Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140818053714/@comment-25857155-20151120054246

Ah, I see your direction there. Yes, that's an understandable reaction. I personally prefer to keep things fairly realistic, so it makes sense to have some ... I kind of hate to use the term "LGBT" now because of how much political connotation it has been attached to, but it makes sense to have at least a few LGBT+ characters of some note in a story.

That being said, I don't want the focus of the story to become "hey this guy's gay!" or anything like that, which I think is what Anon was getting at (though I could be wrong, and he's just an ass - hard to say ;P), as that would detract from the story. I tend to hope for the best in these cases. ^_^

Of course, in the case of stories revolving around a characters' coming-of-age and that kind of stuff where they realize "who they truly are", well, that's a different kind of story, and focusing on a main characters sexuality would be fine (as long as it is well-written). That's not RWBY, though. RWBY is about cool people killing cool monsters with cool weapons and looking cool while fighting cool bad guys. =P