REMINDER: "Vic won't sign that Edward/Roy doujin" is the
first rumor, it's not the
source of the rumors. That rumor appeared in 2010 (or at least the mainstream version of it does, older ones apparently existed but were very much not mainstream and pretty much only Vic mentions them), attached to a story about him screaming at the yaoi fan when she refused to take no for an answer. It was debunked in the Gaia Online thread that discussed it (which seems to be the only public forum left that talked about it then).
In
reality, according to the people who were discussing it at the time, Vic actually did Ed/Roy fanservice lines and things like that for fans who asked it of him back then. He was known to lean into the fangirls' yaoi fantasies a little.
There's ample video evidence of this, in fact. He infamously said "Colonel Mustang is dead sexy in a miniskirt!" and that line hounds him pretty much to this day (and he accidentally got Aaron to say it so he's stuck with it too), and also said "Roy, I love you!" and "Back off, Riza, he's mine!" as well as Travis and him playing little jokes like proposing to each other.
Around about 2007-2008 he started letting fans know that he wasn't actually into yaoi and didn't like Ed x Roy (nor does Travis, this is why Travis has similar rumors) and a few times teases yaoi fans for being too extreme, but it's all in good humor.
and
This sparks rumors about him getting super angry about being asked to sign yaoi, up to and including throwing a sharpie in a fan's eye and storming away. However, this is entirely kept within the yaoi fandom, as I mentioned before these rumors don't make it into the internet at large yet.
Then 2009 hit, and he made multiple different comments trying to explain his position on yaoi and that he only really has an issue with the crazy fans. The most well known one, I think is ACEN 2009:
(try not to feel the pain when he says "I've never sued anyone in my life".)
You'll see here he repeats the same rumors over and over, because there's just not many at this point. (Interesting that he addresses a specific rumor that persists to this day and debunks it with the actual event).
Because of this, his dislike of yaoi went 'mainstream', and the story of "He screamed at a girl who wanted him to sign Ed x Roy" was born by 2010.
Anyway. Don't spread the story that Vic's rumors came from him refusing to sign yaoi once, that's actually a rumor itself. Vic's rumors come from the fact that he teased yaoi fangirls and made it clear he doesn't like it. While
yes, he had a policy of not signing yaoi (though there's video evidence that he will happily sign stuff that's basically 'yaoi bait'), the yaoi fangirls had
zero problem with him until he started teasing them. You're perpetuating their rumors by suggesting it was caused by a spurned yaoi fangirl.
It wasn't even. Because this is Vic we're talking about, so somehow it's not even
that.
It was yaoi fangirls who got offended he just didn't like yaoi.
You're right, I forgot. Somehow I never put the two pieces together, and just thought 'oh, he believes victims because his wife was a victim', not 'he's kickvic because his wife is kickvic'.
