forum What gender are most of your characters?

Started April 23, 2019 by @WaffleWizard

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I have mostly male characters I think. But I still have a fair amount of female characters. That's mostly cause I base a character of the first mental image I have of them.

More males than females.

Though in my most recent project the cast is mostly girls.

I have equal women and men (though my girls are more detailed) and a non-binary person so yee

I do almost exclusively women. The only main character men are there for love interests and…wait, yeah, just love interests.

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Almost all of my main characters are female, and I probably have more female characters in general.

I'm a girl but I usually have mostly male characters. I love writing about girls but using guys is more fun since I can really mess with them. I don't like most love plots so stories where every male has a perfect female counterpart don't really work for me.

I usually like writing male characters but im trying to balance the situation by adding some females (despite being female myself, i kinda suck at writing girls). Even though i have many male characters
they are usually outside the general male cliche.
Besides these, i have a specie of "technically non binary" creatures im still experimenting with

It's kinda 50/50 with me, I have 28 girls and 30 guys (I guess 29 guys since some of them are dead) (I may have problems with writing dudes)
I have at least 14 male villains and 9 female villains (most of them are anti villains)
All my 4 love interest are dudes
My MC is a girl (I don't know whether heteronormatic to have a main het couple)
I have two couples(MC-chan hasn't a picked a love interest) both are same sex (I was going to make another couple, maybe)
I have one trans character (I'm kind of experimenting with her)
So I guess I'm doing okay

Heteronormativity makes sense as most people are straight so don't worry too much about it.

I have a pretty equal amount of boys and girls and a few NBs

I haven't counted all of them, but I have.. let's see.. 4 male characters. That's a lot less than I thought oops-
I also have 2 enbies and the rest are girls

Heteronormativity makes sense as most people are straight so don't worry too much about it.

Thanks =)

Out of nine characters only a third are girls, and the rest boys. :')

I honestly love doing male characters - females, not so much. I can succesfully write a feminine boy but not a girl
Is it that bad if my male to female ratio is unbalanced?

Not too bad. People will always find a way to be annoyed. Do what you like.

All of my guys are really soft gay beans
And all of my gals are kick-ass femme queens
But for some reason, whenever I give any of them powers, it always ends up being about the mind. Luke can sense emotions and read some thoughts, Bridge can turn emotions into a physical force, Maysa creates illusions, Sita heals people by way of belief, and P.J is a master of emotional yin/yang.

I have like 7ish characters so far, not including Nightmare (my antagonist) because Nightmare isn’t human/a person. (It’s more like a shadow, that can take the form of a human or be just pure darkness)
3 female - Emma, Kam, Lia
2 main male - Liam, Caleb (+1 more minor character - King Moonsong, Kam’s dad)
And 1 non-binary - Ash
Well I guess you can add one more male and one more female for Emma’s parents, but they’re barely in it and not even named

All of my guys are really soft gay beans
And all of my gals are kick-*** femme queens
But for some reason, whenever I give any of them powers, it always ends up being about the mind. Luke can sense emotions and read some thoughts, Bridge can turn emotions into a physical force, Maysa creates illusions, Sita heals people by way of belief, and P.J is a master of emotional yin/yang.

With the first part, pretty much same! Except only one of my guys is gay (Liam but shh he doesn’t know it yet), but they’re both cinnamon rolls. Kam is a QUEEN. (She made a whole pack of Nightmare wolves run away because they were scared of her.) Emma is more introverted and likes reading and writing, and I’m not that far in the story but Emma will have a chance to be a queen too. And Lia is a cute little cinnamon roll who loves hugs and sees everyone as a potential new friend, and also loves painting

I'm a girl, and I always have female protagonists because they're who I relate to most, but then again, I should probably go outside of my comfort zone once…

Slightly more females than males. I don't run into the trouble of making convincing female characters because A) their gender typically doesn't matter in terms of their character arcs or B) their gender plays an interesting role in how characters view them/by what challenges they face, thus making their chatacter arc more complex. Idk why, but my female characters are more often in positions of power than my male characters. My smartest chatacter is a top scientist, my strongest character is a general, and most diplomatic character is a leader. I find it easier to write female characters because most main characters in popular fiction and movies are male. I just feel like it's been done before. For example, a chatacter of mine is going to have a roughly similar arc to Logan in Logan, Frank Castle in the Punisher and Tony Stark in Endgame. I haven't seen a woman with that arc yet, but I've seen lots of dudes with it. It just makes it easier to add new elements… since women are largely ignored in fiction, or given "empowering" arcs (which i enjoy but cmon).

I write mostly boys they are easier then girls

I write mostly boys they are easier than girls

That's really interesting. See, you said you were a girl, right? I feel like it's easier to write about characters that are my gender. (I'm a girl too) So, why do you see boys as easier to write about?

I totally agree with that though. I’ve always struggled to write girls, even though I am one.

I feel really easy writing girls. But I’m having second thoughts as I saw a female author portray a male incorrectly because of something that isn’t common knowledge I guess.

Cuse adults have emotions and I don't