Character Introduction - Valentine

Meet Valentine, who's 18, in my alternate world. Valentine is my first attempt at creating an asexual panromantic genderqueer character. It's kinda confusing - I mean, I've written for gay/lesbian characters, this is just a step up.

Valentine is a real bookworm, who's been locked away and secluded from society its entire life. It focuses on study, preferring its books over the company of others. Valentine doesn't know many other people outside the university, its school, mother, and father. It wants nothing more than to help people, but is too scared to get close to people for fear of showing weakness.

Valentine is intended to be worked into an already running story, alongside Rose, who's being written by my cowriter. We really wanted a trilogy and have enough ideas for it, we just need more characters to beef up the narrative.

The most difficult thing about Valentine is the pronouns, I think. While I love the pronouns zhe, zir, and those ones, I'm using 'it', 'itself', and 'its', for ease of understanding with the eventual audience and my cowriter (and it didn't seem right for Valentine). Because Valentine was raised as a girl I know those (female) pronouns better, so it's difficult switching. I mean, i don't know any trans* or genderqueer people personally, but I think I would try to address them by their preferred pronouns. It's just difficult to write, as I can't refer to a book as 'it' anymore because Valentine uses it as a pronoun.

Writing with someone else is difficult, especially as I'm almost trying to prove here as my fellow writer has expressed doubts about whether it would be a good idea, but let me run with it anyway. I seem to have influenced her slightly, as she's writing with a pansexual character - though I'm not sure if she/her character knows the word. We were doing character quizzes when these questions came up.

So, in our novel (yes, I'm writing one btw), we have (main characters):

-*White pansexual/bisexual (still deciding) cisfemale
-#Black disabled (blind) straight cismale
-#White (assuming here) pansexual cisfemale
-*White (maybe?) autistic asexual panromantic genderqueer
-#*Plus a whole cast of characters of all sexualities, races, and genders

Pretty much almost a whole spectrum? Well, sorta. We cover between us quite a lot of human types, though. The ones marked * I'm writing for, the ones marked # she's writing for.

All very very fun! Quite a bit of work goes into it. I might write a Valentine piece up here at some point!

I like this character introduction thing! I might do a couple of them, actually. I'll write for Asuka, my other character (above).

Questions for readers:

1 - Do you read this?
2 - What do you think of Valentine?
3 - If you were genderqueer/trans*/other or already are, what pronouns do/would you prefer? What do you think of the ones I've chosen for Valentine?