Seraphim
Dreamer
How has race affected the relationship, whether platonic or romantic, between characters in stories you have read or in your own stories? How a character feels about another character is certainly a spectrum of possibilities that is affected by several factors, but how race, whether different in ethnic background or species, affected the characters.
For example, the relationship between Legolas and Gimli in LOTR started negatively because of their different races. Though their races were mostly civil politically, there was no shortness of foul word and leering between the elf and dwarf to start, and after forming the Fellowship of the Ring, the two characters still held each other in contempt. As time passed, the two developed a rivalry that start because of the necessity for one to prove that their race was better than the other, but eventually developed into a competition between friends, yet this relationship in of itself did not affect the overall relations between elves and dwarves directly, but certainly had an affect on the reader.
For example, the relationship between Legolas and Gimli in LOTR started negatively because of their different races. Though their races were mostly civil politically, there was no shortness of foul word and leering between the elf and dwarf to start, and after forming the Fellowship of the Ring, the two characters still held each other in contempt. As time passed, the two developed a rivalry that start because of the necessity for one to prove that their race was better than the other, but eventually developed into a competition between friends, yet this relationship in of itself did not affect the overall relations between elves and dwarves directly, but certainly had an affect on the reader.