Reasoning: "From the showrunnersâ own admission: âAs a lot of you already guessed, we were asked to give each of our girl âan official boyfriend.â Iris has Nathaniel from the start, Auriana was written to have many & none at the same time, but nothing was written for Talia in the serieâs bible. And so, Kyle was created... but now it feels that we rushed it. We werenât ready to give Talia a boyfriend, and we made a lot of early mistakes. :) No shame to admit it though, as long as we learn from it. Kyle was thought to be a nice and patient boy, able to âmeltâ Taliaâs sense of duty and help her relax and enjoy life too. It was âTaliaâs issueâ in this episode, and Iris was supposed to help her solve it. It could have been good this way, but truth is : Talia didnât need Kyle for that, and it made this relationship kind of artificial and forced. The twinsâs evil plot was kinda confusing, I admit it too. Now, I think a better way to finish this episode would have been to have Talia realizing that focusing only on the mission all the time wasnât healthy for her, politely telling Kyle âthanks, youâre cute, but letâs just be friends... at least for nowâ, and telling Iris & Auriana âthanks girls, youâre the best, and youâre right : I should relax more, but right now I donât need or want a boy for that. Letâs play music instead !â or something like that. https://www.tumblr.com/teamlolirock/158961249748/s01e08-talia-and-kyle-sitting-in-a-tree?source=share It is clear that the writers struggled to write a convincing narrative for Talia having a boyfriend, but were constrained into song so because of the execsâ heteronormativity. So because of that I just thought that it would be cool if Talia had had a girlfriend instead! I mean, it makes so much sense! We donât see her fawning over any boys besides Kyle(which the writers themselves even admit was shallow and forced and that Kyle was an unnecessary character who didnât need to exist), and she doesnât really have any romantic chemistry with any male characters like Iris or Auriana do. In fact, she even says herself that she doesnât have time for boys. She just doesnât really seem to give a shit about boys at all. And even Mephisto gets to have some romantic chemistry/ship tease moments with Iris and Auriana(he falls in love with Iris due to being under a love spell and acts super cheesy and romantic, and also later says that he would serve Iris as Queen if he werenât working for Gramorr, and he also shows multiple times that he had a crush on Auriana), but none with Talia. In contrast, she has a lot of close and affectionate moments with female characters such as Iris and Auriana, and is shown warming up to them over time. It is easy to see how one could ship her with the two, especially Auriana because of the opposites attract trope. Because of this, I think that Talia being a lesbian could be a great course of action for her character to take, as it wouldnât detract from canon in any way(they could easily dismiss Kyle as computer, something that she thought she wanted, but didnât, and call it a day). And she could end up in a relationship with a princess such as Carissa or Lyna. While I donât think the writers intended to make her a lesbian and that they rather just didnât want her to have a boyfriend yet/be boy-crazy(similar to Clawdeen Wolf, another Black female character in a girly kidsâ cartoon who wasnât boy-crazy like her female friends which led to the fandom head smoking her as a lesbian and her creator wholeheartedly supporting it), I do think that her being one is the most natural direction of her character and would serve as a cool way to do away with the heteronormativity in the show. And also give Black girls like me some femme lesbian representation. It would certainly make me see myself in her more. And love her more. So there. đŠľ" ( @justanisabelakinnie )