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Ireth
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If we can have gay cowboys, I think we should have gay vampires!
Just imagine the market you could corner if you publish a gay vampire novel.
BiteBack Mountain?
LOL, Phin.
If we can have gay cowboys, I think we should have gay vampires!
Just imagine the market you could corner if you publish a gay vampire novel.
BiteBack Mountain?
Apart from that, sexuality is very fluid. Straight guys can sleep with gay guys if the conditions are right, and there's a whole spectrum of other possibilities. Sexuality for humans is one thing, but it's very different for animals. It's possible that it's something completely different for vampires. I think Anne Rice explored that somewhat. I'd encourage you to brainstorm about how they might express themselves, when the bloodsuckers get hot-blooded.
If we can have gay cowboys, I think we should have gay vampires!
Just imagine the market you could corner if you publish a gay vampire novel.
BiteBack Mountain?
Also, I want to know, anihow - Why were priests dancing at night in the graveyards? Was that just the place to get done and boogie back then?
I've been thinking a lot about how I want to have this play out in the second draft: whether to go into more detail about the possibility of a sexual relationship between the two or to downplay it. The romantic side of their relationship is doomed to failure however I choose to portray it, as the two will ultimately decide that a adoptive father/son relationship is the way to go, but it could still be interesting to show one or both of them struggling with those feelings on top of everything else they have to go through.
The trouble I have in showing the relationship most lies with character A. Character B could easily be handwaved as a bisexual who hid his desire for men from his wife throughout their marriage (or even a gay who married a woman out of necessity), but character A comes across as rather asexual throughout the whole first draft, as well as the beginning of the second draft as it stands so far.
I love that you know them both well enough to not have any doubts about an attempted relationship. My gut says (and your mileage may vary, as my gut is not yours) that having more conflict is usually a good idea. I would be very interested to read their internal struggles even if I didn't already know how it would turn out, and knowing what you know about the characters, I think it will make for a more satisfying resolution if they reach that conclusion about their arrangement after some textual introspection, rather than leaving it open for readers to wonder. And this way, all the slashfic will be AUs!
I feel you on this. One of my protagonists is pansexual, but by the end of the novel he's in a relatively committed relationship with another man, so I'm trying to take every possible opportunity to ensure that no reader can come away from the book saying "Nah, that guy was gay." His perceived sexuality is fairly important to the story, and even more important to me.![]()
A's perceived asexuality (whether or not he really is ace--I'm very much in favor of more asexuality in literature too, by the by) and social outcast status seem to mesh well with what you said earlier about their discussion and final decision regarding their relationship. Based on what you said in your post, I would expect that A would be a bit surprised at first to find out that B is attracted to him, followed shortly by feeling honored to be the recipient of such love, but after careful consideration he would decide (jointly with B, obviously) that romance was not in the cards for them. Tell me if I'm way off base with any of that. It all seems to flow naturally together as far as I can see, and from what you've said I don't think what you'd established for A by that time would conflict with such an outcome.
Being asexual- in itself- can be a tense situation. Character A might have feelings of love that are conflicting with the fact that he feels no sexual desire. This can lead to a lot of internal conflict, confusion, questioning, frustration, and guilt.