LGBT Fanbase / Video Games

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LGBT Fanbases in Video Games.

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• Ace Attorney: This behavior is encouraged by the absolutely massive kink meme. As for Apollo Justice series? Go for BL.
  • One of the characters is Dick Gumshoe, a buff, scruffy, battered puppy of a man who is in desperate need of some love. The fans deliver, though they aren't particularly kind to him.
  • Phoenix Wright is probably 3/4th gay in this fandom.
  • Miles Edgeworth does tend to get the brunt of it, though, between his frilly attire, lack of interest in his masses of female admirers and constant Ho Yay with Phoenix Wright.
  • Godot/Diego Armando's fandom is also not scarce. If you don't see him paired up with Mia, there are abundant fanarts and fictions that paired him with Phoenix.
• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey features playable male and female protagonists, who can romance anyone you choose, however many you choose, regardless of gender, with said characters both being nearly identical in every respect, from their muscular builds and their unisex armour models. It's little wonder LGBT fans were pleased.
• Battletoads: This now-obscure 1990s video game franchise used a Paper-Thin Disguise Excuse Plot about saving a girl to unleash one of the single most homoerotic video games in existence. For some reason, in particular, Big Blag the Lightning Bruiser Leather Man has a LGBT quotient as potent as Bowser, except not nearly as well known. All this from the same game that gave us The Dark Queen.
• The titular character Bayonetta has become something of an ironic gay icon, largely because of her campiness and how her hypersexuality and delightfully bitchy attitude makes her almost feel like a Drag Queen sometimes, and that's without even mentioning the Les Yay shipping between her and Jeanne. The appeal of Bayonetta to gay gamers is discussed here.
• BioWare is very aware that there is a large portion of their fanbase that are not heterosexual males. They have incurred a certain amount of fame (or infamy) for their gay and bisexual characters, and Gay Option romance sidequests, enough to generate controversy over Mass Effect not having a gay male option until the third game (a Male Shepherd/Kaiden romance was Dummied Out in the first game). They even managed to sneak the first openly gay character into the Star Wars Expanded Universe, over the objection of LucasArts. When someone objected to the idea that a male character could hit on his male character, lead writer David Gaider fired back with this:
  David Gaider: The romances in the game are not for "the straight male gamer". They're for everyone. We have a lot of fans, many of whom are neither straight nor male, and they deserve no less attention....And if there is any doubt why such an opinion might be met with hostility, it has to do with privilege. You can write it off as "political correctness" if you wish, but the truth is that privilege always lies with the majority. They're so used to being catered to that they see the lack of catering as an imbalance. They don't see anything wrong with having things set up to suit them, what's everyone's fuss all about? That's the way it should be, any everyone else should be used to not getting what they want...And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And that's my opinion, expressed as politely as possible.
  • BioWare went much further in Star Wars: The Old Republic: while queer romances appear to have been cut from the class stories during development (some lines for them can be found in the game files), the first Expansion Pack, Rise of the Hutt Cartel, offered Republic players a bisexual female NPC to flirt with, while Imperial male PCs could kiss a male NPC. Starting with Shadow of Revan, all new romances have been open to PCs of both genders (shipping Lady of War Lana Beniko with a female Sith PC is extremely popular), and beginning in Jedi Under Siege, some returning romanceable companions are being made available to both genders.
• Bloodborne endeared itself greatly to nonbinary and other people of unconventional gender identities in the Comic-Book Adaptation Death of Sleep, wherein the main character gives their gender as "hunter" when asked if they're a man or a woman. Lady Maria in The Old Hunters DLC is also rather popular with lesbians, as strong, yet elegant women tend to be.
• The Breath of Fire series, which almost seemed to be a foregone conclusion considering it was already very popular in the Furry Fandom. The greatest LGBT Fanbase seems to go to Garr and Rei from Breath of Fire III and to Cray from Breath of Fire IV.
• While Chicory: A Colorful Tale is not exactly queer-centric, there are still visible queer characters- Pickle is Nonbinary, Beans and Pepper can get into a sapphic relationship, Macaroon comes out as bisexual, and Pizza themself can present themself however you want to with no barriers on gender- and the plot near the climax can easily be read as the two main characters subverting a long-standing tradition that has only brought both of them major grief, the same able to be said about queerphobia in the real world.
• Coral Island has both developers that treat the LGBT representation and pride as important to show in their game and a large LGBT fanbase attracted by various features that cater to them. Most prominently, all of the 22 romanceable characters can be pursued by characters of any gender. The player character can also have explicitly non-binary honorifics with "Mx." alongside there being no gender lock or gendered options in character creation.
• Copy Kitty has a wide proportion of transgender players. It might be that the main character Boki is a girl with non-stereotypical traits, such as her tomboyish personality, love of fighting, and that her gender rarely comes up, though her outfit does have some frills. The wide variety of creature and mechanical design might also explain it.
• Cyberpunk 2077: The fact that the game potrays a world where LGBT characters exist freely and aren't treated as a big deal is certainly a big draw for some. Kerry's, and especially Judy's, storylines and character arcs are applauded, because their sexualities are a part of them, but aren't the main focus, and both of them are allowed to just be complex people with their own problems unrelated to who they find attractive. Many lesbians and bi women were plesantly suprised by Judy's sex scenes, which are tasteful and not fetishizing, but still explicit and sensual (in contrast to how The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings treated its WLW characters mostly as clear fanservice to straight men). Panam and River also have their own fair share of female and male admirers, respectively, and due to their less restrictive romance criteria (just masculine/feminine body, while in Judy's and Kerry's case it's also the voice) they're often headcannoned as bisexual. Despite the controversies regarding how trans people were depicted, many trans gamers still found it satisfying to play as a canonically transgender character in a game with such scope and budget, and were happy that none of the romance options take genitals into the equation. Claire is generally seen as good trans representation, even among people who had issues with things like the character creator or the "Mix it Up" ad. Johnny is commonly seen as bisexual, and many fans enjoy the subtext of him falling for V, which is present regardless of V's gender. There's also plenty of non-romancable characters who are popular among gay and bi people (Takemura, Viktor, Rogue, Denny, Mitch and Saul to name a few). Worth noting that all of them are on the older end of the age spectrum, with the game's reputation for many silver foxes and vixens in the cast certainly appealing to many LGBT people.
