u/EmotionalSupport101

I have used lore and worldbuilding elements from League of Legends, books like Circe, Green Bone Saga, and bunch of Stephen King. Even the cartoon show Adventure Time But as I'm making it, i feel like I shouldn't do it and I get this pressure of needing to present something original.

I 100% will not hide that I took them from existing media tho.

I joined this D&D table about 8 months ago. We meet up once a week, but there are times its fortnightly. It's a group thats part of a local D&D community and they hire the local council hall for space.

Now to the story: Me (24M) and J (25F) clicked really well, even on my first session with them. Our humour was so spot on we would finish each other's sentences (i think because we both watch drag race and that side of media/humour). We also both read tons of fiction, we'd lend each other our recommended reads. And not too long, we began dating. At least what you would call two people holding hands and having dinner on weekends.

We both aren't big on public displays so it might seem like we're just bestfriends. That's probably what L(31M) thought, that I was her gay bestie yassss, somethinge like that.

It took about two months when others realised we're more than just friends after the two of us missed a session to celebrate my birthday. We had dinner at my place. I posted on my social account, with her in the background, cuz she gave me a mini figure of my in-game shadow mastiff pet. I did write on the caption how im thankful for her love, stuff like that.

That automatically tagged her and apparently, M also follows her and saw the tagged post, which he screenshotted and sent to our Discord chat. I found it a bit weird, but he did follow up, "we should do OP a birthday plotpoint!".

Now to the next session after that, our DM made a one-shot side quest for our party where we have to retrieve a magic item from a cult and rescue my shadow mastiff pet who was also kidnapped by them.

L is playing a rogue and was incharge of infiltrating the cult by disguising as one of them. Unfortunately I rolled badly on my stealth and got captured and tied up in some cell, and was prompty tortured. Guess who volunteered to do it. L came up with a plan to make him look like a real cultist to their eyes; that was to r**e my character and before the DM could say anything, he began to describe what he started doing.

The DM quickly shot that down. L looked at me and said, "you should lean into it. It'll be good for our deception checks. Plus you're gay anyway."

J held my hand on the table, L looked at us. I didn't say anything to him, I faced our DM and told him I'm not comfortable with L's suggestion.

L just shrugged but he did look annoyed, crossing his arms and frowning at the table. He was still adamant on looking like part of their cult, so he raised the idea of killing my pet.

J blew up on him at this point. I just went silent. The DM was flustered about the situation going on especially since other tables are glancing at us. So in the end, he asked L to leave early and they'll have a chat.

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I kinda had a feeling L liked J, which J confirmed but she made it clear she only likes guys within her age range. And since I made that post, he DM'd her if we were really dating. He went on a homophobic rant like how he thought i was trans or aome shit cuz I act more feminine.