Warcraft gay characters
Thread: Homosexual characters in WoW.
2011-09-20, 11:17 PM#41
There's no reason to have openly gay characters in the storyline. The overwhelming majority of characters/npc's don't have a sexuality at all, there are only a couple huge love interests in the game and it only makes sense that those are heterosexual relationships since less than 3.5% of the population in the US is LGBT.
This isn't about discrimination or anything, a heterosexual affection story is representative of the player base, a homosexual one isn't. Blizzard's goal is to produce money by telling engaging stories and making people feel attached to the characters, heterosexual lovers does that while homosexual lovers don't.
There are plenty of other groups that make up far more of the population than people who are LGBT and they aren't represented. It's not discrimination in any capacity, if you think it is then you don't know the first thing about actual discrimination.
Last edited by amoshwow; 2011-09-20 at 11:21 PM.
2011-09-20, 11:17 PM#42
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LGBT Characters?
Miracicia-proudmoore1
Hey y’all. I was just wondering. Does anyone know if there are many LGBT characters in WoW? I comprehend there’s Pelagos and Keda Bloomblade in Stones, Moss, and Tears who enumerate as trans inclusion, but what about gay, lesbian, or bi representation? I haven’t seen very many (or if any) confirmed cases of it yet.
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Ainhin-thorium-brotherhood (Ainhin) 2
The most prominent is probably Matthias Shaw, who is in a relationship with Flynn Fairwind.
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Beaupeep-draka (Beaupeep) 3
Miracicia:but what about gay, womxn loving womxn, or bi representation?
A few more than you’d think.
Kinelory and Quae come to mind.
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Zerde-sargeras (Zerde) 4
The night warrior Thiernax and Qadarin
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Miracicia:are many LGBT characters in WoW?
Honestly, just copy that and Google it. There are a few.
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Vandraeda-kiljaeden7
In Shadowlands there’s Thiernax and Qadarin in Ardenweald, who are a married gay couple. Margrave Sin’dane’s “favorite consort” was a miss. Flynn Fairwind is bisexual. There are several minor characters in g
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So yeah, this is my blog, as an unseal ground for those in the warcraft community to talk about, think about, fantasize and distribute that one intrest that seems somewhere eluding of the game in other aspects, that of wow’s gay community.
In general, well I love warcraft, because of its background, colorful characters, themes and expansive open world, when you consider the size of the franchise, often it feels like the developers miss a trick when it comes to the game itself, that of the lgbtq+ players in the game, and how much it becomes overlooked, simply because it gets made out to be a taboo subject they’d sooner neglect, or if at all, only hint as it in the smallest way.
Yet, when you reflect about other gaming genres that permit for openly male lover characters to advance, from allowing similar sex marriage in skyrim, to mass effect 3 allowing you to make Shepard gay, its obvious other game companies are ahead of the curve, well blizzard falters behind. Even with admitting there are inspired as comic book geeks themselves, from themes like x-men and spiderman, it doesn’t seem they picked up on allowing one social aspect of the collective to feel as welcome as other
Will horde get LGBT characters too?
Pewpega-argent-dawn1
Right now we know that Flynn and Shaw are a gay couple and we have confirmation of another gay night elf couple so I’m just wondering, will we also watch LGBT horde characters in the future as adequately for balance? I contemplate it would be fitting to have a queer orc couple as adequately because when you depart to the gay parades you can see the orc phenotype is preferred in the LGBT collective even more than darkness elf; buff muscles, macho, short hair, manly. I think it’s good to see more inclusiveness in the game, I just think it should be balanced on both factions.
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Drae-hellscream (Drae) 2
We had a warchief that represented for about 2 expansions worth before he got killed off in a raid. That surely counts as a start?
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Dangrar-argent-dawn4
Could you gloomy attempts at trolls actually get it right. There is no gay nelf couple. They’re bloody aliens for god’s sake.
The NPCs are actually on hand now, you can actually talk to them and read this, yet people peddle this rubbish. Further proof people bemoan stuff in wow without actually checking what they’re moaning about, because at the en