Frustrating relative lack of LGBT NPCs in this game

[wereotter]

Notice how all of these are written in code? None of them come out to say it?

I don't think you need to have someone come out and say it in order for it to be true. I don't go around announcing to everyone I meet that I'm gay, and a realistic character in this game wouldn't do that either. There's any number of NPCs in this game that COULD be gay, but you're buying into the narrative that default is straight until told otherwise, when really you should never assume either way until you actually know.

And when you look at it from that angle, very few characters in this game have explicitly told us they're straight through us seeing their love interests (and even then they still could be bisexual)

We don't need to be explicitly told, it should just be shown when it becomes relevant for us to know.