Datu Sangalang

Forest

Datu Sangalang is the second oldest of the 6 Sanglang children. He was born in Makati in the Philippines to Buhawi and Charo Sangalang but was mostly looked after by his mother and older brother, Buwan, his father always being busy with work.

Datu Sangalang was born covered in blood and crying his eyes out as his father was on a call to his personal assistant and his mother was being kept awake from the long birth by doctors and nurses. As he was wrapped in a towel and taken to the intensive care unit for a few days of observation, his older brother followed the hospital staff to make sure he was okay.

After he was released from hospital with his family, he was taken home and put into Buwan's zoo themed room. It was a little frightening, seeing all the angry animals on the walls so he kept crying until a few of them were covered up. His mother doted on him as the two of them were often left alone in their house as his father and brother went off to his father's office and soon became inseparable. His mother only had to made a certain face and Datu knew exactly what she wanted, even from a young age.

A few months after his 4th birthday, he was told that his mother was dead and was banned from even mentioning her by his father who was in the throws of grief. Young Datu didn't know how to process that trauma so he pushed it down and chose to ignore it and tried to forget about his mother all together, but that proved impossible.

Being the second son of the Sangalang family meant that Datu was often left to his own devices as all of his father's focus was on his older brother. He found ways to entertain himself; playing with building blocks, climbing up onto high furniture and drawing on the walls, but his favourite thing in the world was his mother's computer located in the basement. He clambered down the tricky stairs and joined lots of co-op games where he learn lots of new fun words, which he didn't know the meanings of but started to say in class.

When he was thirteen, he'd established a reputation for distributing class with smarmy little quips, throwing things at the teachers or by making fun of the other kids and was often not punished due to his status as a Sangalang child. As he wasn't punished, he never learned that his behaviour was hurting people and slowly turned into a bully, regularly calling other kids 'weirdos' and 'fatties'.

He entered highschool and knew that if he wanted to end up the king of his year, he'd have to bully everyone into submission. He started with the easy targets then worked his way up from there. It wasn't until he ran into Marcus Leon, a pudgy little ginger kid who made his heart thump in his chest, that he decided that he wanted to try and ruin someone's life for good. Whilst growing up, he'd always been told that he looked and behaved 'queer' but never knew what that meant until he overheard his father talking about some of his employees. They were two men but were in a relationship, and as his father called them every disgusting name under the sun, Datu internalised that being like them was disgusting and wrong.

The more time he spent stalking Marc and researching his family background, the more his heart started to ache and his face heated up whenever he saw him. He'd go home and try to forget about all the 'disgusting' feelings that he was having about another boy, then dream about them being together and wake up with sticky sheets. Datu knew it was a problem, he knew that no one else was like him, that he was wrong, so decided that he needed to destroy Marcus Leon for what he had turned him into.

Then came the day where Datu went too far. He had recently found out that Marcus was adopted with two, devoted loving parents and decided that everyone should know he was abandoned by his biological family. He printed out fliers and stapled them to all of the school notice boards before everyone arrived... but when Marc saw them and broke into tears, he felt like the biggest asshole on the planet.

Datu realised that he was in love. Soon after the incident whilst living out his school suspension grounded at home, he stumbled across Marc's Instagram page. Summoning the strength he needed, Datu sent a message asking for the two of them to meet up in person. After two days of being left on read, Marc agreed.

They met at Marcus' favourite fast food restaurant in town and after Marcus finally broke down and shouted at him for all the bullying he'd put him through, Datu burst into tears and wept out a heartfelt apology. He told him that he was jealous of his perfect family, that he'd felt ashamed of his feelings for him, that his mother reminded him of his. He poured his heart out to the kid he'd once bullied and much to his surprise Marc forgave him and Datu promised that he'd do better. He experimented with his sexuality by making moves on his married, male gym teacher who reciprocated his advances and the two started to hook up after classes. Their encounters became increasingly sexual and Datu realised that he was into possibly being caught.

For the years that followed, Datu tried relentlessly hard to fix his relationship with Marc and grow as a person. He apologised to everyone he'd ever bullied and finally researched his sexuality and came to the conclusion that being gay was actually extremely normal and that his father was an asshole. When he was 17, he came out to his father and was nearly attacked but managed to escape by climbing out of his bedroom window.

Having nowhere else to go, he turned to his best friend, Marc and soon he was allowed to live in the Leon house until he turned 18, staying in Marc's bedroom. After a month of living together, something in the air changed and sexual tension begin to rise between them. Marcus confessed that he had feelings for him and the two began dating offically as a couple.

After graduation, he didn't go to university and instead starting to stream online. He was seen by a recruiter and was handed a business card for a sex-streaming site. At first he thought it was a fucking stupid but the more he thought about it... the more he was turned on by the idea. He was soon recruited by the company and began his streams under the guise of BJDK. Marc was initially against the idea of joining him on streams but after seeing how fun it could be and getting jealous of the idea of Datu getting with other people, he agreed. It became a regular occurrence and soon there weren't many days where Marc's legs actually worked but the once innocent Marc quickly became addicted to the feeling of being fucked. Once, Datu asked Marc to wear an internal vibrating device to a his university and after a begging phone call from Marc the two had rough sex in the university bathrooms, trying but failing to stay quiet.