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Since it's Pride Month, I decided to draw chibis of all my LBGT+ characters (at least the ones that I could remeber). I might have a couple more that never made their orientation explicit (I don't decide what my characters will be, they just are). They make up for about 5% of my OCs, which is a bit low (statistics around here say about 10%), but, as I said, lots of my characters never were in a romance plotline, so I have no idea how they behave sexually.

I'll try to give a bit of info, for reference, if someone got curious about any of them:

First row:

Alexander van Allen: Alex is an almost-500-years-old vampire. He is an absolute pacifist and a kind soul. He constantly forgets that sex even exist and is not at all aware of his wife's sex-appeal, but has been tooth-rottingly romantic towards Rosa for the last five centuries. They are the longest-lasting couple in their world.

Rosa van Allen: Rose is also an almost-500-years-old vampire. She's also a pacifist (but more hot-headed than Alex) and a passionate artist. She has intense sexual and romantic feelings towards Alex, but only him. Other people don't tempt her in the slightest. Their minds are absolutely in tune, granting them a level of telepathic intimacy that's bigger than their sexual intimacy ever could achieve.

Louis and Lucius van Allen: Those twins are Alex and Rose's first-borns. They are both mischevous and they both love a good adrenaline rush. They differ a lot in personality, though. Louis inherited his mother's passion for art, but he isn't an artist himself. He appreciates art and seeks to cultivate it, acting as an agent for artists he believes in (and also worked for years as a secret agent for his parents). Lucius has a rougher personality. He was a soldier for a while, working on his city's defenses. Then, he studied Medicine of all things and works providing aid in war zones. Louis was thought to be gay for most of his life, since he spent more than four hundred years only caring for men, but then he fell hard in love with a young woman. Lucius never cared about romance and never felt sexual attraction to anyone. He lives for his job and for the adrenaline rush.

Lívia/Livínio van Allen: Alex and Rose's fourth child, an anthropologist. Will attend to either 'he' or 'she' pronouns. Livia started her life as a girl, but was never specially feminine. Then, she decided to travel Brazil and study its many populations and assumed the identity of Livínio, because a woman travelling alone would attract too much attention. He noticed that the male identity suited him as well as his female identity, and decided to keep both.

Emílio van Allen: Alex and Rose's sixth, Emílio started his life as a psychiatrist and became a psychologist when this field started to get shaped. He was very interested in the 19th century 'ghost fad', and lauched a century-long personal research on the subject. He has little to no patience for romance and generally seems to be aromantic, but there is gossip everywhere about him having a bit of a crush on guys.

Derek van Allen: Alex and Rose's youngest. Derek is an emo boy who can be optimistic and happy, but will most likely the one bringing up the many ways something will only lead to misery and failure. Given that he is Strix's constant companion (the two of them having almost the same age), he will often be right, too. He has a dry, deadpan sense of humour that not everyone picks up at first.

Second row (if you want to know those guys better, here: strixvanallen.deviantart.com/g… ):

Bram: Bram and Bessie have a passionate relationship, but I know for a fact that, if he never met her, Bram would likely never have another partner. He just doesn't put sex high on his list of priorities and has never felt sexual attraction towards people he doesn't know well.

Bessie, Vlad and George: Vampires in B&V-verse (specially those born as vampires) all consider themselves to be bisexual by default, homo and heterosexuality being nothing more than preferences. Bessie, Vlad and George all happen to really be bisexual, experiencing attraction to people of both sexes. Vlad and George even date for a little while.

Quincy Harker and Henry Jekyll: Both of them are gay, but they sit on opposites of a spectrum. While Quincy can only be more open about his sexuality if he rides a rainbow unicorn everywhere, Henry is closeted and in denial, something that is believed to make his 'Hyde fits' even more frequent.

Laura and Carmilla Báthory: It's no secret that Bessie's moms are lesbians. While the characters are supposed to be the same girls from the books, B&V's Carmilla is a bit less harass-ey. All other women of the Báthory family are either bi or lesbians, too, I left those two to represent them.

