You can tell some people here have no sense of humor

Well I either dress as Azura or Nocturnal whilst playing skyrim, for RP purposes, so I'm a pretty open-minded guy.

As stated earlier, pre-modern era, homosixuality was "normal". Married men routinely had partners of both sixes, etc. Modelled after those cultures, it would not make sense for your Orc to freak any more or less than he would freak if a woman liked him. That's on you, not your PC. Someone hitting on you is NOT a reflection of YOUR preferences, but THEIRS. That's a VERY important distinction that many, many, many straight people, usually males, usually young, fail to realize. He doesn't necessarily THINK you're gay as much as he HOPES you're gay. In OUR world, that still is, unfortunately, a HUGE risk for a gay man to take sometimes. Point being, if a man hits on me, I admire his courage, and let him know that, and politely decline any "offers". Would that we lived in a world where this conversation didn't even need to take place.

I'm not sure if I should laugh or facepalm. Probably both.

The same way people know in real life. You can usually tell by the persons behaviour. Being a 6ft Ork and killing people is the wrong behaviour

Now I really have to ask someone to make a questline where Merari goes around beating people with a banhammer.

Whats wrong with being a six foot orc?

Actually, sometimes you can and sometimes you absolutely can't.

And even if the "clear" behavior doesn't show, is it still so bad to ask?

Bottom line, your Orc character is a moron.

Yes but after they comment on my clothing, I never got married before this so I didn't know men would hit on you. My Ork agreed to the marriage because he intended on killing him because he was offended

I'm laughing at how some people are getting offended by all this.

OMG, you've got to be kidding. Not all gay men are Liberace and not all straight men are Rock Hudson... oh, wait a minute...

6ft Orks are the pinnacle of manly hood in Skyrim. Out of all the races they are the ones I would guess to be less likely to be gay

A "6ft Ork" in a wedding dress does tend to lead to comments. Damn Radiant AI!

For some reason about half of the people I went to school with we're gay and they all fell into this stereotype. Obviously not all are like this but it's a good teller

Really? Okay, to understand exactly how AWFUL some of the stuff being said here is, substitute Gay with Jewish. Oh, sheds a whole new light on it, doesn't it?

Who's getting offended? I'm more or less getting the feeling that OP is criticizing it from a gameplay perspective. (ie. "Bethesda shouldn't have wrote it like this because it doesn't make any sense for characters to do this.")


Pinnacle of something....

Manliness isn't the term I would use though.

were gay not we're gay. [censored] that really changes the context

But in orc villages only the chief can have children. So there's probably more man-on-man action in an orc village then a man or mer village.

Read the post above yours.

How old are you?

You might like to know that I once knew a hairdresser that even some gay men assumed was a flaming queen who was 100% straight.

Substitute it with Jewish? He assumed I was Jewish, told me he liked me so I beat his head in. That substitution doesn't really work

I'm gay AND jewish. Actually, I'm not jewish...or gay. But my point remains valid.

Honestly I read it as "I almost accidently married a man and my big dumb orc went all incredible hulk on him when he realized what was going on"

OP is just role-playing a moronic orc and choose to share it. Where in his post is he criticizing it?

I'm 18 and if you remember this one case it shows that it's out of the ordinary

Can we please get away from the fact that he was gay. Let's change it to I was wearing armour and he thought I was a woman so I bashed his head in.
There, now nobody can get offended by a post that was not offensive in the first place