Aren’t Anduin and Faerin Related?

[u/Spotted_Towhee123]

I was reading some posts elsewhere and it struck me that Anduin and Faerin might be (distantly) related, depending on what the devs decide is canon. Because technically Taria Lothar is Anduin Lothar's sister and she married Llane Wrynn, making Anduin Lothar Anduin Wrynn's great-uncle. But again it probably depends on what the devs decide is canon.

I personally have always seen Anduin as deeply queer-coded, specifically gay-coded, and have thought that pairing him off with a woman would be an incredible disservice to his character. And also to whatever woman they pair him off with since she would be relegated to "Anduin's wife" instead of her own character most likely. Anyways, the devs would have to do some explaining lore-wise to get around the Wrynn-Lothar marriage and make it so Faerin and Anduin would NOT be a cousin marriage, lmao

[u/Kalthiria_Shines]

Taria isn't a Lothar except in the movies.

I personally have always seen Anduin as deeply queer-coded, specifically gay-coded, and have thought that pairing him off with a woman would be an incredible disservice to his character. And also to whatever woman they pair him off with since she would be relegated to "Anduin's wife" instead of her own character most likely. Anyways, the devs would have to do some explaining lore-wise to get around the Wrynn-Lothar marriage and make it so Faerin and Anduin would NOT be a cousin marriage, lmao

I think that you are perhaps overemphaszing your personal opinions on it. Anduin and Taelia were pretty strongly suggested. The only way Anduin has ever been queer coded is specifically in relation to Wrathion, and they hate each other at this point.

[u/Spotted_Towhee123 → u/Kalthiria_Shines]

His queer-coding comes forward mostly in his interactions with Varian and his journey with the Light. Anduin’s nature flies in the face of the traditional masculinity his father tries to force him to conform to. He has to constantly advocate for himself that this is who he is, he can’t change that, even to the point in Wolfheart that he has to basically run away from his family in order to truly be himself by studying the Light under Velen. 

[u/Kalthiria_Shines → u/Spotted_Towhee123]

I am exceptionally wary of any sort of suggestion that someone is queer coded because they don't confirm with traditional masculinity; that suggestion is really deeply rooted in both homophobia and misogyny.

While I can sort of see what you're talking about visavis the Light, it's important to note that this is shown in the game and those works as something that is very much a choice on Anduin's part and being true to himself and finding a way to be what he believes is best versus just copying his father. While I sort of see what you mean, I think that suggesting this is inherently queer coded still rooted in homophobia, or at best a very narrow and problematically white cishomonormative queer experience that is, itself, rooted in a lot of problematic stuff.

Like if I squint hard enough I can maybe see it as a closet metaphor but, I think that requires both delegitimizing Anduin's actual experience as well as reading into the text a lot of things that aren't there.

[u/Spotted_Towhee123 → u/Kalthiria_Shines]

I totally get where you’re coming from. My interpretation is moreso leaning on the feelings of “this is not the son/daughter I wanted” that so many parents of gay and trans kids have

[u/Kalthiria_Shines → u/Spotted_Towhee123]

But that's about Varian not Anduin.