• The Danganronpa series has a large queer fanbase due to several characters who act in gender-nonconforming ways, most notably Chihiro Fujisaki, a Wholesome Crossdresser who is often interpreted as a trans girl, a decent amount of Ho Yay and Les Yay, and many characters outright being heavily implied to be LGBT.
• Like its earlier sister game, Deltarune has a considerably large LGBT following thanks to to its cast including a few well-represented LGBT characters (e.g. Noelle, who has a crush on Susie and gets a fair amount of Ship Tease with her) and ones who appeal to LGBT subcultures (such as Swatchlings, which generally appeal to the Bara Genre). The fact that Kris, the game's protagonist, is heavily implied to be nonbinary particularly attracted a sizable following among that demographic.
• Donkey Kong acquired such a fanbase in 2019 when H.Bomberguy raised money for a transgender charity through a continual three-day livestream of Donkey Kong 64. It helps that Donkey Kong's voice actor Grant Kirkhope called during the livestream and said "trans rights, okay!" in the character's voice, giving rise to the "Donkey Kong said trans rights" meme.
• Doki Doki Literature Club!:
  • Sayori is popular amongst trans women and transfeminine people. This largely stems from a meme using fanart of her.
  • All the girls are popular with women. Natsuki and Yuri are especially so.
• Dragalia Lost: As a protagonist, Euden has resonated with a few Asexual fans. Although it’s never outright stated that Euden is Ace, he is a Clueless Chick-Magnet with several women who want to me be with him, but he doesn’t have any desire to be with them. Euden doesn’t outright reject their advances, but does try to brush it off most of the time. He just wants to live a life where he can just be with his closest friends without any romance on his part. Although he and his game are quite obscure, some of the few who have played it like to consider Euden an asexual icon when it comes to Nintendo’s lineup.
• Elden Ring has garnered a significant queer fanbase, as not only are there many attractive characters of both genders, it's the first FromSoftware game to feature canonical homosexual relationships, specifically the female PC being able to marry both Queen Marika and Ranni in their respective endings. That and the true nature of Marika and Radagon's identiy has garnered a significant amount of attention among the trans, non-binary, and gender-fluid communities. Malenia, in a similar vein to Lady Maria before her has also proven to be rather popular among lesbians, as strong, yet elegant women tend to be, along with the potential subtext regarding her and Finlay.
• Fallout: New Vegas already had a head start on its LGBT Fanbase by featuring multiple well-rounded, three-dimensional examples of queer characters, which was rare for the times, as well as options for the player character themself to be bisexual, which previous Fallout games lacked. What may be perhaps more surprising is the large amount of Transgender people, particularly trans women, whose enjoyment of the game is the subject of many memes in Fallout and trans communities alike.
• The Fate Series attracts viewers of all genders and sexualities, no doubt thanks to multiple canonically queer characters and overabundance of Ho Yay and Les Yay. Attractive character designs that are almost infamous for invoking Stupid Sexy Flanders no matter your sexual orientation certainly doesn't hurt either.
• FEDA: Ain MacDougal and Arby Hcszeool have both become Stripperiffic Bara Genre icons.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Final Fantasy IV has a popular queer interpretation due to the Love Triangle between Cecil, Rosa and Kain seeming more like a battle over Cecil than over Rosa. There's also a definite camp appeal to the game starting out in a Medieval castle and ending up fighting alien ghosts on the Moon.
  • Final Fantasy V: Faris, a pirate captain who was lost at sea as a little girl and raised as a man ever since. As a result, Faris will flip-flop between using male or female terms, often starting with the male form before "correcting" to the feminine noun. Also, Faris twice attempts to reclaim an identity as Tycoon's princess and goes back to her original garb both times (i.e. the clothes from when everyone saw her as a man). Promotional materials from some spinoff games also make a note that Faris is more comfortable as a man than as a woman, which implies that Faris' gender identity is canonically not cis. As a result, it's common to interpret Faris as nonbinary, genderfluid, or a trans man, and Faris is popular with real-life fans who fall into those categories.
  • Final Fantasy VI:
    • Terra has a reputation for being an important character for trans women - not just that she was the first Rounded Character female game protagonist that a lot of untransitioned, uncomprehending trans girls got to embody, and give the name they always wished they had. She is a half-female, half-monster person whose body is transformed against her will into a monstrous form, but over time she learns to reverse and embrace the strength of the transformation by embracing her dual nature.
    • Sabin René Figaro, a big musclebound hunk, identifies in dialogue as a 'bear' (in response to, in the SNES English translation at least, Terra implying he's a Gym Bunny). He never gets a female love interest, but has an emotional plotline around the male Cyan, and gets blushy around Setzer. He shows up in Bara Genre work.
  • Final Fantasy VII:
    • Although Cloud's story is based on fantasy elements, it does seem very familiar to a lot of gay and trans people, touching on themes of being ostracised as a misfit in a small rural town and moving to the city, adopting an exaggerated, pop-cultural standard of hypermasculinity that eventually results in a mental breakdown, his Ho Yay with male characters and the subtle references to his past homelessness and substance addiction. He also has elements in his stories that are relatable to trans men (he lost several years to medical procedures which caused him to become the kind of person he always wanted to be, with drastically powerful muscles, a desirable masculine appearance, and a gigantic sword) and trans women (stealing masculine personality traits from various male authority figures he admires in order to try and make sense of himself, which are later revealed to all be fake). While still a controversial topic, the sequence where Cloud is Disguised in Drag in the city's red light district-cum-queer scene in order to seduce a male pimp is a particular Camp favourite.
    • Final Fantasy VII Remake expands the Disguised in Drag sequence into a massive wink at the game's gay fanbase up to the point of also portraying Aerith and Tifa in a campy gay-icon style - Aerith is presented as Cloud's Fag Hag, visibly glowing with excitement at the idea of Cloud all dolled up, before knocking a hoodlum out with a folding chair. Tifa wears a Sexy Whatever Outfit, kicks Corneo's henchmen in the testicles to a girly dance music version of her theme. Barret is also portrayed as a much more attractive character than in the original, a big buff flirtatious bear with the emphasis on his gentleness and intelligence despite his temper and size, and his beautiful eyes and Cleavage Window being emphasised, leading to him becoming a Bara Genre icon.
  • Final Fantasy XI:
    • The muscled-out Stripperiffic Galka are a One-Gender Race, confirmed all male by Word of God. Figure out the implications yourself. Needless to say, there is a lot of gay-appealing fanart of these guys.
