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In 2011, BioWare\u2019s Dragon Age II<\/a> portrayed its four main romantic conquests as bisexual, allowing them to be pursued by either the male or female version of main character Hawke. At the time, I was a young, mostly-but-not-completely out gay high school student, and I spent hours each week on the BioWare forums, hoping\u2026<\/p>\n

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In 2011, BioWare\u2019s Dragon Age II portrayed its four main romantic conquests as bisexual, allowing them to be pursued by either the male or female version of main character Hawke. At the time, I was a young, mostly-but-not-completely out gay high school student, and I spent hours each week on the BioWare forums, hoping\u2026 Read<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43685,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3765,1704,1705],"class_list":["post-43684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pc","tag-3765","tag-biowares","tag-dragon"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Industry Is Divided On How To Write Video Game Romance | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View The Industry Is Divided On How To Write Video Game Romance for free, here on XtremeServers. 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