The player may choose to play as either Alexios or Kassandra a pair of siblings. Ned Wynert is a minor non-playable character (NPC) and a trans man. This led to speculation regarding Jacob's sexuality, with the official Assassin's Creed Tumblr account confirming he is canonically bisexual. He also hinted that Jacob needed to "figure himself out to some degree" after his brief partnership with Maxwell Roth. The lead writer of the game indicated that the team explicitly avoided giving Jacob, one of the game's two protagonists, a female love interest. On one occasion, he assures Ezio that "women provide little distraction." In the downloadable content The Da Vinci Disappearance, Ezio appears to know of Leonardo's romantic relationship with his pupil Salaì, stating that he approves of their relationship. Lifelong friend of protagonist Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Leonardo da Vinci is implied to be gay, based on similar historical evidence. He believes that the people hate him because he is different, is shown caressing the cheek of one of his male guards during his angry tirade and claims that he cannot serve the cause of a God who calls him an abomination. Ību'l Nuquod, one of the assassination targets in this historically based game, is strongly implied to be gay.
Looking back at the game in 2014, Hsu said that she still thought Jean caused confusion due to the general public having a less informed and nuanced understanding of gender and sexuality at the time of the game's release. Trials and Tribulations localization team director Janet Hsu, in looking through all information that is given about Jean in the game, and came to the conclusion that he is a gay cis man who likes to perform non- passing drag. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations These are video game series where two or more games have LGBT characters.Ī series of adult yuri visual novels. And of those, only eight feature a main character who is explicitly pre-written as queer as opposed to them being queer as a character creation option. Of those 179 games, only 83 have queer characters who are playable characters. In 2018, Gamesradar's Sam Greer pored through thousands of gaming titles and found 179 games with any LGBT representation.
However, more efforts were found to make more diverse and less one-dimensional characters. In the 1990s, games (often Japanese ones) continued to use stereotypical LGBT characters which did not reflect the diversity in LGBT communities. During the 1980s, characters that can be argued as identifying as LGBT were rarely shown in a realistic or non-stereotypical context and were often the objects of ridicule or jokes.
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