How can we be more diverse in dbd after the LGBTQIA2S+ character

This is a new one to me... which David are you saying is autistic? King or Tapp?

If you meant me with ‚that one dude‘, I never said that. At all. I was saying that there are explicitly heterosexual relations mentioned in the lore and everybody assumes that those chars are heterosexual.

literally no one said they think everyone is hetero.

and not everything is kept ambiguous, that’s just not true since introduction of Nurse. And no one asked for confirmation of sexuality or anything for every character at all.

and, again: why bring up politics at all and why are you avoiding so hard to explain what you meant by this?

and to be completely clear: I did not attack you. I just asked you to explain as I didn’t understand you.this is a discussion thread after all..

The Look-See nsfw I've seen makes me very happy he's pan is all im gonna say 😳

We could maybe get an amputee or something. Ash is technically one so doesn't mean we cant have someone who uses prosthetic legs or arms.

Then body Rep, people have complained that Jeff and Jane are the only "Big" characters, and it would be better if we got that more expanded on rather than average person and on the other side of the argument we could get the super skinny people.

Height could be another way to be inclusive but its unlikely as giving survivors different sizes would be unfair especially if you've got a giant 7ft character who cant hide or someone who was born with dwarfism (I hope that's not an offensive term, if it is I apologise and will edit this) as they could hide easier.

Then nationality comes into the mix, we have very poorly chosen nationality representation. There are NO African survivors. We have Adam who is Jamaican and Tapp who is African-American but no full African characters. Then South east Asia has no rep. We have Japanese, Korean and Chinese but Vietnamese, Filipino, Cambodian etc has no representation. Even an indigenous character should be added such as a Native American. Then middle eastern rep is very small, with just Zarina being Lebanese. We could even be more inclusive by adding a survivor who wears a Hijab. Finally, Hispanic characters should be getting more rep too, we have Jane but its unclear where she is from. We could get someone from Cuba, Uruguay, Brazil, Spain etc. Country rep is something that could make the game much more diverse but most likely we will get someone from Ireland or Australia next.

Religious rep would something I feel like behaviour is planning to avoid by not adding any priests or monks etc. As it might encourage anti-Semitism or something. As if a characters sole personality is "they're Jewish" it might encourage bad behaviour against people using that character. Especially since all the homophobes tunnelling people with the pride charm.

A minor one could be age diversity too. We have a very small selection of characters who are probably older than 35. By making it obvious their age would be better. Bill seems to be the oldest character at about 60-70, made obvious by his involvement in Vietnam. But its not likely behaviour would go beyond 60 or younger than 18 as they made it clear in the Stranger Things chapter they don't want to kill kids, that's why Victor is "not a baby".

Hell even culture/history representation could be a thing. Adapt to more "folklore" style killers like the Baba Yaga or wendigo. Theres plenty of urban legends in the world so if they ever start running out of ideas for killers they could just fish one of those out. We could get more era orientated chapters. Like a Pirate, Medieval, Roman or Victorian themed chapter to name a few. Behaviour clearly have tried this before with the Deathslinger, he was from the western period. While choosing different time periods might not be "inclusive" it could bring people who have a soft spot for that period into the game. Seeing a pirate as killer or a Centurion might make them want to try it out.

A little joke one here, if you notice all the survivors seem to be right handed, holding the item in their right hand. Where is my leftie representation at huh Behaviour?!? Got a problem against left handed people??

There's quite a few ways to be inclusive in this game its just up to behaviour if they wanna include them or not.

A survivor who uses a wheelchair would be pretty great.

How would that work, though?

Personally it would be cool to have a survivor be aromantic in their lore since that representation basically doesn't exist

@Apollos

I think it's perfectly fine to want to leave characters open for interpretation in terms of their sexual orientation. With that said, there is also room to have characters who we are well aware they are open about it. IMO that is what BHVR is aiming to do.

People just get their panties in a bunch whenever they think of an openly gay character in a video game that they will never have to play as nor care about. Since you know, we only have like 27 characters they can choose from.