Frustrating relative lack of LGBT NPCs in this game

[Axxion]

Not til the fish jumps.

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[Padudu]

At this point. Can we close this and let this die, please?

It's not happening. You might as well enjoy the ride

[IkaraGreydancer]

I usually steer away from these types of threads they invoke nasty ban hammers permanent ones too

BUT

Im not sure if it really matters the sexually of a npc in a video game there can be subtle hints maybe but is it needed does it bring any story defining revelation if alphinaud is gay ( alphinaud always looks at estinien strangely so i have my suspicions ) or thancred is bi ??

Also with the esrb rating its never going to get full on and even more so with how conservative the japanese are let alone sony and their rules !!

Uhh...Estinien is for sure a big brother to Alphi. Idk where you got the idea that he may like him. And Thancred has never been seen flirting with men.

[BrokentoothMarch]

Uhh...Estinien is for sure a big brother to Alphi. Idk where you got the idea that he may like him. And Thancred has never been seen flirting with men.

I agree. There's no real indication that Alphinaud or Estinien are gay aside from the explosion of fanservice in that direction. Canonically, it means nothing. "Looking at someone strangely" is an incredible reach. I suppose Y'shtola and I are life-long companions bound for marriage because there was that one time we were in a room alone.

And yes. Thancred is pretty irrefutably only into women.

[Padudu]

Uhh...Estinien is for sure a big brother to Alphi. Idk where you got the idea that he may like him. And Thancred has never been seen flirting with men.

Considering Estinien is in his 30s and Alphinaud is 16 that's some real ick levels to even imply that there's some sort of attraction going on there lol..

[Shin96]

I agree. There's no real indication that Alphinaud or Estinien are gay aside from the explosion of fanservice in that direction. Canonically, it means nothing. "Looking at someone strangely" is an incredible reach. I suppose Y'shtola and I are life-long companions bound for marriage because there was that one time we were in a room alone.

And yes. Thancred is pretty irrefutably only into women.

Don't fall for this thread. Some users here are just trying to bait you and ban you. They're worse than the snowflakes I described.

[BrokentoothMarch]

Considering Estinien is in his 30s and Alphinaud is 16 that's some real ick levels to even imply that there's some sort of attraction going on there lol..

Not that it'd lower the creepiness, but Alphinaud should be 18 by now considering the timeskip in Shadowbringers.

The age gap would still be pretty aggressive though.

[Oizen]

Estinien x Vrtra is obviously the real ship.

[Padudu]

Not that it'd lower the creepiness, but Alphinaud should be 18 by now considering the timeskip in Shadowbringers.

I forgot where I saw it, but wasn't it said that ARR-EW all takes place within a year? So at most 17 maybe. I'm pretty sure time in the First moves faster than the Source, but I don't remember at this point

[BrokentoothMarch]

I forgot where I saw it, but wasn't it said that ARR-EW all takes place within a year? So at most 17 maybe. I'm pretty sure time in the First moves faster than the Source, but I don't remember at this point

That would be... a horrifically bad timeline. If I'm to understand Final Days/Dragonsong War/The Ala Mhigan Conflict all happened in a year, none overlapping and instead happening back-to-back, that's a horrifically amateur way of constructing a story.

Even so, I was led to believe the time spent in the First before we were sent here was 2 years, albeit it only accounting for far less time in the Source. But now time in both are synced? They're doing a poor job of explaining this. I suppose it would be up to you to deliberate on whether 'compressed time' (spending a large amount of time in an ecosystem, only to leave it for another where far less time passed in comparison) counts towards age or not. It's all a bit confusing, I admit, and I subscribe to compressed time counting towards your age because, at least by my assumption, if you were to live out your age as an old man in the First, you would probably stay an old man coming to the Source.