Jeremy Signor talks about Dragon Qut 11's bt pann Sylvando, and the plited and plex portrayal of him beg d as a gay man.
Contents:
- DRAGON QUT 11’S SYLVANDO IS A COMPLITED, GAY CHARACTER – AND THAT’S OKAY
- ARE GAY PEOPLE OFFEND BY SYLV?
DRAGON QUT 11’S SYLVANDO IS A COMPLITED, GAY CHARACTER – AND THAT’S OKAY
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Gettg real gay reprentatn gam is a ght prospect no matter where om. That’s what mak Dragon Qut 11’s Sylvando, a gay character and hero, so surprisg.
Sylvando is a gay character who isn’t jt a joke spe beg the stock Jter character class.
While he still has some tropey flaws attached to him, he acplish one thg that many gay characters utterly fail at: he mak feel like we n be hero, too. Let’s be very clear om the start: one of the biggt flts Sylvando’s story is that he’s never nfirmed to be gay ncretely.
ARE GAY PEOPLE OFFEND BY SYLV?
Tle. Ive got nothg agast him beg a gay character but Im kd of cur what his background is. Its so shroud mystery, do ever pay off? * dragon quest gay characters *
Rather, we know he’s meant to be gay bee he’s d as gay g trop such as his flamboyance, his speech patterns, and some of his special abili all pot to him beg a gay man.
This is a shame, as we need out and proud gay role mols, pecially if we want to spire players who are still the closet that beg gay isn’t jt a thg we are, but that n be awome. This is an important distctn om gay characters that me before for one key reason: dimensnaly. Much of the problem wh gay characters up until now is that they were one-dimensnal people rather than posssg the plex mannerisms, ner life, and rhythms of a real person.
Even the bt of tentned gay characters n fall to this trap, so to see a plex gay character portrayed here is a good first step. So often gay characters are fed by their gayns, or at least a heterosexual view of gayns. The one-dimensnal characters that gay people had to endure were also sufferable bee their only pot was to mock gay people.