Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28776596-20160630193035/@comment-28431481-20160813202137

VedranTheII wrote: Well…see...adding an LGBT in RWBY is…kind like eating really.

Imagine there's this person that has this preference of 3 dishes they cycle through at lunch every week. Despite having a reasonable amount of variety, eventually that person will feel the need to branch out to some other type of dish, like say Romanian, only they find out such a shop does not exist in their area and they are too lazy to seek out a recipe, so they feel this pang of disappointment when they go back to their usual dishes. And that’s how adding more Romanians in RWBY will enrich the experience.

However, what purpose does it serve? I think that's what Nikoki meant. Having an LGBT character just so members or fans of that demographic can point and say "look we're included!" I think would be insulting. If the point of having an LGBT character is for said person to be an LGBT character, it just feels hamhanded, forced and completely out of place.