LGBT Battleborn?

Battleborn Battleborn General Discussion
#116

So getting back to the OP and the original purpose of this thread, yes, there are characters in Battleborn that could definitely fall under the umbrella of LGBT.

This thread kind of turned into a discussion about inclusion and that’s totally fine. People are certainly opinionated on this issue and many like it. The fact that we’re able to have discussions like this on these forums while maintaining civility speaks very highly of this community.

When the team sets out to create characters, it’s not necessarily with the mindset of “this character’s sexual orientation should be ____”. The bigger thought is “how can we best connect this character with our audience?” Sometimes these sorts of things become more evident as the character is fleshed out and sometimes they don’t. I think one of our concept artists, Amanda Christensen made the point best last year at PAX South by saying (and I’m paraphrasing her here) that diversity in character design isn’t necessarily about making a statement, it’s just good design.

Our team understands that everyone will connect and identify to different characters and for different reasons. We like to do our best to facilitate that connection in any way we can. Character diversity is a great way to do that. After all, let’s be honest – no one wants to see the same character copy/pasted over and over again, right?

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#117

A post was split to a new topic: Should be pm. Lgbt thread

#118

List names, gender, orientation and fetishes and the thread could be closed because its fully answered :sunglasses:.

In fact I don’t see that anything more is going to happen here instead of accidentally offending each other.

#119

This is a fair point, actually.

Hopefully we can avoid this by getting things back on track vis a vi the discussion the original OP intended.

#120

do any of the characters have foot fetishes??? to connect with the players, ya know dood? :grin:

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#121

We need to start a new “Please include characters with my fetish” thread

#122

I feel so close to y’all now … that maybe I can confess: I FETISH XPLOSIONS!!! :boom::boom::boom:

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#123

that’s just plain disgusting, ahhh geez

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#124

Just gonna say this that all my fetishes is in the game.

I’m a bird lover, so…

#125

Can you clarify if that’s a fetish for explosions (Mr torgue) or the love of other fetishes exploding (honestly probably also Mr torgue)?

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#126

image

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#127

Orendi likes intestines if I remember correctly. And bones once everything has been stripped from them. Maybe even the part where you remove said everything from the bones. I need to listen more closely the next time I am playing her.

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#128

Obviously gay.

#129

I’d just like it to be known that this is the best reply to the topic from a GBX official I could ask for. The way you wrote it, you put to rest any of my concerns about “pushing” vs. “including”. Damn, I’m excited for this game.

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#130

A post was split to a new topic: Battleborn super cancer

#131

That feels very unfitting for this topic.

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#132

I like the idea of some disease but A) agreed unfitting for this topic and B) we’re well before the inevitable heat death universe. We’re unknown void monster apocalypse death of the universe.

#133

Sexual orientation to terminal illness

Not seeing the connection

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#134

I kind of see the connection because the dev said there would be LGBT characters to make the character roster more diverse and in response to this, he had an idea that could also potentially make the roster more diverse.

#135

That’s more than a little off-topic. Let’s stay with the thread, people.

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