I would NEVER mind expounding more on my bullshit.
First, a disclaimer: The number one reason this is one of my top headcanons is because I habitually headcanon favorite characters as asexual to be self-indulgent. But a lot of people really like Ramuda with a more sexual personality, so that’s cool too.
1. Almost every aspect of Ramuda’s outward personality is fake.
Ramuda pretends to be light-hearted and friendly when his real personality is much angrier and more sullen.
He pretends to be an airhead, but he’s actually quite calculating.
He pretends to speak with a high-pitched voice and childish diction, but his real voice is much lower and full of more adult language.
He pretends to just have a sweet tooth, but that’s actually a cover to disguise the fact that he needs lollipops to live.
I don’t have any images for this, but Ramuda also uses a different first-person pronoun for his inner self (ore) vs his outer self (boku). Everything else about the “boku” Ramuda is fake, so what makes his flirtation any different?
2. His popular boy disguise gives him plausible deniability to be the perfect spy.
As mentioned above, Ramuda’s sweet tooth is a cover for a very real aspect about him. Every other aspect of his outer personality is a disguise too! The airhead act is designed to make people underestimate him, while the excessively friendly act allows him to plausibly break social norms and quick become closer to people as Chuuouku’s plans dictate.
Now, the great thing about being flirtatious is that it allows him to talk to lots of women, even Chuuouku women. That might be rather suspicious in a world that’s this heavily segregated, but if all he appears to be doing is sweet-talking them, then he can get away with it easily. Now only if we had any proof of him doing that…
3. Oh wait a minute….
Ramuda: … Oopsie. Sorry, I gotta step out to take a call from a lady.
Well now. Look at that.
And no, I haven’t read that fic, but I’ll try to check it out over the next few days! Thanks for the recommendation.