No, my name is Grizzlei. Maybe you didn't read my username correctly enough or thought you needed to think of something to say just to be a jerk. Either way, it's Grizzlei. I know you read English fairly well so that shouldn't be too much of an issue for you in the future.

: Not only that, but he is identified as male in the story "Dirt."

(Edit: munky was referring to Noble Six, not Edward Buck)

Noble Six was only identified as a man until after their first entry in the Haloverse in an encyclopedia. Their first canon mention of Six as a man happened years later with New Blood. Despite my feelings on the topic, I'll trust the latter over the former given that the encyclopedias are typically riddled with errors and needless oversights. So with that, after so long, you had most people considering Noble Six's canon gender to be as mysterious as their very personality, only for the character to become another male lead in a Halo main series shooter. That's three for three now with the Master Chief, the Rookie, and now Noble Six.

: I'm all open for representation (heck, "Dirt" has an openly
: homosexual relationship), but if the big issue that you have with a story
: is that a character's gender is not vague

Dirt has an openly queer relationship among two lesbian women, including Felicia Sanderson, as well as a supporting character who is also a lesbian. So far those three are the only noted queer people in Halo in the only story that highlights their existence in the universe. Meanwhile, you have visibly heterosexual relationships galore in the Kilo-Five Trilogy, Forerunner Saga, Halo 3: ODST and New Blood, Spartan Ops, Contact Harvest, and one that's debatable with the Master Chief and Cortana. ODST and New Blood stand out so much because three of the four of the six human characters are in visibly straight relationships (Buck and Dare, Dutch and his wife Gretchen, and Romeo and the galaxy). Mickey doesn't give much indication, and Rookie is well... yeah. Then you have the straight bro fest between DeMarco and Madsen in Spartan Ops.

You may be all for representation, as much as you're really showing what that's worth, but Halo as a whole doesn't agree with that idea. We have three openly queer characters with perhaps only one gender and sexuality in one short story some six years ago. That's not very exciting.

Also, you mistake a long paragraph for me having a serious issue with it in the context of the book's quality as a whole. I understand that would be a common misconception but I did say "some thoughts and stuffs" and not a review in the subject.

: Tumblr is that way. ->

Oh right, I totally forgot that I can't talk about anything I'd like on here so long as it is respectful towards my fellow members and is marked with the proper content markings if it's off-topic. Then again, I have been and it continues to be on-topic. Tumblr is not the virtual heaven of equal rights activism, but one single place among many. Using Tumblr and its reputation as an excuse to tell someone that they don't care about what they have to say, or that you don't want to even see it is childish.

Let's have a discussion without you trying to throw in every zinger possible and getting my name wrong for no reason.