BioWare's latest wears its nonbinary characters on its sleeve and does right by the queer community
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Trans and nonbinary characters get additional conversation options where appropriate, too, offering insight from the lived experiences of a gender diverse person in situations that feel genuine and well-executed. This isn’t a character inserting their identity in every conversation, it’s only where it makes sense, and it’s always handled with a shocking amount of elegance for a triple-A game.
Scattered throughout the game are notes written by Taash as they grapple with all of this. A visit to other trans and nonbinary characters in the game – of which there are quite a few – sees Taash taking notes as those characters explain what it means to be trans and nonbinary. It’s a concept largely foreign to Qunari and Rivainian culture and faith, and even when they know how they feel inside, there’s still a lot to learn.
It’s a story with the best intentions, told well and without restraint, something that’s exceedingly rare for a triple-A game. BioWare has touched on queer stories in the past, even within the Dragon Age series – Dorian’s personal struggles as a gay man in Inquisition come to mind – but The Veilguard goes one step further, unashamedly and unabashedly calling one of its most compelling characters nonbinary and following through with a story that isn’t afraid to pull its punches.
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