TB Headcanon: Their Haters

Headcanon: Their Haters

A/N: I'll tackle the difficult topic of them not being liked at all "in-universe". Of course, there are people who absolutely love them (more than their haters) 

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Sara and Homelander worked really hard for their relationship to be as stable as it was today. It wasn't because they didn't have feelings for each other. Feelings were definitely here from the very beginning. Sometimes feelings weren't enough. Sara was terrified of being abandoned yet again. She had a fair share of bad relationships filled with people who either used her or didn't care for her. It made her crave attention. it made her crave crumbs of affection. She needed someone who would be focused on her and her only. Someone who wouldn't feel threatened by her fame and who wouldn't want to mold her into who she wasn't. As plagued as she was and as hard as Sara was trying to work on herself, it didn't stop Homelander from trying to do right by her. 

After all, he was plagued with insecurities of his own. He had been worried about this new relationship. After having been unlucky with women for as long as he could remember, Homelander didn't want to fall for a woman who would backstab him or who would manipulate him like the others did. he didn't want to be replaced by someone else, something else (her fans? pffftt he didn't like that so many people could set their eyes on his girl. He didn't like that they required her attention so much. ) and he didn't want to be heartbroken again. Madelyne broke his heart and Stormfront killed herself rather than stay with him. but together they worked just fine and found common ground and at the end of the day, Sara and Homelander always found a way to bounce back together.

So where was the issue? What was the problem? The others were. Everyone felt entitled to shove their opinion down the couple's throats. It didn't matter when these were positive and encouraging words. Dotty, her manager, was shipping them really hard and always tried to know everything, especially the very intimate and spicy details. It was a way for her to know how to sell her "product" to investors but also, a way for her to keep tabs on her protegée. Ashley was also very excited! She knew that this relationship would be positive for the Supe. He chose a well-known megastar who came from a minority group (so of course, that was great for the diversity points) and who had a sad background (her parents had been murdered and she was forced into an orphanage). For her, the pairing was a match made in heaven and she couldn't help but « gush » about it, in her very own way. That, again, was alright for Sara and Homelander.

What wasn't, was the negative reactions they got from people. It was beyond anything they could have thought of. Some of the fans hated the couple. Her fans didn't like this pairing because they thought she was settling for less. They thought of her as a goddess and he was a murderous nutjob who wasn't worth her time. He was a man-child, someone unreliable who would hurt Sara in the long run.  If it wasn't enough, some of her fans thought that he would force her to stop her career and immediately hated the guy. They didn't want Sara to stop singing and performing to become a superhero wife. She didn't care about their opinion, mostly because she knew she would keep singing. It was her career, what she was made for. He couldn't take it away from her because then, she wouldn't be happy. He didn't want her to be unhappy because that meant, she wouldn't be willing to care for him. 

 Sara had to deal with Homelander's fans. Oh, these fools... these fools who came from the cesspools Stormfront found them.  They accused her of distracting their Lord and saviors. They hated her so much, so loudly and so vocally that she sometimes was affected by what she read online.  Everywhere they read insults coming her way, from her being a freak,  A stupid singer, to her being a black woman. « She's not attractive enough for Homelander ». « I didn't know he could be with someone like her. They so don't match. », « I thought he had better tastes, she looks like a man. » « Why is she so dark ? » or « It's just some jungle fever, once he'll get over it, he'll dump her ass I'm pretty sure. » It was just the tip of the iceberg of the disgrace humanity could be. Sara had a lot of trouble handling the hateful comments on her social media or on the streets. It was even harder when she tried to spend some time with Homie outside. 

She often treated them to a nice restaurant or to a nice bar where they could share a couple of beers. Before they dated, she had a couple of joints she liked and she was known at and they always ended up in one of these because, in most regular bars or restaurants, they would look at them as if they were aliens and in this time and age, people would openly disrespect her in front of him. Sara had to control herself not to burst into anger and attack these humans and she had to calm down Homelander so he didn't laser their brains either. It became frustrating but it only had them even more determined to make their relationship work. It would take more than an angry mob to make Homelander stop dating Sara and the same went for her. They survive the worst that could have happened to both of them. 

Their love was forged through fire and would still go strong regardless of how many people agreed or disagreed with it. She was the only woman who made him feel that way, the only one he wanted to look at and love, the only one to give him goosebumps whenever he stared at her, and the only smile on the planet who killed his very own demons. She thought he was a rock in her ocean, the light in her darkness, and that infectious smile of his never failed to make her smile too. He was everything she dreamed of having one day and even more. Homelander might not have been a good person, he was a nutjob, a murderer and sometimes she was afraid of him BUT... He loved her. He tried his best with her and that was the most important for her. Yes. Together they experienced what it was to love and be loved without limits. They experienced how it felt to live without the other. Together, they learned how they could move mountains and that they never want to live in a world without one another.

You could hate them all you want, it didn't matter.

It never mattered, to begin with.