Cascadus wrote...
You know what? I'm just going to drop one Hendel Mitra in here. One of the main characters of Ascension. He was tough, likeable and awesome. He's also gay. If BioWare has such an issue with homosexuality that some of you guys claim they are, then try to explain Hendel. He's a great character, who kicks ass and is overall pretty awesome and just so happens to be gay. It's never flaunted, Hendel isn't used as an object to insult homosexuality or any of those things.
Chill. Sorry there's no homosexual relationships in ME2, but then again, there technically weren't any in ME1 either; keeping in mind Liara is asexual.
This provides the perfect explanation for why there absolutely SHOULD be same-sex option, though. The
only reasonable explanation (more like excuse) that I've heard as to why Shepherd shouldn't be gay is because "that's not what the developers/writers intended him to be like." Now, I could take that at face value I suppose. I still have a problem with it, and it surely isn't a great reason, but it held some (very little) weight in comparison to other "reason" that people have proposed. Yet, this all the more supports the idea that a gay Shepherd could be just as "straight-acting" (what a horrible phrase - as if all homosexuals, or heteos for that matter, act one way?) as a straight Shepherd, and therefore the only difference would be that he prefers homosexual sex/romance.
Yet, to go back to what I was saying, and somewhat keep this on topic, haivng the Asari as supposedly genderless is ridiculous and a cheap, unprofessional, immature way of covering their asses. So, shennanigans it shall remain.