‘but are you a girl nonbinary or boy nonbinary’ is a constant issue, sadly
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From google according to the person who sent me that;
" 1. In Spanish, the term “non-binary” is typically translated as “no binario” (masculine) or “no binaria” (feminine), but some prefer the gender-neutral “no binarie”. The use of masculine “no binario” is common for referring to someone in a gender-neutral way, while “no binaria” is used when referring to a female person."
Very niche peeve
https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Journal_of_Archmage_Antonidas
I don’t like that Antonidas apparently knew about the plagued grain before Arthas did - before he even dispatched Jaina, even - but no one listened to him, with Jaina even carrying a copy of the journal he wrote this all down in.
It both undermines the active investigation Arthas was doing and directly contradicts Jaina’s first real appearance in WC3 mission where this dialogue is
Arthas: Could the grain itself be plagued?
Jaina Proudmoore: Let’s hope not. Those crates bear the regional seal of Andorhal, the distribution center for the northern boroughs. If this grain can spread the plague, there’s no telling how many villages might be affected.
Because if Antonidas already told her the grain can spread the plague, this makes no sense for her to say.
Though double checking that dialogue is how I found out that apparently Jaina was meant to die while chasing Kel’Thuzad and be reanimated as a banshee, with some voice lines being left unused in the data files regarding it.
Apparently got scrapped because it was too similar to Kerrigan’s plot, and so they moved the banshee stuff to Sylvanas instead.
“her pronouns are they/them” vibe.
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that’s normally from somebody who is at least trying to be correct.
What I sometimes get from my long time friends before I came out, they know my new pronouns and do try, but occasionally mess up like that.
It’s the 6th anniversary of Fire Emblem Three Houses, and you know what that means.
Four more years of Edelgard discourse.
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Four more years of she was right and has never done anything wrong in her life? Splendid.
So the spanish answer to somebody not speificing a gender is to make two terms saying they don’t comform to a gender, both… implying a gender by use?
That’s… it’s a path I suppose. I’m not sure where that path is going but it’s a path.
and later gave her kerrigans plot wholesale.
Fallen soldier? Check.
Enthralled servant? Check.
Breaks free? (granted I think the methods are different but still… check)
Turns bloomin’ evil anyway? Check.
Redemption arc? Check.
Answer to how to fight the big cosmic void doom of voidy doomness… yet to see, but probably check.
Ah, but the difference is that Sylvanas didn’t want to smooch Arthas’ lips like Kerrigan did with Raynor.
Totally different!
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“Purple-skinned woman who suffers torture uncomfortably analagous to sexual assault and becomes a nearly-irredemable monster” is a concept describing a character in every Blizzard property except Diablo
and you add Diablo by turning purple to red
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I still get sad about Leah. She deserved better
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Yes it is.
they need new ideas.
But I’m sure we’ll keep seeing it repeatedly endlessly, in the same franchises even.
Got it.
Purple-skinned man who suffers torture uncomfortably analagous to sexual assault and becomes a nearly-irredemable monster
print it, ship it.
What makes it close to sexual assault? Tirion Fordring (“The atrocities I have committed upon his soul” as he dangles naked, spread eagled from chains) and Keristrasza (literal sexual assault) are pretty clear cases, but I’d say Kerrigan and Sylvanas falls into the pretty neutral and common Blizzard trope of heroes getting tortured/mutilated to corrupt them into bad guys.
Kerrigan’s body being invaded and modified against her will by an invasive parasite, and Rise of the Lich King has a lot of extremely weird passages about Sylvanas’s body and refers to her raising as violation specifically
her body gathered up and flung on one of the meat wagons to who knew what sick end Arthas could devise
Arthas had enjoyed turning beautiful, proud, strong-willed quel’dorei women into banshees, after his “success” with her.
Somehow, she had gotten her body back from where he had ordered it left—safely locked in an iron coffin to be used as additional torment against her.
She was wearing the same outfit she had when he had killed her, revealing a great deal of her pale blue-white skin.
christie golden, truly one of the writers of all time
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She did.
But she also gave us femboi Diablo.
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a champion of womens rights for sure
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That particular unease is part of what makes body invasion tropes scary in fiction so I can’t hold it against Blizzard (The Scourge, The Zerg, The Borg, The goa’uld, Necromorphs, Super Mutants, The Flood, Reapers, the list is nearly infinite and they all have similar examples). The violation and loss of self is supposed to be uncomfortable.
Those quotes are weird though I’ll give you that. Thankfully I only played WC3 and was blissfully ignorant. Most of WoW’s external stories tend to be pretty dog every time I look into them.
Yes I’m sure Lord of the Clans is really good. No I will not read it.
The difference I think its that in basically all of those examples, when it’s done to pretty much any character it turns them into either a gribbly monster or just like, a regular dude with a funny voice but when it’s done to Sylvanas and Kerrigan specifically it’s weirdly sexualized. Once it’d be going under the radar but it’s weird they do it twice and actually kinda retcon Warcraft 3 to make it creepier.
It’s the same thing with the dragon storylines WoW has, where individually ‘an evil wizard threatened a dragon’ isn’t so bad but they keep having these stories that are creepy in this very specific way that it forms a pattern beyond being ‘standard genre schlock’.
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Tbf those two in particular are examples of what Kors talking about. They good ‘bad guys’ and good, initially anyway, stories, but they are sexual assault analogies.
Star Trek and Patrick Stewards portraying of it all is very clear about that. They change it later to just ‘lol we’re casually zombies now, oh look we’re better no side effects lmao’ (though tbf jeri ryan as seven of nine does -try- some things but they’re never really carried through.
The goa’ulds intro is literally a woman stipped butt naked, flipped over whilst a phalic object examines her then later pushes into another one.
They later change it to “oh they go down the throat now” probably to avoid anymore of that, but it’s very much still there.
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And are analogous to SA
Alien, for example, is textually about the horror of pregnancy
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