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iron_megalith said:

I disagree. The same effect could have been achieved with or without the premise that she lost her lover. In a world torn apart from the violence, having the simplest thing of a living childhood friend is a novelty in itself. But I digress, I will continue to hold my view that the whole thing was shoehorned.

Regarding Bob, it speaks magnitude that I find his story about his partner making more sense because of how it was executed and moreso because of his character.

It was handled equally as subtly as Bill's scenes. With Bill it ended with a male porn magazine, with Ellie it ended with a kiss. If it was in any way virtue signalling or pandering to SJW then that kiss or a more open indication of Ellie's sexuality would have been placed at the beginning of the DLC. We were rooting for the 'characters' all the way through the DLC and it is only at the end we find out Ellie is a lesbian. I watched dozens of playthroughs of both the main game and the DLC and only a couple of people spotted the subtle tells scattered throughout, with the majority surprised by the kiss scene, a scene that isn't just a kiss, I'd like to point out. 

Remember, I'm the guy that said I was concerned. There was no point being made in the DLC, just character development. This is the reason for my concern. I want TLOU2 to retain the honesty of the first game/DLC and don't want anything related to the female cast to be politically motivated. If there was a character in the DLC that didn't agree with lesbians or conversations about bigots or homophobes underpinning the lead up to that scene, then I'd take your point and wouldn't like it either. That's the sort of shallow writing I associate with Cage.