Yasuke is gay now

[Mega Ultra Chicken]

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[Espejismo]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Joke in the Box:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Masque:

I'm just waiting for the *other*, other shoe to drop: all the villains will be white men.

But wait: white men from Future America. LOL and, wearing red hats.

Somehow, I bet that will be the big "twist" in the storyline. The "I see dead people" moment.

Polygon, IGN, Gamespot, RPS, and Kotaku writers will be totally shocked, but they'll love it. They'll even love how much it surprised them, and not even realize how stupid they are for not expecting it.

White men will be the Templar leaders probably

i mean it was kinda already that way from the beginning you realize in AC 1 the protag is an arab guy and the enemies are europeans, right? and the assassins are based off a historical real life muslim order and the templars are based off...the templars

[Masque]

Yeah, I guess I knew that, but they'll lay it on thick, this time, I'm sure. Like in your face "These people are the people from today -- current year -- that we hate so much and you should too."

It won't be relegated to obscure lore.

[Merci]

I remember yasuke in one of my previous lives. He was NOT gay

[ナルゴ]

Next they'll depict him as vegan or eating ze bugs

[Stranger]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Jellybeans:

I remember yasuke in one of my previous lives. He was NOT gay

he was pretty gay, just asexual.

me and the other wisemen chortled a lot over some of his sauna adventures. seemed like he was on the verge of drawing his sword to get out of it sometimes, a symbolic gesture he also clearly bridled at the suggestive nature of.

[Bamford]

But can he breath?

[Espejismo]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Bamford:

But can he breath?

keep yourself safe

[☎need4naiim☎]

I can't see an Assassin's Creed game there. Just an expensive piece of software with "Agenda 2030" injected into it.

We wanted to play a videogame but got this Mockery of WEF instead.

[Haiku's Knife]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Espejismo:

wikipedia doesn't mention anything about him not being a samurai. if you're going to mention that paragraph you mentioned in another thread - it literally didn't exist until very recently. you can check this on wayback machine yourself and see that it wasn't there one month ago. so no, i'm not going to take wikipedia as a source on this. that was obviously added by someone with a particular agenda or interest in this little edit war going on.

yasuke was in japan during the sengoku period when the social class system was basically falling apart and the bushi class was much easier to get into. any "retainer" (like yasuke) was in essence a samurai if they had something like a permanent stipend, which he did. really, yasuke's case wasn't anything out of the ordinary and in fact probably representative of a lot of other japanese at the time. which means this entire discourse about him not technically being a samurai or technically being a retainer or w/e is honestly pretty meaningless, and also it's not like japanese people dislike him or don't want to associate him with the samurai class. quite the opposite, he's a common character in taiga dramas afaik

There's nothing in Japanese history that describes him as a samurai. No historical record describes him as such. That is a fact. If you want to talk about "essence", let's talk about "essence". To become a samurai, you were trained from childhood to be a samurai. Yasuke was in Japan as an adult for around 3 years. Conversely, if you were born into a samurai family, you became an inherited samurai. Again, Yasuke was an adult foreigner, so there is no inheritance aspect going for him. He arrived on a boat, was given free ♥♥♥♥ for essentially no reason other than being a novelty to someone important and surrendered in his only real battle. If you want to talk about "essence", the dude is an absolute joke and runs counter to everything that the "essence" of what a samurai was supposed to be.

[Magma Dragoon]

I didn't understand why this franchise is popular, I thought the first one sucked and all that changes between games is the location.

[Sek-Raktaa]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Dracoco OwO:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Nargo:

And all that happened in less than 2 years

Yeah i did add that part later. i stretched to 3 years because it might be possible he did stay a while longer but anyways, ain't no way my dude was a fierce samurai warrior in 3 years, that's just not enough training and i doubt he was naturally gifted.

Does that really matter though? Whether he had actually samurai training or not?

I mean, I guess you could say that this is a little historically inaccurate but we're talking about a game franchise that has people running around historic eras while wielding alien ISU technology, like swords that can shoot lasers or spheres that can mind control people...

Are you sure you want to argue about historical accuracy when it's a simple fact that real life 9th century London didn't look anything like it did in Assassin's Cred Valhalla? Do you really want to argue about historically inaccuracy when you can run around Ptolomeic era egypt wearing glowy ISU sci-fi armor that looks like it came straight out Destiny 2 like you can do in Assassin's Creed Origins?

Yasuke is a historical figure and a cool character. Fact.

It's also not the first time that Yasuke has appeared in video games. He was featured in both Nioh games and he's playable in some of the Samurai Warriors game.

Speaking of Nioh, when the first Nioh released in 2017, the main protagonist was William Adams, a white guy, and nobody seemed bothered by the idea. If you weren't bothered with Williams Adams being main character of 2017's Nioh, its very double standard of you to be bothered about Yasuke in 2024's Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Also Yasuke supposedly inspired the fairly popular anime and manga "Afro Samurai" so he seems decently popular in japan.

[Cryght]

I have a question.. why is he labeled as a member of the LGBTQ+? When Back then the Entire Woke/lgbtq etc.... Sure there was gays, but the main thing is the English Wiki states he was a samuraii.... while the japanese historical documents NEVER state hes a Samuraii..