Basically, I'm making this thread to shine a spotlight on gaming's queer male characters, so as to bring them more into prominence for those who actively seek out these characters and games featuring them, and failing that, to serve as a rallying cry to bolster their ranks in gaming and to show that we're willing and eager to see more queer men.
I'll start off with Persona 2's Tatsuya Suou.
Tatsuya is canonically a bisexual male, an almost miraculous rarity in any work of fiction, and he's the protagonist no less. While the silent hero of the first half of the Persona 2 duology, near the end of the game hes given the Persona standard "choose your love interest" choice, and the inarguably correct and per the scenario writer and director canon decision is childhood friend Jun Kurosu. Even later on in the follow up game Eternal Punishment, Tatsuya is motivated by his affection for party member and new protagonist Maya Amano, and by the end of the game it's made clear that he's romantically invested in her as well. It is incredibly rare for any work for fiction to treat a bisexual man's love for different genders as valid and equal. often falling into tired cliches of bisexuals having to "commit" to one gender, and here's Tatsuya in 1999 making clear that he loves both Jun and Maya in the same way. Sadly the Persona series has never given this to us again, but there's hope in a new generation of Atlus devs taking Persona beyond the constraints and phobic inclusions of past titles.
So if you know of any else, post away. This thread is for any and all of gaming's queer men, no matter how minor they may be in their source material.
I'll start off with Persona 2's Tatsuya Suou.
Tatsuya is canonically a bisexual male, an almost miraculous rarity in any work of fiction, and he's the protagonist no less. While the silent hero of the first half of the Persona 2 duology, near the end of the game hes given the Persona standard "choose your love interest" choice, and the inarguably correct and per the scenario writer and director canon decision is childhood friend Jun Kurosu. Even later on in the follow up game Eternal Punishment, Tatsuya is motivated by his affection for party member and new protagonist Maya Amano, and by the end of the game it's made clear that he's romantically invested in her as well. It is incredibly rare for any work for fiction to treat a bisexual man's love for different genders as valid and equal. often falling into tired cliches of bisexuals having to "commit" to one gender, and here's Tatsuya in 1999 making clear that he loves both Jun and Maya in the same way. Sadly the Persona series has never given this to us again, but there's hope in a new generation of Atlus devs taking Persona beyond the constraints and phobic inclusions of past titles.
So if you know of any else, post away. This thread is for any and all of gaming's queer men, no matter how minor they may be in their source material.
