For Dragon Age: Inquisn on the PlayStatn 4, a GameFAQs msage board topic tled "Iron Bull's gay jok to Dorian".
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REPRENTATN OF DORIAN PAV AS GAY CHARACTER DRAGON AGE: INQUISN
GAY. Apart om all of that, Dorian is also gay. Dorian has been scribed as a “breakg gay game character”, wh which the matter of LGBTQ reprentatn gam.
However, some read him as a gay stereotype and stated that storyle foc too much on his sexualy. Pelson argu that “Dorian n be posned beyond the bate between stereotyp and a “te” gay inty, and ultimately recuperated as a queer figure. In the article a few exampl of readg Dorian as gay stereotype is prented.
One of them is when his motache is pared to Freddie Mercury’s, this se the motache is read as a gay characteristic.
IRON BULL'S GAY JOK TO DORIAN
Among other opns that ments stated, few gamers saw Dorian’s distc narrative as another stereotype of a gay narrativ. He se the Tevter mage as an example of “posive gay reprentatn” and he should be approached as such. Pelurson se this terspeci uple as “unknown realm”, bee Iron Bull n’t be approached as a “gay human”.
Adoribull is another “discrete promotn of this queer relatnship”, falls beyond any gay and straight stereotyp. There probably isn’t any other gay character, who would be more known and discsed than him, sce 2014, when the game was released.
Gaspard Pelson me wh ep analysis of player’s ments and shows how they see this gay character. One of the thgs I like about Dragon Age and other Bware gam is that they give you the eedom to velop a romantic bond wh a wi array of characters, gay, straight or bi. The abily to see yourself reprented as a gay man a game really do make feel that extra ltle b special, and might sound rny, but I like the fact that I get to go out and slay hors of monsters wh my big, brawny boyiend swgg an axe by my si.