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Been replaying my childhood fav game again

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I can smell the sweet revival of the Fable Fandom from miles away…

I can hear the voices whispering, calling us back to Albion✌️

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I just finished reading the Fable: Jack of Blades short story, and it was a pretty fun read! I’m very curious about the protagonist of the story especially. I’m also excited to see what they do for the Theresa and Reaver short stories…

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When you view Heroism as an allegory for queerness everything becomes... gayer? Makes more sense? Becomes better.

Like-I just thought about this while making an edit of Reaver to "No one's son" by Mad Tsai.

Heroes were hated and looked down on during a period of time. Reaver probably lived through that era, and I'm so sorry but you cannot say "this is just about heroes". Reaver is the oldest man in Albion, openly pansexual, and a hero. Like-... this can so easily be read as your older uncle who's had to live closeted because back then homosexuality wasn't accepted.

And another element that reinforces that theory is literally that all heroes are queer-coded. First of, HoO lives hidden away from people with only a small community of people like him. He also doesn't speak to people.

Then you have Theresa who he looks for but who is also in her own small community away from people, and that community happens to be a gang (aka punks OR, considering the fact that they are mercenaries, we can also take a homophobic pov which would make sense for what I'm about to say which would be the stereotype that queer kids are influenced by "bad people") and she chose the gang over her brother for years, so it really gives off "Older lesbian sister who ran away from home to join a gang of other gay people because her countryside village wasn't accepting". Theresa is also the most mysterious secretive person in Albion and then she literally leaves to study on the other side of the world and she remains alone there. She also, somehow always ends up having to take care of kids/teens and guide them (Sparrow, hobw, Gabriel) while not having kids of her own (aka older lesbian guiding questioning kids).

In Fable 2 Sparrow can be queer to depending on the player's choice but I feel like even in the canon she wouldn't be cishet. She lives with Theresa in the dwelling camp, so with another minority who becomes her own community and small found family. She is also referred to as Lionheart I believe which is a direct ref to Richard of Lionheart aka THE gay king of England.

Meantime Hammer is a fucking muscular monk and we know how deeply religious imagery is used to show a character is gay because religious guilt is angsty and we like angst. Plus there is the whole thing of if you become religious in most orders you need to make a chastity vow which is a great excuse for a lesbian not to marry a man in a heteronormative society (this whole religious thing can be used for Theresa as well). Then the fact that Hammer is muscular can be perceived as her being butch even though I think she is fem, but again we're just talking about she can be read as queer-coded.

Garth lives alone, talks about his family yet we never see them, so it could be like a gay man talking about his husband but saying "partner". And then Reaver, again, openly pansexual.

In Fable 3 the Hobw is also queer or not depending on the player but I think that it's important to note that El is never referred to as their lover which-again... Could mean they're just bestfriends. And once El is "killed" or threatened, Hobw's only cover-up as straight disappears. So what do they do? THEY RUN AWAY FROM THE CASTLE WITH A MAN WITH ONE EARRING AND A BUTLER WITH MANNERISMS WHO ARE BORDERLINE FLIRTING TOGETHER.

Logan is not a confirmed hero but there are hints he is too, and let's be real this guy isn't cishet. He is a grown-up adult, king, who isn't married and has no child. This is a very rare find in History. We talked about Lionheart btw, and Lionheart never married nor had any child, LIKE LOGAN. And Lionheart is still mentioned in Fable 3. Also as someone once said "his castle is purple and he can't sit straight". And purple is literally the colour of queer people.

So yeah... Heroism being about abilities? Yeah... But also about something else.

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New Fable Details that I’d Like to See/Think Would Add A lot

So since the Dev Direct and learning that character morphing is likely not going to be a thing at all, my excitement dampened for a while, thankfully I thought quietly about all the other parts of the game, played fable 2 and I’m now willing to look past it still not happy, but the rest of the game looks amazing. I may or may not be working on a long ass post about everything I saw in the dev direct, good and bad, that’s sitting in my drafts

1. Time passing and things changing with time. So in fable 2 time passes in two chunks of 10 years with the world changing in result of that, I’m figuring that this if going to happen at least once since there’s a childhood phase confirmed (🙏😩 thank goodness) but I think after that it could be nice if things over time change, even if it’s not real time like watching a tree grow*, then at least if you leave an area and come back it progresses a bit. I think with the giant Dave, if you kill him it would be sick if his body started to rot and break down until eventually turning into a skeleton, or you might I find returning to a town a sign was changed, som boxes are stacked up where they weren’t before, etc. I also think if you aged a bit over time that would be cool too. This might be a biiiit much, but if your kids grew up completely? I sure hope they still start out as baby.

* (I don’t know the full context about the discussion of planting an acorn and watching it grow in real time feel free to enlighten me in the comments)

2. Id love a unique UI, I might even sketch out and draw something I have in mind. I don’t know about anyone else but I really miss fancy, unique and funky Health bars, mini maps, etc. it seems a lot of AAA games these days all have very boring UI, probably in a some what to “increase immersion” by making the UI barely noticeable. But I feel like it feels better if the UI matches the vibe of the game, maybe there could be a toggle for fancy UI and simple one.

3. Some form of genetics in for your children. I think it doesn’t have to be extensive just maybe like they will match you or your spouses skin tone and hair, that could be cute I know previous Fable games it’s random, it just happened to me in fable two (shout out to my son Tim), and as silly as it is if it’s random like in previous fable games where white kids were more likely if you and your spouse have a darker skin tone then non of your kids will look like either of you 😅

4. Getting tattoos at a shop/scarring from falling in battle, this is something we have in the previous fable games that I would love to see return, I think being able to choose some scars from the beginning would be good, but the act of getting them, and being randomized as you get defeated adds an element of meaning to them. I think in fable three you even got to see the heal over time into scars (this might be a feature in fable two as well I just don’t remeber because I haven’t emptied my health bar in this play though yet💅)

5. Being able to rename buildings, this would just be purely for fun.

Thank you if you’ve gotten this far, feel free to add your own ideas I’d love to hear them!