Gail Simone's Blog, page 685

While being a part of an oppressed group can influence your identity (your life's experiences, your outlook on society, your capacity for others' bs) that does not mean that it entirely defines you. They influence us, not define us. To say that a character

Speaking as a writer, changing the backstory is HUGE. MASSIVE.

It changes everything the character does.

Ah, to clarify, you said the game changed her background detail, I was talking more about her personality. In that case I suppose you are right: they changed her background, but it didn't make her "an entirely different character" to me; different events s

Well, I didn’t, and I think I’ve answered this already.

You assume she’s straight in the new game based on zero evidence. All this massive background detail that was changed didn’t change her in your opinion, but if she goes from no stated preference to a gay woman, you object to that.

That’s your position. I get it.

Not much more you can say, really.

Have you read Homestuck?

I started to and I have to admit, it didn’t hook me.

I am told you have to keep reading and it gets amazing, and I’ve also been told that reading it on an ipad is not optimal, so those two things may have been a factor.

I am going to try again, people adore it so deeply I think I simply missed out on something.

I'd disagree that the game changed a lot. It showed a different character slowly becoming the character people were familiar with -- by the end, the old Lara was recognizably back. Had they changed her dramatically, many would have considered that incredib

You are mistaken, you have to look at Lara’s background before this game, and her story after. They are hugely different.

Just a thought, wouldn't Mr. Terrible also be out of shape? The point of Mr. Terrific is that he's both a mental and physical specimen so, it would seem that his polar opposite would not only be an 'engine of chaos' but also kind of chubby. As an overweigh

I had him as gangly and smelly and a bit of a disastrous slob, that’s how Dale Eaglesham drew him. Nicola prettied him up a little bit!

Hi Gail. Your answers today strongly suggest that sexual orientation is a mostly trivial aspect of who a person is. You questioned how making Lara gay would make her a completely different person: would you yourself not be a different person, with a very d

That’s not how I feel at all.

But in the relaunched Lara Croft myth, a LOT has changed. A TREMENDOUS amount of her background detail has changed.

Did that make her ‘an entirely different character?’

And I say again, find me somewhere in the relaunched Lara where she has expressed romantic or sexual desire for ANYONE.

Who is to say she isn’t ALREADY lgbtq?

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gangler:

On the far left of this page there appears to be some manner of Terrifiboy. He seems very unsettled and I can only imagine that he stumbled into this meeting of villains by accident.

I really don’t know what his deal is. There can’t be that many people in the DCU with a T tattooed onto their face. Or a T Mask. I actually don’t know what the T on Mister Terrific’s face is now that I think about it.

This is a weird one.

When I was a kid, I saw Mr. Terrific, the original one, and he had just the goofiest, most generic costume, EXCEPT that it said FAIR PLAY on it. I thought that was the weirdest thing, and I took a liking to this goony bird right away. I felt sorry for him for his costume and gimmick, but I liked that he cared about something the world has almost forgotten, the notion of fair play. It was weirdly meaningful.

Years later, Geoff Johns revamped Mr. Terrific wonderfully, and in the middle of the night, I thought up a nemesis for him, MR. TERRIBLE.

I wrote Geoff and said, “Holy SHIT, Geoff! Is there a Mr. Terrific villain called MR. TERRIBLE who is BAD at everything, and has FOUL PLAY on his suit?"

And Geoff wrote back IMMEDIATELY. I will never forget his response.

"THERE IS NOW!"

He loved the idea but JSA ended soon after and I asked if he was cool with me introducing the character in Villains United, and he was very happy to agree. My thinking was it was a guy who sucks at everything he does so badly that he’s a walking engine of chaos. If he drives across the street, it’s a twelve car pile-up. If he gets on a plane, it crashes or is hijacked.

FOUL PLAY!

If you could write a Deadpool/Deadshot team up, who would use the most bullets?

Deadshot doesn’t NEED as many bullets.

Re: your response to the question about lgbtq relationships in Tomb Raider: As someone who is prominent in the gaming community, I can say that gamers are absolutely NOT ready for lgbtq relationships, which is exactly why we NEED to see them.

I just don’t believe it. A bunch of people lose their minds, so what, they lose their minds if you change the color of the bow in Ms. Pac-man’s hair.

I am sure there would be a bunch of angry homophobic nonsense if you made Chun Li or Lara Croft gay.  I also think listening to trolls and judging a whole community by their worst element is a bad idea every time.

I agree it needs to happen. I am not in the gaming industry, I’m not currently writing any games, but it already looks ridiculous how many of the protagonists for the most popular games are white straight dudes. A little variety is pretty nice.

And wasn’t there a great lot of support for the same sex relationships in Dragon Age and Skyrim?

I think we’re closer than it seems.

Ms. Simone I was just wonderig about Babs' age ( I remember something about her being 23-24) current time but in Zero Year she is 16? I thought the powers that be said Batmans been operating for 10+ years... sorry if this has been asked aleeady

Babs is 21 in current continuity. I do not know when the fill-in takes place, sorry.