Can we get more LGBT couples in game?

[Zeraph-hellscream]

@Aviela-wyrmrest-accord

But honestly I’ll always find them so cute they’re like wow’s most iconic couple to me, I think in a game universe where everyone kills and hates each other it’s nice to see 2 people who really do love each other.

It is a nice change of pace.

[Phlegis-wyrmrest-accord]

it’d be nice if blizzard stopped catering to countries that persecuted LGBTQ+ people too but that isn’t going to happen lol

[anon17196428]

Yeah, the tentacle dudes were kinda disappointing.

[Phlynch-sentinels (Phlynch)]

@Aviela-wyrmrest-accord

What… this doesn’t make any sense. 2 out of 3 possibilities I listed have established friendships that go back years.

The very first one you listed has been explicitly stated multiple times to never be happening.

[Wÿvern-stormrage (Wÿvern)]

exactly, the reality is that Russia and China are too big a market, and adding LGBT characters to ‘Western’ standards could ostracize them. It’s not worth it in the grand scheme of things.

But, I sure wish we had the representation…

[Lightsongs-proudmoore]

@Aviela-wyrmrest-accord

Shaw and Mathias

Omg didn’t know that. Just found out they are couple. - and it’s Flynn actually - I thought the person that Mathias mentioned was Valeera.
I’m not against them but I want to see average male-female couple more. Haha.
Especially my king. No Wrathion pls

[Alkì-zuljin]

Wrathion and Anduin are so going to hook up after this expansion …

[Rubmytotêm-malganis]

Someone got defensive quick.

Must have hit a soft spot.

[Ravianna-dalaran (Ravianna)]

They’d have to be throwaway characters that no one really cares about. You can’t be a fan of a character and rob them of ever having descendents.

[Sabetha-turalyon (Sabetha)]

1. Telling people that Anduin was into women was in response to people asking about a gay relationship with him, which is basically saying he’s straight.
2. Wrathion is still only 7 years old which still makes it weird given that he’s a dragon child who takes on the form of a mortal adult. That Anduin is a priest does not help.
3. If the current writer has no respect for what came before them that is part of what makes it a bad fanfic, which the game already has enough of that.
4. Flynn/Shaw aren’t exactly great but that doesn’t really change much about Anduin/Wrathion being little more than fanfic material.

Also worth pointing out is that you replied to somebody saying that representation in the form of bad fanfic is disrespectful, not that representation in general was bad.

To which I’d agree with that sentiment. It seems rather disrespectful if you’re just using characters as pawns to show off how woke you are in an attempt to get brownie points rather than making actually compelling characters with compelling stories.

Which at the moment can be said of the writing as a whole in WoW, not just the LGBT characters.

but that’s more an argument that they need to fix it, not that they should go nuts with it.

[Natalya-emerald-dream]

@Aviela-wyrmrest-accord

Shaw and Mathias was a great start, but can we get more?

Anduin x Wrathion

Lilian x Amelia

Thassarian x Koltira

Please!

I think before ANY of this can take place, we need better writers and creative first. There’s no quicker way to put a good LGBTQ+ story into the toilet than clueless writing.

[Aqueene-dalaran]

I’m not sure if Anduin and Wrathion would be the best example… Love the idea though!

[Phlynch-sentinels (Phlynch)]

I think they’re a great example. Anduin has already been explicitly stated to be straight several times and Wrathion is a literal child.

OP could not have picked a better pair to show their only desire was to stir up trouble, and they’re using the LGBT community to do it.

[Gibbz-wyrmrest-accord]

“We need more characters that show everyone else who they have sex with”

Can we get something more, IDK, worthy of note?

Edit: Also, not sure why so many characters in this game are hypersexualized by “fans”. I see it as perverted and immature.

[Snowslight-kiljaeden (Snowslight)]

No. It’s fine as it is.

Now, we don’t have much in the way of couples, straight, gay or otherwise so it doesn’t make much sense to inundate the game with a particular set of couples.

We’re murder hobos. Not lovers.

[Rosenivy-area-52 (Rosenivy)]

@Wÿvern-stormrage

Shaw and Flynn actually feel like a token to appease the crowd without commitment; and I find tokenism way more disrespectful. But, baby steps, I guess; can’t expect too much progressiveness from global companies because they also have to appeal to international markets.

Oh I highly disagree. Look I know in previous threads I’m a tad obsessed with Shaw and Flynn but dangit they’re just so nicely written compared to previous attempts at couples in WoW. I don’t see them as a token at all.

[Phlynch-sentinels (Phlynch)]

@Rosenivy-area-52

Oh I highly disagree. Look I know in previous threads I’m a tad obsessed with Shaw and Flynn but dangit they’re just so nicely written compared to previous attempts at couples in WoW. I don’t see them as a token at all.

Flynn was extremely vocal about his love of women and his singular interaction with Shaw was strictly professional.

This is 100% tokenisim.

[Rosenivy-area-52 (Rosenivy)]

@Phlynch-sentinels

Flynn was extremely vocal about his love of women and his singular interaction with Shaw was strictly professional.

Oh honey no. Flynn’s always been bi. A bisexual could have a few girlfriends in a row. That doesn’t make them suddenly straight. Also their writer confirmed it and how that was planned way in advance.

Also Flynn was being very cheeky and playful with Shaw and getting him annoyed.

[Sabetha-turalyon (Sabetha)]

@Gibbz-wyrmrest-accord

Edit: Also, not sure why so many characters in this game are hypersexualized by “fans”. I see it as perverted and immature.

The internet as a whole is super horny combined with that Blizzard designs a lot of characters specifically to be attractive.

[Rosenivy-area-52 (Rosenivy)]

I meaaaan. Humans are hyper sexual by default. That was well before the internet