Quote Originally Posted by Venjamin View Post
Just FYI, LGBTQ+ people are part of the social norm. You may have missed the memo. It has nothing to do with 'flaunting' anything. Acknowledging our existence makes for an easy way to make a world more palpable to the masses.



I can give you a pretty simplistic answer, as others have in the thread. LGBTQ+ npcs just hanging out. A side quest where you have to go find a guy's missing husband, instead of his missing wife.

Gaia or Ryne openly asking the other out on an actual date, rather than what people assume are dates if you want to do something in the main cast that there's been potential build up to, though IMO, "build up" isn't always necessary. Oh, and not having anyone act like that's out of the ordinary - bonus, as it means homophobia is not a part of the XIV world.

A flashback of a character with a visibly different-gender model. (Trickier to do in a medium like this, there might be technical limitations involved, but it's a simplistic way to go about covering a trans character without going full ME: Andromeda on us.)

Then that aspect is confirmed, NOT a main focus of the character, etc. They did it with Soldier 76 and didn't have anything like him going "I'M GAY" or making his ultimate fire rainbows at people. Just a bit of media acknowledging a past relationship, how relationships are hard for members of Overwatch, and then it moved on. And yet the BACKLASH was as though he'd done Pride Poledancing in front of the whole world. People said a lot of the same "It's being forced!" nonsense.
These ideas are simple and honestly it’s surprising they haven’t done something like this already