Let's scream until there's nothing left

This is not explicitly about petekey; it's more about Mikey Way and Pete Wentz’s friendship because I think it's cute, and I want to yap about it, but this could also be interpreted as more than a friendship. Mikey and Pete have a thing called the Sweet Little Dudes Club. It's been referenced many times by both Pete and Mikey, and there's even a picture of Pete wearing a shirt that says' Sweet Little Dudes Club'. Now, this isn't explicitly a petekey reference, but it could be interpreted like that because Pete has referenced the whole of My Chem, but he only ever speaks about Mikey by name in his journal/blogs. He has never mentioned Frank or Ray or Gerard; it's only ever been Mikey.

Mikey has previously used the term ‘Sweet little dude’ to refer to other people, and Gerard used this in an interview to mock him, but mentions of Mikey in Pete’s LiveJournal Q&A bring up this term.
“Q: We want to have sex with Gerard Way. And I mean full blown pumping his gas while he is handcuffed to the bed sex. Care to hook a couple of sistas up?
A: me and mikey way have a gang called The Sweet Little Dudes. you might see us on warped tour.”
This particular instance is quite interesting. Pete seems unfazed by the reference to having sex with Gerard. This seems like something he should’ve commented on, but instead, his mind went straight to Gerard’s brother, Mikey. He only talks about Mikey, even when he isn’t explicitly mentioned.

In another:
“11/13/05
Q:hey! i was just wondering, how good are you friends with mikey way??
A:me and mikey are not in just one gang together, we are in two: the sweet little dudes and the fraternal order of the handsome boy. i call him the duke of handsomeness.”
Calling your friend ‘duke of handsomeness’... that definitely seems like a normal platonic thing to do…
My Chem and FOB only met in 2003, so this is only 2 years after this. Obviously, this could very well be just a normal friendship joke thing, but that would mean that they are quite close friends. While this could possibly happen in 2 years, both bands were touring and obviously, couldn’t hang out every day and most likely the majority of those 2 years were spent apart. For them to just become this close friends in the 2 or so months of Warped Tour seems unlikely.

- xo R

(Obviously, these are only my own interpretations of Pete's ramblings. Only Mikey and Pete themselves will know what truly happened in 2005. I don't claim any of this to be the truth.)

Lately, I’ve been trawling through archives of Pete’s old blogs. I don’t know if all of them are legitimately his, but god damn did that boy just spew shit out. If anyone was wondering, there’s a really good archive of his LiveJournal and Q&A posts on AO3.

Am I a petekey truther and shipper? Yeah, I guess so. I don’t ship them as adults now. Just their little baby gay selves from the 2005 Warped Tour. I mean, as notorious as Amazing New Mexico Sunset is, there’s a reason. No purely platonic person writes about their friend like that. Nobody writes about ‘my friend mikey way’ and then a few sentences later ‘totally back in love’. It only leads to one conclusion. The seemingly tenuous link between this actually seems very in-character. The theme of secrecy in their relationship was a massive thing. Being queer was still a very stigmatised thing, and this getting out could’ve wrecked their entire careers. The sheer amount of his LiveJournal posts that could be referring to Mikey is insane. He was definitely in love in 2005. It only makes sense that it was Mikey. It cannot be denied that he was in love. There were SO many posts about it. From his earlier posts, he referred to someone never named, but how he missed them and other feelings towards them. This is presumably a previous relationship. He talks about remorse and other negative emotions, but suddenly he starts talking about love in a positive light again once warped tour starts. He also mentions being gay and not liking girls in his posts too many times for it to just be a joke. He refers to Patrick and many other men as “sexy” and “attractive”, something straight men never do. He talks about kissing William Beckett’s neck. Again, not so straight Pete. In many of his Q&A posts, he talks about Mikey and references My Chem lyrics.

- xo R

(Obviously, these are only my own interpretations of Pete's ramblings. Only Mikey and Pete themselves will know what truly happened in 2005. I don't claim any of this to be the truth.)