Fun observation; folks’ll be in a tizzy over a brown elf and debate its canon for 40 thread pages in a day but nobody gets upset that humans can have blood red and yellow eyes.
It’s just curious.
Yet we keep butchering their name with typos.
Or, art imitates life, what we write reflects what we know and some degree of grounded realism makes a story relatable. I’m certain LGBTQIA+ 12 year-olds play WoW too.
LGBTQ+ isn’t a sexual theme any more than 2 straight people kissing is a sexual theme. If you think that is you need to seriously reevaluate your perspective.
Vampire Bloodlines also covers a guy with a Romanian accent snipping people into pieces and using blood magic to re-shape them into abominations.
The only place where LGBTQ+ stuff is 18+ is Hungary and perhaps Russia.
We aren’t discussing sex scenes, neither are we discussing romance. By your standards, children shouldn’t be exposed to the idea of “traditional marriage” under 12 because they cannot consent.
LGBTQ+ and sexuality(as in do you like a person/gender, not sex itself) has nothing to do with being adult themes. Sexuality and Sex/adult stuff are two seperate things.
All 12 years old are think about your politics. They are below the age of consent. Thus the game cant have adult sexual theses.
You cant RP a couple in WoW because you dont know the age of the other person. A court can see it as grooming becaue the game contains minors. They are a protected group under the law. Thus Blizzard and adults playing games that have minors must accept that adult themes are off limits. A relationship straight or otherwise is off limits for RP. Dating a minor, if it is just RP or not is danagous legally. Thus dating or RP dating with someone is misguided in WoW.
What about when you do know the age of the other person? Like you are acting on the assumption that two randomers are meeting up and getting into a relationship (which I agree can be questionable) but what about people that are friends and want to tell a specific RP story?
I am glad I quoted Hungary because it seems like you are pushing the government’s current position that they also enshrined in the constitution. But what makes featuring Matthias Shaw and Flynn Fairwind flirting / courting each other a sexual theme?