Mar 14, 2019, 10:56 PM

Speaking as female of color, who played a white male in Horror's take on 1902: I think the progressive culture of our players and game made it a safe place to explore ideas that would get you run outta town or worse in real life. Now, this is for the same of my fun and (general) their fun.

My Dude sided-eyed a gay couple dancing. I had something vaguely bigoted in the next pose and I was like, naw, this ain't right. For one, I had already established that he was a woman beater, having slapped the shit out of one in front of another woman and I'd made allusions to him having hit his late wife, a close female friend, and his young sister in law. (I think. It wasn't a thing I made a huge deal about but it was firmly in my head canon) I didn't think that him calling a couple of perfectly happy men dancing something ugly was going to suddenly improve our historical accuracy. I'd have just been the asshole.

ICly, he had various reason to at least to keep his bigoted opinions to himself. A short list. Well known family head fucked anything with a heartbeat, making people he grew up with all colors of the rainbow. He'd lived 'Back East' as a Pinkerton for 8ish years before the story. He'd seen things and probably made peace with some more controversial things at the time. He was a disabled laudanum addict and had no place to throw stones, as far as he was concerned. Lastly, he was a closeted bisexual. Very, very closeted. All of that before you take into account Horror's archetype system and my character's archetype. The Confidant. He wants friends. He wants to help people. He wants to be supportive.