Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-10860529-20141107042854/@comment-26267177-20141110134012

Oh, boy. To be honest, I have a good number of OCs that don't fit the rigidly straight-cis end of the spectrum. I'll try to keep this concise.

Of my OCs, I have one aromantic asexual character, Myrtellie Sprigs. However, I made it so that she's not entirely aware of this trait- she's been raised on the ideal of True Love, and so the idea that she isn't driven to produce feelings of romantic love just doesn't entirely make sense to her, but neither does the feeling of love itself. Like our theoretical aro!Apple, the concept of falling in love is very important to her. She often tricks herself into thinking she's fallen in love because she's not certain as to what romantic love actually feels like and settles for the closest alternative.

I've also been playing with the idea of homosexual Royals- namely, my couple Leona Beast and Jolene Beauty. They're not Royal one-hundred percent, though they still met their match in their destined love. They were made to properly counter not only each other, but also their successors in a way that still made a relationship possible.

Additionally, I've been playing with the concept of homosexual characters who have already signed the Storybook. For example- though nothing's set in stone- Ellie's mother may be a lesbian who has a thing for the Ice-Maiden, and her husband's rather understanding of this considering that their marriage was basically arranged- and also because he, too, has his own crushes and sometimes a consort outside of marriage.

Finally, I've been playing with the idea of trans characters. The most obvious example of this would be Dappatarius Oz and Bessavaria Oz, Ozma's kids, though I don't know to what extent they count as transsexual due to their physical sex technically matching up with their mental gender at this point- then again, they are literally transsexual when one takes their birth sexes into account. However, I've also got Feathers Duckling(whose page has yet to be created): biologically the eldest 'son' of the Duck Mother from The Ugly Duckling, who has always been taught to be the epitome of an romantically appealing and straight male. Because of her upbringing, she's still uncomfortably deep in the closet about her transgender identity.

Also, I have a question: in narration, what pronouns would you refer to a closeted transgender character by if you didn't want the audience to know their true mental gender? Would it still be disrespectful to refer to them by their appeared sex before the reveal?