Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-4598697-20141120230042/@comment-4598697-20141121002646

My OC Tihun Habtamu, who is black, is praised for her beauty a lot according to her bio. (She's one of several of my OCs who is in an interracial relationship.)

I despise the "girly = weak" trope. Amandine L'Isle is girly - she's into fashion and her favorite color is pink, but she's outspoken and she likes having adventures. In fact, she's probably the dominant one in her relationship with her boyfriend.

One cliche I note is that the few times you see a son of a female character, he's almost always a Rebel (as if it's a bad thing for a boy to want to take after his mom instead of his dad). Meanwhile you see many daughters of male characters portrayed as Royals. Orhan Sessiz, Leandre Diaphane, Anatoly Tsarevich, and Cezar Porcel are all happy to inherit the roles of female characters.

(This thread can also be used to show how our characters break out of these cliches.)