Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-2.96.106.45-20131022215901/@comment-24219008-20140609220548

So, to the poster a few comments above this one (too lazy to tag it), I don't see anything "inappropriate" at all about same-sex relationships. There are actually a bunch of kids out there who have either two moms or two dads, and I believe it would be nice for them to feel like their family or their family's interests were represented just as much as as your "traditional" male-female pairings. There are plenty of teens struggling with their sexualities who I'm sure would love to see some representation for themselves, since there's literally NO homosexual/bisexual/transexual representation in any American cartoon that is currently on the air.... And if you think Monty wouldn't dare introduce a homosexual/bisexual character, same-sex couple, or even hint at one of the main characters possibly having romantic feelings toward someone of the same sex, then you don't know Rooster Teeth all too well.... Based on their podcasts and other productions, it seems as though the RT staff is very accepting of all types of relationships and situations, and it wouldn't strike me at all as the least-bit strange should Monty ever decide to explore the sexuality of one or more of his characters in RWBY (I just really hope it'd be either Weiss or Ren, since those two kind of just make the most "sense" to me, especially given a lot of Weiss's remarks and actions in the past that lead me to believe she has almost zero interest in men in general).

But anyway, yeah, as I've said many times above, I don't really ship any of the characters with each other (except Pyrrha and Jaune, because duh, they're just way too obviously in love with each other), so when it comes to fan fictions, I tend to gravitate toward the general friendship and feel-good ones. I like to keep an open mind about which characters will end up with whom, so reading romantic fanfics kind of just causes me to get my hopes up for certain pairings that may never end up together. There are still some excellently-written ones out there, though, so kudos to all of you creative people out there!

Okay, random rant over :P