Dead by Daylight: David Kings Outing ensures outcry

Since the latest "Dead by Daylight" update, a popular figure is gay, which not only has positive voices.

• justified criticism?
• the advocates
• Own opinion

Unfortunately, the "LGBTQIA2+" community still has no easy in 2022 worldwide. Even in the countries where there are no terrible laws against gays, lesbians, transsexuals and co, they are still not accepted and tolerated by every1. It is all the more important not to stop taking attention to the topic and struggle that people who do not fit into the roles of some conservative and right -wing people are recognized as a normal part of society - and that on all fronts, so also in video games. This is exactly what happens in Dead by Daylight.

This would not have been expected of the asymmetrical survival horror multiplayer game, after all, the background of the characters probably play no role for many players. Since 2019, however, the developer has been trying to give the characters background stories about the in-game archive about the in-game archive. Now their sexual orientations have not really played a role, in the case of David King that has recently changed.

King is one of the most popular characters in Dead by Daylight. He is currently one of the top 10 most played survivors. This could also have contributed to the fact that Behaviour decided to come out as a gay. In fact, one of the "highlights" of the latest update is according to the development team: "David King is now gay." The developers have probably been able to imagine that this is not only praised before the announcement. It is also not surprising that your own Reddit thread was closed relatively quickly because the situation "has come out of control", says a moderator who also writes: "Homophobia is not tolerated. If you see them, please report it."

justified criticism?

Now there is not only criticism of people who express themselves openly. Some Reddit users simply question why Behaviour chose David King, from now on to represent the homosexuals in Dead by Daylight. "Didn't David have a friend in the Lore? Who left him about money or something?" Writes one person whose opinion, Jake, Ace or Jeff, would have offered much more because in their cases never from friends Speech was. "It feels like they have thrown a dart arrow and said: 'Yes, good enough.'"

Another "Dead by Daylight" fan writes, himself queer and still not satisfied with the decision to make David King a gay: "I have the feeling that I have the feeling that Behavours step in retrospecting a character does not create gay Just the assumption, but also the precedent that all other figures in the game are heterosexual. " The comment also says that the makers should have published a new character or at least a piece of new lore, which explains why David King is now gay.

In fact, Behaviour Interactive has implemented a new folio in Dead by Daylight, which offers exactly that. "Devotion" includes a memory from David King's life before he was kidnapped by entitus. "In 'The Importance of Being King' you get a deeper insight into a new side of David's character," says the official website. In fact, it is not the case that the developers just say: "David King is now gay." You have even got advice from Gaymerx, an American non-profit organization that works for "LGBTQIA2+" people and culture in the world of video games. After that, it felt confidently about the decision to make David King a homosexual character.

the advocates

Fortunately, there is also a lot of encouragement from the community, but above all from the "LGBTQIA2+" community itself. "As a gay man and someone who mainly plays David, I think that's great," writes one player. He didn't care that the character was not originally designed as part of the "LGBTQIA2+" community, since a sexual orientation was defined for almost no figure in Dead by Daylight.

Another fan defends the decision Behavior against people who accuse the studio that all of this is only tokenism. He writes: "[Davids] Previous Lore only mentions a friend. I am a gay guy, I had four friends." He continues that the new foliant certainly contains a coming-out story and that would be something that he could identify and which would certainly feel represented by many other homosexuals. "My point is that this cannot be called tokenism because this happens in real life almost every gay person. We don't jump out of the womb and let everyone understand that we are gay," he writes. Furthermore, he says: "We don't have to decide when people come out in real life and the same applies to characters from the intellectual property of others."

Own opinion

The fact that Behaviour Interactive from David King makes a homosexual person with an update is absolutely no problem in view of how irrelevant his sexual orientation has so far been in the lore. On the contrary: that the developers even select a character that does not correspond to the cliché image of gays purely externally. This is how you create awareness!

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