Viktor Dracula: Vlad's father is gay, which is the main reason why Vlad was conceived in vitro. He sees himself as a bisexual who hates women (adding a nice layer of misoginy to this evil cake), but he is just gay. Different from Hollywood gay villains, he isn't effeminate. You only notice that he likes men when he makes his move on them. Together with Bessie's "aunt", Dollinger, Viktor must be my only LGBT+ villain.

Third row (the first three are from B&V-verse, like the ones in the Second Row):

Shirley and Shelley Holmes: The Holmes twins are extremely nerdy and focused on their passion for solving mysteries. Neither of them feels any kind of sexual attraction to other people. Shirley has a crush on Jim (Watson), making her at least heteroromantic, but her sister prefers computers and is more than happy with her lines of code.

Victoria Frankenstein: At first, I thought that Victoria was aromantic, too, because she loves robotics way more than she loves human interactions. However, I discovered the other day that she does have feelings for another girl (although not sexual feelings).

Gabriel: He is the founder of the Dimensional Police, and a being from another dimension that people call a 'seraph'. It took me a while to decide to include Gabriel here, because he isn't human and his species doesn't even have genders and he chose a male name and male pronouns when he arrived here to make his life easier. However, Gabriel never really made an effort to look or act as a man. He is androginous in all regards and only keeps the male pronouns because he lives in Brazil and Portuguese has no gender neutral pronouns. All in all, even his human identity is only nominally male, so I kept him in this list.

Victoria Harvey: In my mind, Victoria was born as a male. For a long time, I thought that she was just a gay boy, since she liked boys, nothing else, in part because she was never too shy about having feminine interests. One day, I was thinking about her universe, and how certain human advances would translate into a magical society. Then, I was suddenly certain that, if pre-transition Victoria ever heard about a new spell that could turn people into the other gender despite counterspells and even regenerative powers, she would rush to be a test subject. So, this is her official future, now. The spell will leave some faint magic traces of the original gender (which makes the subject 'not quite right' in the eyes of magical beings), but otherwise will work perfectly. I have no idea if her transition will happen "on camera" because I'm still figuring things out (maybe her parents will be suportive of her since she was a child, maybe it will happen later in her life, I don't know, but I do know that Victoria is scheduled to appear at some point in the Conservatory universe (since the Earth in this universe is the "other half" of Gemini-2).

Auguste Lavert: Auguste is a good friend of Alexander and Rose's. He was turned by accident when he was a teen (and kept looking like one until he discovered how to appear at least a little older) and went on to become an accomplished artist, a historian and a philosopher. For most of his almost three hundred years, Auguste was mostly indifferent to relationships (except for a few exceptional people of both sexes, but he never started something with them) and frankly repulsed to the concept of sex. He ends up falling in love with Cidinha in the 1980's, and they work like a charm because they are both sex-repulsed aces.

Harold King: An important European vampire leader, King had a big crush on Auguste back in the French Revolution times. He is a big hedonist and was almost offended by Auguste's asexuality, trying to make him "giving in to his desires" at any opportunity. He eventually gives up and leave his friend to his own "weird life", while chasing for other people. King is not particular on who he likes, getting attracted to pretty much anyone regardless of gender or orientation.

Fourth Row:

Cidinha das Mercês: A poor artist that earns free art classes with Auguste in a contest and they end up dating. She's emotional, a bit stubborn and very hard-working. At first, she was extrememly uncomfortable when alone with men, especially if she didn't knew them. The total lack of sexual attention from Auguste's part is what draws her to him at first. Then, it turns out that they have a lot in common and the rest comes naturally.

Monique Silva: A vampire hunter, from one of the last teams of hunters before the Dimensional Police absorbs or disband them in the 80's. She is an orphan, and was in an institution waiting for a foster home, when the hunters came and *ahem* recruited her and her friends. When they asked her name, she said "Monique" and has been protective enough of her identity since then that, if people ever suspected of her birth sex, they never asked.

Isidore Lupin: Vampire thief that launched a crusade against vampire hunting since the 30's or 40's. He's a free spirit that has trouble following rules. His sexuality was self-described as "anything that moves and, if I'm feeling experimental, quite a few that don't".

