Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-10860529-20141107042854/@comment-4598697-20141107232148

I tried to avoid stereotypes as much as I can with Jonas Rätsel and Valdemar Kuffert. (Some troll complained about Jonas, but I wasn't daunted.) Valdemar doesn't even have a boyfriend as of this writing. With Valdemar and his roommate Ari Lutin (who is not gay), I played with the common stereotypes by making Valdemar the more plainly-dressed one and Ari the flamboyantly-dressed one.

It was hard for me to create a non-straight OC who was a Royal, so I had to choose a story without romance to do a story for. Also, at first I was hesitant to make Jane Jinjur a lesbian since Jinjur is a female soldier. But if anything, Jane isn't too interested in weapons and instead focuses on dairy farming.

One headcanon that bothers me with fandoms in general is that the pretty male characters are always shoved into yaoi relationships (the tough-looking guys get it too, but it's usally the pretty boys who are turned into sobbing ukes). In the Pokemon fandom, Morty, one of my favorite characters, has been a victim of this due to having long blond hair and lots of purple in his outfit. I've probably found more yaoi fics with him than het fics. There's plenty of gay men who aren't delicate-looking in the slightest.