Quote Originally Posted by Melorie View Post
What I don't understand is that when it's a hetero white character, they are already existing. But when it's not, then you need to put them in the story with an extremely tactical way otherwise it is a "token", you are "forcing". The game is full of little romantic stories and romance is a very powerful storytelling tool. You have entire fandoms around different ships. Making a crush or something to not be hetero has nothing to do with tokenize. Or putting a character that's not a white-haired with white skin person is not "forcing" PoC in the story. Besides, we have so many characters that are quite far from overly complex people that are sooo part of the world in the story, and yet just because they aren't gay I don't see anyone crying about it.
For black characters, those complaints are pretty much always when it's something with a historical context. Writers adding black characters to places where there really weren't any.
Lets reverse the situation... Imagine if you had something taking place in a fictional setting based off Africa, or even actual real world Africa, from several hundreds of years ago... And in that setting, you just had a random white guy in some tribe there who's presence is never acknowledged as special or anything, because "white people have always been in there".

Or they just take an already existing story, decide to do it all over again, except this time a character in it is black. Because shut up you racist.


As for the gay characters, writers have a very strong tendency to make that their entire character. Just "being gay" does not make for a very interesting character, specially when you know they were added in just to fill in a quota.