Halana and Alena, Partners

Innistrad: Crimson Vow (239/277)

Halana and Alena, Partners
Halana and Alena, Partners
Legendary Creature — Human Ranger

First strike, reach

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put X +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control, where X is Halana and Alena's power. That creature gains haste until end of turn.

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harold, they're lesbians
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And thus the set got banned in Russia.

Still awesome to see them get a card. And it's a pretty good one.
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@Krishnath: Tovarishi? (Why doesn't this forum offer Cyrillic?)

Or just paint a mustache on one like they did with Ruby on Steven Universe.
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hyalopterouslemur wrote:
2 years ago
@Krishnath: Tovarishi? (Why doesn't this forum offer Cyrillic?)

Or just paint a mustache on one like they did with Ruby on Steven Universe.
Sorry, don't speak Russian.

But it is well known that the Russian government is extremely anti-LBGTQ+.
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Oh, you should know tovarish. (It means comrade. LOL)

What I find interesting is how each of these things resembles modern gay couples rather than what existed in the era which the setting seeks to imitate.
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hyalopterouslemur wrote:
2 years ago
Oh, you should know tovarish. (It means comrade. LOL)

What I find interesting is how each of these things resembles modern gay couples rather than what existed in the era which the setting seeks to imitate.
You'd be surprised how common and accepted homosexuality was prior to the two world wars. People pretty much had the opinion that whatever people did behind closed doors of their own homes were their business and only their business.
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Close. I more meant social scripts. It's kind of an interesting papering over that now you habe this idea of two men or two women, behaving pretty mich like any straight couple, but also a major taboo against being attracted to both men and women in these portrayals.

So, you wouldn't necessarily have a transgender character on Ixalan, even though that's pretty standard for Aztec and Mayan culture. (Though the Aztec ones also wore women's skin, because culture obsessed with human sacrifice.)
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hyalopterouslemur wrote:
2 years ago
Close. I more meant social scripts. It's kind of an interesting papering over that now you habe this idea of two men or two women, behaving pretty mich like any straight couple, but also a major taboo against being attracted to both men and women in these portrayals.

So, you wouldn't necessarily have a transgender character on Ixalan, even though that's pretty standard for Aztec and Mayan culture. (Though the Aztec ones also wore women's skin, because culture obsessed with human sacrifice.)
Just because we haven't been shown such characters in the Ixalan sets, that does not mean that no such people existed on the world. We got a transgender person in the Tarkir sets (Alesha, Who Smiles at Death), and we also had gay couples prior to Halana and Alena in the back story of Theros (who got a card in one of the four color commander decks).

As I said, prior to the world wars, such things were much more open and common, although they couldn't marry.
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