Post pictures of the most important characters in your story so we can see how diverse your cast is IF you need any help, we can help you and this is a great way to find stories with the diversity you’re looking for as readers! Please be nice if you’re reviewing someone else’s diversity! It’s about helping people know how they can improve, not trashing their current efforts!
I’ll start:
Starting from the top left and working from left to right:
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Beth: 17, gay, English, funny, sassy, fun. She’s one of the most important characters because she is one of the first friends Evanna, the Princess, finds when herself alone in the school. She’s also the person who is captured and sent to work to death… and Evanna is hell-bent on getting her back. She has a beautiful love story.
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Anabelle: Evanna’s older sister, bisexual, 21, mixed race and sassy. Super helpful and always there for her little sister. She also has her own story spin-off about her romance with Evanna’s teacher.
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Tara Mirai: British Japanese, straight, quite serious, passionate, caring. She, along with her twin sister Tracy, want to do all they can to help Evanna overthrow the government.
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Ilana: intelligent, British Ghanaian, pansexual, dedicated, loyal. She starts off as a “mean girl” when she finds out that Vince (her boyfriend) is taking more of an interest in the new girl, Evanna than her. However, she quickly realises Vince isn’t worth it and becomes a much better person for it. She has a great love story!
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Penny: practical, loyal, honest, bisexual, Scottish and Irish roots. Penny is my fiery redhead who is going to get her own story about how her fire changes the heart of a not-so-great guy.
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Luke: straight, tall, dyslexic, flirty, funny, mixed race (his mother is half black and his father is Korean). He’s a big flirt who gets a great love story.
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Theo: tall, caring, gentle, kind, thoughtful, self-righteous, English. Don’t you just love his freckles? Theo is my ideal guy! He’d do anything for Evanna.
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Vince: straight, serious, broody, jaded, Italian. Vince is a lot of people’s favourite love interest out of him and Theo, so I won’t say too much.
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Adam: South Indian, straight, caring, thoughtful, quiet. Adam has a great power that really helps him to understand where Evanna is coming from. He’s also Susannah’s love interest. I think their kids would look adorable! He loves her loads.
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Tracy Mirai: bisexual, Tara’s twin, British Japanese, intense, funny, girly. Tracy’s love interest is a guy called Hercules (no, that’s not his real name) who I will put at the bottom of this post because he didn’t fit into the cool collage I made. There are a few other characters I’d LOVE to add.
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Susannah: bubbly, straight, honest, light-hearted, dedicated, open. Suzie is one of Evanna’s best friends. She’s British Spanish (like from Spain, not Latina) and her love interest is Adam. She’s really important to the story.
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Katherine: serious, dedicated, the heir to the throne, mostly straight (she had a bisexual “phase” at university, but she finds herself a lot more attracted to men these days, so refers to herself as straight), engaged. The sister who is on the fence over whether she should disobey the King to help her sister.
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- The big picture here is Evanna. She’s the main character and like her sisters, her family is so mixed, it would be difficult to say what their ethnicity is. Both of their parents are mixed… and all of their grandparents are, too. She’s shy but would do anything for the people she cares about!
Honourable mentions
Tracy’s love interest. He’s mixed race and doesn’t really like to define himself in terms of any sexuality (probably sapiosexual would be your best bet with him. He loves Tracy for her intelligence… and doesn’t care about gender).
Jake is Evanna’s brother who gives up his right to the throne for love: he’s gay and their father is a homophobe. He’s a big part in the Anabelle spin-off.
Along with Penny, Zaynah is the co-founder of the rebel faction that tries to help free the Faeries, working with Evanna from within the Palace. Of course, she’s Muslim. She’s also a human rights activist and mixed Nigerian and Pakistani. I love her – she’s never afraid to say what’s on her mind, but also respectful to others. She manages to keep her faith through thick and thin which, as a Catholic, is something I admire in people.
What about you? I like stories that don’t just have the normal African American and Gay diversity, but also loads of other minority groups! I’d love for you to share your diverse casts!
If you’re wondering how you can create a diverse cast, too, check out my blog post!