I have been playing again the scene of the last chapter when the MC tells Sage about Chad being gay, and Tremolo´s attitude pisses me off. It doesn´t make any sense.
Tremolo is saying his gorgeous lover and/or friend that the fucking guy that ambushed him to attack him in the middle of the nigh, and the fucking guy that was such an asshole with him when they were room mates, that made him leave his room, are a gay couple... and his concern is the reaction of Sage!!! He doesn´t mind about Sage´s welfare after knowing that her long-time boyfriend actually is a gay that used her as an alibi. He only cares about Chad and Troy´s secret... It doesn´t make any sense at all!!!
What the hell was DPC thinking about when he wrote that scene? Fucking Chad and fucking Troy should be the last of Tremolo´s concerns. This dialogue is plain stupid:
"- Sage: What the fuck are you worried about?
- Tremolo: Like I said before, I´m worried about your reaction. It´s a huge thing I´m about to tell you. If you don´t react well to it, I´m gonna feel like shit for more than a reason."
Seriously, why the fuck would Tremolo care about Chad and Troy way more then about Sage´s welfare? Sage should have punched fucking Tremolo in his face, and not because anger management issues.
"- Sage: You care about those two and their fucking secret more than you care about me???? Your concern is not that I´m going to feel like shit, but that maybe I´m going to get angry and confront fucking Chad in front of his subhuman mates about being gay and using me for more than a year as an alibi in order of not being suspect of liking men instead of women? Go fuck yourself, Tremolo."
Again, I don´t know what was DPC thinking about when he wrote that scene. A character is gay an into the closed, and suddenly that becomes the most important thing for everybody?
Honestly, it's not that I don't understand your point of view. It can, to some, seem like the MC at that moment is focused on keeping Chad and Troy's relationship a secret and protecting it from others.
From my POV, however, what the MC is doing is, first, mentally preparing Sage for an enormous bomb that he's about to drop. We all know Sage has a few anger issues and isn't the most mentally stable person on campus. He's hesitating because, as he says, he's worried as to how she'll actually react. He's been trying to get closer to Sage all this while too, so just the mere mention of this issue could result in a relapse of Sage's obsession with Chad, which ultimately ruins his chances with Sage.
Second, self-protection also plays a factor in this confession. Imagine if he revealed the secret to Sage, and she reacted absolutely horrendously, going as far as to confront and maybe even pick fights with Troy and Chad, who she is no longer a couple with, and gets reported for assault (because let's be honest, if Chad got punched in the face, he'd bruise like a peach). This could eventually unravel into fingers being pointed at the MC and having the source of the whole situation being pinned on him.
And third, it could be due to, as you said, mainstream thinking. The morally acceptable thing to do here would be to keep it a secret, as it really isn't his secret to tell, and he doesn't want people thinking of him as a tattletale or a whistleblower.
As for the previous run-ins with Chad and Troy, honestly, I absolutely want to get revenge on Troy, but Chad? He's actually quite reasonable, as exhibited in the HOTs party in Episode 7. He knows that he was in the wrong for assaulting the MC the one time and even says that he's cool. So I'd prefer another method of getting back at Troy, whilst not endangering Chad's livelihood too badly.