"Charlie": Vampire with an unknown past that goes by many aliases, and is one of the greatest mages alive. He's a loyal (if a but mischievous) friend and think honour is very important. He's a ladies' man, and has always been. The only guy to whom he felt attracted enough to fantasize about a relatioship was Auguste, and Auguste is androginous enough that he doesn't know for sure how bi he truly feels like being. (Don't look at me. I'm an author. I won't pressure my characters into saying that they are something they don't feel comfortable being.)

"Auguste does't count" is a meme in Belle Night, incidentally. Apparently, there are enough presumable hetero men and presumable lesbians that have been reported to have been attracted to him, and not another man ever that people of their LGBT+ community joke that it's not enough to classify someone as bisexual. It's mostly a joke, but many wonder if the attraction he causes is magical in nature, and if it changes anything.

Helena Lavert: Auguste's daughter. She is quiet and determined, with her seriousness often hiding how gentle her heart can be. Helena dreams to work with restoration, helping old vampires to keep their emotional treasures preserved and other nostalgic people happy. Currently, she is working as a detective in the Dimensional Police to help bring Verner Dejean to justice.

Fifth row:

Maria van Allen: The seventh child of the Van Allens, she is the inventor/entepreneur of the family. Maria loves machines and trinkets, and is the one behind a lot of the technology people have in Belle Night. She is the developer of the method they use to create the "Marial", a drink that substitutes blood in the vampires' diet. The method uses a bit of blood as a "primer", so it's not 100% blood free, but it raises a lot the viable vampire/human ratio of the city.

Antonieta van Allen: Also known as "Nieta", she is the fourth child of the Van Allens. She is a dedicated medical scientist who helped a lot the growth of Belle Night University and the city's hospitals. She is married to another medical scientist, and both of have a bunch of "adopted children" so to speak, because they often offer to turn people who are dying in hospitals and ask for it (none of those vampires are actually, legally, adopted by the couple, but Alex and Rose consider them grandkids all the same).

Description

Since it's Pride Month, I decided to draw chibis of all my LBGT+ characters (at least the ones that I could remeber). I might have a couple more that never made their orientation explicit (I don't decide what my characters will be, they just are). They make up for about 5% of my OCs, which is a bit low (statistics around here say about 10%), but, as I said, lots of my characters never were in a romance plotline, so I have no idea how they behave sexually.

I'll try to give a bit of info, for reference, if someone got curious about any of them:

First row:

Alexander van Allen: Alex is an almost-500-years-old vampire. He is an absolute pacifist and a kind soul. He constantly forgets that sex even exist and is not at all aware of his wife's sex-appeal, but has been tooth-rottingly romantic towards Rosa for the last five centuries. They are the longest-lasting couple in their world.

Rosa van Allen: Rose is also an almost-500-years-old vampire. She's also a pacifist (but more hot-headed than Alex) and a passionate artist. She has intense sexual and romantic feelings towards Alex, but only him. Other people don't tempt her in the slightest. Their minds are absolutely in tune, granting them a level of telepathic intimacy that's bigger than their sexual intimacy ever could achieve.

Louis and Lucius van Allen: Those twins are Alex and Rose's first-borns. They are both mischevous and they both love a good adrenaline rush. They differ a lot in personality, though. Louis inherited his mother's passion for art, but he isn't an artist himself. He appreciates art and seeks to cultivate it, acting as an agent for artists he believes in (and also worked for years as a secret agent for his parents). Lucius has a rougher personality. He was a soldier for a while, working on his city's defenses. Then, he studied Medicine of all things and works providing aid in war zones. Louis was thought to be gay for most of his life, since he spent more than four hundred years only caring for men, but then he fell hard in love with a young woman. Lucius never cared about romance and never felt sexual attraction to anyone. He lives for his job and for the adrenaline rush.

Lívia/Livínio van Allen: Alex and Rose's fourth child, an anthropologist. Will attend to either 'he' or 'she' pronouns. Livia started her life as a girl, but was never specially feminine. Then, she decided to travel Brazil and study its many populations and assumed the identity of Livínio, because a woman travelling alone would attract too much attention. He noticed that the male identity suited him as well as his female identity, and decided to keep both.