    • The Galkas lived on an island by themselves for hundreds, if not thousands of years before they migrated to the mainland of Vana'diel. Think about that for a moment, you are either going to have nightmares or pleasant dreams from that one.
  • Final Fantasy XII: The Stripperiffic Femme Fatale Viera as well as their appearances in related continuity. If they aren't a full-on One-Gender Race, they seem to be at least a one-gender society, as there are no male Viera anywhere in evidence in their village, or referred to even in passing. (The Ultimania guide states they exist, but a are even more secretive then the women and are over competitive for food and space so they live elsewhere) As their culture is also very different from the local human societies, it creates a lot of speculation. Garif are the male counterpart to this; World-wise, well-muscled, and separated from the female side of the race.
  • The Bangaa race from the Final Fantasy Tactics spin-offs. The Bangaa are mostly displayed as muscled lizardmen that are either jerks, brutes, or have a lot of muscle to throw around in a fight, but many people in the fandom tend to view them as hunky beefcakes, especially in Final Fantasy XII where the majority of the Bangaa are modeled with a vest and no shirt or just plain shirtless. The Bangaa are quite popular in the Furry Fandom. Basch, and occasionally Gabranth as well, get beefed up in bara-style art of them. Balthier, too, every once in a while, but he's more of a Bishōnen.
  • Final Fantasy XIII:
    • Snow himself is getting this treatment from the Bara Genre crowd. He even gets paired with honorable King of Bara, Chris Redfield.
    • Gadot is fairly popular, as well, thanks to his muscular physique and his chest-baring er, "outfit" (if you can call it that).
    • And then there's Fang and Vanille, whose relationship closely mirrors that of Snow and Sarah's, the game's Official Couple, with Fang explicitly stating that "the world can burn" if that is what it takes for her to keep Vanille safe. The first game concludes with the two of them transforming into crystal statues with Intertwined Fingers in order to save the world. The third game in the series even ends with a note that they ended up living together.
  • Final Fantasy XIV:
    • The Roegadyn race in XIV attracts a fair amount of LGBT folk. Both sexes are incredibly tall and muscular. A large sized amount of fanart is decidedly spicy. Likewise, the Mi'qote are a race of cat people that are short with cute looking females and very boyish looking males. The Au Ra are a race of people that possess scales on their bodies, horns, and have massive differences between both sexes; males are very tall and muscular with a tough looking face while the females are very short and petite with cute and softer looking faces. The Hrothgar are for bara furry fans.
    • Certain main characters in the story attracted a number of fans towards them; Heavensward introduces Haurchefant, who is a Bishōnen that treats the player character as their best friend and would literally lay down their life for them. He's a tall Elezen with light blue hair and a good looking face. Aymeric is also an Elezen who is a Long-Haired Pretty Boy that, like Haurchefant, looks to the player character as a confidant and seems to have a better mood when the player shows up. It also helps that Aymeric has a very soft yet soothing voice. In Stormblood, Lord Hien is introduced into the story as a Hyur Samurai with a rugged yet young looking face, scars, and possessing a nice voice. There's quite a bit of fanart of these characters in both clean and NSFW material. Fueling the fire, you sometimes have a choice on how to respond to these characters in cutscenes, which can either have you accept their feelings towards you (though it doesn't go beyond that) or decide you're good comrades with them instead.
    • The Amalj'aa race have also gained quite a bit of popularity, especially within the furry fandom. The Amalj'aa are huge and beefy lizardmen that don't wear any form of clothing except for what looks like a makeshift tribal jockstrap. After an update was released that allowed players to do quests for the Amalj'aa, the lizarmen's popularity rose even further.
  • Final Fantasy XV: It's a game about the strong bonds between its all-male party. Go figure. All four of the main cast have their own share of gay/bisexual male fans, but Gladio takes the cake. The four sometimes also trade flirty banter between each other ^examplesIf Prompto is afflicted with "Sleep" and Noct cures him, Prompto may comment "So this is what it's like to be woken by a prince?" followed by Noct replying "Go back to sleep, beauty." When visiting certain locations like Lestallum and Altissia, Prompto may also comment upon the romantic atmosphere, followed by the others teasing him about how lucky he is to get to share the experience with the three of them. and Ignis is all but stated to have a Love at First Sight Bodyguard Crush on Noct. Meanwhile, Aranea Highwind is a hit with lesbian fans for being a sexy dominatrix with a take-no-shit attitude, as is Crowe from Kingsglaive.
  • Final Fantasy XVI: Dion Lesage, Crown Prince of Sanbreque, Leader of the Holy Order of the Knights Dragoon, and Dominant of Bahamut, marked himself as not only one of FFXVI's contenders for the title of World's Strongest Man and the most powerful iteration of Bahamut to date, but also as the first man in the franchise to share an on-screen kiss with another man: His second-in-command and confirmed lover, Sir Terence.
  • The Behemoths of the Final Fantasy series have become fairly popular to be depicted as muscled male studs. Most examples are Rule 34, and very decidedly Not Safe for Work. The fact that they have become increasingly anthropomorphized in appearance in later Final Fantasy games has only accelerated this. Here's a (relatively) worksafe example. Special mention must go to the Narasimha from Final Fantasy XIII-2. Built like a brick house, wears a pair of woefully inadequate shorts and nothing else, and you can recruit one!
• Fire Emblem:
  • It had a small but growing fanbase, rooted in the same-sex supports, courtesy of loads and loads of Ho Yay. The most prominent examples include Lucius and Raven's supports from Blazing Blade, Joshua and Gerik from Sacred Stones, and most of the male children from the future, along with Severa and Kjelle, from Awakening. The fanbase is large enough that as of Fire Emblem Fates the series now has CANON same-sex S-Rank (aka marriage) partners. However, it's strictly reserved for the PC and each gender is limited to only one option. The most popular fan-patch for the game is the "Fire Emblem Fates gay marriage hack" which vastly expands the chose of same-sex love interests.
