I'm not entirely sure if she is or not. Sometimes I think yes, sometimes I think no. More often than not I think yes. At this point in the series she's pretty young though so I'm not going to worry about it too much until I'm writing about her going through puberty :P I have a lot of the series plotted out but some details like that are eluding me until I get to certain points.
I'm not so sure that sexual orientation and non-traditional relationships are a barrier in mainstream fantasy at the moment. Though I think it depend on how it's done but I think publishers realize a significant number of their readers are actually open to homosexual themes in a variety of ways. ... So long as it doesn't take up the entire story. (Like the LBGQTA literature wouldn't fly because there's no het relationships or enough characters of the opposite gender and that makes them uncomfortable.) But in Robin Hobb's new series there's some gay men and my friend John's novels are about a newly-out lesbian. It's not where I'd like to see it and who knows if it will matter in five years (since the big publishers might just go away) but it does give me some hope.
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I'm not so sure that sexual orientation and non-traditional relationships are a barrier in mainstream fantasy at the moment. Though I think it depend on how it's done but I think publishers realize a significant number of their readers are actually open to homosexual themes in a variety of ways. ... So long as it doesn't take up the entire story. (Like the LBGQTA literature wouldn't fly because there's no het relationships or enough characters of the opposite gender and that makes them uncomfortable.) But in Robin Hobb's new series there's some gay men and my friend John's novels are about a newly-out lesbian. It's not where I'd like to see it and who knows if it will matter in five years (since the big publishers might just go away) but it does give me some hope.