Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28776596-20161010231008/@comment-24219008-20161023230011

You know, as a queer transman myself, I'd rather the writers take their time with the LGBT+ characters if it means really writing them to the best of their abilities and making sure that everything about them is as strong as possibly could be, and doesn't make the rest of the LGBT+ community look bad.

I know some people are complaining that, "M&K write romance for the straight characters all the time!" but let's be honest, how much of those romantic subplots have actually been good? None of them. All of the romantic subplots in this series thus far have been cliche, obnoxious, unnecessary, and a lot of the times, outright offensive. And the only Arkos we actually got was Pyrrha kissing Jaune before she basically ran to her death.

M&K clearly have romantic subplots in mind for these eventual LGBT+ characters, and they want to do them justice, so I'm totally fine with waiting if it means they will be written well.

In the meantime, though, it really would be nice if they could just confirm the existence of those characters in canon in a non-romantic way so the LGBT+ fans don't have to constantly rack their heads trying to figure it out or getting into ridiculous ship wars because "so-and-so is this sexuality and you can't tell me otherwise because my headcanon is right and yours is wrong!". We need more than just, "Yeah, they exist," we need "here is an actual LGBT+ character who will get a good storyline somewhere down the line", because currently, they're just riling up the fandom even more trying to keep everything under wraps. It's not that difficult making someone's identity canon without making a big deal out of it.