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* Simmons and Grif are HeterosexualLifePartners whose Ho Yay is incredibly blatant, to the point that it's barely subtext. Few episodes pass without them arguing LikeAnOldMarriedCouple (to the point where Tucker explicitly mentioned it in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''), in one of the [=PSAs=] it is implied that Simmons carved their initials into a tree, and in the last episode of ''Revelation'', when he thinks Grif is dead, Simmons sounds absolutely heartbroken, far more so than when other teammates have apparently died, just for a few examples.

** In the ''Missing in Action'' miniseries, Simmons is the only one to notice Grif is missing, and the one to insist they go find him.

** They have their own segment in ''Red vs Blue in Halo Reach Fire Fight'' where they play together. And they are the only ones who play together. They really are inseparable. And of course they bicker LikeAnOldMarriedCouple here too.

** This is practically turned UpToEleven during Season 15, which might as well ''be'' the Grimmons season. What certainly helps is that the season's writer, Joe Nicolosi, actually ships Grimmons in real life.
*** After the war on Chorus, Tucker reactivated the Temple of Procreation, which put the entire planet into an aphrodisiac-induced orgy. Apparently, during that time Simmons and Grif ended up locked in a closet together. They [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain tell anyone who brings it up to bluntly drop the topic]], with both of them refusing to look at each other. You do the math.
*** After Grif temporarily leaves the Reds and Blues in "Reacts," there is a long shot of Simmons gazing sadly after his retreating form.
*** With Grif gone, Simmons is very depressed, and as Caboose points out in "Nightmare on Planet Evil," seems to be talking about Grif a lot.
*** Grif, for his part, has been incredibly lonely since the rest of the Reds and Blues left, and has taken to talking to volleyballs with his friends' helmets painted on them. And when we next see him in "Objects in Space," he seems to be working himself up to ''confess'' to volleyball Simmons, with [[InterruptedDeclarationOfLove various interruptions from all the other volleyballs]]. And then when Locus finds him and tells him his friends are in trouble, Grif seems very stuck on making sure Simmons is okay before asking about everyone else.
*** When they finally reunite, you'll notice Grif left Simmons out of the list of people he hates, and they both admit to being glad to being back together. [[ShipperOnDeck Jax]] was literally gearing up to record them kissing.
*** Heck, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say they actually ''did'' kiss in the time between them knocking Jax and Dylan arriving to ask what happened to him, either.
** The Grimmons is comparatively toned-down in Seasons 16 and 17 after the events of 15, but still noticeable. For instance, while Grif and Huggins are walking to England together, she calls Simmons "Grif's BFF," a term of which Grif doesn't object to. Additionally, when Grif and Kaikaina "break into" Simmons' Labyrinth illusion in "Theogeny," he makes her promise to never tell anyone else about what they see within and that it must stay "super private."

** Wash has seen Tucker sleeping naked. He told him to stop, but ''still.''

* In the PSA-only parody movie "Sarge 2: Sarge Harder," Lopez is very clearly Sarge's love interest and the plot revolves around Sarge rescuing him. Of course, it should be taken with a grain of salt since ''Donut'' was the scriptwriter.

* While the aforementioned Season 15 has copious amounts of Grimmons, there's also a lot of Ho Yay subtext in the friendship between Temple and Biff. It ''really'' doesn't take that much effort to see [[HeterosexualLifePartners their relationship]] as [[ShipTease something more]], especially as Biff's death is played more like [[TheLostLenore the loss of a lover]] as [[FreudianExcuse a motivation]] for Temple's StartOfDarkness than the loss of a friend that the story claims it is.
* Season 17 has Donut and Wash forming an OddFriendship during their struggles through the Everwhen. Wash is repeatedly shown to be the only one that actively sticks up for Donut throughout the season, to the point where he forces all of the Reds and Blues to go and apologize to Donut after the latter reaches his RageBreakingPoint and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech lets them all have it]]. For his part, Donut gives an inspiring RousingSpeech to Wash after he lapses into a HeroicBSOD on Chorus during "Breaching The Torus," and at one point [[EasilyForgiven brushes off]] [[ComedicSociopathy getting shot by Wash repeatedly]] with [[AccidentalInnuendo "Eh, what's a Donut without a hole in it?"]] What certainly helps is the surprising amount of chemistry shown between Shannon [=McCormick=] and Dan Goodwin during the season's events.
* On an opposite side of the gender, when Dr. Grey gives Carolina a check up on her damaged leg, she calls her "Sweetie". When Carolina gives a hostile remark upon said name, she gleefully responds that she would ''love'' to "psychoanalyze" her.

