![]() ![]() I think I might have, even during the revision process, kept some of that stuff in there with a sense of like yeah, this is a person who's been around and done a lot of things, went off the farm and down to Paris. "Not edgy, but with an edge of not following traditional norms. "I would say even with the things I could change, and I don't know if this was the right decision or not, I still saw her as a character with an edge," Kindregan says. In the eleventh hour revision of cleaning that up, she'd already been partially recorded with voiceover. That was explicitly to start sending the message that yes, this is a character who is pansexual. She says there was a guy and a woman she was running with that invited her into their robberies and into their bed. I would say that there were a lot of seeds planted in her conversations that certainly implied that she was pansexual - she once specifically references being part of a thrupple. "I've definitely heard a lot from people who were surprised that Jack turned out to not be open to that," Kindregan said. The decision was made in the midst of development, so there are still pieces of dialogue that reflect the original version of the character, and many were surprised to find out that their female Shepard couldn't end up in a relationship with her. The short version is, a lot of us were asked pretty late to focus the relationships on a more traditional kind of vector". ![]() doing the Jack-O Bioware is the award-winning studio behind Mass Effect. Kindregan said "It wasn't like some anti-gay person high up on the Mass Effect 2 team saying, 'we're not going to have that'. EA Studio - Tifa (Jack O) Roll over image to zoom in EA Studio - Tifa (Jack. Of course, the community modded it immediately so you can have it your way." I don't know if it came down to a budget constraint or maybe someone being like 'this is too obvious' because everyone was like 'of course she's a lesbian.' But my sense was always that she was and it just didn't get followed through. I think it was the time, you know? That was, what - 2008/2009? The industry has changed exponentially since then, and BioWare was leading the charge on that. I was surprised there wasn't a female romance possible because that was my understanding. "So I don't know if that's just something I inferred from the character or something that she said that maybe got cut. "It's funny to me because my understanding was always that she was pansexual," Taylor said. ![]()
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