madamsnark:

ghoulfuccker:

mmm so that post about how zevran was originally supposed to be gay.. som people on it are sayin “dont act like he’s a lesser character because he’s bi” and ok Mood but as a bisexual the rep feels kinda cheap now because they didnt make him bi for the sake of bi rep. they literally made him bi to make him more palatable & because they thought they didnt have gay men in their demographic. also they made him bi with a Huge preference for women. as in he talks about how much he loves women all the time (big mood tho) and he will only talk about being attracted to men if the warden is male (also i think he flirts with a male warden less than he does with a female warden) and then there’s like one party banter where he says alistair’s handsome. and obviously having a preference doesnt make him less bi but cmon now. his one (1) relationship with a man is Never mentioned in game despite the fact that you meet that man and is only referred to in an out of game book and like? who the fuck reads those. you want me to pay extra for lore and i have to read it?? hard pass. also when u ask him about his sexuality he just says that he was raised & taught to be open-minded which is….not how bisexuality works At All and it??kinda implies that he was like. idk conditioned to be bi which is hmmm big yikes. so like yeah we got bi rep (and bi men are wayy more unrepresented than bi women) But At What Cost. i always want more bi rep but this aint how i want it. anyway thats my rambling incoherent hot take. thanks for comin to my ted talk

Was just discussing this exact thing with @raymurata the other day! Like I’m glad he’s bi and all but after reading about this I just feel annoyed about the way they went about it. It’s like they took the slider bar for his attraction all the way from only men, to past that middle line into strongly preferring women, like why? Again let me reiterate, I have no problem with this, plenty of bi people irl have preferences. I just mean like why go so far with it for him if he was originally supposed to be just into men, but no now hes into men, but actually prefers women much more? 

And I’m just gonna have to chalk the whole “crows expect a certain open-mindedness” thing to him having identity issues stemming from being molded into a weapon for the crows so he really doesn’t know how much of who he is was just him, or built by the crows – because that is so not how bisexuality works! 

But yeah basically in an effort to not get complaints of “pandering” to an audience they weren’t even sure if they had, they went totally in the opposite direction, trying to appease the homophobes out there by keeping Zev’s attraction to men pretty under wraps. Definitely not the same open flirting that a female warden gets, no mention of Taliesen and his sexual history – only that they were friends.

Anyway it was kind of wild to read about what happens behind the scenes. A lot about romance options vs cost justification (ie – if no one was going to play as a male and choose a gay romance option, then the cost wouldn’t be justified in making that content, from what I understand?? So opening him to female romance reaches wider audience)