** Oh, and Donut's GenderFlip is the most subtextual ButchLesbian imaginable.
* Episode 22 of Season 14 has Agent Ohio being a confirmed lesbian. After a war between her Freelancer squad and a Charon Industries squad breaks out, she tells her Charon counterpart, Sherry ([[WordOfGay who was later confirmed to also be a lesbian by Shannon McCormick]]), this:

* Sister, upon meeting Tex for the first time, comments that "He's kinda hot!". When Tucker points out that Tex is a woman, she revises this comment to "She's kinda hot!".
** Season 15 confirms that Sister regularly goes through bouts of bisexuality. This comes up when Dylan asks her for an interview, and Sister, [[LovableSexManiac being Sister]], assumes Jax is there to film them having sex and was ready to start before she's corrected.

* Another example from Season 15: A minor case, but it's worth noting that Carolina was ''very'' interested in joining a band that was formed specifically to [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer "pick up chicks".]]

* Simmons and Grif are HeterosexualLifePartners whose Ho Yay is incredibly blatant, to the point that it's barely subtext. Few episodes pass without them arguing LikeAnOldMarriedCouple (to the point where Tucker explicitly mentioned it), in one of the [=PSAs=] it is implied that Simmons carved their initials into a tree, and in the last episode of season 8, [[spoiler:when he thinks Grif is dead, Simmons sounds absolutely heartbroken, far more so than when other teammates have apparently died]], just for a few examples.
** Geoff gave possibly-joking WordOfGay on Grif in a podcast, stating that Grif was secretly in love with Simmons, they were going to get married and eventually have a baby together when technology allowed for it. No one at Creator/RoosterTeeth bothered to contradict him so take that as you will.
** When Simmons and Grif are [[spoiler:about to be executed for selling their team's ammunition to the Blues]], Simmons says he wants to tell Grif something... we never learn what that was, because what ''Grif'' had to tell Simmons completely ruins the mood, but it sounded like a build-up to a love confession.

** In ''Recreation'', Simmons apparently uses the holographic testing room to interact with fake versions of his teammates for emotional support. [[KissMeImVirtual His Holo-Grif is programmed to shout "I love boners"]].
** In the Missing in Action miniseries, Simmons is the only one to notice Grif is missing, and the one to insist they go find him.
** It should also be mentioned that the longest they have ever been separated in universe was five hours and apparently it was enough to provoke depression and withdrawal symptoms in both of them. In fact, whenever they are separated something bad happens to either or both. More so than when they're together.
** The Higgs Bozos PSA revealed that apparently Simmons and Grif went to a wedding together where Grif ate the entire cake. It's never revealed whose wedding it was just that there was one. Hmm...

** In the ''Rock the Veto'' PSA where the two teams play against each other, Grif and Simmons are both at Simmons' house. They play split screen. So no matter which universe they're in, they're always together

** Grif is always the one to drive the Warthog, and Sarge always rides shotgun. Not once did Grif comment about this in any way but the one time Simmons tries to climb in next to him he immediately says "What are we, on a date?" to which Simmons replies "Oh you're so insecure." The whole exchange cones across as Grif being defensive about his feelings and Simmons knowing full well what's going on.
** After the war on Chorus, Tucker reactivated the Temple of Procreation" which puts all participants into an aphrodisiac-induced orgy. Apparently, during that time Simmons and Grif ended up locked in a closet together. They [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain tell anyone who brings it up to bluntly drop the topic]], with both of them refusing to look at each other. You do the math.
** [[spoiler:After Grif leaves the Reds and Blues, there is a long shot of Simmons gazing sadly after his retreating form.]]
** [[spoiler: Seriously, Season 15 might as well be the Grimmons season. With Grif gone, Simmons is very depressed, and as Caboose points out, seems to be talking about Grif a lot]]
** [[spoiler: Grif, for his part, has been incredibly lonely since the rest of the Reds and Blues left, and has taken to talking to volleyballs with his friends' helmets painted on them. And when we next see him, he seems to be working himself up to ''confess'' to volleyball Simmons, with [[InterruptedDeclarationOfLove various interruptions from all the other volleyballs]]. And then when Locus finds him and tells him his friends are in trouble, Grif seems very stuck on making sure Simmons is okay.]]
*** When they finally reunite, you'll notice Grif left Simmons out of the list of people he hates, and they both admit to being glad to being back together. Jax was literally gearing up to record them kissing.
*** It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say they did actually kiss in the time between them knocking Jax and Dylan arriving to ask what happened to him, either.
* Caboose seems to have a crush on Donut, referring to him with such nicknames as Private Biscuit or Lieutenant [=McMuffin=] (with a golden flaky crust), although it could just be [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Caboose being Caboose]].
** Caboose did think Donut was a girl for several season, so maybe he was trying to flirt with "her".
** Donut seems to return at least some of the feelings, giving him a big speech about how they'll always be friends before he returns to base.