  • With the release of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, the fanbase became much, much more open about it. The reason for this is that the number of canon gay S-ranks has increased greatly, with three male ones^note Two supposed M/M S-ranks really just have either Byleth remain in a platonic relationship (a first for the series, and one that would be welcome with a non-gay/bi character) or marry an unnamed woman, so they aren't counted. This leaves one in the base game and two more added via updates and DLC. and a surprising five female ones. In addition to that, despite the removal of S-ranks for anyone that isn't the main character, some of the paired endings are possibly romantic for same-sex characters. There's also Claude, one of the major characters, giving off a heavily bisexual feel that has him treated as a gay option despite not officially being among the bisexual men and women of the cast.
• Gears of War: All the main leads are so very, very buff and manly that it invites LGBT Fanbase.
• Guilty Gear: Being the first fighting game series to include both openly gay as well as non-binary playable characters has earned the series a lot of good-will with the LGBT community.
  • Venom, being one of the first playable gay men in fighting games, has a strong fan following.
  • Sol Badguy is very popular among Bara Genre fans. His more cartoonishly muscular build in Xrd was very warmly received. Ditto for Goldlewis and Leo, although not quite to the extent of Sol.
  • Testament always had some Ambiguous Gender undertones, with Word of God being that they're a Hermaphrodite, but them being canonized as non-binary in -STRIVE-, which gave them an attractive new design and a pair of pink, blue and white demons to boot, was very well recieved.
  • May has plenty of Les Yay with April and her victory quotes versus females have consistently had her admiring their beauty— she's totally just checking them out to evaluate if Johnny, her captain and totally the only love of her life, would like them though. Toootally.
  • Resident Love Freak Elphelt is looking to marry someone. Anyone. Some quotes in her Magnum Wedding Finishing Move even Lampshade it:
    Millia Rage: Have I chosen the Yuri route?
  • Bridget is one of the earliest trend starters of Wholesome Crossdresser and a major driving force behind the memes. After finally coming back in -STRIVE-, Bridget's arcade story is about self-reflection and being true to one's self, and in the end decides to be a trans girl, and people accepted her with open arms. Now everyone is gay and straight for Bridget.
• Hades:
  • The game quickly gathered a bisexual following for having a ton of attractive characters, both male and female, who offer eye candy for all tastes. The main character, Zagreus, is bisexual and can pursue a relationship with either Megaera or Thanatos (or even both), and is implied to have a small crush on his mentor, Achilles.
  • There are plenty of fans who also appreciate how the game portrays the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus as explicitly romantic, as opposed to other modern interpretations that portray them as being just friends. There's also the fact that Achilles is a role-model and gentle mentor for Zagreus, who also later comes to admire Patroclus as well as his romantic relationship with Achilles — something which many young LGBT players felt meant a lot, to have older LGBTQ people and healthy long-term LGBTQ relationships to look up to and be validated by.
• Norman Jayden and Carter Blake from Heavy Rain are paired together in the fandom more than Ethan and Madison, who at least have an optional sex scene.
• Opinions may differ on Knack's gameplay, but there's no denying that Doctor Vargas is one heck of a DILF! And Ryder's quite baralicious, too!
• Kingdom Hearts has quite the LGBT Fanbase, with tons of hints of homosexual attractions between its hunky and Bishōnen male characters. The female characters also have a lot of LGBT fans.
• Kirby sports a large queer following, which is huge even when compared to the myriad of other LGBT fanbases surrounding Nintendo properties. Much of this is owed to the franchise's cutesy aesthetic, which veers far away from the perceived hypermasculinity of the rest of the gaming industry, its themes of friendship and unity, and the fact that many characters feature androgynous designs and don't fall into conventional gender roles. The discovery that Kirby himself is canonically nonbinary particularly furthered the series' popularity with trans fans (even if it's mostly indicated in supplementary material).
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • There's something about Ganondorf that makes him quite the LGBT bait.
  • In addition, the hero Link was voted hottest video game character by the LGBT magazine "Out." He's also been known to inspire Stupid Sexy Flanders moments in straight male fans.
  • Kass and Prince Sidon in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are massively popular among the furry crowd and LGBT crowd since both characters are very tall, full out hunk, and have very likable personalities.
  • Link's pretty boy looks make him look especially girly in some games, with him even being able to cross dress as a Gerudo woman in Breath of the Wild. Cue many male fans questioning their sexuality. He's also shown to be flirted with by other men when either cross dressing or dressed normally. Players being able to play Link while he's shirtless and wearing boxers help. And there's his shirtless scene in Twilight Princess.
  • Ocarina of Time's Zelda is popular with trans fans because Sheik is an androgynous disguise of Zelda's.
  • Link (especially Breath of the Wild's Link) has a following among trans and non-binary fans, as well. The reason behind it is a bit complex— Link has always been popular amongst trans fans, but it was usually amongst trans man fans due to his Pretty Boy looks and quiet nature striking cords. After Breath of the Wild, he's since become popularly headcanoned as non-binary or as a trans girl too. A big chunk of it likely has to do with Aonuma's teasing earlier in development that the pretty-faced main character wasn't necessarily Link, leading to wild speculation, including theories that the character was actually female. The statement was later retracted and the character confirmed to indeed be Link, but many fans now prefer to think of Link as a trans man or otherwise not cisgender. Alternatively, Link's apparent comfort in wearing traditional Gerudo "vai" garb has plenty of other fans reading the character as being more feminine.
  • Midna has a fair amount of LGBT fangirls, just because she's Midna. Shipping her with Zelda is common amongst these fans as a result.
  • The Twilight Princess Zelda has a following amongst lesbians. This likely stems from her Launcher of a Thousand Ships status and her seemingly lack of a relationship with Link.
• Life Is Strange has developed a very large lesbian fanbase, unsurprising given the amount of subtext (and text) in Max and Chloe's relationship, not to mention the way that Chloe gets much more attention in the story than Warren (Max's other Love Interest). The prequel went further by not even having a male Love Interest for Chloe. This is continued in Life Is Strange: True Colors: While Ryan, the male love interest, was much more prominent than Warren was in the first game, 70% of fans had Alex romance Steph instead. Steph was also established as explicitly lesbian.
• Metal Gear:
  • The series overall has an intensely homoerotic tone, with multiple heroic male characters who are The Not-Love Interest to each other, but also with camera angles and visuals that imply a romantic or erotic reading to these interactions anyway. While many of the villains in the series are Depraved Bisexual types, the series usually makes their romantic attractions sympathetic even if the characters' other actions are less so. The games are also deeply weird and Camp, so Metal Gear has content people can enjoy, even if they usually find the tone of military games to be reminiscent of the beliefs of what the people who bullied you in school.
