By your reasoning, the characters entire backstory is irrelevant, gay or not.

You’re argument basically boils down to “this doesn’t cater to me, therefore it is not important and shouldn’t exist”.

Plot twist: it’s Reaper.

So, by that mindset, all heroes should be white men? Neutral human isn’t white protestant male, as much as Stephen Colbert would have you believe. Seeing people who look like you matters, even in video games.

You seem to have pretty poor reading comprehension. I’ll try again.

I was waiting for comments like this. When you live in a world where everything is catered to you, its hard to see why representation matters so much. Just shut up and let us have our gay character...

The flavor of the characters is a huge hook for the game, drawing in tons of people who don’t normally care about FPS play in and of itself.

A couple things.

so help me god, if Zarya is the gay one I’m gonna protest!