Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140905003518/@comment-24219008-20140905040739

Flashfire212 wrote:

Oh yeah, writing is my release nowadays, although I hate myself for it. Is it really the only thing I have? Speaking of which, I REALLY need to keep updating my RWBY fanfic, it's been months since I posted anything...

I would laugh if they did make Scarlet, Sage, Sun and Neptune team LADS, with Michael, Ray, Kerry and Gavin as VAs, so we'll see. As for Scarlet being trans, that'd be amusing, but obvious at the same time. He's androgynous, so it's obvious if he turns out to be trans. This is why the speculation on Ren is interesting - I know that it was always a joke on shipping Jaune and Ren to give the Yaoi fangirls something until Sun appeared, but if Ren turns out to be the first LGBT character, or at least the first revealed one, then I'll be left riding the USS Sloth to the bottom of the ocean straight out of drydock. Everyone else can abandon ship, but I'll take the blow and stick on the sinking ship. Better that than admit being wrong, in this case. But, we can cross Blake, Sun, Neptune, Jaune and Pyrrha off the list of characters. Potentially Ruby as well, since she's got no real attraction to either gender... she seems to have more interest in weapons than anything else, and I'm pretty sure that's not a sexuality. Same! I haven't updated any of my fics since June, although I have been working on one, just trying to find the motivation to finish it!

I don't mean necessarily make Scarlet trans, but perhaps have him either a kind of flambouyant gay male character, or a butch lesbian (although if Scarlet really is/was a girl, the FTM transgender would probably be more believable than a butch lesbian....)

As far as Ren goes, I have a friend who would be really, really happy if Ren were gay.... I wonder, though, since Ren kind of acts more as a "background" character than the others on the A Team and B Team (Nora has more lines than him, for goodness' sake!), if the LGBT community would have a fit about not making one of the more "well-known" characters the tried and true "queer".... I'm going to literally be rolling on the floor, laughing if Ren turns out to be the biggest ladies' man Remnant has ever known once he breaks out of his shell a little more ;)