* More one-sided Ho Yay in this case, but sometimes Caboose seems like he's crushing on Church, and he always seems a bit too obsessed with getting Church to be his best friend. The [[http://redvsblue.com/archive/?id=577&v=more Valentine's Day PSA]] didn't help. Didn't help at all.
* Caboose makes Ho Yay-esque statements about Church frequently, although one time Church [[http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=122&v=more&s=3 returned the favor,]] albeit in his usual sarcastic manner. It was...kind of weird.
* Tucker and Wash seem to have grown especially close to each other. Wash shares a bit of his past and some of his insecurities, which keep in mind he hasn't done with anyone else.
** Tucker for his part seemed dead-set on rescuing Wash when he appeared to be captured, even more determined than rescuing Sarge, Lopez or Donut who he's known much longer.
*** The extent Tucker goes to save him is pretty staggering, considering his initial behavior. Tucker started out very antagonistic towards Wash, misplacing his anger towards Church for leaving without saying goodbye and viewing Wash as a cheap replacement for his best friend. When Wash opens up for a heart-to-heart shortly before pulling his HeroicSacrifice, Tucker's resulting HeelFaceTurn has him focusing all his efforts, resources, and opportunities in saving him from the Feds. He ends up blowing an infiltration mission and sacrificing two subordinates for information on his whereabouts. When it appeared that Kimball was not going to allow them to go rescue his friends, Tucker immediately convinces the BGC to pack up on a stolen warthog and mount the rescue operation themselves, claiming that once they got their friends back "Wash will know what to do".
** Wash has seen Tucker sleeping naked. He told him to stop, but still.
* Of all pairings Sarge/Wash got some really weird attention during the season 12 outtakes. With Sarge wanting someone to write 'Sargington'.
* In Season 10, we get the grand return of Donut. Apparently, he managed to stay alive long enough to have Doc fix him up. They've been living together in a small hut and tending to a sustainable garden; it's just so very domestic.

''(Cut to a loaf of banana bread on the groud with a card saying [[InnocentInnuendo Hope you like nuts! -Donut & Doc]])''\\

* In the PSA-only parody movie ''Sarge 2: Sarge Harder'', Lopez is very clearly Sarge's love interest and the plot revolves around Sarge rescuing him.
* Felix and Locus work awfully well together and seem to trust each other. Which for them is really a big deal.
** The above gains much darker undertones when it's revealed that [[spoiler: [[ManipulativeBastard Felix]] has been deliberately manipulating [[ShellShockedVeteran Locus']] PTSD into staying as his partner since he realizes that he needs Locus more then Locus needs him, much like an abusive spouse continually manipulating their partner to stay with them]].
** Season 14, which seems to play before Felix jumped off the deep end, seems to give them a sort of SlapSlapKiss dynamic. They still throw insults and snark at each other left and right but then Locus lugs an injured Felix around a battlefield for who knows how long, Felix twists around Locus to throw his knife at a mook instead of using his partner (who still tries to protect him) as a shield as you would expect from him, and instead of dumping Felix on his ass once they're safe Locus puts him down very gently on a car bumper.
*** In their intro episode, They come under enemy fire while Felix is stumbling around blinded by a smoke bomb. Locus ''immediately'' runs to Felix and tackles him to the floor, forcibly holding him down to keep him out of range of bullets. He would have probably stayed on top of him longer if Felix hadn't kicked him off.

* On opposite side of the gender, when Dr. Grey gives Carolina a check up on her damaged leg, she calls her "Sweetie". When Carolina gives a hostile remark upon said name, she gleefully responds that she would love to "psychoanalyze" her.
* In Season 14 Episode 16, after Epsilon finds out that in his current iteration he had everybody in Red Team genderbent. This also somehow included [[spoiler: Tex]]. His reaction upon finding out?
-->'''Epsilon:''' Uh... Let me think about this for a second... (beat) Yeah, [[BiTheWay I'm cool with it,]] but I'm out.

* Episode 22 of Season 14 has Agent Ohio being a confirmed lesbian. After a war between her Freelancer squad and a Charon Industries squad breaks out, she tells her counterpart, Sherry, this:
-->'''Ohio:''' A shame, though. You actually seem like my type.

* Season 15 confirms that Sister regularly goes through bouts of bisexuality. This comes up when Dylan asks her for an interview, and Sister, [[LovableSexManiac being Sister]], assumes Jax is there to film them having sex and was ready to start before she's corrected.
* Also from Season 15: A minor case, but it's worth noting that Carolina was very interested in joining a band that was formed specifically to [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer 'pick up chicks'.]]

** The above gains much darker undertones when it's revealed that [[spoiler: [[ManipulativeBastard Felix]] has been deliberately manipulating [[ShellShockedVeteran Locus']] PTSD into staying as his partner since he realises that he needs Locus more then Locus needs him, much like an abusive spouse continually manipulating their partner to stay with them]].

