[quote=@Host] Look, just think about my perspective in this. Instead of just saying "Okay, it was a male" you go out of your way to construct an elaborate loophole to a problem just because you didn't want to bend to the principle of it. Just saying she dated a guy makes this so much easier than opening up the species can of worms. [/quote] Yes but that fundamentally changes various characteristics of both of them. For example, Mio prides herself on keeping her ----- (let's say virginity) intact, which makes her view on romance make more sense. Otherwise her never refusing a date but never having sex wouldn't make any sense. Once a character is "born," it's not right to change them just to avoid someone disliking them. Imagine if that happened in real life. If suddenly one day you changed to have always been Buddhist. It's not fair to the character, to the character's world, to the writer, or to the reader. I came up with both characters simultaneously, so I can't just say "okay it was a male" and then have them show up later as a female. If any significant event in a person or character's past is changed, then the whole person or character changes. Again, that's not fair to them. The fact that I'm creating a bypass instead of just saying "fuck that" and making them the same sex of the same species or creating the other character as a male in the first place should show that it's something important to keep that I'm not doing just to piss you off or something. Homosexuals exist. The likelihood of there being ONE interacting with the characters so far is literally zero. Adding a second that doesn't even count at least [i]helps[/i] with realism, which in any other case dealing with biology you'd be pressing for just like I am now. Considering that everyone bar possibly Soul and Tox are pretty set against it, I was fully expecting her not to get any second relationship with a female, so the only thing that you even need to deal with is when she explains her past or they interact, and even during [i]that[/i] they're losing mental stability by being near each other. There is [i]no[/i] point of contention here other than your vacuum thoughts on it. Plus, the species thing is something that should probably be covered anyway, and would be interesting if that includes covering the religious factor.