Feb 21, 2024
One of the strangest writing takes I’ve heard is that a character’s sexuality should parallel their morality somehow. I’ve most often seen this in the case of asexual original characters who are either portrayed as extremely innocent, pious, or even infantilized - in other words, they have “transcended” sexuality - or, on the opposing side, as morally bankrupt characters who are asexual because they can’t possibly feel lust toward anyone since they’re too evil.
A person’s sexuality has no bearing on their moral compass, and to write a character’s orientation to conform to some vision of good and evil is offensive at worse and unbelievable at best.
