Why even make Fernando gay?

[Umbrella_Corp74]

I'm probably opening a can of worms with this but here goes. I'm not a homophobe and have nothing against gays but making Fernando "gay" just makes me think HiRez is only trying to appeal to the LGBT community. Especially with his voicelines of him trying to hit on multiple women and especially Cassie, it just doesn't make any sense for him to be gay all of a sudden. If they wanted to bring out champions who are gay then why not just make the new champion gay or any other upcoming champion gay. You can't just take an old champion who was most likely straight and just turn him gay. Unless I'm missing something here, I think this was just unnecessary. Of course this doesn't mean that I dislike Fernando anymore, he's still a cool character.

Edit: Here's a better example of what I'm trying to say. If any of you watched an anime called One Piece then you know of a character called Sanji. Fernando and Sanji are basically the exact same people. Always falling in love with women but always getting rejected by them. Now imagine if the creators of One Piece announces that Sanji is gay all of a sudden. That would not make any sense. Where just gonna completely throw away Sanji or Fernando's interest in women and pretend like it never existed?

[TonierBox]

Maybe, he is bisexual. Btw I agree with you

[Man of Steel]

Martini didn't realise what kind of out burst he created,xd

[Moon]

Wait how do you know he’s gay

[Umbrella_Corp74]

Originally posted by MoonintheMist:

Wait how do you know he’s gay

Because HiRez confirmed that Fernando is "gay".

[stupid sexy flanders]

This nando is gay thing is quality entertainment it's like a surealist reflective installation piece where the player base is the subject matter.

Looking forward to the next installment. "Maeve is a furry who yiffs with Strix" or something. Should be good.

[KaRenis]

Please prove how hes flirting with girls cause all I seem to find was kill taunts. Let me say that again KILL and TAUNTS. Hows that flirting? Seems more like sarcastic taunting to me especialy now that hes gay

[Grey]

Why even care? lol

[SheepMan]

Wait... did they say it like this "Fernando is gay" or like this "Fernando likes man"? Since people always forget that "gay" has 2 meanings.

[KaRenis]

Originally posted by CGS SheepMan:

Wait... did they say it like this "Fernando is gay" or like this "Fernando likes man"? Since people always forget that "gay" has 2 meanings.

they said hes gay

[Hyper]

The problem is on asking for a bible of reasons to make a character gay. Gays can come in any shape or form they are not restricted to skinny males with exaggerated 16yo girl personalities.

> Especially with his voicelines of him trying to hit on multiple women and especially Cassie

YEAH because all through history gays have always acted like a stereotypical gay. Because many gays don't get married due to social pressure or to avoid being outcasted by their own family.

Truck drivers, your favorite conservative politician, your favorite football player, your math teacher, any person could be gay, gays don't share all the same unidimensional personality, the fact that you are just expecting a stereotype and complaining about the fact that he isn't obvious is the actual problem here.

Why should things be always obvious and in-your-face, is this a video game for 13+ yo's or a Discovery Kids show for 5yo's? Doesn't it make things more interesting the fact of it not being obvious?

You know, being homophobic is not like a switch, everything comes in degrees, there is not just "want to lynch all gays" and then "I love gays and I wish 120% of the people on the planet was gay".

The core reason as to why you all think it doesn't make sense, is exactly the reason why it actually makes sense, this just shows the fact that you don't really know many gay people and you are actually just expecting a meme of a character.

[★ Bartes ★]

Why gay though it is dumb, really dumb, but still i dont play him very much at this moment cause there are better and more entertaining frontliners. However changing personality of the champions is bad idea. So what next, Bolt will be fisting Ruckus with his miniguns. I cant handle that the developers are so hard trying to impress LGBT. They are not even in majority in gamers population XD

[Umbrella_Corp74]

Originally posted by Machetewave:

The problem is on asking for a bible of reasons to make a character gay. Gays can come in any shape or form they are not restricted to skinny males with exaggerated 16yo girl personalities.

> Especially with his voicelines of him trying to hit on multiple women and especially Cassie

YEAH because all through history gays have always acted like a stereotypical gay. Because many gays don't get married due to social pressure or to avoid being outcasted by their own family.

Truck drivers, your favorite conservative politician, your favorite football player, your math teacher, any person could be gay, gays don't share all the same unidimensional personality, the fact that you are just expecting a stereotype and complaining about the fact that he isn't obvious is the actual problem here.

Why should things be always obvious and in-your-face, is this a video game for 13+ yo's or a Discovery Kids show for 5yo's? Doesn't it make things more interesting the fact of it not being obvious?

You know, being homophobic is not like a switch, everything comes in degrees, there is not just "want to lynch all gays" and then "I love gays and I wish 120% of the people on the planet was gay".

The core reason as to why you all think it doesn't make sense, is exactly the reason why it actually makes sense, this just shows the fact that you don't really know many gay people and you are actually just expecting a meme of a character.

This is a bad argument, you're trying to compare real life situations that some gays had to struggle with to a video-game character. Borderlands 2 had a character call Sir Hammer lock and they implemented him being gay in the right way. Many people thought he was straight because of his dapper and gentlemanly personality but never mentioned his sexuality until there was a mission we had to do for him where his first line he casually says "an old boyfriend of mine..." which revealed that he was gay yet nobody didn't mind or made a complaint about it because he never showed his sexual preference until later on. Fernando on the other hand was pretty much straight to begin with and made it obvious because he wanted all the ladies he felt attracted to but now HiRez announced that he is gay. The fact that Fernando being gay was presented as newsworthy by HiRez just shows that they are trying too hard to appeal to the LGBT community when it was just not necessary. It would have made more sense if Koga the upcoming champion to be gay since he is a new character we know nothing about.

[Civilian Squirrel Operator™]

Wait. What if Fernando isn't gay... but we are? And so are our pets. *mind blown*

[Roz]

Why is this an issue? I mean, the fact that Fernando is Gay dosn't affect his gameplay.

[Grey]

Originally posted by aorozco:

Why is this an issue? I mean, the fact that Fernando is Gay dosn't affect his gameplay.

Exactly