I decided to dig and find the origins of the lesbian barbarian. This quote from vergeben is from 02/26/2018.
"While that part was interesting and all, most interesting is that there is apparently one character design that A LOT of people on the dev team wish they ended up doing, but ultimately decided against, at least for the time being. I take it this character has no chance of making the launch roster at all because of that.
But there was apparently a lot of the Japanese design team into the "large and muscular women" character type idea and the "dark skinned women" archetype that they noticed is popular now in fighting games with many of the new installments in major franchises including one like Guilty Gear (Ramlethal), Street Fighter (Menat), and Tekken (Master Raven). And even non-fighting game characters like Urbosa.
They said that some of the people working on the game are fans of an artist called 23 who also goes by sela_god and Real XXIII, and that some of their work that's of big, muscular, dark skinned women was inspiring said female character design to some extent that they wanted to put in the game but didn't have the opportunity to.
I had to look up who this artist they mentioned was, but fair share of warning it is NSFW lol
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts?tags=23_(real_xxiii)
https://danbooru.donmai.us/artists/118297 "
Then this fake idea was planted into Nyte's head. You can imagine his gears turning wildly as he flipped through the above hentai or whatever the hell that art is. But Natalie was born!
Alas, I am waiting for Rock to be DLC so I can lay my beautiful Natalie to rest. Once Rock is DLC I shall make a memorial topic/RIP topic or a post to commemerate her short but brilliant life. She lived strong, she gained muscles, and most important of all, she was SEXY!
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I made this post for lesbian visibility day yesterday, but decided to post it today so as to not hurt anyone's feelings. It's all just shitposting ultimately! We need Rock so we can end this debate!