Captain Marvel(2019) dir. Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
So that new DLC was a fever dream… right?
Ubisoft: “You are straight and in love with Natakas”
Kassandra, 3 fingers deep inside one of her girlfriends:
Speaking as a bi person, no, being angry about Ubisoft’s decision to force Alexios/Kassandra into a opposite-gender romance and/or pregnancy/parenthood is not bi erasure.
As a queer person, I am bi all the time, including when I am with a person who is significantly further towards the other side of the gender spectrum or who presents significantly further towards the other side of the gender spectrum.
BUT:
-There are often people who assume, when I am, that I am straight.
-There are often people who consider that I have finally “Gotten over a phase” and am ready to “settle down” (as the achievement puts it, I have “Grown up.”)
-I am in solidarity with my gay/lesbian/homoromantic comrades who are often pressured to go for someone of the opposite gender by homophobes of various stripes.
-Even as human in general, being forced to have sex with someone for procreation brings up strong issues with bodily autonomy, feminism (for those who are woman and/or playing Kassandra especially) and compulsory sexuality.
I don’t think anyone would have had a problem with this on such a high level if the story had been static with no choices. I mean, a lot of us might not have played or preordered because it wouldn’t have been the same game we wanted or have the themes we wanted, but at least it would just be one more in a sea of fair-to-middling straight protagonist games, still a problem because we deserve more queer representation, but not specific to that game.
But Instead we were told, both in-game and out of game, that we would have these choices, specifically surrounding romance, that being gay, lesbian, asexual, etc., we feel bait-and-switched at best.
That is not bisexual erasure, that is anger at a company and story being controlled by straight people forcing traumatic anti-queer propaganda on us. As a bisexual, a person is and plans to remain childfree, and a person who believes in bodily autonomy, this is all incredibly disappointing to me, and I, believe, should be for anyone who consider themselves queer or a queer ally/comrade. I urge any fellow bi/pan queers to consider this before you get angry at gay and lesbian comrades for being angry at this storyline.
You dont really get to explore any relationship though, even though as I’ve mentioned that I liked Neema and don’t mind Natakas, I had zero idea I was even going into a romance with Neema through the first episode until the achievement “growing up” was revealed on an achievement website a while later. The only heart dialogue option you get is after you’ve already started a family. Also telling people just to wait for the third installment as if you’re going to magically pull something out that will make people happy, doubtful.
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Here’s the original. Bonus. This was literally the first time we properly spent a day together.
