So why do people care too much about Soldier being gay too? This doesn’t affect the game at all. What difference does it make? A lot of people are saying it doesn’t fit his personality. What is he supposed to do? Act very stereotypical?
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There was riot when ppl found out that Tracer was gay tho
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apparently the concept that gay people (much like straight people) are all different with different personalities and interests hasn’t hit them yet…
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Oh boy, you’re lucky you missed that meltdown.
That said, as much as people did freak out over Tracer, lesbians are usually a bit more accepted due to being seen as ‘hot’ and ‘non-threatening’ to that type of guy.
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I guess I did. I didn’t start playing Overwatch as soon as it came out. But now no one seems to care at all anymore. I’m sure it will be the same with Soldier. People forget it because it’s not that important anyway.
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Mhm, things should mostly die down fairly quickly and from what I’ve seen, there’s not nearly as much outrage in the other parts of the OW community.
I believe there’s also (as there was in the Tracer case) a large amount of trolls taking advantage of the situation.
Tracer introduction felt more smooth and natural. We seen normal, living relationship in cosy homey atmoshpere. Tracer felt good lgbtq rep as she is active, cheerful, open-minded and young - I feel it’s reps this community pretty good.
Soldier seems very sensetive about relationship he had 25 years ago and this person is happy married. He made his choice, it was good one, but I argure that love to this guy over all this years and all Soldier suffered should be as strong in him. People. mature people. aren’t behave like this.
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What are you talking about? Of course Tracer is happy and cheerful. She’s young. LGBT people are most accepted now than ever before.
Soldier had a long and difficult life. He gave up his happiness so the guy he loved can live a normal and healthy life and move on, while he remained miserable and struggled. That is as mature as it gets. He didn’t drag the person he loved down with him.
Soldier very much gave up on Vincent. He gave up on his own happiness to do what he felt was right and lead Overwatch and that meant he couldn’t give Vincent the life he deserved.
He still deeply cares for him, but like Ana pointed out, he COULD have used the resources at his disposal, either Overwatch or Blackwatch’s, but he didn’t because he placed Vincent’s happiness over his own.
I think that’s the most Soldier-esque thing he could have done, since Soldiers entire story is one of sacrifice.
He says Ana he knows that guy married and lives happily. So yeath, he stalked him to get this information.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say “no one cared”. In fact, I would go in a complete 180
We don’t know HOW he knows that though. He could have just seen it on Facebook or whatever is around in 2040ish.
He seemed pretty disgusted at Ana’s suggestions to use Blackwatch resources to find him though.
And why he need Blackwatch is Facebook gives him all he needs, actually? X)
Tracer was “outed” almost immediately. 76 feels tacked on. There have been almost three years worth of opportunities to mention it, but no one ever did. Lots of forum posts begging for more LBGT heroes, and so the devs said what the heck and threw a dart at a list of heroes instead of any real story telling.
I don’t care that he’s gay…hell, two of my groomsman from my wedding are gay and I lived in a house with gay men, a non binary man, and a bunch of diva crossdressers.
I do however find it annoying how it always feels like every character is a mystery, and everyone is just waiting to find out who is gay, les, trans, non-binary, has a condition of some sort (Like Autism), etc etc —where’s the straight character? Is Mcree a straight guy? Was there some sexual/relationship history between him and Ashe? What about D.Va? Or Ana or Phara? —I genuinely don’t know (I don’t often read the comics and what not) —but I never see positive affirmation that any of them are straight and in a confirmed relationship—an average intelligence, cisgendered, straight character, who’s married or in an active relationship—where’s that confirmation for THAT group of people?
It honestly doesn’t matter, but it does feel a bit “forced” that every-time a piece of the puzzle comes out for a character, it’s always a “What commonly down-trodden group can we use to slap a label on a character to show that we identify with and include everyone?”
Just my perspective though.
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We all know Zuckerberg is the real evil in the OW universe.
Widowmaker was married to Gerard.
Reaper and Ana have families.
Ashe and McCree aren’t confirmed, but there’s hella sexual tension between those two for it not to be a thing.
Torbjorn and his wife have like a bajillion kids.
Genji and Mercy are a thing.
Junkrat very clearly has a thing for Mei, though it’s onesided.
If you can’t find any straight characters, then you’re not really looking hard enough.
Interesting…Like I said, I don’t really read the comics (So the junkrat thing, the mercy thing, reaper and ana, are all new things to me)
I overlooked Torbjorn with brig–but I guess that just goes to reinforce the downplayed value of “that group” in favor of various other groups that they seem to make a bigger deal about their orientation.
Either way i just wish they’d stop finding ways to conveniently add the details of their sexual orientations----I know more about what their orientations are, than I do about any sort of comprehensive story line.
I cared because I just want characters like me that aren’t tragedies.
No one cared that Tracer is gay? Uh…where you even here when they announced Tracer is gay? So many little fanboys were throwing hissy fits cause they couldn’t have sex with their waifu.
Indeed, it was quite a mess but it also coupled with the victory pose controversy.
Its ridiculous how outrage culture works nowadays. They could literally reveal Reaper is deformed and has a burnt face and for example Doomfist killed his family and people will do nothing. Reveal Soldier76 is gay and all hell breaks loose.
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