ROUND 1 — Match 62 of 286
Georgia Warr (Loveless)
Identity: Aromantic and Asexual, explicit
Notes: Directly explores her identity as an aro-ace person throughout the webcomic.
Propaganda: N/A
vs. Reaver (Fable)
Identity: Bi/Pansexual, explicit
Notes: Mentions sexual experiences with both men and women, and propositions the player character in both games he’s in regardless of gender.
Propaganda: 1. “Reaver is rich, bored, and completely self-serving. He talks like everything is a joke because he doesn’t take other people seriously, and he’s spent so long getting away with things that he expects the world to let him do whatever he wants. He’s charming when it benefits him, cruel when it doesn’t, and he’ll switch between the two without blinking. He loves status and attention, he loves being the person in the room who can say anything and still get what he came for, and he’s always making sure everyone knows he’s in control. He treats people as disposable, he makes deals because it keeps him comfortable, and when something goes wrong he’s more annoyed about the inconvenience than the harm. Reaver is awful, but he’s fun awful. He’s one of the only characters in Fable who feels like he’s always in control of the room the second he walks in - he’s confident, smooth, and completely unapologetic about wanting the best of everything. He’s dramatic, he’s stylish, he says the kind of stuff you can’t believe someone just said out loud, and he’s so self-assured that it’s hard not to be entertained even when you want to throw him into the sea. He’s also genuinely interesting because he’s not pretending to be a hero. He doesn’t do speeches about “the greater good.” He makes choices that keep him comfortable, powerful, and alive, and he’s honest about that. In a series full of big moral choices, he’s a character who simply refuses the premise that he should feel bad. That’s why he sticks in people’s heads: he’s charming, he’s terrible, and he never stops being himself for one second.”
2. “he is an absolutely horrible person and that is precisely part of the appeal. he’s vain, cruel, selfish, theatrical, and so ridiculously entertaining every second he’s on screen. fable would be worse without him. sometimes a character deserves votes not because they’re good, but because they’re iconic, and reaver is absolutely iconic. also as lgbt characters go, he gets points for being one of those characters who feels genuinely allowed to be awful, flamboyant, charismatic, and memorable instead of watered down into something more “acceptable.” he’s terrible. he’s fun. he steals every scene.”
Who should advance?
Georgia Warr
Reaver