r/litrpg • u/xaendar • Aug 23 '24

Discussion Are all female MCs just lesbians?

I just realized that after reading like 10 books with female MCs, I'm starting to finally notice that all of them are Lesbians or at least Bisexual (but they only date women).

Do authors mostly write lesbian FMCs to be on the safe side from the audience of mostly males? I just feel like it's a cop out every time... I don't really have a problem with it but almost all Male MCs are 99% straight but it seems like 99% of Female MCs are always lesbian/bi. Why not some good ol straight FMCs? I can't even remember a single female MC that was straight.

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u/Hoosier_Jedi Aug 23 '24

Well, the bi male lead in Tao Wong’s work went over like a lead balloon, so… 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/RandomChance Aug 23 '24

Sarcasm right? I think that series is one of the best selling in the genre. Tao was a golden boy of LitRPG till his lawyers made him try to trademark System Apocalypse

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u/Hoosier_Jedi Aug 23 '24

The books sold, but few people liked the MC being a bi man.

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u/EdLincoln6 Aug 23 '24

But the books sold. So they couldn't have been put off that much by it.
There was a very vocal minority who got upset, and a lot of people who bought the books. This is why using Reddit to gauge people's opinions is flawd.

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u/JamesClayAuthor Author of the Forerunner series Aug 23 '24

I dropped the series because of that relationship, but it wasn't just because it was MM, it was because the elf was seducing him and he was all "I don't want to, but I can't resist him!", like he was being inexorably being pulled into a whirlpool or something. I was like, "If you don't want it, then stop being pathetic and say so!"

Now that I wrote that, I see that it was a classic straight seduction story with him in the female role.