Maria Rossi is a trans woman.
Considering that she uses a masculine character model in Forza Horizon, it's possible.The player in Forza Motorsport 3 is the Prince of Persia.
Having saved his kingdom, the Prince has decided to try his hand at racing. He wisely brought the Sands of Time with him in his car.- That does sound like something a stereotypical wealthy Arab/Persian prince would do.
The Hired Driver is the Stig.
He will never spin out, almost always gets in first place (provided Rossi doesn't block him), and he is not affected by the "Pressure" system like the other AI cars - AI cars riding on his ass will not cause him to become nervous. He also wears a white racing suit, like the Stig. The player in all Forza games is an Empty Shell.
The driver you play as is an anonymous, soulless character, who's isolated from the rest of the world and is only interested in one thing: driving fast. Potentially fatal crash? Doesn't bother them, as long as the car's ready and waiting for the next race. Highly tuned, one-off concept vehicle, but painted bright pink with flower vinyls? Doesn't matter, winning doesn't require style. Front wheel drive Citroen made for good gas mileage? It's got potential. The driver honestly doesn't care what they're in, as long as it can win.- Jossed, at least for the Player in the Horizon games. They're actually a Nice Guy who cares about making sure that everyone has a good time driving at the Festival.
"M. Rossi" is a pseudonym.
Rossi is one of the few drivers, if not the only one, the player encounters in Horizon whose full name is not shown—just the initial and surname are shown as in the previous Motorsport games. "Rossi" is approximately the Italian word for red ("rosso") which is the color of most of his cars, and the "M" could be interpreted as a short form of a word like "maestro". I.E., Rossi is the "red master". His name may be Marco Rossi.- Jossed. Motorsport 7 gave us a name reveal. M. Rossi is a lady, and she's Maria Rossi.
The Horizon Protagonist is an escaped Stig
Top Gear has said before that they keep a farm where they raise tame racing drivers, the driver in Horizon is obviously one that got out, and unable to do anything else, started doing the one thing it was bred to do. Racing.- Jossed(?) as of Horizon 5. The Player talks, which Stig will never do.
The Horizon Protagonist is an Animal Crossing villager
No one guessed it but he earned so much Bells so he left the Animal Village of furries for a while. Then he go into street racing.- Epileptic Trees, much?
Kiera is actually blind
- This would explain how she would not recognize her boss from Australia.
- Jossed; it's clear from the beginning that the protagonist in Horizon 4 is not the same person as the Horizon Australia boss. Plus, Kiera can drive, and even at the Festival you cannot drive visually impaired.
Next Horizon game after 5 will have an actual (licensed) street circuit or two.
If a future Horizon title takes place in France (again) or Isle of Man, Circuit de la Sarthe (plus Bugatti Circuit) or Isle of Man TT's Mountain Course will be used for certain events. In due course the developers may try to merge the Horizon and Motorsport franchises.
Since Horizon has become such a class leader the publishers may push to consolidate under that name, but making both games playable through the same interface with the same driver profile and same car sets. So the real life circuits and racing cars of Motorsport become part of the Horizon universe as expansions but the track-only cars can still race on the free roam map.- That's... not how video game programming works. Besides, the upcoming Motorsport reboot is using an overhauled ForzaTech engine, which automatically makes it incompatible with Horizon 5.
