Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-3991308-20150609072755/@comment-3991308-20150611011519

NibiruMul wrote: DatAsymptote wrote:

I bet that either Avian Juniper or Hyacinth Flowers would be immediately classified as the "cinnamon bun, too pure, too good for this world" who could "do no wrong" and are "precious children". Fandom's obsession for these kinds of male characters smh. I actually feel like fans tend to be more obsessed with male characters who are bad boys and tend to find the "nice guys" kinda boring.

One thing I would definitely be concerned about would be how fans might interpret some of the very close friendships between my male OCs, such as the one between Orhan and Desi and the one between Florin and Emil. There's a lot of yaoi fangirls and a lot of times they interpret two guys being friends (or rivals or even enemies) as being in love with each other. A lot of fandoms have this problem. Orhan, Desi, Florin, and Emil all have girlfriends. Uhhhh I'm going to have to argue that. The idea that girls prefer bad boys is generally a male perception by "nice guys" in order to "reason" why they don't get girls. Most fandoms I know put sweet male characters on a pedestral, like Wirt in OTGW, Dipper in Gravity Falls, Steven in SU. Heck, look at the Marvel fandom. They obsess over Steve Rogers.

As for the second point, that really irritates me. Straight girls with their oversexualised gay pairings are just ugh. It leads to sexualisation of the queer community and that's not good. I understand if actual LGBTA+ people obsess over same-sex couples because representation of them are incredibly rare, and good representation even more so. I'm all for people finding parts of themselves in characters, but I'll never be down for straight girls sexualising gay couples.

Slightly relevant: fandom's tendency to see female/male friendships as romantic, and seeing female/female romance as platonic. How many people would interpret Klara/Massak as platonic? Probably too many. :(

Similar thing applies to non-gay or non-straight characters. That means like bi or pan or ace or whatever other sexualities are being named right now. It's so common for people to be like "he's dating a guy, he's gay" when the male character dated girls before and identifies as bisexual. And stuff like hating girl characters for "getting in the way" of their gay ship (how misogynist can people get??)

But yeah, I'm just rambling. Character sexualities is rarely handled well in fandoms.