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(For reference, I am queer.) In my post-apocalyptic novel and in the short story from the novel's antagonist's perspective, my MC, Eris' love interest, Caspian, has/had two mothers, Saskia and Ezr...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T12:26:09Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/46576 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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weakdna says reinstate monica
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2019-12-08T12:26:09Z (over 4 years ago)
(For reference, I am queer.) In my post-apocalyptic novel and in the short story from the novel's antagonist's perspective, my MC, Eris' love interest, Caspian, has/had two mothers, Saskia and Ezrith (Ezrith is the antagonist). Saskia was his biological mom, and Ezrith is his adoptive mom. Saskia was accidentally killed by Eris when Eris was a child, and neither Caspian nor Ezrith know about it. I know the "lesbian/gay character dies" trope is extremely popular in the media, especially with shows/books/movies that want to avoid having LGBT representation, so they kill off the only queer character. The "lesbian/gay character has a dead lover" trope is also used a lot, and is pretty tired. But I'm not using Saskia's death as a way to avoid LGBT representation--five out of six of the living named characters that I've written are queer. With this context in mind, is it still bad that I have a female character who was in love with a woman die? And if so, how can I change my story or development to avoid any underlying homophobic tones?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-07-12T17:37:20Z (almost 5 years ago)
Original score: 8