Snowflake Challenge Day 4

[autodach]

Challenge #4:

If you got the opportunity to add one thing to the canon of any of your fandoms, what would that be? Maybe there’s a character who didn’t get much of a backstory/storyline and you’d like to do something with them, maybe a show was axed too soon and you had thoughts on what could happen in a subsequent season, maybe there’s a new episode you’d like to have added.


I'm not sure how well this fits the challenge, but I would like the Fire Emblem games to just drop the gender barriers.

Let me pick a class regardless of my character's gender.
We got so close in Fates (only DLC classes are gender-locked), then took it all back for Three Houses.
Where are my male Pegasus knights? My female dark mages?

Let the Avatars marry whoever. The romantic dialogue & events are already in the game - just let us have it! Let me marry Dimitri as Mleth

Comments

[tellshannon815]

It fits the challenge just fine, thanks for sharing!

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

I hope they listen. Keep asking, more fan pressure may help.

I have noticed a slow but definite trend towards wider inclusivity in video games. Same have race/class independent of gender. More have romantic plots independent of gender -- they offer at least one each of male and female pursuable characters, and you can go after whichever you want regardless of which protagonist you pick to play. At least one game had a playable Native American protagonist that they asked tribal consultants to help design.

You could watch Kickstarter. I'm not into video games myself, but I think folks are doing inclusive stuff there, because the roleplaying and other tabletop games are more diverse. So are the books. If somebody's going to offer a truly genderfree gaming experience, that's where I'd look for it.

And the mainstream companies can either catch up, or bleed market share.

Re: Thoughts

[autodach]

I actually think FE isn't doing a bad job regarding queer romance, considering it's a mainstream japanese series.
While there is no irl gay marriage in Japan to this day, FE has had it since 2015.
We got queer side characters since 2000 and main characters since 2005.

They are not doing too bad and that is precisely why I believe it could be even better with a nudge or two from the fans. I will certainly keep campaigning against gender restrictions.

Mainstream is always last to get with the times, yes. The road is long, but we'll get there.