Decided to use Coming Out Day as an excuse to finish this piece. The lineart is ancient, and two figures were colored a long time ago. (The other four were colored tonight: cookies if you can guess who.)
Anyway, one of the problems I have with my comic was that the only on-screen queer character in it was Philandre who... well, I can't imagine him in a healthy relationship, period. And, well, that bugs me since I don't want 'Andre standing for my queer characters. (Andre can stand for many things, but most of them fall under 'antagonist'.)
So, I drew every queer character from PD here*. For reference, Philandre and Shashi are gay, Phillee identifies as pansexual (and doesn't get the big deal), Melody and Delwyn are bisexual but prefer the opposite sex**, and Ravi is bisexual and prefers the same sex. I could explain the cultural stances on sexuality for everyone, but I'm running long as is.
For reference, Alriai, Rikayo, Elise and Kimiko as my straight cast. And Arianna.
* Kai is exempted because asking his sexuality is like asking what color of hair a goldfish has. There are several answers, but none are really helpful unless you explain what a goldfish is like and why asking about hair on goldfish isn't a helpful question. And I've never settled on anything for Aris, Saria and Miklin, so I don't know if they should be included or not.