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Nov 2020

There are three main characters in my story that all take focus in a chapter depending on what happens. Dee is important in this chapter and arguably the next will be more focused on fadil. That said, one of the three mains is a girl and one is a boy, the other is still ??? bout gender

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Most of my characters are men, but the main cast itself is made of 3 men (one a salamander), 3 women and a plant.

Genre would be action.

I have a lot of characters in my comic with their own story, but the main characters are these two, a man named Axelott and a woman named Joanette.


The comic title is "A Man Called Ravenlord"
Well, maybe you may think that the main character is a man named Ravenlord, while actually the title is telling about the rising legend in the world they're living in.

Legend said that Ravenlord is a fierce lone-wolf warrior that's unpredictable, undefeated in combat, slayer of the bandits, a cursed prince of ravens, king of crows, a passionate lover, stealer of wives, and killing him in a duel will grant you fame and fortune.
Where does the legend come from?
Is the legend true? Is it just another myth? or is there any truth behind the legend? or is there something else to uncover?


I have an ensemble cast of three women, three men, but I suppose one of the men is the biggest driver of the plot so it goes to him by a slim margin

In Terra Prima there are three main characters, one is female, the other is male, and the third is... :thinking: well gender doesn't apply but he currently looks male.

I also did a quick count of the other characters who are important to the story and I have 19 females, 17 males, and 3 non-binary.

I tend to write stories with male main characters for some reason. I'd like to write more female main characters, but I'd have to think of stories where the main characters being female feels right and not forced.

(The genres for these stories are Comedy and Fantasy respectively.)

I always write in dual pov, so the main protagonists are there the same amount. RN now m/f. but will be different in future novels

My main protagonists are both females. I want to write novels about strong female leads.

Honestly both. I try to split the story between me male and female characters. Unfortunately the male character has a stronger personality that demands attention so I have to work a little harder for the female character who usually questions most everything. But with time she will fall a little off the rails and become a more attention demanding character later. But, the love aspect of the comic has nothing to do with the MC liking each other, (not to mention that age gap). My female character isn't the beauty either, I would say she is rather average.

My brand new NaNoWriMo project has two female protags, so I answered "female" in the survey at the top.

Here's the interesting bit. My previous project had a robot as the MC. It did not have a gender, and it refered to itself as "this unit." This neutral conjugation felt a little awkward to write, but it was more grammatically accurate than assigning a gender and frankly far more believable than a machine anthropromophizing itself.

My main character is female, but my titular character is male. The genre is horror/fantasy

The main character of my main series is female. Though originally, it was going to be the male lead, her brother, but when I wrote the story she became the MC. :sweat_02:

The MCs of my other comics are both male (though the female lead in the sequel plays a large role).

The next story I'm planning also has a female MC. It's possible it could change to the male lead, but I don't think it will.

In the one webcomic I'm actually publishing, the protag is female. I really wanted to write a sci-fi adventure story with a young girl protagonist who was good with tinkering with stuff but was also really girly (her hobby is dressing up really fancy, which will make an appearance in the comic soon). The supporting character chooses a male pronoun, which I wanted to do because AI in sci-fi tend to have female voices and I wanted an AI that intentionally chose a male voice and pronoun. He's got a bit of a Pinocchio complex goin' on.

In my other story that I'm working on, (paranormal/action/sci-fi) the protag is male, with a 50/50 split between the other characters (er... make that like 40/40/20 split because there's a bunch of supernatural creatures whose sense of gender is... fluid, to say the least). And in my other (political sci-fi) story, I have a pair of protagonists - a female character (4th princess, with ambitions to take over the Empire) and a male character (common-birth young man who joins up with the brewing socialist revolution). It's not a love story and they don't end up together. In general I have a fairly even split of genders, though I do notice a tendency to a) skew the female characters older relative to the male and b) place all the female characters in positions of power just because I find it more interesting to write about ruthless women than ruthless dudes (what haven't we seen at this point, lol?). I did actually have to re-allocate power once because I was just like hold up, the Emperor, the Admiral, the Chancellor and these five important scientists and rebel leaders are ALL women, except for this one guy? I mean, I'm all for it, but it didn't ring true to the world-building.

thanks for all the replies and for voting,
something is broken with the poll/voting system though.
62% to 49%
that´s 111% total :smiley:

The poll had the option to vote for both answers, that's why it isn't a clear 100%

My comic is LGBTQ+/Action/Horror, with four main characters. The focal main character is a trans man. Of the main four characters he's the only man in the group, with the three being women, one of the women is trans. The supporting cast is comprised of a mix of different genders.