Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback How many homosexual vs. heterosexual couples are in the game?

First of all
It's okay to be woke...etc.

It's a roleplaying game, you're supposed to have options to be "woke" or...not.

However, I am noticing that every quest/interaction seemed to have a higher likelihood of involving a homosexual couple than heterosexual one(not counting anyone in player char's party, nor the plot-essential npc(s)), by end of Act3, from
, to , to , possibly , and maybe even .
What are the heterosexual couples involved in quest/interactions? Or even just hinted at in writing/random npc dialogues as you walk by?

I struggle to remember them beside Plausible One of the few possibles: .

And generally it seems like
Again, it's okay to be woke and I totally support that; but has this game gone a little too far?
(to me, it feels like it watered everything down by having too many instead of focusing on the few important ones, I expected more of ) Who/where are some of the examples of heterosexual couples you noticed in BG3?

This ain't it chief.



But if you want a hetero couple, you can look at Arabella's parents or Dannis and Bex. Or the various hetero couples on the street in Baldur's Gate.

If you want to steer the thread in another direction, I agree it would have been nice for Aylin and Isobel to have more buildup or foreshadowing to their romance.

Edit:
More hetero couples:
Ketheric and Melodia
The Bibberbang Couple in the Myconid Colony
Mayrina and her "Husband"
Technically the Drow Twins
Technically Gale and Mystra

That's two, but there are also homosexual couples on the streets in the Gate too.

There's also Elfsong tavern's
Hell I would settle for aylin/isobel to I also expected isobel to but nothing panned out.

I don't think it's a "heterosexual vs. homosexual" issue and it may be a mistake to look for parity in the framing device for an intentional story.

It's more like the writers saw that queer stories have historically gone untold in this medium and decided to tell a few of their own. How many prominent queer relationships can you name in over a quarter-century of RPGs?

EDIT:
Please meet me halfway here. I am really trying to assume good faith.

What parity/with what? I'm looking for more balanced and nuanced representation instead of overuse of tokens. Not constant reminder that Baldur's Gate is California of faerun.



You shouldn't be trying to make up for anything in the past decades in a single game, that's like trying to stay asleep 24/7 for a month to make up for a year+ of lack of sleep.

if it's ok to be woke to you why did you look at a forum that already has a dozen threads on this topic, and make this thread?

There are rules againt flamming/trolling here right?

Yeah, but it's 1:30 AM in the UK right now and Red Queen is probably asleep.

Because this isn't about that. I want the homosexual couples condensed and more fleshed out rather than "hey we got lotsa gays are we woke now?"

Why are you trying to flame/troll?

Painfully obvious bait.

The existence of LGBT people in a work of media, especially at the forefront of said media, is not the overuse of a token.

We define tokenism as:
the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to do a particular thing, especially by recruiting a small number of people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of sexual or racial equality within a workforce: the use of gay supporting characters is mere tokenism.

The appearance of these couples is not symbolic or perfunctory, whereas further addition of heterosexual couples for the sake of "balance" would be a form of tokenism.

Should I just disengage lmao?

Didn't realize I was on Steam forums.

Anyone who thinks simply including homosexuality = woke is a troll / hate baiter.

Okay, locking this thread and BOKU Haram will be taking a break.

A reminder that, quite apart from what looks like trolling and raising of a topic that is almost certainly going to lead to further comments that are uncomfortable and upsetting for many (in addition to extremely dubious comments already made), public challenge to moderators by creating inflammatory threads directly in contravention of their requests elsewhere isn't going to go down well. If anyone has a challenge or question about my requests, PM is the way to go.