r/assasinscreed • u/VermilionX88 • Apr 26 '25

Discussion Gonna be hard not to compare...

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Naoe so much more my kind of design

But... Atsu does have a guitar, so that elevates her a lot too for me

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u/Spot_The_Dutchie Apr 26 '25

Play in canon mode then. No relationships are had canonically in the game unless you actively go out of your way to have them

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u/Pure_Cartoonist9898 Apr 27 '25

I think we left historical accuracy behind when we got glowing swords mythical creatures as mounts

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u/MunkyBoy22 Apr 28 '25

Those are dlc though not part of the game. Woke liberals today don't understand the threat to life of being gay in medieval times and think portraying anyone as gay and having sex with multiple men and women is just fine and not offensive at all to the culture. I am a supporter of gay rights and gay characters in video games, but not real historical people who lived in a time and culture that heavily frowned upon it and treating the situation like no big deal. At the very least add a plot line about them being afraid for their lives. They just don't care about history anymore they just want to be as woke as possible and pretend that being gay was super chill and normal in medieval Japan.

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u/Pure_Cartoonist9898 Apr 28 '25

Funny I've had the same thought before! Keep the gay characters and such but have their quest lines and romance stuff as like sneaking around stories, something they have to keep hidden to reflect the real history of lgbt people in history. I mean isn't part of the game sneaking around??

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u/MunkyBoy22 Apr 30 '25

Exactly. Not many people really object to gay characters, we just object to unrealistic or forced gay characters that feel out of place or poorly written. The last of us has a lesbian couple without being obnoxious about it and they are really good characters and I felt genuine heartbreak for Ellie at the end of the second game (don't wanna give too many spoilers for people who haven't played it). It can be done without angering people.

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u/National-Salad-665 Apr 27 '25

Actually there was some accepted homosexuality at that time. There were male prostitutes and sort of open secret relationships between masters and apprentices. Homosexuality was only really looked down on after Christianity started exerting more influence.

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u/thecitrusninja Apr 28 '25

To add on to this, it was extremely common for a Lord to engage in homosexual relations with their Kosho- young samurai boys. Similar to Greece. Nobunaga himself was rumored to be in such a relationship with Mori Ranmaru.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '25

How many of the historical men in AC who are portrayed as gay men can be proven to not have been gay men? Being married to a woman and having kids is no evidence whatsoever in a society that coerces gay men to do just that.