I think it must be time to debunk the KuroFai rumor. People keep clinging to it as one of his worst 'but you have to admit it happened' offenses.
It really didn't.
Context: Tsubasa is a girl's manga by the group CLAMP, who you might know for Card Captor Sakura, Chobits, or Angelic Layer and probably nothing else if you don't like girl anime. They're also known for their yaoi proportions and the fact that they like to stick gay relationships into their stories. Vic was cast as Fai in the english dub of Tsubasa because the voice director desperately needed a Fai and Vic didn't mind doing it. Fau has a special connection with another male character named Kurogane. There's lots of gay hints and teasing between them from the start of the manga. Fujos immediately decided the two were super gay and got super angry that Vic voiced Fai.
(Mild amusing tidbit: Sabat plays Kurogane, so Vic is effectively flirting with, teasing, and annoying Sabat all anime)
Claim: Some fujo asked Vic about whether Fau were gay for Kurogane. Vic claimed that he spoke to CLAMP and they said "No, Fai is not gay." Someone else spoke to CLAMP, and they said "Vic who?", an auxiliary claim is that he rewrote Fai dialog to be less gay. I see no proof of Vic having that kind of power over Tsubasa, and Fai doesn't really have gay dialog to change. I assume this is 'fansubs made it gay, dub fixed it' issues.
The simplified version you'll probably hear: VIC LIKES TO LIE AND TELL PEOPLE CLAMP TOLD HIM FAI, WHO'S SUPER GAY, WAS ACTUALLY STRAIGHT. CLAMP SAID THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO HE IS, SO HE CHANGED HIS STORY TO SAY COLLEEN ASKED. LOL.
So. Let's see if I can debunk it fully.
First: The
anime itself actually plays up Fai's heterosexuality. Not the dub, the anime. There's filler episodes of Fai going on a date with his female robot Chii, for instance. This is important, because Vic is a silly man who doesn't read the manga of the anime he dubs, he likes to experience it as it gets dubbed. FMA is the only anime he watched ahead for, and he stopped at a certain episode specifically so he would be genuinely moved at the right times while dubbing. Vic's only experience with Fai is via the anime.
1b: Fujos claim that CLAMP disowned the anime because it dared to make Fai straight. There's no proof to be found of this. The only place I found this claim was immediately followed by someone dismissing that claim.
Second: Fai and Kuro never explicitly get together in the manga. They never confess. They never do anything like that. They make mutual sacrifices of body parts for each other and for a bit Fai has to feed on Kuro as a vampire. The closest they get to an expression of feelings is that Fai gets depressed and cold for a bit because he decides he "crossed a line with Kuro". However, it's entirely possible to interpret them as having a platonic relationship even if you read the manga. Fujos, of course, instantly determined they were gay from the first graphic novel because Fai teases Kuro. Claims that they decided the two were gay for each other because of 'later developments' is a lie. Even during the beginning while Kuro is obviously in love with a woman they acted like the pairing was certain.
Third: There's a scene where Fai apparently speaks nonsense French for the entirety of the scene, and so the dub was given "French Gobbledegook" for the lines. Vic was forced to go for up to 45mins per line doing retakes just saying nonsense that sounded 'French' because the voice director wasn't happy with anything he said. This is relevant because it vastly undermines the idea that Vic had any control over Fai's lines. He
hated this scene, although the voice director finds it a hilarious anecdote, and had he any control over it he'd likely have rewritten it. (He won't do 'French Fai' lines because of this. It's not possible for him to do them.)
3b: He does sometimes get some flexibility over scripts. He rewrote one 'potty mouthed' character because he was able to convince the director that he could make the character work convincingly without it. Notably, most 'potty mouthed' characters in dubs are just doing that to convey that characters are being rude. It's rare for characters to
really use profanity in manga. This is likely where the claim comes from here.
On to the evidence.
A confrontational fujo who thinks she has a gotcha asks Vic
right at the end of his panel "What do you think about the increasingly obvious homosexual relationship with Kurogane and Fai. I've read ahead in the manga blahb lahl blah"
Vic responds rather smugly that he already spoke with CLAMP about this two years prior at Anime Expo, and was told that Fai isn't gay.
Angry Fujo snarkily responds "You weren't Fai two years ago, you don't read the manga, how would you know to ask this?"
Vic retorts "That's because
i didn't ask. Colleen Clickenbeard did."
Fujo slapfights with him a bit, saying that it's 'extremely obvious they're soulmates' and Vic responds with 'yes, but are they screwing each other?', which she takes deep offense to, and he says essentially 'suck it up, buttercup. If you're gay you're having sex with other men, not just loving them'.
I
can't find evidence of CLAMP denying knowledge of Vic, but it's worth noting this story is what Vic has stuck to always, so it's irrelevant. His story was never actually that
he spoke to them personally. He clarified it was Colleen on his first telling. Later in Tekkoshocon rumors panel he brings it up again and doesn't change it, but people claim he's 'amended it' to say Colleen asked. This is wrong. He says Colleen said it here. You can argue that he's 'covering' for himself here, but that's stupid. He's just simplifying the story to get to the important part.
Now, to debunk the idea that Vic somehow lied and CLAMP called him out about it.
Part one (The post in question is highlighted) - The confusion over CLAMP is that Vic was wrong about who was asked. It was not
CLAMP who was asked whether Fai and Kurogane were gay, but the producers of the anime. The producers who made an episode where Fai goes on a date with a woman. It's not unsurprising he'd get this confused, because by his own story when this was asked he didn't even know wtf the anime was. Furthermore, the question was not "Are Fai and Kurogane in love" but quite literally "Are Fai and Kurogane gay?" Which, as you will note even in Vic's response, is exactly what they said 'no' to. Vic is correct. He was told Fai wasn't gay, because Fai isn't gay.
Part two (again highlighted) - In response to the idea that Fai and Kurogane 'are soulmates, and therefore gay', and addressing CLAMP's feelings on the relationship itself. Touya and Yukito in CCS (who are undeniably in a gay relationship and actually confess) are said to
not be gay, according to CLAMP, but instead 'soulmates'.
Conclusion: The story that Vic lied about CLAMP telling him that Fai wasn't gay only for CLAMP to slap him down later, proving he's not just a liar but someone willing to lie to deny his actually gay character isn't gay is...actually just a lie.
Sidenote - most non-fujos don't even think Kuro and Fai are sexually or romantically connected to each other. Even when Fai and Kuro later cameo in a different manga, they're still not romantically together. It's fueled 100% on subtexted acknowledged by literally no one in any manga they appear in.
Final note: Angry fujo like to morph his story from "Fai isn't gay" into "Fai is straight". You can see from the original telling for yourself. There's a difference between saying 'not gay' and 'definitely straight'.