Like clearly he was made gay for a media grab. I hate when companies use characters which people grow attached to as a way to dig up some attention. Like clearly him being gay has nothing to do with Varus as a league champion and never has, but to make sure to hit it on the head with a hammer is cheap to me. Him being gay isn't going to break the internet nor do I care, but like I hate when they change characters so drastically. It's cheap.
I would have been more impressed with a character that was originally designed as LGBT and released as LGBT, not a 5 year old character that was retconned... but that's just me.
Exactly. This is nothing more than a company rivalry. They see blizzard reach out to LGBT community, and they try to imitate. Cept they did a horrible job.
Varus aint gay as far we know, but, Valmar and Kai are totally homo for each other.
Didn't feel forced to me, it looked like a nice relationship and a powerful love story.
Ok Roy moore.. Varus himself isn't gay nor is that a bad thing. Varus is the Darkin, he has two people inside of him who love each other dearly. Varus is a darkin, trapped inside of the bow, with these two people's love reminding him what he fought for when he was a darkin and how not all humans are bad.
"Varus" isn't gay. "Varus" is three entities. The two humans, while both possibly purely supergay, could also have had heterosexual tendencies in the past. We don't know both of their entire backstories. We have a short comic. Chill.
We don't know the details of Darkin reproduction. Maybe Rus liked Darkin dudes? Maybe he liked Darkin chicks? Maybe he fucked em both? Who the fuck knows, it's a videogame. Use your imagination until something canon pops up.
All we really know is that this sick champ shoots arrows made of fuckn energy and is constantly fighting himself to avoid murdering every last living human. Pretty cool.
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I'm pretty sure that rather than Retconning Varus to pander, they're trying to shore up all the Darkin lore to create a consistent theme for the race. They just happened to find a convenient excuse to make the people begging for LGBT representation happy. The lore seems kind of boring to me (then again i find most lore boring), but if his VU/VO update is done well to go with it I'll be happy enough.
Also he's not even gay.
Varus as an entity was made into a Dark kin in the new lore. He isn't gay.... The couple who awoken him is, read the lore before you post because this misconception is getting out of hand.
The thing is, whenever new representation is added to any franchise or series, many of the people who aren't represented by the new character/iteration ALWAYS say that it's just pandering. But it might mean a lot to many of people who are now more included. Look at the new Doctor. Fanboys say that BBC is just kissing SJW ass, but how many female whovians LOVE that there's finally a female doctor? Doesn't their fan-hood count too? I, for one, can totally understand that many people who loved Varus's old lore feel upset that core parts of his story were changed. But the part about the two male heartlights? That means a lot to me and I'm glad riot did it. And I know I'm not alone. Doesn't that count for something beyond just pandering?
but riot has been removing the lore of champions for years, why is it suddenly a huge ass problem?
Almost no characters in league hs a clear sexuallity, but Riot chooses one of the few, probably the only confirmed straight character, to retcon and make gay. It's painfully obvious it's a cheap attention grab.
Like Riot said, they have very few lore based cinematics, and this cinematic along with the Xayah and Rakan cinematic, are the only ones that show an actual relationship, albeit Xayah and Rakan's relationship didn't play too big of a role, they could have just been some fighting buddies, they put minimal effort in the cinematic to show their afdection for each other, whereas the Varus one it was all "No please don't seperate us" Sob sob.
The idiots can go and say "But muh representation" or "But mah pretty pretty cinematic", but the people that see every opportunity to validate their existance to others are idiotic beyond comprehension.
Finally, can you imagine how a high quality animation with Varus's old lore would be? Seeing an elite soldier having to leave his family because of his loyalty, just to find his family slaughtered after he kicked so much ass, and turning to corrupt himself with the Darkin weapon he swore to protect to get revenge on the people that played a part in the murder of his family. Hell they could have even snuck in Singed, Swain, and Darius. That with so much moral abiguity would have been truly epic and lore based, but no, we get this cheap excuse to basically "Insert surprise LGBTQ character here"-Never seen that one before...
Really though. This was cheap and disgusting. Make a new gay champ? Fine, that's completely fine, but, completely change the lore for one of the oldest and arguably the coolest lore-wise? That's sick.