Emílio van Allen: Alex and Rose's sixth, Emílio started his life as a psychiatrist and became a psychologist when this field started to get shaped. He was very interested in the 19th century 'ghost fad', and lauched a century-long personal research on the subject. He has little to no patience for romance and generally seems to be aromantic, but there is gossip everywhere about him having a bit of a crush on guys.

Derek van Allen: Alex and Rose's youngest. Derek is an emo boy who can be optimistic and happy, but will most likely the one bringing up the many ways something will only lead to misery and failure. Given that he is Strix's constant companion (the two of them having almost the same age), he will often be right, too. He has a dry, deadpan sense of humour that not everyone picks up at first.

Second row (if you want to know those guys better, here: strixvanallen.deviantart.com/g… ):

Bram: Bram and Bessie have a passionate relationship, but I know for a fact that, if he never met her, Bram would likely never have another partner. He just doesn't put sex high on his list of priorities and has never felt sexual attraction towards people he doesn't know well.

Bessie, Vlad and George: Vampires in B&V-verse (specially those born as vampires) all consider themselves to be bisexual by default, homo and heterosexuality being nothing more than preferences. Bessie, Vlad and George all happen to really be bisexual, experiencing attraction to people of both sexes. Vlad and George even date for a little while.

Quincy Harker and Henry Jekyll: Both of them are gay, but they sit on opposites of a spectrum. While Quincy can only be more open about his sexuality if he rides a rainbow unicorn everywhere, Henry is closeted and in denial, something that is believed to make his 'Hyde fits' even more frequent.

Laura and Carmilla Báthory: It's no secret that Bessie's moms are lesbians. While the characters are supposed to be the same girls from the books, B&V's Carmilla is a bit less harass-ey. All other women of the Báthory family are either bi or lesbians, too, I left those two to represent them.

Viktor Dracula: Vlad's father is gay, which is the main reason why Vlad was conceived in vitro. He sees himself as a bisexual who hates women (adding a nice layer of misoginy to this evil cake), but he is just gay. Different from Hollywood gay villains, he isn't effeminate. You only notice that he likes men when he makes his move on them. Together with Bessie's "aunt", Dollinger, Viktor must be my only LGBT+ villain.

Third row (the first three are from B&V-verse, like the ones in the Second Row):

Shirley and Shelley Holmes: The Holmes twins are extremely nerdy and focused on their passion for solving mysteries. Neither of them feels any kind of sexual attraction to other people. Shirley has a crush on Jim (Watson), making her at least heteroromantic, but her sister prefers computers and is more than happy with her lines of code.

Victoria Frankenstein: At first, I thought that Victoria was aromantic, too, because she loves robotics way more than she loves human interactions. However, I discovered the other day that she does have feelings for another girl (although not sexual feelings).

Gabriel: He is the founder of the Dimensional Police, and a being from another dimension that people call a 'seraph'. It took me a while to decide to include Gabriel here, because he isn't human and his species doesn't even have genders and he chose a male name and male pronouns when he arrived here to make his life easier. However, Gabriel never really made an effort to look or act as a man. He is androginous in all regards and only keeps the male pronouns because he lives in Brazil and Portuguese has no gender neutral pronouns. All in all, even his human identity is only nominally male, so I kept him in this list.

Victoria Harvey: In my mind, Victoria was born as a male. For a long time, I thought that she was just a gay boy, since she liked boys, nothing else, in part because she was never too shy about having feminine interests. One day, I was thinking about her universe, and how certain human advances would translate into a magical society. Then, I was suddenly certain that, if pre-transition Victoria ever heard about a new spell that could turn people into the other gender despite counterspells and even regenerative powers, she would rush to be a test subject. So, this is her official future, now. The spell will leave some faint magic traces of the original gender (which makes the subject 'not quite right' in the eyes of magical beings), but otherwise will work perfectly. I have no idea if her transition will happen "on camera" because I'm still figuring things out (maybe her parents will be suportive of her since she was a child, maybe it will happen later in her life, I don't know, but I do know that Victoria is scheduled to appear at some point in the Conservatory universe (since the Earth in this universe is the "other half" of Gemini-2).

