#also they've not really done any romances since Amnesty? not counting Liveshows

[ethersierra]

I like the ambiguity tbh, like in steeplechase and ethersea we don't have Canon Queer TM characters but we also don't have any Straight characters, like there are no Romance tm plots happening. The way Justin has talked about romance for his characters in the past really shows that he doesn't care to make something Official, he lays the groundwork and lets us figure it out. And that's why amber and Kodira are so real to me, because it's an unspoken thing - like the characters themselves don't talk about it cause they just wouldn't so for us as the audience to know something they wouldn't reveal (amber is very secretive with her personal shit) to other characters makes a lot of sense to me. It feels kind of like classic queer stories, where it's never specifically stated that they're in love or whatever but instead told through the story- especially since those tend to be more complicated stories, and in a world like ethersea, that makes an incredible amount of sense to me. And same with Devo, he wouldn't reveal that information himself and I think the subtext allows us to fit that idea in really well. While it would be so cool if these things were Canon™ I don't think they need to be confirmed by the creators to have merit. same thing with the Steeplechase PCs and autism/queerness. They don't have to say it cause we can arrive at those conclusions ourselves and derive our own connections. like I remember in grad, griffin had known Fitz was ace but he didn't outright state it in the setup or anything until a question was asked in a ttazz and that confirmation was so exciting to me, and helped me to read his interactions with rainier better- but in ethersea I think they build those interactions in a more specific way to make those connections clear. Or maybe me and everyone else who listened to it is just having amber and Kodira brainrot. But I know there's something there

A plea for more queer TAZ characters

Since it's pride month i've decide to post my plea for more queer TAZ characters. I think about this around once every week, and i'm pretty sure my friends are tired of me talking about this so I will talk about it on here instead. I always loved the queer characters in TAZ (Lup is an icon) but there seems to be a reasonable decline in queer PCs and NPCs lately. Of course Balance had a ton, so did Amnesty, i'm not aware of any queer PCs or NPCs in Graduation aside from Fiztroy, and Ethersea is a bit up in the air. In my opinion there was definitely some best friends-to-lovers energy coming from Amber and Okasana/Koderia but nothing was said by the Justin or Griffin so it's probably my ships getting in the way of things. I know a lot of people headcannoned Devo as trans in Ethersea which is definitely a possibility but there was still no conformation of this. I think a lot of The Adventure Zone's fanbase would appreciate some more queer characters. As a queer person myself I always enjoyed the representation in The Adventure Zone and hope that Steeplechase has some canon queer characters not just head canons.