Standalones

The Man on the Shore

[Two shot]

"Is coming out hard?" Magnus reads the question out loud, failing at keeping a track of it as it gets lost in the sea of comments that keep popping up on his Live. 6k people are currently watching

There is something about the question that makes his eyes go soft and his heart melt, it feels so... innocent.

"Coming out... can be hard," Magnus says slowly. "It can be scary... But it's relieving, especially if you have the right people by your side," he smiles into the camera, "But if you don't, know that you're not alone. There is a whole community with you. People to support you." he leans back and takes a sip of his coffee from his mug. "And luckily, Alexander and I have you lovely human beings."

'A Cat With an Arrow', also known as the most unproblematic musical duo (or 'Malec' by fans), dropped their music video yesterday after 6 months of hiatus. Which also happened to be a coming out video.

In the past three years, Alec and Magnus had gained a lot of followers, ever since their first ever video of Youtube, a cover of Take Me to Church by Hozier went viral. It was a short 2 minute video, filmed in Alec's room while he played the guitar and Magnus sang. Magnus still remembered how they had posted it online jokingly but then it reached up to 2 Million views in just a month and their subscriber count hit 3,500 in the first few weeks. It was amazing.

Covers gradually progressed to original songs, the one's Alec had written here and there. And now, here Magnus and Alec were, with a following of over 9 Million and the loveliest and the most chaotic fanbase ever.

It took them awhile to talk about the coming out video. It wasn't a big decision really, they had never actually tried to hide their sexualities, but they had never really come up front or been open about the topic in public too.

Then they saw more and more people questioning them. They saw youth who followed their music and were inspired by it. Closted teens. Hell, their music was 'stanned' the most in the 'gay side of Tiktok'.

So, they decided to come out on coming out day itself, to a song Alec's-closeted-self had written a while long back, after making a few adjustments to it.

While everyone sees in Black and White,

Why do I see color?

While everyone runs to the house,

Why do I drift further?

It was mostly an upbeat song, though. The video shoot happened on a beach. They went all out for this one. There was a rainbow there, that day, which just made the video a hundred times better.

The video consisted of several clips of Magnus and Alec chilling at the beach, a few of Magnus dramatically checking out a guy's ass while Alec rolled his eyes but proceeded to do so himself. One, of a girl winking at Alec to which Alec just gave her an awkward thumbs up while partway lip syncing 'I'm gay' as Magnus besides him, winked back at the girl. There were a few scenes of them drinking coconuts under the rainbow, while they laid on a beach blanket with "Does the gender matter?" written above them on the sand with a sandcastle made. The sandcastle was topped with a Pride flag in the middle, the Bi pride flag leaned towards Magnus' side , and the blue-and-green striped Gay pride flag leaned towards Alec's side.

The video had reached over 50,000 views in one night, it was a hit. The fandom, although not very surprised, were going crazy all over social media. Calling this 'a win' for the Bis and the Gays. There was a little criticism and a little hate, mostly fangirls crying over the love of their life, Alec Lightwood, turning out to be gay, but it was all buried down with the love and support.