Originally Posted by 7TeenWriters
Originally Posted by Nyloth
Astarion and Gale are not gays, so they don't need to be represented as that...

They can discuss about women, fall in love with goddesses, and dream of virgins for this very reason (cuz bi). And honestly, I don't care which gay person gets hurt by that fact.

Not a gay dude so this really isn't my battle, but to do my best to summarize my friend's complaint: Much like how straight men often fetishize lesbians, gay men sometimes get fetishized by straight women. This bleeds into how gay/lesbian characters are represented in media, as they are generally written by straight people and end up feeling more like a straight person's fantasy of a same-sex romance of the gender they're into rather than actual representation. Essentially, he feels like Gale/Astarion are endemic of this and that even playing a dude attempting to flirt with him, these romance options aren't for him (no, he doesn't need them to be gay, just in the romance with a man feel a bit more like how men flirt with men).

Again, not my argument to have and I doubt I'm doing it justice, just figured I'd share my understanding of it since it seems it wasn't clear from my initial note on that front.

The problem is that in this case, you will have to do two different flirt and two different scenes for characters of different genders, which is quite expensive when all the characters in your game are bisexual.
I saw something similar in Pathfinder. As far as I can remember, there were 2 bisexual characters, and I know for a fact that the male character (I don't remember his name) behaved differently with a male MC. Making additional options for one character is not so difficult, but for all? Problematic.

Let me say that your friend is very picky, considering how many options for a romance he has. Just imagine, if you are given only 2 bisexual characters, such as Wyll and Lae, I bet he will not like it very much and we both know why. No matter how well they work for mc men.

I don't speak english well, but I try my best. Ty