Quote Originally Posted by deadman1204 View Post
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).