It feels lousy execution unless the book makes it justifiably a fair read. The transgender night warrior also felt like lousy execution to make up for the people being offended by it not being a female elf too #Hottake
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This is totally forced and out of nowhere 
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Donât really play enough on Alliance side to know the characters that well but I guess congratulations? 
Hope Blizzard doesnât use the book for cheap PC points though and actually show their relationship in-game as well.
Poor Moe never stood a chance :c
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Moe is gonna be heartbroken 
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i donât think those characters have any kind of interaction ingame so far.
I do think that Flynn and Shaw are coming out of nowhere. I mean, I thought Shaw was into Valeera and Flynn into Taelia. Itâs be cooler to see Anduin and Wrathion.
Alas, for those who say to keep âthisâ out of videogames, just shut up. âThisâ, as you so call it, is a normality for many people who should also feel included in a videogame they love. Just like inclusion of black people, white people, etc. should be everywhere.
Also, homophobia is not about cultures, keep that in mind.
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Oh then I guess I understand why some people are saying this is coming out of nowhere 
They can, of course, develop them during the book but given how much story the book has to cover it will hard to write them from strangers to lovers without it feeling rushed or odd.
Guess we will have to wait and see 
Shaw and Flynn do have interactions though, the whole Zandalari treasure scenario is built around it, and there are some banterous comments being made there.
This said itâs still a bit unexpected, but only because I can see why Shaw would dig Flynn, heâs a charming rogue and very likable, but Flynn liking Shaw? Shaw is about as dry as sawdust. So unless he has a really cracking off screen personality he never shows, I donât get it.
Iâm pleased Shaw didnât go with Valeera, getting really boring having high/blood elf females being the object of desire repeatedly and having the âunusual occurrenceâ of an elf human relationship repeated yet again so as to make human elf couplings actually more prominent for major characters than any other kind of relationship.
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They seem to be good friends to the very least, especially from what I gather from the campaign to the treasury.
Was it hinting more than that? Who knows? I certainly donât. I suck at picking up on hints like those.
Any development on Shaw is nice, I like his exchange with Wyrmbane where he questions Shaw whether he has anything to his life other than preparing to the next war.
I think itâs great. I enjoyed the interaction between Shaw and Flynn during the Alliance war campaign and itâs nice to see that get some development. I suspect weâll mostly see how it leads to a relationship in the upcoming book, but Iâd also like to see it in game too.
I guess their going to be all the gossip in Stormwind 
oh right i totally forgot about that scenario XD
Good for Blizzard being progressive and stuff⌠Seems Flynn was âalwaysâ written bi⌠
Why do people care so much? Itâs not like Tyrande who says âmy loveâ every sentence. Itâs in some novel most people would never even bother reading.
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Not like I really care about what happens storywise anymore.
You donât understand even half of it by just playing the game (especially when you only play one faction).
And even then Alliance is just mainly humans+Nelfs every expansion, while all other races are long forgotten.
But it still would be interesting to know how this can be one of the most fan-requested pairings, when through all the different communities, forums and sites this is one of the rarest Iâve seen. Compared to Wrathion+Anduin for example, Shaw+Flynn felt nearly non-existant.
My bets were on blood elf gay couple. I mean, they have been gays from the start
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SJW everywhere these days
A guy has a crush on a girl so long he turns gay instead, is that the story they trying to pull these days? Why must it feel so forced? Is every good-hearted scoundrel bi according to society these days?
Oh well, I donât care anymore. Iâm even reading a fanfic with Sylvanas and Jaina undead together ^^
(âWorld of Warcraft: Shadowlandsâ on ffnet - 100x better than BFA story - which is full of holes and makes no sense - for a Sylvanas loyalist like me, explains quite well the possible reasons WHY Sylvanas did everything she did during War Campaign, before the stories diverge around the second siege of Orgrimmar - that she basically set herself up as a monster to both enable her to save the world from the Old Gods AND to unite the warring factions⌠while punishing whining hypocrites like Saurfang. I mean, the story is AWESOME so far and doesnât contradict anything weâve seen up to a few days before second siege of Orgrimmar (when non-canon things happen by accident that can/will change the storyâs future to divert from Blizzardâs story)
Donât care one way or the otherâŚ