for Kon, being physical tends to be sort of a natural extension of platonic feelings. It is fun to rough-house and harass and tease the people he likes, and nice touching is just more ways to express friendliness. And Red has a lot of reactions Ace enjoys. What really started to push things into sexual-tension territory for Ace was the Inhibitions Apples, where he just decided to follow his whim and Red reacted in ways that only encouraged him to keep doing it. That's pretty much when he honestly thought, ":|a... yeah, I'd do him."
Hilariously, he tends to have commitment issues, though they are definitely not as bad in Sabra as they would be in canon, so when they had that talk (when they were drunk) where Red was like "I WILL NEVER FIND LOVE" Ace was sort of mentally like "orz, well what am I supposed to say to that..." (and then he took his memory cuz that was easier). SO AFTER THAT he sort of thought maybe he'd lay off a bit, except he still had -thoughts- and so he was like "bluh, this tension is stupid :|" so they had their dumb talk where Ace petted him and concluded he would eventually molest Red sometime. AND THEN HE DIDN'T RIGHT AWAY because as much fun as he has pushing other people's boundaries, when he likes and respects someone he's mindful enough not to just do whatever he feels like if they honestly might have issues with it... Also, he fully intended to step off when Red and Rapunzel sorta developed a thing, but he just kind of got used to the dumb flirting and banter and harassment so that didn't work at all...
SO yeah, what really made it OK to Kon was Red telling him he was thinking about kissing him (even if he wussed out) \o/! That was not actually where he meant for that conversation to go! But he was just like WELL WHY NOT. As much as he meant to back off and let Red have his space, if Red was having enough feelings to try to take initiative then well... it's still something he wants. He's... not very monogamous, and if Red decides he would still rather find a lady friend to be with exclusively Ace would be pretty much okay with that, though he would be very bad about not flirting or teasing still, and telling him to stop would probably result in sexual tension building up again...
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Hilariously, he tends to have commitment issues, though they are definitely not as bad in Sabra as they would be in canon, so when they had that talk (when they were drunk) where Red was like "I WILL NEVER FIND LOVE" Ace was sort of mentally like "orz, well what am I supposed to say to that..." (and then he took his memory cuz that was easier). SO AFTER THAT he sort of thought maybe he'd lay off a bit, except he still had -thoughts- and so he was like "bluh, this tension is stupid :|" so they had their dumb talk where Ace petted him and concluded he would eventually molest Red sometime. AND THEN HE DIDN'T RIGHT AWAY because as much fun as he has pushing other people's boundaries, when he likes and respects someone he's mindful enough not to just do whatever he feels like if they honestly might have issues with it... Also, he fully intended to step off when Red and Rapunzel sorta developed a thing, but he just kind of got used to the dumb flirting and banter and harassment so that didn't work at all...
SO yeah, what really made it OK to Kon was Red telling him he was thinking about kissing him (even if he wussed out) \o/! That was not actually where he meant for that conversation to go! But he was just like WELL WHY NOT. As much as he meant to back off and let Red have his space, if Red was having enough feelings to try to take initiative then well... it's still something he wants. He's... not very monogamous, and if Red decides he would still rather find a lady friend to be with exclusively Ace would be pretty much okay with that, though he would be very bad about not flirting or teasing still, and telling him to stop would probably result in sexual tension building up again...