Can we retcon Varuses lore now that Anthony Burch is gone
pls I miss his old lore and Riot´s lore team doesn´t seem to care about it too with the way they didn´t change his VU
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I love Varus's new lore
There's a reason why your last post got downvoted and probably deleted.
Varus's lore is fine and more than one person put time and effort into making his new lore. They're not going to undo something just because of a change of staff, especially something that has earned them so much praise and media attention.
His lore already was retconned. It was retconned last September, then this year in like March. It doesn't need to be retconned again.
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pls I miss his old lore and Riot´s lore team doesn´t seem to care about it too with the way they didn´t change his VU
Are are anti-lgbt or something?
Mate. I get you’re angry. Hell when they pulled similar nonsense to my main I was/am angry too. Turned him into a fucking space parasite.
But you gotta be realistic about this stuff.
Riot staked their image by bringing in openly LGBT characters. Honestly, in my opinion they did this about 5 years too late to mean anything. But regardless, they did it.
Do you know the kind of backlash they would get if they came out and said “No. Sorry guys, we’re getting rid of the first gay couple we have. Just a mistake.” Hell just a couple months ago they got the shit kicked out of them in the news for the whole terrible workplace for females report.
Riot is trying to make themselves look like an open and tolerant company. So they’ll keep his lore as is. Very likely we’ll be seeing some other similar display. Probably female, in order to reaffirm their new stance on female empowerment. Hopefully they’re smart enough to put it on a new character this time, or at least one that wasn’t confirmed heterosexual with kids.
Varus got lost in the crossfire. And honestly, I’m sorry for that. But, to be totally fair. I do hope Riot keeps their stance on showing a more complete spectrum of the human existence.
Just. I hope they do it in a way not to force the alignment of old lore fans with fundamentalist homophobes. That just seems like a terrible strategy.
I loved his new lore back when everyone was hating on it. It's good writing and much better than his old lore where he CHOSE duty over his family, then got upset when he lost his family. The criticism usually boils down to "two gays and a darkin in one body" but if you changed it to a male/female couple in the same situation somehow they lose their criticism steam.