  • Solid Snake is the character most often held up as a gay icon by gamers, in that he's the great hero of the series and very easy to read as gay or bisexual. Otacon's words to Solid Snake - "do you believe love can bloom anywhere, even on a battlefield?" - and Snake's response - "Yeah, I do - I think that at any time, any place, people can fall in love with each other" - are extremely easy to interpret as Otacon and Snake implying that they've fallen for each other, rather than about their female love interests (Wolf and Meryl), especially since Snake says "people" rather than "men and women". Snake gets a female Temporary Love Interest and an Implied Love Interest or two, but his most prominent and long-term emotional storyline is his partnership with Otacon, with whom he raises a child; the ending of his storyline has a scene where Otacon promises to stay at his side until death and remember him after, in a way paralleled to the heterosexual wedding that had taken place a little earlier. In 2, he has a memorable exchange where he righteously trashes Raiden for displaying some extremely mild biphobia, with Raiden later insulting Snake by calling him "mincing", and a couple of gameplay Easter eggs that reveal Snake's interest in sexy male posters and a crush on the hunky Marine Commandant. Also, he's one of the few masculine characters in games who is designed to look sexual rather than just attractive, with a leather-strappy, corset-laced costume modelled after lingerie and an extremely prominent ass. When Solid Snake was announced for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in June, a lot of gaymers delightedly pointed out that of course Solid Snake would be there for Pride Month.
  • Ocelot is also highly important to the gay fanbase, in that, despite being introduced as a torturing sadist, he has the most sympathetic storyline of all the villains and is eventually revealed to be very much on the right side of history. His actions to destroy an oppressive social order are motivated by him having fallen in love for Big Boss, giving the impression that he's so monumentally gay he was able to destroy the world with it. Plus, he's also a fun Evil Is Hammy Gay Cowboy who steals the scene in all of his appearances.
  • The Boss is held up as the most virtuous hero in the backstory, is presented as a huge badass, and is considered very attractive among lesbian and bisexual women both in-universe (in the case of Strangelove's canonical love for her) and out.
  • Nearly all female characters in the series are popular among lesbians and bi women: Strangelove, Meryl, Olga, Paz, Fortune, Cecile, Sniper Wolf, EVA and Mei Ling being the most notable. Even Quiet, despite her outfit being criticized for being too Stripperific and ridiculous, has her lesbian/bi women following, mostly due to her strange behavior and bizzare nature. Lesbians and bi women like these characters because they're varied in both looks and professions, and all of them have their own individual personalities, often with a lot of pathos, which makes them very human and interesting. They're also capable, intelligent and tough, and are either able to go toe-to-toe with Solid Snake or Big Boss, or are straight up better, smarter or more powerful than them. Some of them also look in a way that appeals to lesbians and bi women (Meryl's tomboyishness, Olga's short hair and unshaven armpits, Strangelove's Butch Lesbian look and The Boss's crow's feet and musculature).
  • Raiden is pretty important to trans fans. He's an androgynous man who by necessity is in an artificial body, and he embraces the strength given to him by that. He has a wife and a kid and is presented as being masculine and cool, but is also gender variant, wearing high heels, long hair, eye makeup and using stripper moves in combat. The fact that two of his most mortal enemies are an attractive but evil sexual predator and a bigoted, Kill the Poor senator with beliefs reminiscent of many real-life politicians known for their opposition to LGBT rights, is also extremely cathartic and satisfying for many people in the LGBT community.
• Monster Prom: The game has a large cast of very attractive characters where Everyone Is Bi, and has received its LGBT fans with open arms in many fronts, both in the sense that it allows the player to choose their own pronouns and also for the fact that it allows the player to date any other character, male or female. Bisexuals were particularly joyful with the game and it became an instant hit in the community.
• Morenatsu: A Dating Sim always intended for a gay audience, but has spawned viral Memetic Mutation of fanart by countless different artists. People in the Furry Fandom are more likely to see lots of its fanart before ever finding out that it is actually a game.
• Mortal Kombat:
  • The early installments are a giant Walking Shirtless Scene source for several male fighters. And thanks to the movie, Johnny Cage and Goro have a nicely developed relationship that wouldn't have existed otherwise.
  • The female fighters have had plenty of gay male fans and Mortal Kombat X introduced a canonically gay character Kung Jin along with confirming Mileena and Tanya are also queer. And top-ranked Mortal Kombat player Dominique "SonicFox" McLean is openly gay and non-binary, thus raising Mortal Kombat's profile.
  • The gay fanbase has always been there on the fringe, but Mortal Kombat 11 has caused it to explode. Very attractive male models were used for the male fighters, causing endless amount of fawning from gay and bi men all throughout social media. Kano especially, as some of his mannerisms (sniffing his armpit in the character select screen, spitting beer in a Victory Pose, and taking a leak before fighting his opponent (sometimes taking a leak after a brutality) has made him a fetish fuel station attendant.
• Night in the Woods has a prominent LGBT following (in addition to its furry following):
  • The player character, Mae, is pansexual. She expresses attraction to both men and women but isn't treated like a Depraved Pansexual for it.
  • Two of the other main characters, Gregg and Angus, are gay and in a relationship with each other. Like Mae, they're handled in a realistic way and given depth that both relates to their sexuality and also doesn't.
  • Minor character Jackie is a trans woman, but this was only confirmed outside of the game, due to time constraints during development. The Weird Autumn Edition remedies it a bit when Bea tells Mae in her final path that Jackie has a one-woman band called "Trans World Order Give Them Hell" (TWOGTH), implying that she is indeed trans.
• Both Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, its sequel and their Westernized remake Elite Beat Agents have a small LGBT fandom thanks to all three games being somewhat campy and featuring rather manly cheerleaders/agents dancing and cheering people on through their problems.
  • The Asahi Town Ouendan in the sequel, whose members are more bishonen-looking, in contrast to the rough, butch-looking guys of the Yuuhi Town Ouendan.
  • Kai, the big, rugged, intimidating leader of the Yuuhi Town Ouendan gets his fair share of bara art, thanks to the second game revealing that he's pretty muscular while bathing in a hot spring and some fans like to pair him up with the Asahi Town Ouendan's leader Kaoru.
  • In the case of EBA, it helps that its soundtrack includes a few songs by queer icons, such as the Village People, Cher and David Bowie.
