Part two of my first book cover gallery. It's not really a shop, it's more so of a gallery showing off my work and the explanation for the covers.
Hope you enjoy them!
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Kylie Johnson was born in a very strict religious family and always questioned her sexuality, but she soon realizes that after spending time with a secret "friend", she comes out as lesbian to her parents, who exiled her, deeming her dead to them, forcing Kylie to live with said friend.
However, as she watches pro wrestling with her best friend, Kylie knew that she wanted to become a wrestler, so she packed her bags with only $1000 in her savings and flew over to Japan in 2015, looking to get started.
Over time, she meets a girl named Reo Hazuki, who would strike her as she trained with her class of trainees.
Reo and Kylie would become the best of friends, training together and practicing their communication through English and Japanese, however, Kylie would start to fall for Reo and would try to confess her feelings to the Japanese star.
Reo, unknown to Kylie, had started to develop feelings for Kylie as well as she battled with her sexuality as well.
How will both of them reacting to each other's confessions?
Okay, everyone.
If you're wondering why I'm not doing my usual intro, it's because it's too early to risk saying that, knowing that I'm about to dive deep into a topic that's very important in today's world and I don't wanna risk any potential backlash that I'm gonna get.
Anyway, I wanna make something evidently bottom of the line clear that I am not homophobic in any way, nor did I have anyone come out to me as lesbian or any part of the LGBTQ community, but my sister-in-law did come from a family where she was raised by two fathers so that should count for something.
I'm doing my research on this very topic because it's not something I'm well versed on and I wanna learn more about this so I can try to make this idea of a story work where Hazuki, the wrestler on the cover, her personal life has been hinted so much that she is rumored to be in a relationship with her STARS tag team partner Koguma as well as her and Kagetsu being a couple as Kagetsu himself (he came out as a transgender man mid-2022) would debunk the whole rumor of him and Hazuki being in a relationship later on before his eventual retirement from wrestling in early 2020.
However, there was a video, on YouTube, where Hazuki herself would say that she's looking for a boyfriend, even though it's been clearly evident as of late that she's been in love with several girls in the STARS faction...
...and I'm pretty sure it's to hide her personal identity, and I won't be surprised if it does happen to be the case later on, which I will move onto my next point.
Getting things wrong and shining a negative light on the LGBTQ community is the last thing I wanna do, but all I can say is that I'd like to get an idea on what the culture is like, just so I can understand what I'm working with because it's better to learn about something that's not in someone's forte than just winging it from what you see in movies or TV shows.
I hope you guys liked this idea and if you did, let me know!
Also, if there is anyone from the LGBTQ community who knows this subject very well and has experience for days on what it's like, please let me know and I'll send you my discord link so we can collab!
