From politics and lunatics who freak out because “muh representation”.
Why does he need to be gay? I like how yall word this thread. “Let him be homosexual” instead of “make him homosexual”. Because that’s exactly what it is. Forcing your ideas and beliefs onto a story just because you think it fits your perception better.
And NO. I am not annoyed about this due to LGBTQ etc, I am annoyed as a writer. People wanting their own fan fictions forced upon your characters is annoying as frick. Much less I like what they are doing with Anduin. And taking him down some route that was obviously not planned for him will only hurt it. (And don’t get me wrong. Fan fictions are fine for those people. But that’s all that they are. It’s trying to force said fan fictions on the writer and their story that irks me).
You know what my representation in WoW is? My characters. I play them how I want and act how I want as well as style them how I want. And for this character in particular? I solely ride the horse from Strath UD, always have the Arthas costume from holloween on and play on his character a good bit to entertain those around me.
I don’t look at characters and think “they should be ______ or _______” I look at their characteristics, how they act, who they are, the role they play in the story, how their actions affect the story, how other characters affect them, how their choices being played out match to their character or not, whether their story makes sense (i.e. Mary Sues don’t), if they have reasonable character growth throughout the story or not, how well paced their growth is, as well as how these things all affect the future of the story as well going forward.
And YES. Their sexual preference affects a lot of those things! And while this is a game generally avoiding the concept of romance, he is still a king. And as a king part of his role in the overall story is having an heir and continuing his bloodline.
Now sure, it can be played out that he somehow differs from that, happens all of the time! But with the direction of the story, how his actions and choices have guided him as a character, it seems fairly obvious that they are taking him, as far as king PoV goes, down a more regular path. He’s already dealing with the point of suddenly becoming king from his fathers’ death, much less a high king over an alliance of kingdoms. He also has to deal with all of the politics between the issues of the races and the wars going on. Much less now being controlled by the jailer and using powers that oppose his own. For all we know he will be a DK from now on.
Just because he teared up in a cinematic during a battle, because tossing a priest-trained young man into a full-on field of battle seeing his people die due to orders he gave is somehow unreasonable for him to become emotionally challenged, and him having a history of being good friends and working well with another male character (a friendship that went down badly) does not suddenly make him any less a man or any less “straight” as others might look at him that way.
Now could he end up homosexual, yeah writers can pull some magic rabbits out of their pens. But it does not seem like a reasonable choice at this time. Maybe back in MoP when he had a lot less character built in him and the friendship with Wrathion was much better, and him being a teenager still which is prime age to begin figuring these things out, would these ideas have had merit.
But right now, with everything compound into him as a character, I don’t see it.
