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While yes claiming words originally used for discriminatory intent is a good thing, those words and phrases can be harmful to someone who isn’t okay with them at all - or someone who has had a negative experience with such words suddenly reading them used in an aggressive way may be triggering. But my issue was there wasn’t a trigger warning (that I remember), there was no discussion on the issue with using slurs in the first place no matter the context, and the fact it was after seemingly mocking the persona or stereotype of the more feminine gay man with the way he was drawn and then suddenly using homophobic slurs and it gave me internalized homophobia vibes, and I didn’t like it. But idk 🤷‍♀️  I’m just concerned about that bit of the route as I just couldn’t see Darius as a likable character after that scene.

Hi! This game seems to be super well drawn, well written, and the pacing of story beats is great, however I was playing Darius’ route, and on one of the day’s his antagonist’s sprite was revealed. He was very feminine which I thought was fun - however odd with the way he was designed it almost looked as if it was designed to mock more feminine gay men, which would be fine however he’s pretty much the only feminine gay man in the game. Anyways, I continued on but then the antagonist did a big bad thing to keep the plot moving forward, but when in the hospital suddenly Darius began saying homophobic slur after homophobic slur. I would understand if he was obviously angry, someone tried to kill him - however the fact that he just so happened to start using homophobic slurs after the sprite seemingly was used to mock feminine gay men - it removed all interest in the route for me after that point. And the characters never mentioned how using homophobic slurs and language was wrong - or any slurs at all, no matter the situation? Meh, who knows I could’ve perceived the writing incorrectly - however not even the protagonist who has supposedly experienced homophobia before was phased by it. It just rubbed me the wrong way, and made me uncomfortable and want to stop playing. Thoughts? The game other than that bit is great tho!