Quote Originally Posted by Hurlstone View Post
Thats a... rather vicious view of such people, don't you think? Where the attacks about us apparently not being confident in our sexualities really necessary? You must be very judgey about people who enjoy romantic fiction.

I will say though that there is merit in seeing fictional characters who you can identify with. It does not in anyway need to be in regards to their sexuality or gender expression, in fact in most cases it will not be. Vryn makes a wonderful example of why people rightly love Emet. At the same time if someone does connect with a character because it reflects aspects of their overall person, I do not think that should be dismissed or seen as hollow. Besides, you do not even have to be LGBTQ+ to identify with such topics anyway. The themes of love or discrimination are human.



It is in the game, but in small blink-and-you-miss it parts. How does it damage the game by expanding that a little? Sure, such themes or characters did not need to be in Endwalker (Should have been clear that I was more talking about NPC interactions then core story points) but would it have effected anything negatively if we did say, see a NPC whose same sex partner had been been killed by an Abomination? I really do not agree with you and others that most are demanding that LGBTQ+ characters be put front and centre or that we want it to be the only aspect of said supposed characters.

There is certainly merit in what you say about being the representation, and its interesting how the game has a large number of LGBTQ+ players, but like dustdjinn said the gender unlocking came because people, many of who from said playerbase I would expect, did ask for it. Thats kinda what many of us are doing here.
If I wanted to enjoy romantic fiction, I would go to a fanfiction website or read a visual novel. The takes of these good people are not that savage. They are exhausted from having this discussion because most people dont want to hear it or see it. They dont want to, not out of hatred but because they have been scolded with this line of reason time and time again for 7-10 years by some of the most extreme views the LGBT community has to offer. It has only been a few years since, i.e. 20-30yrs since people could be open, and now they are asked to accept some of the most unorthodox sexual lifestyles along with 500 more spaghetti characters leading to the term alphabet community and the majority of people there are going why can't I live my life in peace. I have to pay the energy bill, which has gone up 400%, and they have this queer screaming at them about intersectionality and how they are a terrible person because they are complicit in society. 1/3