RIOT I HAVE NEVER LOVED YOU MORE THEN I DO RIGHT NOW

Sexy Jack Rabbit·1/13/2017, 2:46:26 PM·7 votes·1,368 views

OKAY BUT HAS ANYONE ACTUALLY READ JANNA'S NEW SHORT STORY!? Riot included an LGBT Character and It gave me so many goosebumps! I'm actually freaking out I'm so happy right now!

"He entered the room, looked down at my Gray-stained clothes, and laughed a strangled, joyless laugh. He said, “Sorry, my boy – we don’t take sump-rats here.” This implies the character is male.

Two paragraphs later.

"She was wrong, of course. I wasn’t fine, in the end. Couple of years ago, she – my mother – died while sump-scrapping, and I had to raise myself with the few gears she left me. Then, the usual: couldn’t make friends. Got beaten up a lot. Boy I loved didn’t love me back. Tried to study, tried to think my way up to Piltover. Couldn’t. Figured Janna had forgotten about me. " Bolded sentence implies romantic and un-requited love.

27 Comments

swordofsun1/13/2017, 3:45:52 PM4 votes

This made me so happy. Such a little thing that means so damn much.

Rebonack1/13/2017, 3:04:38 PM4 votes

He probably should have tried handing the boy a live rooster. I hear that's how the Greeks made their intentions clear.

Oleandervine1/13/2017, 3:02:15 PM4 votes

They also added in some LGBTQ stuff in the Progress Day story before Camille's launch!

"Tamara passes through the square, avoiding sprinting pneuma-tube runners as they race to bear messages to their destinations. A promenade courtier, Noami Kimba, waves to her and blows her a kiss. They have met three times in the sultry air of evening, and each time Kimba has offered her a chance to spend the night in her arms. Tamara has refused each time, too busy for any diversions, but if she is able to stay longer than today, she may take her up on the next offer."

Enselus1/13/2017, 3:56:39 PM3 votes

Caps? check Goosebumps/shaking/whatever? check "LGBT" instead of "gay?" check Bold/italics/underline? check

Looks like the tumblr leak is worse than I initially thought.

XIII Vanitas1/13/2017, 6:18:48 PM1 votes

If that's the only reason why you love that story, I'm pretty sad for you.

BastionKross1/13/2017, 6:24:30 PM1 votes

To be honest, I moused over the topic from the list, read this was about Janna's new story, and my first thought was "I thought that Frost Queen skin of hers had a bulge in the splash art... now it makes sense."

Piotyr1/13/2017, 9:49:51 PM1 votes

I think it was well done and not shoved in peoples faces like most people writing in LGBT references in gaming (Like making it the only character trait of said character etc)... That is all.

Ralanr1/13/2017, 2:48:14 PM1 votes

I must be really dense cause I didn't get the LGBT vibe from the protagonist.

HalfTangible1/14/2017, 11:34:57 PM1 votes

facepalm

Have you forgotten Tamara already?

Is a character being gay really the best thing about them? It's somehow virtuous to include an LGBT character just because they're LGBT?

Fuck this stupid attitude right in the ass.

Myrmiron1/13/2017, 3:10:31 PM1 votes

LGBT? What are you? A homophobic racist alt right Trump voter? It's LGBTT2QQIIAAP+ you misogynist!

TyrekGoldenspear1/13/2017, 4:03:17 PM1 votes

Why the freakout though? It's not that big a deal tbh.

GenoXx1/13/2017, 4:07:19 PM1 votes

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