Today is another BJD Rainbow Day! Hooray!
For my first of three celebratory posts, we have characters who bring my heart pure joy to write about: Felix (Doll Love Hugh) and Karen (Angel Fantasy Alice).
Felix is an avid comic book fan who, as a teen in the 1980s, catches himself wishing both Kurt Wagner and Jean Grey were real. Throughout his life, he has multiple relationships with men, early on trying to keep his attraction towards women secret due to the horrendous stigma bisexual men endure—not to mention the general mindset towards the entire gay community under the Reagan administration. His lifelong friends Karen (shown here) and Christian (who I’ll introduce during a future Rainbow Day) ultimately help him learn to love and accept himself for who he is: a guy with a big heart who happens to have a preference. Bisexuality takes on many forms, after all.
In modern day, Felix radiates nothing but pride and works to spread tolerance towards every member of the LGBTQA+ community. ♥
Karen, on the other hand, is panromantic. Given her story arc is set decades before my characters ever hear that term, it’s never used in narrative to describe her… but to anyone who reads my manuscripts, it’s pretty damn obvious her heart has the capacity to fall in love with anyone.
I hope to go into further detail about Karen on Asexual Day; she is one of my favorite protagonists and her character is very dear to me. I would have waited to share her, but her romantic attraction is such an integral part of her that I know she would be upset if I didn’t celebrate her beautiful heart today alongside Felix’s.
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Please note the first picture is an alternate version of a photo I shared back when I first joined the Tumblr doll community. At that time, I was too shy to upload the snapshot with flags… now I feel nothing but pride for the image.
Sorta like Felix. ;)
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Credit for Karen’s panromantic flag here.
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