Forbidden fruit is always the most delicious, no? 
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Well had she had a Princess to chose from then perhaps all would be well 
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She had a Princess. 
The Princess wanted to be a Sorceress though. She was one of the main characters in the āwant to be a magic userā path. I really liked two bookish nerdy girls learning magic together.
I have the story! Itās just not interactive, you know? I tried, but it isnāt. I tried so hard! They would not cooperate. I tried to write the Adventurer as a protagonist for a game, but again he wouldnāt cooperate. And he just refused to talk about some of the deeply personal, traumatic stuff that happens to him. And really you canāt have a protagonist going āI donāt want to talk about it.ā
And he also refused to believe the Prince was responsible for any of it, even when told otherwise. There was meant to be a huge misunderstanding, but he said nope, the Prince wouldnāt do that!
The closest theyāve really come to a disagreement, is when the Adventurer was all, ālook the order of awesome virgin unicorn riders, pure of heart and body, who fight evil and injustice wherever they go! We should totally join them, even though theyāre all women, and they donāt usually let men join,ā and the Prince was all ānope, letās not.ā In the Adventurerās defence, the Order of the Unicorn is awesome, the unicorns are fierce, intelligent kick-ass battle-beasts and their riders are some of the best warriors in the land. They are not all delicate pretty flowery rainbow ponies. (Not that thereās anything wrong with that.)
I do really like their story. If I do write it down properly, (instead of in rough summary form) itās going to have to be linear fiction. I might. I really like them as characters, and the whole story. Even if some aspects are painful to write.
The Adventurer desperately dreams of being a Knight, all his life itās all heās ever wanted, itās all heās aimed for. But because of his friendship with the Prince, and it is just friendship at that point. He ends up getting dragged into politics, accused of treason, disowned by his family, and forced to leave the city under a shadow of scandal, with his dreams of knighthood completely shattered. All while being told itās the Prince thatās laid the accusations on him. (He completely refuses to believe that though.) And he has to try and make his own way.
The Prince is going through some awful stuff too. Ill as a child, the person who healed him, dies, his father dies, his favourite sister vanishes without a trace, he has few friends because everyone sees him as distant and aloof, and those who try and befriend him usually want something from him. And his one friend gets exiled and itās all his fault.
But they get a happy ending.
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If Iām correct,Unnatural did that pretty well in respects to a character of the same sex hitting on a straight MC. I had a straight character so I shot them down. That seems fine to me, if I were interested in his character I couldāve followed up on that. Since I play straight MCs though, I didnāt. As long as theyāre not getting weird after the first refusal thatās fine, you do you.
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That sounds like a nice story but I have to love how you summarized it, like it was a rushed happy ending:
HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELL, HELLā¦
But at the end all went good.
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Isnāt that how a story is supposed to go? 
No! You should know better. Often they end badly. I hate that. I hate when Iām reading a story and itās HELL HELL HELL AND THEY ALL DIE!!! Itās so frequent with stories that have gay characters. Thereās rape, thereās tragedy, and then thereās death at the end. Or for some inexplicable reason if there is a happy ending for the characters, you donāt get to see it, or itās glossed over.
I hate that sort of stories. I hate tragedies. I hate that most of the gay movies we have end in death.
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Iām not a fan of Bury Your Gays neither, however I understand why itās used as a trope: it usually portrays gay people sympathetically and addresses an issue many gay people in real life go through. I personally love tragic endings, I donāt think we should get rid of them as long as thereās some variety.
But donāt get my HELL HELL HELL comment too seriously, I just found funny how you mentioned the happy ending.
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Bury your Gays stories are written to make straight people feel pity for us (or to warn people away from our ādangerous lifestyleā). Myself, Iād far rather read a story where the (gay) protagonist not only survives, but gets the boy, too. 
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Canāt emphasise with a gay if he dead.
Canāt give screentime to a gay if he dead.
Canāt flesh out my gayās life to anything other than gay and dead if he dead.
Gay + Dead = changes no oneās views. Sadwank for the straights, then they move on with their lives, like when you read about car crash or mugging. Cool, sad, get high off bad news because Death Drive, then they move on.
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@FairyGodfeather You and I like opposite things lol. 
But we still being friends. Also guys girls non binary. Is it not a little weird that a hetero girl post so much in a gay representation thing? Maybe I should stop.
However, for me itās a important thing because many of my characters are gay bi or pansexuals. So for me is important in a weird way. In many games even rpgs You canāt . Like the witcher the character is so awfully anti homosexuality and anti woman that I canāt play that game i couldnāt ended any of them . For me is very important because if you are anti gay or lesbians are being anti people and all people is same.Have same value .
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Correct me if Iām wrong, but Mara, youād possibly date a non-binary person if they ātook your fancyā, wouldnāt you? As a girl, that would make you not heterosexual.
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Well I suppose but I never meet a non binary who donāt consider themselves or from a gender or from other. So for me it is for now rhetorical. I found them sexualy pleasant and like I have not problem with labelling or that If happens happens. For now all my experiences has being heterosexual. So iam half hetero half i donāt care about labels
It seems like you, my friend, are gay. 
Or, well, at least not straight.
In particular, you seem to be polysexual or pansexual with a preference for men? Maybe bi, if you do not like women? Because nbs are a wide range of genders, and you seem fine with that concept.
Itās only! From my point of view, at least. Labels are entirely up for people to claim only if they want to.
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Is there even a specific term for that? Iāve been wondering about that ever since playing versus.
(Because I got incredibly pissed off at the narrator for treating my MC like some kind of mythical animal for wanting to date Breeze, with him, (in my playthrough only referred to using he/him/his pronouns) because I had indicated that my female MC was hetero at the beginning at the game. There was simply no option that indicated that the MC felt attracted to people of the opposite sex (because apparently the preference choices assume youāre choosing a preferred sex rather than a preferred gender) including those in a bit more complicated situation, alright? Breeze might not strictly count as non-binary, but close enough.)
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Iām tired of it. Itās the only sort of story we get usually. The only good gay is a dead gay. Stories with dead gays are great for Oscars. (Ditto for stories with cis people playing tragic trans characters, thatās also Oscar bait. UGH.)
Itās as if it makes it more palatable when they die
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A specific term for what?[quote=āFairyGodfeather, post:136, topic:20429ā]
Ditto for stories with cis people playing tragic trans characters, thatās also Oscar bait
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Itās what the cises want to see. They want to see a man who played a woman come up on stage and accept his award. Because theyāre a man. Acting. Theyāre no woman. It reinforces this shit trope that trans people are actors and liars, that a trans woman is just a man in a dress acting or pretending or delusional.
Let me just eat all cis directors in Hollywood who allow this. And all the cises who stay silent about it! Let me just devour them.
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For people who feel attracted to people of the opposite gender and specific people of a non-binary gender, but not to people of their own gender.
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Well I donāt like women. I have that covered. I never found any attractive and that time that a drunken lesbian kissed me in a party I donāt felt anything except why in hell I let Diego carry me to a only gays party! So pan whatever I think i am not . All except women. I am not poli because If someone try to touch my man would end in infirmary. And loyalty is important for me. So dunno Maybe a practical hetero with door open to not binary 
all that labels are funny for me. I just me .
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Bi. Bi means two. Bisexual.
Technically we have polysexual, which is many genders but not all.