🌈 LGBT+ OCs discussion thread

KawaiiCryptids

I think when it comes to anti-heroes and redemptions, one of the important things you have to do is to make sure that the character in question doesn't cross a moral event horizon. Essentially, they can't do anything that the audience would consider unforgivable, if you want them to be sympathetic and/or redeemable. Since everyone has different ideas of what is and isn't redeemable, this can be a bit of a grey area, but there are a few different actions that will almost certainly push a character over the moral event horizon, like the killing of innocents or sexual assault. Since you haven't yet decided what actions your character takes, you've got a good degree of flexibility here. Some potential villainous actions that many might nonetheless sympathetic would most likely be focused on retribution, like taking revenge on the people who scorned her (but not on innocents!). I'm not personally sympathetic to revenge stories myself, but a hell of a lot of people are.

I think the main thing you should keep in mind is that in real life, most if not all trans people experience varying degrees of discrimination and oppression...and yet they do not become evil because of it. So I guess just be thoughtful. Definitely make her sympathetic if you're linking her villainy to her experiences as a trans person. But know that it's a very touchy subject that has ties to a lot of real people's trauma, and be careful. If the hero is also trans, and they approach her with empathy and understanding, I think that could go a long way.

(Weird technical tidbit: I don't see why the antlers would be an abnormally large issue? IRL they grow about five months out of the year, and she could just keep filing them down Hellboy style. In real life, many trans women shave regularly; I think it'd be a similar analogy. Inconvienient, but not unmanageable.)

spoinkledoinkers You know what else is unrealistic? Human-sized, bipedal, talking animals who wear clothes. And yet nobody says anything about that!

Point being: do what you want, do what makes you happy. You don't have to explain or justify yourself to anyone.

i had a longer question before but im gonna rewrite it. i need thoughts on writing queer relationships that are toxic/abusive in a way that doesn't accidentally convey that it applies to every queer relationship ever? like, im not stating that, but i know straight people are often dumb, and this is meant to be a YA story and kids are often dumb. the characters involved aren't human* so no big monolouges about homophobia because they dont CARE theyre not from here! i have an idea to make one of the human characters explicitly queer as well but she's a girl, that'll just switch the problem to specifically mlm. im trying to keep the cast small, and the only other dude is complicated age wise to the point that giving him a LI is just not gonna work (he's a fallen angel that was forced into a body thats currently 13, so its a five hargreeves situation.) how to??? get it into a place where im not worried about someone misinterpreting it.

other info: 

- one of the people in the relationship is a protag, the other is the main antagonist. 

- theyre both technically agender due to nonhumaness but they both present as men enough that that would be the assumption to the type of reader im worrying about so it doesnt matter. 

*(they're demons, note that i plan to explicitly make clear that demons aren't inherently evil in this universe thats easy thats just how worldbuilding works. sometimes you gotta get expositiony to get worldbuilding across if you're using existing myth)

Hello!

I need your help.

I created this guy a while back and categorized him as hermaphroditic.

Let me explain:

I call it that because it has male and female reproductive organs and because it is an anthro.I had done some research and I heard about the term "intersexual" but I confess not to know much about it and I had just seen a site that uses hermaphrodite for animals and intersexual for humans.

And as my anthros are creatures living on their own planet . I tend to say hermaphrodite more.

Is it something good or not?

Moreover, in my eyes I define him as He/him. but since it also has a female reproductive system, should I NECESSARILY add the pronoun elle?

(In my universe Josiah this defined as a male although he sometimes says that he is neither in reality.)

(I have another character who is hermaphrodite too and in pronunciation, I use, She/ her because she sees herself mainly as a female and her physique leans more there)