Auguste Lavert: Auguste is a good friend of Alexander and Rose's. He was turned by accident when he was a teen (and kept looking like one until he discovered how to appear at least a little older) and went on to become an accomplished artist, a historian and a philosopher. For most of his almost three hundred years, Auguste was mostly indifferent to relationships (except for a few exceptional people of both sexes, but he never started something with them) and frankly repulsed to the concept of sex. He ends up falling in love with Cidinha in the 1980's, and they work like a charm because they are both sex-repulsed aces.

Harold King: An important European vampire leader, King had a big crush on Auguste back in the French Revolution times. He is a big hedonist and was almost offended by Auguste's asexuality, trying to make him "giving in to his desires" at any opportunity. He eventually gives up and leave his friend to his own "weird life", while chasing for other people. King is not particular on who he likes, getting attracted to pretty much anyone regardless of gender or orientation.

Fourth Row:

Cidinha das Mercês: A poor artist that earns free art classes with Auguste in a contest and they end up dating. She's emotional, a bit stubborn and very hard-working. At first, she was extrememly uncomfortable when alone with men, especially if she didn't knew them. The total lack of sexual attention from Auguste's part is what draws her to him at first. Then, it turns out that they have a lot in common and the rest comes naturally.

Monique Silva: A vampire hunter, from one of the last teams of hunters before the Dimensional Police absorbs or disband them in the 80's. She is an orphan, and was in an institution waiting for a foster home, when the hunters came and *ahem* recruited her and her friends. When they asked her name, she said "Monique" and has been protective enough of her identity since then that, if people ever suspected of her birth sex, they never asked.

Isidore Lupin: Vampire thief that launched a crusade against vampire hunting since the 30's or 40's. He's a free spirit that has trouble following rules. His sexuality was self-described as "anything that moves and, if I'm feeling experimental, quite a few that don't".

"Charlie": Vampire with an unknown past that goes by many aliases, and is one of the greatest mages alive. He's a loyal (if a but mischievous) friend and think honour is very important. He's a ladies' man, and has always been. The only guy to whom he felt attracted enough to fantasize about a relatioship was Auguste, and Auguste is androginous enough that he doesn't know for sure how bi he truly feels like being. (Don't look at me. I'm an author. I won't pressure my characters into saying that they are something they don't feel comfortable being.)

"Auguste does't count" is a meme in Belle Night, incidentally. Apparently, there are enough presumable hetero men and presumable lesbians that have been reported to have been attracted to him, and not another man ever that people of their LGBT+ community joke that it's not enough to classify someone as bisexual. It's mostly a joke, but many wonder if the attraction he causes is magical in nature, and if it changes anything.

Helena Lavert: Auguste's daughter. She is quiet and determined, with her seriousness often hiding how gentle her heart can be. Helena dreams to work with restoration, helping old vampires to keep their emotional treasures preserved and other nostalgic people happy. Currently, she is working as a detective in the Dimensional Police to help bring Verner Dejean to justice.

Fifth row:

Maria van Allen: The seventh child of the Van Allens, she is the inventor/entepreneur of the family. Maria loves machines and trinkets, and is the one behind a lot of the technology people have in Belle Night. She is the developer of the method they use to create the "Marial", a drink that substitutes blood in the vampires' diet. The method uses a bit of blood as a "primer", so it's not 100% blood free, but it raises a lot the viable vampire/human ratio of the city.

Antonieta van Allen: Also known as "Nieta", she is the fourth child of the Van Allens. She is a dedicated medical scientist who helped a lot the growth of Belle Night University and the city's hospitals. She is married to another medical scientist, and both of have a bunch of "adopted children" so to speak, because they often offer to turn people who are dying in hospitals and ask for it (none of those vampires are actually, legally, adopted by the couple, but Alex and Rose consider them grandkids all the same).