[ SECRET POST #4738 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4738 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Re: Shiro, the creators said in an interview that if they'd been allowed to kill him off for real, they would have picked another main character to be LGBT.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean that kinda just makes it sound MORE like an afterthought...

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I'm not a fan of the the Voltron showrunners as actual writers, but it does show that they were determined to have some representation right from the start. If it wasn't going to be one character, they wanted it to be another. That's more than a lot of other producers do.

[(Anonymous)]

But to me, "representation from the start" and "well if not this character I guess we can make another the gay one" aren't the same thing at all. Like, did they plan to have a gay character or not? Did that go into that character's creation?

[(Anonymous)]

They said they wanted to make a character gay from the start.

[(Anonymous)]

As a fill-in-the-blank or a specific character? There's a difference.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not getting why it matters. The showrunners wanted diversity of race and sexuality on the show. Allura, Shiro, Lance and Hunk being not white wasn't a big deal because they lived in a post-racism society. It was meant to be the same for whichever character they picked to be gay, because Earth at that point in the show was past homophobic prejudices. Whoever the gay character was, their sexuality would inform their characters just as much as their race or their gender, which is, well, practically not at all. That an important character would be visibly gay was what the show was aiming for. (And almost didn't get, even with how hard they were fighting for it.)