Manatiemtesun

To me, of what I have seen of it at least, Rosa's romamce kinda looks and feels like both Rosa and Henry are indulging in a Knight-Lady romance fantasy. They flirt, Henry is all stereo typical courtlyness, Rosa sends the knight on quests. And then when they have slept together, and Henry is getting a bit too invested in the fantasy, Rosa reminds them both of reality. Henry, who seemingly prefers emotional connection over just a fling, is taken aback by it, cause he thought Rosa was actually interested in him.

And Rosa on a certain level was. But she seemed more interested in the fantasy of Henry than the actual implications of them having a romance. Which is why she shuts Henry down.

Leipa, the name of the noble house Hans is from, means linden, like the tree.

Persuming that the demographic of the people who write Hansry mirrors the general demograpic of people who write romantic fanfic between two men, then the majority of this population are white women, who most likely haven't had any experience being in a queer relationship.

Additionally, multiple studies have shown that the majority of these women writing mlm romance fics mainly write, not because they are interested inactually writing about the experience of queer men, but because they actually want to write/read about a romantic relationship without sexism (plus the fetishization, but that is another story).

This means that, because the lack of understanding/experience of queer romance and the lack of interest/desire to investigate how sex & gender interact with romance, they don't actually write a gay romance. They write a straight romance, where both of the characters are of the same sex.

But in doing so, they inject a lot of heteronormative values and fantasies into these romantic dynamics. And these heteronormative ideas are, due to the intersectionality of bigotry, ripe with abelism, racism, orientalism, classism and, ironically, sexism.

And the bad part is, that most people don't seem to realise this. We think that when we write ideas based on our fantasies and desires (cause that is at the core of romance stories), that these are only our own. But we forget that those fantasies and desires are shaped by the society and systems we live in.

So maybe, when writing a romantic fic, examine your fantasies and choices you make. Where do they come from? Isn't it weird how you always make the blond chraracter submissive, even tho in canon they show they aren't? Why do you always make one person in the pairing more physically imposing than the other?

Not to preach to the choir, and I may be more of a hardliner when I propose: Since these heteronormative values are only normalized because they serve the power structures we live in, we are not writing a "straight romance" when we do this, but a noxious cookie-cutter formula of a patriarchal romance operating through the lens of a white master-class. The sexism, racism, essentialism are all still present and accounted for in the depiction of two men; it still relies on the belief that traits associated with women are inferior and passive and white femininity represents the epitome of romantic desirability. We don't actually escape reading/writing about sexism; the sexism is simply obfuscated by the male body so we can pretend we don't see it, even while we enact and continue to worship at its altar! But it's a poor smokescreen.

Persuming that the demographic of the people who write Hansry mirrors the general demograpic of people who write romantic fanfic between two men, then the majority of this population are white women, who most likely haven't had any experience being in a queer relationship.

Additionally, multiple studies have shown that the majority of these women writing mlm romance fics mainly write, not because they are interested inactually writing about the experience of queer men, but because they actually want to write/read about a romantic relationship without sexism (plus the fetishization, but that is another story).

This means that, because the lack of understanding/experience of queer romance and the lack of interest/desire to investigate how sex & gender interact with romance, they don't actually write a gay romance. They write a straight romance, where both of the characters are of the same sex.

But in doing so, they inject a lot of heteronormative values and fantasies into these romantic dynamics. And these heteronormative ideas are, due to the intersectionality of bigotry, ripe with abelism, racism, orientalism, classism and, ironically, sexism.

And the bad part is, that most people don't seem to realise this. We think that when we write ideas based on our fantasies and desires (cause that is at the core of romance stories), that these are only our own. But we forget that those fantasies and desires are shaped by the society and systems we live in.

So maybe, when writing a romantic fic, examine your fantasies and choices you make. Where do they come from? Isn't it weird how you always make the blond chraracter submissive, even tho in canon they show they aren't? Why do you always make one person in the pairing more physically imposing than the other?

Like WH has not confirmed anything specific, but they have just said on Twitter that they are working on both a Open world Middle-earth RPG, and a new Kingdome come adventure. And on the website they said that they are still are working on KCD related stuff

sirtobi28 on twitter also confirmed that WH is working on two open-world RPG's.

However, none of these mentions speak of KCD, they all mention a new KC adventure.

Ig you go to the wedding with blacksmith Radovan, and then approach Hans to ask about the missing sword, you have the chance to say something along the lines of "You look well like your doing enough" to Hans.

Hans will reply, half mocking, half touched "Aw, Henry, were you worried about me?"

To which Henry will reply (dishonest) something along the lines of "No. I just didn't want to return to Hanush having to tell him I lost my ball and chain."