--->'''Epsilon:''' Uh... Let me think about this for a second... (beat) Yeah, [[BiTheWay I'm cool with it,]] but I'm out.

--->'''Ohio:''' A shame, though. You actually seem like my type.

** [[spoiler: The panic in Tucker's voice when Wash wanders into enemy fire]] isn't the biggest example, but to this troper is shows how far Tucker and Wash have come. As mentioned above, they have gone from grudging teammates to a mutually respecting and caring relationship. [[spoiler: Also, we are clearly going to see the fallout of Tucker's rash decision. At least, this trooper hopes so.]]

** Season 14, which seems to play before Felix jumped off the deep end, seems to give them a sort of SlapSlapKiss dynamic. They still throw insults and snark at each other left and right but then Locus lugs an injured Felix around a battlefield for who knows how long, Felix twists around Locus to throw his knife at a mook instead of using his partner (who still tries to protect him) as a shield as you would expect from him, and instead of dumping Felix on his ass once they're safe Locus puts him down very gently on a car bumper. Makes one wonder where the hate is Felix put so much emphasis on.
*** There is also no reason for Locus to hold Felix quite as close as he did, with both his arms around his waist and pulled quite that close.

* Season 15 confirms that Sister regularly goes through bouts of bisexuality. This comes up when Dylan asks her for an interview, and Sister, [[LovableSexManiac being Sister]], assumes Jax is there to film them having sex and was ready to start before she's corrected.

** [[spoiler: Grif, for his part, has been incredibly lonely since the rest of the Reds and Blues left, and has taken to talking to volleyballs with his friends' helmets painted on them. And when we next see him, he seems to be working himself up to ''confess'' to volleyball Simmons, with various interruptions from all the other volleyballs. And then when Locus finds him and tells him his friends are in trouble, Grif seems very stuck on making sure Simmons is okay.]]

** After the war on Chorus, Tucker reactivated the Temple of Procreation" which puts all participants into an aphrodisiac-induced orgy. Apparently, during that time Simmons and Grif ended up locked in a closet together. They [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain tell anyone who brings it up to bluntly drop the topic, with both of them refusing to look at each other. You do the math.

** Apparently after the war on Chorus Tucker found an alien relic called "The Temple of Procreation" and gave the entire world a planet sized aphrodisiac. Apparently during that time Simmons and Grif were locked in a closet together and the two [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain get very defensive when it's brought up]] with both of them refusing to look at each other. You do the math.

* Sister, upon meeting Tex for the first time, comments that "He's kinda hot!". When Tucker points out that Tex is a woman, she revises this comment to "She's kinda hot!".

* On opposite side of the gender, when Dr. Grey gives Carolina a check up on her damaged leg, she calls her "Sweetie". When Carolina gives a Hostile Remark upon said name, she gleefully responds that she would love to "Psychoanalyze" Her.

** Geoff gave possibly-joking WordOfGay on Grif in a podcast, stating that Grif was secretly in love with Simmons, they were going to get married and eventually have a baby together when technology allowed for it. No one at RoosterTeeth bothered to contradict him so take that as you will.

--->'''Ohio:''' A shame, though. You actually seem like my type.

--->'''Epsilon:''' Uh... Let me think about this for a second... (beat) Yeah, [[BiTheWay I'm cool with it,]] but I'm out.

* In Season 14 Episode 16, after Epsilon finds out that in his current iteration he had everybody in Red Team genderbent. This also somehow included [[spoiler: Tex]] his reaction upon finding out?

_-->'''Epsilon:''' Uh... Let me think about this for a second... (beat) Yeah, [[BiTheWay I'm cool with it,]] but I'm out.

*** All in all, one couldn't be blamed for thinking Locus had a thing for Felix witg Felix being in deep denial.
* On opposite side of the gender, when Dr. Grey gives Carolina a check up on her damaged leg, she calls her "Sweetie". When Carolina gives a Hostile Remark upon said name, she gleefully responds that she would love to "Psychoanalyze" Her.

*** The extent Tucker goes to save him is pretty staggering, considering how they started out. He was originally very antagonistic towards Wash, but when he pulls his HeroicSacrifice, Tucker's resulting HeelFaceTurn has him blowing an infiltration mission and sacrificing two subordinates for information on his whereabouts. When it appeared that Kimball was not going to allow them to go rescue his friends, Tucker immediately packs the rest of the BGC up on a stolen warthog and they mount the rescue operation themselves, claiming that once they got their friends back "Wash will know what to do". Even during his time spent with the rebels, Tucker seems to have volunteered the training regiment Wash designed for him in Season 11 to drill the lieutenants. Come Season 13, it appears that Tucker has handed the lieutenants over to Wash's care.