Actually, in response to Mo-Nercy's question at the very beginning of this thread, Eagle from Street Fighter, as a Freddie Mercury homage, has been confirmed to be gay. Zangief was rumored to be gay as well (but this hasn't been 100% confirmed like with Eagle though).
Xenogears is the tragic story of how your whole life can take a crappy turn, just because you happened to see a lady in a wedding dress before her wedding.
This boy is crackin' up, this boy has broken down
This boy is crackin' up, this boy has broke down
Haha, everyone's going to think that I'm just a huge complainer, but man the thought of that is just nasty.Originally Posted by Astronite
So what I'm getting from you is that any gay character should be thin, good looking, monogamous, not evil, heroic, and completely de-sexualized?No. Just no. And my negative reaction isn't because he's black for any wise-asses here, because I'd feel the same way about some heavy, nasty, overly-built, ugly white guy toting a huge gun or whatever. Not my type no matter what colour you paint on him.
Sounds boring.
I think you're trying a little too hard to point out the utmost massive and highly exaggerated extremes of my preferences in an attempt to try and knock it down so you can create a little flame-war here. Not only that, but you seem to be naming really basic qualities with no context at all, when in fact they can be executed in a million different ways from story construction and connection, as well as at least a hundred or so OTHER personality traits that would start to make a character complete. A good writer can take the generic qualities you just mentioned and add an innumerable combination of other traits as well as an infinite way to have them develop through his/her story to make said character very interesting. But I don't really want to get into that right now.
Obviously there's all sorts of people with all sorts of billions of different personalities, and gay or straight is merely a single trait amongst them. What I'm saying is that I'd like one of these standard RPG or action-game types to be exactly the same, except they happen to like guys. The purpose of this would be to show that gays aren't some incapable weak effeminate "sissies" 100% of the time etc, and I think in the case of Zangief it's like killing a fly with a shotgun. Or to be more precise, it would be to show that they can be just as "cool" as characters like Firion, Cecil, Bartz, Locke, Cloud, Squall, etc. [I'm not comparing them OR saying they're all awesome by the way. I'm only saying that they all rank a good deal of popularity one way or another amongst many FF audiences]. Basically, it'd be nice to lift the restriction of such roles only falling to straight males.
FOR THE RECORD - I don't expect this to happen any time soon. I'm just saying it would be cool in my opinion if it did. And as for your response, I'd be lying if I said that a good-looking character isn't a plus. You can call me shallow etc. but whateverI'm not going to sit here and yell "Man I hope they make him ugly! I'd love that!" since that's contradictory to my nature. I'm not sure where you get "de-sexualized" from either. I have no problem if they want to make him a sex god, as long as they actually make his character interesting and three-dimensional [which they failed to do with Zevran]. You DO realize that I'm gay right?
Aside from the fact that Zangief looks nasty to me, it's a pretty interesting step in the right direction I suppose. Is there any confirmation that his character is actually gay? And how widely known is this? I'm seriously curious about this because I haven't heard this one before.
How can we talk about gay characters and NOT have brought up Shadow Hearts: Covenant by this point?
Gerard Magimel! Is there someone else in that game who's gay? Y'know he's been mentioned twice.
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