Friday, March 29, 2013

women of color who make me wanna play video games

QUEER(!) woman of color, Samantha Traynor from Mass Effect 3, who's even given an optional romantic story-line with the female Commander Shepherd.

Chell, the main character of the Portal series, who's significantly absent of the male gaze in the first Portal (but "feminized" and more white-projecting in the second, ugh - still noticeably "not white" tho).

Faith, the protagonist of Mirror's Edge, who's not lithe to keep in tune w/ a male ideal - so often manifested in combatitive action heroines ridiculously lacking in muscle - but whose figure serves a real practical purpose and is realistic w/r/t the Parkour-esque moves signature of the game's characters.

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