Talk:Geoff Curnow/@comment-74.102.81.185-20130320012407/@comment-27202257-20140720171657

This was discussed on the wiki previously, though apparently not here. There isn't any hard evidence that he had a male lover, but the situation that the Heart describes suggests that's what was going on. For instance, we're not sure if Tyvia has female soldiers, or if their armed forces are as dominated by men as Dunwall's/Gristol's. The more interesting bit of evidence, though, is that the Heart says he "killed to keep the secret." While there is tension between the nations, there doesn't seem to be enough that the shame of sleeping with a foreigner would lead someone to kill. Curnow also isn't married, so it isn't that either. Meanwhile, what we know of homosexuality in Dunwall says that it's at best eroticized, and at worst condemned. In that case, it makes sense that the repercussions for being caught in a same-sex union would justify murder in Curnow's mind.