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.

[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.