Are they lesbians?
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Not a robot... probably.
Not a robot... probably.
Are they lesbians?
I swear to god I was like if this question is about lesbians. I was so right and thank you for making my day lol
I have no answer for you though lo
I get this question 1,247 times a year but it’s usually from Illudora shippers. ? Thanks for asking here, good egg. Now I can just link to this! Haha.
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No, the faeries weren’t lesbians in canon back then. I say this because even though the term “lesbian” can have different definitions for different folks (right?), I don’t think they’d be by any definition.
They weren’t sexually attracted to anyone or anything because there’s no sex on Neopets so that part is irrelevant anyway. ? *vaguely handwaves couples with kids* But also romantically, that’s a no. Faeries didn’t really have romantic attraction or relationships, be it with each other or with others. (RIP my otp Sloth/Mira.)
So I guess you could say they were aromantic? Would that be closer? But really, we never actually officially defined them as anything. It’s more like we never went down that road with them because romance was never a big part of Neopets storytelling. (I mean, sure, The Lost Desert had a fancy marriage but, as a member of that plot team, I can safely say that Nabile’s “love” really just came out of nowhere and was not “romantic development”. ?)
If you’re curious, though, there was very early talk of changing that in the next big plot. Erm, the faerie romance bit, not the sexual bit. We really liked the depth and emotion the subtle Brynnso development/relationship brought to The Faeries’ Ruin and definitely wanted to do it again in future plots where it was appropriate to the story. It’s likely the faerie backstory would have been next and it might have worked really well there too, especially given just how far back we were planning to go. It wouldn’t have been the FYORA GETS A GIRLFRIEND plot or anything—like, a full on romcom or something as an entire plot wouldn’t really work—but yeah, added emotional depth and maybe even to provide some character drive? Who knows. But then again, maybe it wouldn’t have served the story at all and we would have ditched it and tried to bring it back up another time. No way to know! I guess I’m just saying we had it on that super early, vague list of “things we should talk about for the next plot when we do it!” (along with more variety in their appearance, etc., that I talked about elsewhere) so maybe that’s interesting to know. Heh.
To be clear though, outside of story service decisions, I should point out that we were under the “Kids & Family” umbrella and it was 2013-ish. They rarely paid attention to us but it’s really hard to say if we would have gotten any pushback on anything. That may or may not have ended up being another factor.
(Side note: We were also in the middle of a complete rules rewrite back then that, among other things, would have allowed people to say they had a boyfriend or were a lesbian or talk about dates—still no sex though, obviously—without triggering the banhammer. That was a BIG project because it involved a ton of logistics and training but should have been complete by the time a faerie plot came out so that wouldn’t have been an issue.)
So, uh, TL;DR: no, they weren’t lesbians in canon but we did have very vague plans to maybe add some kind of faerie/faerie romantic relationship in a future plot, although that doesn’t mean we actually would have kept or successfully executed those plans for various reasons. /nod
But anyway, that was just canon. If you ship faeries together, you’re doing great!