forum Have you ever thought about your characters being gay, lesbian, bi, ect.?
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@Lord_Dunconius

this is old, am I late?-

but anyway! it's funny that the last comment mentions using them as a bit of a plot device.
I really want my bi boy to always platonically be with my lesbian girl, they're gonna be best friends you see.
and I want to try and trick everyone into thinking they're straight and that they like each other.
because I really just want to keep my readers as confused as possible, that's kind of an important part of the book, I want them to be as confused as my characters, and small things like that could help or distract them from seeing other things I'm using to confuse them. I have a few other not straight characters, and I'm trying to figure out how to write other relationships. ^^

I actually enjoy this kind of thing, because it's something a lot of LGBTQ+ people will experience. I actually fit this perfectly, and people always think we (my female friend and I) are either a couple or siblings.
And we DO mess around with people like this. As in, "Oh, yes, we are VERY much in love. Look at how lovey-dovey we are. We have lots of the heterosexual sex together. Mmm, yes, that." We have fun, she and I.
So this (what @Rain_Clouds wrote) can be good comedy if written well

@Joneathan

really the only characters who are straight are Benjamin, Stacy, and Raja. The closest ones to being straight are Theodore and Ellan, who are bisexual. Stacy is trans ad Lune is an asexual lesbian. I don't know why their almost all on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum but oh well.

Mota Amira

I don't think about sexuality a lot so when I create my characters its just oh they would look good together and regardless of gender they get together or for the characters that I base off myself they have more than one lover but those lovers are only romantic cause I myself am asexual. Also the lovers tend to be of oppisite genders and personalities so….

@Starfast group

I used to just default to making all my characters straight. Mostly that's because I'm straight, but I also wasn't really sharing my characters with anyone so it didn't really matter to me whether or not other people related to them or not. Now that I'm sharing my characters more, I'm not really defaulting them as straight anymore. I just kind of play it by ear and see what suits the character or the story best.

My first LGBT character was Andor, who is bisexual. It's not really relevant to the story so far, but his story takes place in modern day Vancouver, and modern day Vancouver isn't just made up of straight people which was why I changed him from straight to bisexual. I have 3 more characters who are LGBT- Ara (who is aro/ace), Solque (who is gay), and Jaire (who is gay and nonbinary). I have a few more who probably could be on the spectrum yet, but I'm not really sure if I want to go there or not.

For the most part, it's been a conscious decision to make them that way. The only exception is Ara. Normally I can picture my characters in a relationship, regardless of whether is happens in their story but for Ara is was different. I couldn't even picture him being interested in someone. I ended up reading a bit on asexuality for other reasons and I kinda had this revelation where I was like, "oh wait, that's totally Ara." So I guess he was actually aro/ace all along.