Hello all.
Recently, on another site where I published my novel, a person appeared to be a member of an association LGBTIQARPGNTR+% √3 HILUX apache V8 hybrid and knuckles. He said that although it was an attempt on my part, my novel clearly lacked more diversity in its characters and representation and that he wanted me to collaborate with him to make sure I could fix this problem beforehand. I imagine that the user is from California and is going to use the Activision Blizzard Diversity Algorithm.
I obviously told him very respectfully no way in hell and get the fuck out. Most likely he wanted to steal the story.
First of all, my story is mainly written under The rule of cool. I write what I want to write, period. Half of the characters are members of the protagonist's harem, and they are types of fantasy characters that I like. There's a mermaid simply because I like how Monster Mosume's mermaid looks.
Now, I find it curious that even so he (yes, I'm going to call HE, because according to the laws of the internet, every woman is a man until proven otherwise) seemed to believe that the story was trying to be inclusive although never It was my intention.
So now I have a doubt, does my novel really look inclusive seen by normal people?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to change anything about my story.
What I want to know is what do you think, do you think my characters appear to be there only for representation or if they feel like characters relevant to the plot?
These are the ones that I think are more "diverse"
Cesar, the protagonist: he was a male soldier, things happen, and he ends up in the body of a fox girl, albino. He continues to define himself as a man. He is from Costa Rica, a country without an army, because that is relevant to the plot.
Tamamo-no-Mae: Japanese goddess of the moon, things happen and she marries the protagonist. Her main role is to support the protagonist and comfort him when he is afraid. She never met the protagonist before the transformation but she knows he is a man, the same protagonist told her when they met.
Lisa: A succubus demon, she's crazy (a yandere) but she recognized it herself and tries to control herself (she knows she won't win a fight against the MC even as a joke, so her preservation instinct is triggered and she accepts the other girls ). She would be wife number 2. She's blue, she has wings, she's a fucking demon, although she's normally a good person.
Momo: A rather shy angel due to her special body, she is made of glass. She doesn't like to leave the House for the same reason.
Kazumi and Charlotte: They are two dolls that work more like a single AI with two bodies. Cesar adopted them and they behave like his adopted daughters. It was that or they would make a nuclear attack against USA and Russia XD.
Xi'an: A professional assassin from China. Due to fate, she almost always ends up bumping into the protagonist. In theory she comes from a family of demon slayers but she hasn't gotten to that point yet.
Vilhelm: of Austrian origin, one of the antagonists of history. Not much more to say , just look at the picture
Anastasia Kuznetsova: Of Russian origin, fuck everyone, I wrote this character 5 years ago, I'm not going to change everything just because some bastards decided to invade a country. She was a central point of the story, many things happen because of her, but not because of her directly, she is dead before the story begins. She is the wife of one of the antagonists, but she is a good person and was friends with the protagonist.
There are many more but I think these are the most different among all. The story takes place mainly in Japan but other places in the world or fantasy are constantly visited.
Although they talk about some issues such as the protagonist's decision not to give much importance to his new gender, and what his family thinks about the situation. The fact MC decided to adopt two robots as his daughters along with three other women. I think if I put a lot of stuff like that in that maybe "some people" on Twitter think this story is for them when it really isn't.
Like I said before, I don't give a damn about inclusion, I just care about creating a good story. But even so, I would like to know what you think of the matter, does the story feel inclusive? Does any character seem to be there just to fill in a racial box?