I appreciate Square Enix supporting LGBT rights in FFXIV.

[EaraGrace]

Yes, coincidences do exist and friends can care deeply and even love each other in a way that is entirely platonic. It also makes sense for Ryne and Gaia to call out to one another given what they had been through. As for the rainbow coloured pillar, that came about through the process of conjuring Primals in order to begin the process of restoration for the First.

As for the Twitter post, it's marketing - and I do believe that it is not written by someone who writes the actual lore and interactions between characters.

You must admit that if someone does read their interactions before this differently than you have, that they would very logically not interpret it as being mere coincidence like you have? Or do you think that someone who doesn’t think it’s a coincidence, but a deliberate decision to include these things in this way, is just inserting head canon?

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Look at that coincidence

[Theodric]

You must admit that if someone does read their interactions before this differently than you have, that they would very logically not interpret it as being mere coincidence like you have? Or do you think that someone who doesn’t think it’s a coincidence, but a deliberate decision to include these things in this way, is just inserting head canon?

Everybody is free to read into it however they so wish. Yet with nothing explicitly confirmed combined with the fact they only knew each other for a short while I have a hard enough time buying into the idea of a deep and meaningful friendship between them, let alone a romantic one.

I don't think that there's a need for businesses to embrace representation for the sake of representation but I do believe that if they were to add LGBT couples to their games then they should be prepared just state it outright. Otherwise to me it would just come across as something left deliberately vague so that in some regions it can be played up and in other regions it can be played down.

As it stands, there's zero mention of them being anything other than friends. It may or may not be confirmed as being something more in the future, we'll see how it goes. It could be that both characters go the way of some of the other side quest NPC's who never show up again after their initial story arc concludes.