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[eliyes]

Quoting from this interview with Dan Didio:

In addition to Batwoman, Apollo and Midnighter, you’re also introducing a female bisexual African American superhero in Voodoo. Was it a conscious decision to introduce characters from across the LGBT spectrum?Yes. What we really wanted to do was show the diversity of our audience across the line of our

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[taichara]

I can guarantee you that if Pris is bi, it's a very very recent thing and seldom if ever referenced *points at hoard of WildCATs* and really, we both know exactly where the emphasis has always been with only minor distractions.

His name is Hadrian.

I could try and do the research and see if there's something I'm forgetting or if it's a more recent development as things go, but let's be honest; if Pris was bi from the get-go it sure as hell wasn't something being played on.

As for the African-American part, I also don't recall ever being explictly told her human genetic slushpile (the Kherubim/Daemonite hybrid part predictably gets the lion's share of the attention in the books) but given she's 1) obviously not pasty-pale Caucasian, 2) associated with New Orleans (though born elsewhere I believe) and 3) actually does use voudoun (granted this is Wildstorm, so it does involve zombies among other things) I think it's pretty safe to say that she's African-American or at least majority so as far as the human bits are concerned.

[eliyes]

Poor Jeremy; he may never get over her digging Hadrian more than him, but that's love.

There might be a throwaway comment someplace about Pris possibly being bi, and I wouldn't be surprised if, if it exists, it's somehow related to her Coda training, but honestly it's not something I'd ever connected to her character before.

Nrrg. Maybe I was thrown by the blue eyes, and the face that they really do (for obvious reasons) concentrate more on her various alien heritages.

[taichara]

And it's not like he didn't know beforehand in any case. It really wasn't smart of him, but yeh -- love and all.

Yeh, I don't recall it either and I'd like to think I'd remember it if I came across it. I don't usually forget things like that.

*patpats* Black people can have blue eyes even without alien DNA --

[eliyes]

*pats him on the shoulder*

*receives own pats* X3 I know, but that combined with the fact that she's usually coloured no darker than my mom late summer (which, granted, is dark enough to be treated like shit by snooty white folks in Louisiana) is probably why it never occurred to me.

Still, that word "introducing" might mean it's a different character. (Or it might just be because this is her first in-DC's-continuity book. *sigh*)

[nagaina_ryuuoh]

"Ambiguously Brown" is, I believe, the controlling idea when it comes to the "human" part of Pris' heritage.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmbiguouslyBrown

[eliyes]

Tai is right, given her background it's not surprising for her to be very likely of mixed racial heritage (even ignoring the aliens).

(Isn't linking to TV Tropes a lot like offering someone drugs? XD I don't wanna get sucked in again! *clicks link anyway*)