Gil Brodie - Chief Engineer (Official Thread)

Let me tell you about a fandom that just doesn't do slash fandom:

BIOWARE

It's worth mentioning that even IF that is how Bioware/EA marketing are playing it, if the content itself is present and solid, my angst over marketing will be pretty much entirely ameliorated. If I have a few well-written options, I will be very content, regardless of which characters were or were not shown in the run-up to release.

I guess I just let myself get irrationally invested in this aspect. I won't bore with the details, but Bioware and their games were there for me at a pretty bad time when I was younger. Finding out about Sky being a m/m option in Jade Empire (talk about hiding your gays! ) was really neat. Here was a company that cared enough to provide options for people like me to more thoroughly enjoy their games, even if they did face some backlash. Bioware makes a far greater effort than most in this industry on that front. It was nice and very comforting in those days to know that people did care about what I thought or wanted. And since then, they have been mostly on a good course toward greater and greater numbers of choices for nearly all their players. I just don't want MEA to be a step backward.

That's awful. -hugs- Besides the horrid content of those comments, they shouldn't have commented anyways, if they're not into slash. Like, what were they expecting, for the slash fic to turn out to be het all along?

It sucks how, even though we've come a long way, there's still people like that. Even people who don't outright say it's gross still find the idea of slash "hilarious" rather than... you know, plausible.

I don't care what BioWare's intent was. I actually liked the Kaidan romance MORE because he was only available in ME3. It made the arc all the sweeter.

People really gave them hate for it? It's a video game for crying out loud you can just assume that Kaidan was too shy to flirt with male Shepard because he's a 30 year old inexperienced bottom.

I'm expecting him to be kind of geeky and awkward. But maybe that's just me buying into stereotypes of engineers

I think there's a good chance he's the first m/m option we meet, too. Maybe he could even be one of the first male options you can flirt with?

Hmmm. With this fandom, I'd say it's more like a legion of straight women who tote themselves as "allies" and then get super duper SJW (in general mocking progressives with that term is laughable but this is like a neo-SJW if you will) because they're sooooo against protecting people's (i.e. characters') sexuality that if you change it, even straight characters, even via a mod or fanfic, then you're sick and somehow a homophobe? Or something. It's all related to the backlash against the f/f Cass mod. That made no sense on the surface, but once you dig a little deeper, you start to realize where these crazies are coming from.

And sorry this conversation isn't super Gil-relevant, but it's more related to the options that will be available to m/m player characters, and what to do if you're displeased with those options. In my experience, turning to fanfiction just isn't enough. So here's hoping Gil is gay AND he's a fucking amazing character.

Nah, I getcha. I've seen people in fandom use "social justice" as an excuse to be outright homophobic before.

I hope Gil and Reyes are both amazing, and that Bioware wisens up and gives us a gay/bi male squadmate.

Bioware plz

Sigh...Every day I wake up with hope in my bruised heart that there will be good news. We are still in the desert my fellows. The thirst is real!