This whole thing is insane. They were perfectly set up to capitalise on ChudNacht with Trump's election and the woke being put away and instead they just decide to make Henry lightly contemplate fucking his best friend in the ass mid-conversation. He might not do it. This time. But the thought and option is always there!
Also lol @ Vavra claiming this is all part of his 'vision' moodboard. A 'vision' is something you feel a profound creative yearning to include. Nobody feels a profound creative yearning to add gay romance options to their existing, already straight, character. In fact it's slightly perverse to inflict this on poor Henry, who you surely feel some affection for as the star of your breakout game. Nobody really feels a desire to express themselves through including a highly intelligent, cool, suave immigrant doctor of colour. If Vavra or another writer had somehow become obsessed with the history of Mali in this period I could understand, but you can tell from his disingenuous, half-hearted defence that he knows something is wrong, that he knows he's betrayed a creative calling in some way.
I probably should have known when the priest character in the first game was presented as a 'cool priest who fucks' and not as someone who, you know, actually believes in his calling as a Christian. Still, it's extremely disappointing. I'm just so tired of resentment propaganda at this stage. It's not hatred, I just don't want to constantly have to forcibly ignore the presence of gays and blacks in my games.
Someday we'll get a loving, perfectly recreated game of Arthur Conan Doyle's The White Company, fellas. Someday.