• Overwatch:
  • The game gathered fans of Bara, particularly to Hanzo and McCree, who make up the Fan-Preferred Couple for those of that circle. Soldier: 76, Reaper and Genji also have gay fans. Roadhog gets his fair share of attention too considering his status as a Big Beautiful Man.
  • Zarya, a burly Russian woman got many lesbian fans. Bara fans also liked her, though obviously not in the same way as with the male characters. Tracer was canonically confirmed to be a lesbian in the Reflections comic, but even before that had a sizable group who had the hots for her. Widowmaker, Mercy and Symmetra have their own share of lesbian fans too, but for different reasons as they are definitely the "femme" to Zarya and Tracer's "butch."
• Petal Crash has plenty of LGBT fans thanks to it having quite a few characters who are stated or implied to be LGBT in some capacity, such as Yosoti the centaur being nonbinary.
• Pokémon:
  • The series has plenty of bara style art, of both human characters and Pokémon. Machop's evolutionary line is by far the most popular choice while Zangoose also has a large following. Incineroar has also become this, being a buff, furry bara Pokémon in design, plus being included in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for even more popularity. Popular human characters include Lt. Surge, Bruno, Giovanni, Koga, Chuck, Brawly, Archie, Tabitha, Byron, Drayden, Marshal, Alder, and Red as an adult.
  • Sylveon and Primarina are often seen as trans symbols, thanks to their 7/1 gender ratio that favors males, as well as both having nearly identical color schemes to the trans flag (blue, pink, and white). Fairies as a whole tend to have this as well, with the blue/pink/white colour scheme coming up incredibly often. There's also some amusing cases where the shiny variants interact with others, such as Hatterne's shiny version having lesbian flag colours.
  • Elesa is a fashionable Ambiguously Bi woman who has a lot of female fans.
  • Erika's female-only Gym and Rainbow Badge make it easy to view her as lesbian, leading to her being one of the oldest examples of this in the fandom.
  • Lillie and Shauna have Les Yay with the female protagonists that isn't much different from how they treat the male protagonists, leading many to view them as bisexual. This led to them having a lot of queer women fans.
  • On a similar note, N Harmonia is just as popular with queer men as he is with the ladies.
  • A few characters, such as Cheren from the Unova games, Ilima from the Alola games, Blanche from Pokémon GO, and Marnie from Pokémon Sword and Shield have followings amongst transgender fans who headcanon them as trans. There's even a Beauty trainer in Pokémon X and Y actually implied to be a trans woman.
  • Also from Sword/Shield, Peony became a Bara icon in less than 24 hours after his DLC's release.
  • Bugsy and Will from Pokémon Gold and Silver and their remakes are popular among both trans men and nonbinary individuals, due to being officially male but having extremely androgynous designs. This also isn't necessarily unwarranted—in Pokémon Crystal, there's gender data for every trainer in the game except Eusine, meant to select which dialogue pool to sample from when randomly choosing the opponent's dialogue. Despite being male in-game, Bugsy and Will are identified as female by this array.
  • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet:
    • Quaquaval, the final evolution of Quaxly, has seemingly become popular amongst gay men due to its character design, which is based on carnival dancers from Rio De Janiero. Many memes sprouted from this alongside jokes about Quaquaval being Camp Gay due to its flamboyant design and heavy male ratio with another joke saying that Quaquaval can only attract Pokémon of the same gender to it.
    • Rika is a sharply-dressed androgynous woman with a relatively broad-shouldered and flat-chested build. She has gained many fans from all over the LGBT spectrum, including those who headcanon her as non-binary or transgender (with genderbent fanart also being common), as well as a legion of lesbians and bisexuals who swoon over her.
• All the main characters from the Punch-Out!! franchise to varying extents. For whatever reason King Hippo seems especially popular, even more so than the Camp Disco Kid or Mountain Man Bear Hugger.
• Puyo Puyo has accumulated a sizable amount of queer fans, at least in the West. These fans tend to find gay/lesbian Puyo Puyo ships they enjoy and come up with all sorts of headcanons about the characters' sexualities and gender identities.
• Red Earth: Leo, duh. A well-muscled Beast Man with no shirt? Bara fans and furries say hello.
• Chris Redfield of Resident Evil has become a pretty huge presence in Bara Genre fanart due to his manly makeover in Resident Evil 5. It's intensified in Resident Evil: Revelations with his unlockable outfit. It helps that he can be read as gay, considering his relationship with Piers in Resident Evil 6 is laden with Ho Yay (with one of his unlockable outfits being a sailor uniform with hot pants) and the letter he leaves behind for Clare in Resident Evil 2 (Remake) is dripping with Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?. Clare even says "That doesn't sound like Chris" after she reads it.
• Reverse: 1999 attracted a noticeable lesbian fanbase, thanks to its named and non-self-insert protagonist Vertin, its majority female cast with a diverse array of fashion styles beyond the feminine such as the Butch Lesbian Tennant, and of course, all the many moments of homoerotic attraction between women, such as Matilda's all-consuming, one-sided rivalry with Sonetto that seems to be more than just wanting Sonetto to become Matilda's assistant, Sonetto's wanting to practice cheek-kissing with Vertin, and everything about the intense, fiery chemistry between Vertin and Schneider. There are also gay and non-binary fans thanks to its minority of attractive male characters and explicitly gender-non-conforming characters like The Fool and Medicine Pocket.
• Rune Factory 5 quickly attracted attention from LGBTQ+ gamers for it being the first game in the series to include same-gender romance options.
• Shantae: Considering how every main female character is extremely attractive and wear extremely revealing outfits, it was a given that the series would have a massive sapphic fanbase. And even for the guys, characters like Bolo and the Ammo Baron aren't exactly hard on the eyes either.
• Shining Wind: Rouen sees a lot of Kemono Bara Genre fanart.
• Shovel Knight has a large amount of queer fans drawn in by the Shovel of Hope campaign's surprisingly in-depth and respectful Body Swap mode allowing every major character in the game to fall anywhere on the cis-trans-non-binary spectrum.
• The Sims: In addition to being an early pioneer in allowing for gay romances, got favorable press for adding gender variant options in a patch for The Sims 4. A later patch would give players the ability to set specific sexual orientations for their Sims, much to the joy of gay/lesbian and asexual fans, as heterosexual interactions were previously treated as the default even though Everyone Is Bi.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Sonic and Shadow get this treatment a lot thanks to the fact that: a. they have fur b. in the furry circles, they're both considered attractive, and c. their rivalry means there's a lot of tension between them.
