Frustrating relative lack of LGBT NPCs in this game

[Denji]

Ryne and Gaia embrace eachother in front of a rainbow crystal while rainbow flower pedals fly out like confetti.

Zenos has an attack called Tryst he uses on even male players.

Carpenter questline has the gayest two dudes I've ever seen.

[deadman1204]

Ryne and Gaia embrace eachother in front of a rainbow crystal while rainbow flower pedals fly out like confetti.

Zenos has an attack called Tryst he uses on even male players.

Carpenter questline has the gayest two dudes I've ever seen.

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

[Denji]

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

I don't think the Ryne and Gaia one could be any more blatant, especially with what Ryne says during the last fight.

[Alaray]

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

While I think this thread is pretty ancient in it's discussion, I do want to point out that coding characters is used as a narrative tool as blatantly saying something isn't always the most natural choice to go with in a story. Which, I think people don't tend to think about much when they do criticize narrative instances (and, at times, characters can be unintentionally coded -- like, as far as I know, Gwyndolin the Dark Sun from Dark Souls wasn't intended to resonate the way he did with a lot of trans people, but that character did as the character's story/motives/presentations are extremely relatable to a lot of trans folk, since Gwyndolin's overarching narrative is extremely trans even if people who can't relate, or don't relate, to those things won't notice it).

[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.

[Misplaced_Marbles]

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.

Very true, but you see, it's never enough for these people on the internet, unless the character(s) state it at least once during every conversation and stop the flow of the story to wax on about who they're into every paragraph. It's just grotesque bastardizing of feelings.

Then again, maybe they act like that in real life? That'd be............weird.