Tracer from Overwatch Confirmed as a Lesbian.

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Gordon_4 said:
Well, the WidowTracer shippers are now 50% more justified, so they should be happy :p
Widowmaker's a widow...Tracer can catch her on the rebound. Just a "few" years too late, but still: I've seen ships sailed on less. :3
 

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CrazyCapnMorgan said:
Who.

The hell.

Cares?

In a world where innocent people are getting shelled and bombed to death, political figures get assassinated and where the president-elect throws fucking Twitter tantrums...
You must be fun at parties.
 

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helled and bombed to death, political figures get assassinated and where the president-elect throws fucking Twitter tantrums...

Two fictional women who are having a holiday together and share a kiss infers that a sexual relationship exists draws outrage.
I haven't seen a single person outraged though.
 

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There's a lot of weird things about this comic, like Tracers chornal accelerator and Torb's robot arm being gone.
Both of those things are pretty easily explained, though.


And as for Torb's arm, if McCree can have an arm-shaped robot arm why can't Torb have one that he switches out when he's not needing a weird shaped one?

Anywho, cool. I'm glad Blizzard are introducing more stuff about the characters. I need to know more.
 

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"Alas, my world view is shattered! How can I possibly relate to Tracer now that my view on her sexuality is shattered? Blizzard has fallen to the gay agenda, and...and..."

...yeah, sorry, I've got nothin. I'd love for that to be a parody, but when people are writing such things with 100% sincerity, I don't want the world to think that my view on Tracer as a character is dependent on which plumbing she's into.

So, on one hand, it's depressing that a gay character is considered newsworthy by various sites, and even more depressing that it triggers people. On the other hand, anything that shoots TracerxWidowmaker in the foot is fine by me.* ;)

*As in, I've always disliked that pairing, not because of it being same sex, but because given that Widowmaker is a cold-blooded killer, brainwashed or otherwise, I feel it does disservice to Tracer's character to just ignore that in favor of a ship.
 

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undeadsuitor said:
RJ 17 said:
Gordon_4 said:
Well, the WidowTracer shippers are now 50% more justified, so they should be happy :p
Widowmaker's a widow...Tracer can catch her on the rebound. Just a "few" years too late, but still: I've seen ships sailed on less. :3
Tracer can travel through time. I'm sure there's enough material for a hurt fic where Tracer accidently travels back to the day before Amelia gets abducted and she has to desperately try to change the past knowing that she could bounce back to the present at any moment. Only to come back realizing nothing changed and Amelia doesn't remember a thing.
Cue up Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On." :^)
 

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selere said:
A bit of a bad move by Blizzard. By revealing to the public that "one of the characters is homosexual", they gave the fanbase ammo to speculate as much as they wanted. They should have left it there, making the character's sexualities unspecified, as it doesn't need to be, since it has nothing to do with the gameplay. The only result of this is that people will see Tracer as the LGBT token of Overwatch.
Friend do I have bad news for you. We've been speculating their sexualities since they were revealed. And the general consensus is that..all of them.

All of them are gay.

Especially Soldier 76 and reaper. And Junkrat and Roadhog. And Mei and Zarya. And pharah and mercy. And symettra and sombra. And McCree and hanzo.

Super gay.

(Also, I like how pharahs confirmed straightness by her having dinner with a man doesn't 'count' as leaving her sexuality unspecified, because it's a videogame. But tracers does? Does straight not count as a sexuality?)
Posts like these are exactly the problem that I'm referring to.
 

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Aaaaaaand we continue to live in a world where bissexuals don't exist in the media, not that I'm complaining, but why does somebody has to be exclusively gay/lesbian? You can like both genders, you know? But then again, sexuality is recently being used as just another checkbox for new movies/games/etc. to be made along gender, skin color and accent, and by complaining I am part of the problem, what a world to live in.
 

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Aeshi said:
You know, for all the complaints Blizzard has made about all the R34 stuff, they really do seem to love pouring gasoline onto that fire.
Lesbians can't exist without it being pornagraphic?
They have a pink mecha piloted by a hot female South Korean professional video gamer. Surely they've stopped pretending that their not pandering to their audience. I would like to think that this was a good faith attempt at inclusivity, but...
 

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Igor-Rowan said:
Aaaaaaand we continue to live in a world where bissexuals don't exist in the media, not that I'm complaining, but why does somebody has to be exclusively gay/lesbian? You can like both genders, you know?
To be fair, a while back Blizzard released a statement indicating that one of the cast members was a homosexual, not a bisexual, they just didn't state who it was. This comic serves as confirmation that Tracer has a girlfriend/wife, so combined with Blizzard's previous statement it would mean that she specifically is a lesbian, not bisexual.

undeadsuitor said:
Fox12 said:
undeadsuitor said:
Aeshi said:
You know, for all the complaints Blizzard has made about all the R34 stuff, they really do seem to love pouring gasoline onto that fire.
Lesbians can't exist without it being pornagraphic?
They have a pink mecha piloted by a hot female South Korean professional video gamer. Surely they've stopped pretending that their not pandering to their audience. I would like to think that this was a good faith attempt at inclusivity, but...
This seems kinda off topic but hilarious

You would think d.va would be sexualized af given her outfit but you know what the number one non porn headcanon I've seen for her is?

Dorito eating mountain dew guzzling gamer gremlin child
Not really sure what your point is here...of course in "non porn headcanon" she's not overly sexualized. I assure you, however, in the full-porn headcanon/fan-art division: she's arguably the most popular subject. :^)
 

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RJ 17 said:
Oh yeah, I know. Just found out about this statement after my mini-rant there, that's what I get for meddling with things I don't know fully about.
 

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Igor-Rowan said:
RJ 17 said:
Oh yeah, I know. Just found out about this statement after my mini-rant there, that's what I get for meddling with things I don't know fully about.
No worries, your over-all point remains valid. :D
 

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selere said:
A bit of a bad move by Blizzard. By revealing to the public that "one of the characters is homosexual", they gave the fanbase ammo to speculate as much as they wanted. They should have left it there, making the character's sexualities unspecified, as it doesn't need to be, since it has nothing to do with the gameplay. The only result of this is that people will see Tracer as the LGBT token of Overwatch.
Are you as opposed to Widowmaker's backstory including a husband? Personally I think it's super pandering to give a woman a husband and imply she's into men.
 

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Gordon_4 said:
Well, the WidowTracer shippers are now 50% more justified, so they should be happy :p
I look at this the opposite way. Tracer's got a girlfriend, so now that stupid WidowTracer ship is finally fuckin' sunk. And apparently Pharmercy too!

C'mon Blizzard kill Junkmetra next. I live off the pain of people who reduce everything to shipping.