![]() ![]() It says a lot about how progressive Borderland 2 is when being gay is this guy’s least interesting character trait. ![]() ![]() Unperturbed by the complaints of whiny piss-baby man-children, Burch doubled down and made sure everyone knew that he’d intentionally filled the world of Borderlands 2 with gay and bi-sexual characters purely because he wanted a game full of diverse characters representative of every walk of life and also because why the fuck not? Being gay doesn’t mean you can’t be a badass, hell, the arguably two of the coolest (and most popular) characters in the entire game, Sir Hammerlock, a gentlemen hunter with a robot arm and Mister Torgue a muscle-bound, board game loving gun nut who tasks you with blowing up the entire ocean are openly gay and bisexual respectively. But hey, the kind of people who complain about that sort of thing tend to be dickheads anyway, so we can’t really be surprised that they got freaked out when a guy who likes having sex with men and women was in their game about shooting giant robots with exploding laser guns. Of course after this was announced Burch got a ton of hate-mail from a fans who didn’t like that they’d been tricked into playing through the game as a bi-sexual character, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the not noticing or caring about Axton’s sexuality was supposed to be the fucking point. With this in mind, Burch got in contact with Axton’s voice actor and had him record new dialogue for the character to make his bisexuality a little more obvious and then went ahead and made this facet of his character official in terms of canon. Why the fuck couldn’t Axton be a bi-sexual? It’s not like Axton’s sexuality had any impact on the story. When he dropped this bit of information in the Borderlands 2 forums and saw that fans were disappointed that Axton wasn’t intentionally written as being bi-sexual, he had a revelation. No one that handsome could be limited to just one gender.Īccording to Burch though, this was purely an oversight and it was never intended for Axton to be anything other than a guy who just really liked shooting people in the face with increasingly hilarious looking guns. This led to many fans assuming that Axton was supposed to be bi-sexual. This resulted in a small chance for Axton to flirtatious ask any of the eventual 6 playable characters in the game, including a clone of himself and a fresh out of high school teenage girl, if they “worked out” when he tried to revive them. Now for one reason or another, gender specific dialogue option was never programmed into the game, Axton’s gender specific dialogue however, was. Then again, if you have the balls to flirt with a girl who could phase your dick out of existence, you may as well go for it. Because as well know, the absolute best time to pick up a girl is when she’s lying on the floor with a bullet wound in her abdomen. The aim was for each character to have specific lines when they were reviving another character after being shot, Axton for example was supposed to have a small chance of flirting with the (at the time) lone female character you could play as when he tried help them while they were bleeding out. You see, early in development, the lead writer of Borderlands 2, Anthony Burch, wrote gender specific dialogue for each of the game’s 4 playable characters. ![]()
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