  • Sonadow is definitely a furry fan favorite, even if little between them in the games is romantic in any way.
  • Tails has a following amongst trans fans, which likely stems from the urban legend that he was originally designed as female (and he actually is a girl in the Mexican Spanish dubs of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM)).
• Soul Series gives us Rock who is much beloved in the Bara community.
• Splatoon:
  • Even the first game developed one despite not referencing the concept at all, as people just really liked shipping Inklings of the same gender with each other (and occasionally Octolings).
  • Splatoon 2's Pearl and Marina have a fandom amongst women and trans people. The former comes from their Les Yay-laden interactions, with Pearl outright saying she loves Marina in the results of the Chaos vs. Order Splatfest, while the latter comes from a few people on Tumblr headcanoning that she is trans and it catching on. In general, pro-LGBT plaza posts frequently rise to the top, inspiring subsequent waves of such.
  • Splatoon 3 gives the appearance of Super Jumping right out of the closet from the word "go" with its character select screen asking for a "style" rather than a gender, much like Animal Crossing: New Horizons before it. It also helps that the game’s primary ink colors of purple and yellow also heavily resemble the nonbinary flag, and the haircuts and legwear are now unisex. Shiver, one of the main hosts, also has a very androgynous appearance that doesn't make it obvious that she's a girl. Then came the Side Order DLC, which not only ramped up the Ship Tease for Pearl and Marina to all but confirm them as an interracial lesbian couple, but also introduces Acht, a character who is implied to be non-binary due to their use of they/them pronouns.
  • In general, LGBT fans quickly picked up on being able to change their character's gender on a dime, the predominantly female main cast, the official advertising tending to favor female player characters, and the largely unisex fashion choices.
• Stardew Valley:
  • The game has a substantial LGBT fanbase for its inclusion of various romance-able love interests, all of which can be romanced by a player character of any gender. A few of them even mention, should the player character be the same gender as they are, that they've never felt this way about a member of their own gender before.
  • According to polling by the developer, Leah is a HUGE hit with lesbians and bisexual women, although she is also the most popular bachelorette among straight men players too. It seems the appeal of an intelligent, tomboyish outdoorsy girl is universal.
  • For bisexual and gay men, the most popular bachelor by a country mile seems to be Alex, which shouldn't be that surprising for the Genre Savvy. While criticized by players for his casual sexism in a female romance, these same players have praised the writing of Alex's romance arc with a male Farmer, which sees him undergoing a journey of overcoming his toxic masculinity and internalized homophobia and gradually realizing he isn't heterosexual.
• Star Ocean: Till the End of Time: Adray Lasbard is a Walking Shirtless Scene Old Soldier with sex appeal. There is Bara Genre, yes there is.
• Story of Seasons:
  • Jamie from Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is an androgynous character whose gender is always the opposite of the player's. Their gender is only confirmed during their wedding ceremony, if you opt to marry them. Jamie's androgyny makes them popular amongst queer fans.
  • The "androgyny" is also true with Inari in Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns, though subtle differences in apperance clarify the gender. A later update allowed the player to have a child with Inari as well.
  • The main Mineral Town love interests (and subsequently their 64 counterparts) all have varying degrees of fanbases, however Gray has the largest due to his Ambiguously Bi nature (mainly, his indecisive embarrassed reaction to being shown a Blue Feather in Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town). This fanbase got larger after Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town made them all bisexual and let the player marry anyone.
  • Nami and Muffy from Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life are popular amongst queer women. Nami because of her tomboyish nature and implications of being nonbinary, and Muffy because fans like to "save her" from her decades-long string of bad boyfriends by giving her a girlfriend. (Incidentally, Nami and Muffy are often shipped together.) The remake, [1] allows the player to marry anyone and also lets the player be nonbinary.
  • The Special Girls from Harvest Moon DS Cute can be "befriended" in the Japanese version. Though the feature was taken out of the English release, all their flirty dialogue prior to being proposed to is kept. As a result, they're all popular amongst LGBT fans.
• Street Fighter gets a lot of love from Bara Genre fans.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners Ken and Ryu get the most fan works, but there's also plenty rule #34 of Zangief. You can expect to find bara-style art of almost any male character, given that most of them are muscular and often shirtless. Ryu gained more prominence in V when he grew his hair out and gained a beard, which quickly became dubbed "Hot Ryu".
  • Not surprising with Urien, given that he already looks an oiled-up bodybuilder in a white bikini in the games.
  • Abel and El Fuerte when Street Fighter IV was released. One of Akuma's alternate costumes had him wear nothing except a fundoshi, a rope belt, and some torn cloth.
• Summon Night: Swordcraft Story and sequel have these because it was one of the few early-to-mid 2000s games with Gay Options (more specifically, revolving around the female protagonists). The games being completely nonchalant about how the MC is into women (the line about kissing pretty girls all the time stands out) helps a lot, since that’s an issue that can crop up even today.
• Super Mario Bros.:
  • Mario himself to a degree, but far outshadowed by Bowser. A big, hairy, strong guy wearing spikes and leather and nothing else? Bowser oozes testosterone, and attracts tons of testosterone-y fans. Though both Mario and Bowser are portrayed as straight in a struggle over Peach, Foe Yay Shipping inevitably ensues.
  • Birdo is canonically a trans woman. Though this gets thrown under the rug due to censorship and is usually Played for Laughs, she's still notable for being one of the first explicitly trans characters in gaming, being from a kid-friendly franchise, and often being depicted in a loving relationship with Yoshi. Thus, she has a fanbase amongst trans fans.
  • Princess Peach has been read by LGBT journalists as a gay icon. One of them even shared his story on how Peach awakened him when playing as her in Mario Kart 64 (and much earlier in Super Mario Bros. 2).
  • Vivian from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is heavily implied to be transgender in Japan and most European localizations. Thus she has a fanbase amongst trans people.
  • Super Mario Odyssey re-introduced Pauline as the mayor of New Donk City, complete with a snazzy new work suit. Cue queer women cooing over her and shipping her with Peach.
  • Princess Peach: Showtime! earned the titular princess an even bigger LGBT fanbase than usual, with masculine costumes for the feminine Peach falling out of the wardrobe almost immediately (Swordfighter springs to mind first, but there's also Kung Fu, Cowgirl and others). This is accentuated with inspirations from the Takarazuka Revue and the game taking place in the Sparkle Theater and its myriad live-stage plays.
