Maria Caliban wrote...
ziggehunderslash wrote...
Even though the distinction would only exist externally?
It doesn't exist only externally. A character is defined by the totality of their expression though a reader/player may experience that differently.
"Morrigan is a b*tch" is an external distinction while "Morrigan is a swamp-witch" is an internal one.
A character that identifies as straight around the opposite sex and gay around the same-sex has conflicting internal definitions unless we have reason to believe the character would lie or otherwise say these things.
Conflict in internal definition is not a horrible thing or unique to games. I can show you comics where Superman can't fly and Batman kills criminals without remorse. I once recall an Australian author talk about how she forgot that a character had lost his arm in book 2 and so in book 3 he returned with two arms (which he then lost in book 4 when she realized the problem.)
Heck, James Bond has been played by 8 different actors now and no one complains about the hero constantly changing his physical form.
What you're talking about is a very blatant type of contradiction that exists within the same work, couldn't be the result of authorial mistake, and doesn't seem to have much purpose.
In fact, it does nothing but undermine the illusion of character.Xewaka wrote...
Yet using "deviant", while probably more fitting to the setting, would case a huge uproar. Sometimes there has to be compromise.Maria Caliban wrote...
I would find it odd to come across the word 'lesbian' and 'straight' in a fantasy game.
'Huge uproar' meaning five people on the forums would create a 30 page thread while no one else cared.
Zevran himself admits that people often look down on him because of his relations with men but no one complained. Sten made a boldfaced sexist comment, but the vast majority of female players seemed to not resent him or BioWare for it.
not to split the hair in 4 but..........
James Bond is a single character, so is Batman, as time passes and people grow too old for the role they need to be replaced....I know I'm being picky about this one but I really meant to comment on your other statement
in a game like Dragon Age where you create your own hero down to the gender things are a little fuzzy in this department. See, let's say we are playing Resident Evil 2. You can play as Jill and as Leon in the SAME story. Let's say that in this particular residen evil you COULD romance Ada Wong, and, if you played as Leon she would say she is straight but if you played as Jill she would say she is a lesbian. in THAT instance I would give say you are right, The writers lost it a bit but in DAO things are different. Each time you play you create a different continuity. In your first continuity Teryn Cousland had a boy called William who was a warrior and became a grey warden...in your second playthrough he had a girl named Brunhilde who was a rogue and became a grey warden....in the third it does not ewven matter because his child dies at the hands of Arl Howe and the second daughter of Aeducan became a grey warden. Those are not even the same continuities anymore they are parallel stories in which several details change...one of those details might be, of course, Lelliana sexuality or preferred orientation changing conveniently in accordance to your warden's sex
just saying
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