What is [character]'s [race, sex, gender, etc]?
Our character creation process has two main goals:
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Creating a diverse cast of characters
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Providing characters that are exciting and dynamic, but still blank
slates for the community to build on and identify with
Since these characters are anthropomorphized versions of software and
development concepts, they are not constrained by our concepts of race,
sex, gender, ethnicity, country of origin, and religion. While we are
developing some characters with specific communities in mind, they can be
anything to anyone. We invite people to play around with them as they see
fit!
Our desire to not make fan creators feel constrained by specific pronouns
posed a challenge when assigning our own defaults. Official materials
currently use he/him pronouns for the characters, as a callback to the
genres that inspired us which avoids singling out any character’s
preferred gender expression. We encourage the community to use whatever
pronouns they prefer within their own versions of Localhost HQ. We’ll be
exploring other ways to handle this issue in the future.