is Sylvando gay or ropean? :: DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echo of an Elive Age™ General Discsns

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

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. 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.

ARE GAY PEOPLE OFFEND BY SYLV?

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.

We as gay people aren’t allowed to be proficient at anythg but beg gay. More than anythg, though, Dragon Qut 11 pats Sylvando as heroic ways few gam do for their gay characters.