• Tekken:
  • Any series with lots of half-naked muscular men fighting each other is bound to have lots of homoerotic fanart. The later series added customizable outfits for the characters. For male characters, this often allowed them to fight shirtless or in wrestling singlets and trunks.
  • Bara art featuring King and Marduk (and occasionally Armor King as well) became popular after the fifth game.
• Thomas Was Alone: Later in the game, James is introduced. He is character that is described as bullied and isolated by others for being "inverted", a now-outdated clinical term for homosexuality which in this case refers to the fact that gravity works the opposite way with him. Many gay fans ressonnated with him and found his story, as well as his eventual friendship with the titular Thomas incredibly heartwarming. The creator went on to say that he was happy gay fans found themselves connecting to the characters and stated that, had the game been longer, James would have fallen in love with Thomas.
• Many fans of TinkerQuarry have offered their own interpretations of each character's sexuality, and Hallowraith, the developer, accepts them all. They say that they're happy with giving their characters different orientations because they feel they need more representation in media.
• Tomb Raider has an enormous LGBT fanbase, which will quickly become apparent to anyone who visits the official and unofficial fan forums.
• To say that the Touhou Project series is popular with the LGBT community may be an understatement.
  • For starters there's the obvious fact that the series has a large cast and an Improbably Female Cast at that, making shipping the girls with other girls (almost) mandatory, and though the main series runs on a strict No Hugging, No Kissing formula, it also has plenty of Les Yay moments and series creator ZUN is nothing but encouraging of the shipping happy community. The fact that "everyone is gay in Gensoukyou" is a wildly recognized meme in the community (and sometimes enforced to comical effect in fanworks by making The One Guy completely uninterested in women vying for his heart) says quite a bit.
  • On the gender expression and identity axis, Touhou also has a cast ranging from Tomboy and Girly Girls of such diverse varieties that a character who's the Girly Girl in one company can easily be the Tomboy in another. There is also Toyosatomimi no Miko who is, in universe, recognized as a Historical Gender Flip of Prince Shoutoku. One of the women in Miko's Cast Herd is also based upon one of Prince Shoutoku's wives, and since she's still a part of the Crown Prince's cast herd, well...
• Undertale:
  • Asgore, a really huge goat guy, is the King of all monsters with a pair of massive horns, manly facial hair, and wears armor that would suggest you should stay away from him. Despite his imposing figure, he's an absolute dork, a sweet guy, and is loved by everyone under his rule. Thanks to Asgore's positive personality traits, he gained quite a following in the Furry Fandom with many fans drawing him as either a Big Beautiful Man, a massive Hunk, or both.
  • The game on the whole has gotten a few appreciative nods from LGBT fans, for reasons including the commitment to keeping an Ambiguous Gender for the protagonist and the presence of two happy same-sex Official Couples (one between two miniboss monsters in a mostly silly scene, the other between two members of the main cast).
• The Walking Dead: Season Four: Previous seasons had their own LGBT fans, but the fourth season is the most popular due to having the most openly LGBT characters and storylines. For starters, this season revealed that Clementine, who was already a beloved and important character for many gamers, is bisexual, and gave her an option to pursuit a romantic relationship with either a girl (Violet) or a guy (Louis). Both Violet and Louis are widely considered likable and charismatic (though in their own, very distinct ways), and their romance routes have about the same amount of content and emotional weight to them, with neither of them implied to be the "correct" choice, avoiding the (sadly) common way the Gay Option tends to be sidelined in some games. There's also the side character James, who is canonically gay, but his sexuality has little to no bearing on his personality and character arc and Minerva, Violet's ex girlfriend, who serves as a secondary antagonist. The whole season has Clementine fighting for her new home in the abandoned Ericson's Boarding School and the community of kids who live there, making Found Family one of the key motifs, which resonates with a lot of LGBT people. There's also the fact that Clementine, Violet and James can all survive, with the only other LGBT character who will always die being Minerva, and Clementine and Violet being allowed to continue their happy relationship in peace if the player made the right choices.
• Wild ARMs 2 had tall, dark and hunky Gentle Giant / Mighty Glacier Brad Evans, who was sweetly devoted to his war buddy Billy Pilder. While debate continues over whether they were actually intended to be gay, their Tear Jerker Ho Yay has made Brad a video game Straight Gay icon. Brad and Billy might have been Heterosexual Life-Partners, if not for there being zero demonstration of their heterosexuality and all evidence to the contrary.
• World of Warcraft: Asric and Jadaar, Koltira and Thassarian, and Quae and Kinelory are the most obvious ones that come to mind. There's also the large amounts of gay fanart of WoW Tauren, Orcs, Dwarves, Pandaren, and even the occasional Draenei. From all the fanart alone, one would believe that everybody has lots of man orgies. And if you go to the Goldshire Inn on an rp server this is actually true. This is mostly unintentional though. The only place where homosexuality is canonical is among the (all female) Night Elf Sentinels. There is much homoerotic subtext between orc characters, but nothing ever comes of it. There is one yaoi ship still barely sailing, but it's pretty clear it's about to get sunk. The reason the LGBT community likes the game actually has more to do with the character appearance options than it does with the storyline though. There is a large number of possible body types for both genders on either faction, and plenty of variation in equipment appearance as well. No matter what you're into, the game probably has it in some form. The abilities of various classes also offer plenty of potential for erotic roleplay in general. The game is also popular with furries because of the anthropomorphic animal races, as well as the abilities of certain classes (like druids, hunters and shamans).
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Both Lanz and Sena are quite popular amongst queer fans, with Lanz being popular with gay fans, and Sena being popular with trans fans. Starting with Lanz, he is an Ambiguously Gay Hunk who never shows interest in women, and seems to have a soft spot for men, such as Valdi, Triton, and especially Joran. As for Sena, she is a Tomboy who loves to exercise, but was often shunned for it. As the game progresses, she learns that she can be her own person and that society can’t tell her who she can and can’t be. This is definitely something that a lot of transgender people can relate to. Unlike the other Ouroboros pairs, Lanz and Sena’s relationship isn’t portrayed as romantic in the slightest, and neither of them have a different love interest, which is why many fans like to speculate on their love lives really are.