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Waypoint Interview: ‘The Last of Us’ Developers Discuss Realistic Kissing, Queer Fridging, More

As always, I’m a desperate whore for more TLOU 2 info. Waypoint did an interview with the writers some days ago (article is linked in the content source down below), and here are the excerpts I found particularly interesting!

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I am L I V I N G for the fact that they put so much of their resources into making the kiss look as good and as real as possible. Now my gay ass is expecting more kisses - thanks Neil and Halley! The wait just became even more excruciating.

But the talk about tropes has me feeling all kinds of apprehensive. Ellie’s gonna be vicious af, I think we already know that; but the implication of violence being perpetrated against her in possible relation to her being a gay female character has got me on an anxious hold. Like. The game isn’t even out, I don’t even know what’s gonna go down, but I’m already calling for a bloodbath on behalf of Ellie.

The good thing is that they’re at least aware of the tropes???