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Pride Week: Fanfiction, fan-mods, and the joy of gay fantasy

Hello! Once again Eurogamer is marking Pride Month - on this 50th anniversary of Pride in the UK - with a week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming. To get things started, Sharang Biswas revists a youth of pining for Dragon Age: Origins' Alistair and explores the power of fan-creation.

In 2010, on a borrowed computer in a college friend's bedroom in Boston, I fell for my first videogame character. Alistair from Dragon Age: Origins was charming, funny, disarmingly oblivious, and hot. He had interesting thoughts about the world, tragedy and trauma to live with, and a vision of what the future should look like. He looked sexy in over-the-top pauldrons.

And like every one of my teenage crushes, he was straight.

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