I know this is weird but what are your thoughts on LGBTQ+ characters and do you have any? I know this is like really specific but I just really wanted to make this.
I dice-roll for my character's sexuality and romantic orientation, to implement a degree of 'random' rather than either going for what I play most often or what is close to me IRL. I have two LGBTQIA+ characters. For me however, their orientation supplements the RP rather than being the core focus of it.
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I dice-roll for my character's sexuality and romantic orientation, to implement a degree of 'random' rather than either going for what I play most often or what is close to me IRL. I have two LGBTQIA+ characters. For me however, their orientation supplements the RP rather than being the core focus of it.
Yeah I only have two characters but I don't roll for their sexuality they just have a set sexuality. I always try to make it so that them being gay isn't one of their main traits.
Being bisexual myself, a lot of my characters are on the lgbt spectrum. Whenever I was first making my own characters I identified as aro-ace and I had a few characters then that were also on that spectrum, so I think I can say that I tended to self project on my characters and they were also sort of a coping outlet as I learned to accept myself for who I was.
I think it's perfectly okay to have gay, bisexual, trans, ace, any kind of lgbt characters because I know there are other people who are/were like me and used their characters for self acceptance or discovery, and that one doesn't have to be lgbt to have or make lgbt characters. I have plenty of them as well as straight characters.
I think it's perfectly okay to have gay, bisexual, trans, ace, any kind of lgbt characters because I know there are other people who are/were like me and used their characters for self acceptance or discovery, and that one doesn't have to be lgbt to have or make lgbt characters. I have plenty of them as well as straight characters.
Adding to note that I am LGBTQIA+; ace, non-binary, panromantic. But my character's orientation has always been to fit them, and as never been related to or similar to my own orientation deliberately that I can ever remember.
Yep, in fact, most of mine are.
Well I just came out and I feel alot more comfortable with having LGBTQ+ characters
For "standard" LGBTQ+, my guy Julian is gay (and very much in denial about it). I also have some annons who are pansexual, and a lot of my characters have shades of asexuality, some because they aren't creatures that need any drive to reproduce, and some because... that's just what they are. For example, Alchemy is a construct that doesn't even have any sex/gender. On the other hand, Shanique just... never seemed like she had any draw to people other than as friends, so she is asexual and aromantic.
I also have Nashyll, who is questioning, and Alabastra, who my brain has told me is repressed (though she doesn't enforce that on others), heterosexual, and in a weird twist, seems to be homoromantic by circumstance. (I want to say that I don't believe in orientation conversion, but I do believe that orientation can, for some, be something that changes over time and can, sometimes, react to circumstances.)
I don't count any of my non-binary characters since, well... they don't count as any form of trans (specifically my characters, I mean). They are just inherently non-binary, nothing to assign them anything by.
I probably have a lot of a-spec characters because I'm ace myself.
I also have Nashyll, who is questioning, and Alabastra, who my brain has told me is repressed (though she doesn't enforce that on others), heterosexual, and in a weird twist, seems to be homoromantic by circumstance. (I want to say that I don't believe in orientation conversion, but I do believe that orientation can, for some, be something that changes over time and can, sometimes, react to circumstances.)
I don't count any of my non-binary characters since, well... they don't count as any form of trans (specifically my characters, I mean). They are just inherently non-binary, nothing to assign them anything by.
I probably have a lot of a-spec characters because I'm ace myself.
I feel great having LGBTQ+ characters because I'm a lesbian myself and it makes it easy to portray my thoughts with other rpers and my most lesbian character is my mute shadow morpher I had not have a true rp with her yet but it makes me feel I fit!
Litterally every character i have is either lesbian or Bisexual, no exceptions