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I'm not surprised, but disappointed nevertheless (Varus)

panexin·11/30/2017, 7:50:45 PM·8 votes·851 views

Wow, I thought Varus' update was really well done. I liked it a lot. However, it was no surprise that the people took to the board in masses, and a few choice posts made it to the top in particular, in order to protest the change. And not the change in general (integrating his story into that of the darkin), but that he was now portrayed as loving men.

I've read all the arguments, and without fail, they begin with something along the lines of "Before you start, I'm not homophobic..."

You're homophobic, and let me explain why.

Why are Valmar's (re: Varus') motivations for vengeance and revenge suddenly less because he's fighting in memory of his lost male lover rather than his wife and child?

You are implying that the strength of the male-female bond is greater, or that the bond of a male-child (which, from all we know, could have been entirely possible in the future for Valmar and Kai) is greater than the bond between two men. That's wrong, and that implication is homophobic. By saying that without a wife and child to lose, he loses he motivation as a spirit of vengeance, you're saying that now losing the love of his live, who was a man, falls short of that, that is it somehow less, which is just plain wrong. You're demonstrating your view that homosexual love is inferior to heterosexual / traditionally familial love, which is wrong.

He hasn't lost the core of his character, and I would argue that it's stronger now as a result of the sheer depth of story telling we were just given. I can understand (sorta) a sense of nostalgia for the extremely underdeveloped story that he had before, but the quality and quantity of what we have now is objectively better. What's the problem?

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Quepha11/30/2017, 7:56:34 PM5 votes

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Wow, I thought Varus' update was really well done. I liked it a lot. However, it was no surprise that the people took to the board in masses, and a few choice posts made it to the top in particular, in order to protest the change. And not the change in general (integrating his story into that of the darkin), but that he was now portrayed as loving men.

You are blatantly and obviously mischaracterizing the main points of criticism. The only posts that actually talk like you imply have been downvoted to oblivion.

HalfTangible11/30/2017, 8:06:15 PM3 votes

[slayer-jinx-unamused]

I see more people on this board complaining about homophobes than I do people talking about how Varus is gay now. Find something else to bitch about.

Boulderox11/30/2017, 8:07:26 PM1 votes

Varus is not gay or straight, varus is a darkin of ancient origin. The big sticking point for me of distaste is how it appears one drags the other to the well, in presumed hopes of saving the other, otherwise why wouldn't they just run away together?. Why both jump in? Suicide pact? why that way, for all you know that is the worst way to die, we don't know.

In the original lore we KNOW why he gave in to the well, because it was powerful and he wanted to murder every noxian dog that destroyed his life. You felt that connection to the character of loss, we all have lost people special to us, and relate to that feeling of anger and hate that can come along with it.

I don't care what makeup varus is, varus is an entity that is not a sum of its parts, but I don't see why you would rewrite a more tragic story, for one that appears to have been changed to check a PC box.

And just because people like the old lore they found more engaging, doesn't make them homophobic, I refuse to believe in the new Diana lore, her old is superior, declaring brash statements like "you are X" based on nothing but your predisposed assumptions, is not a way to make this issue better.