List of LGBT characters in video games

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The following is a list of gay (WP), lesbian (WP), bisexual (WP), transgender (WP) (LGBT (WP)) characters in video games.

This list is incomplete; revisions and additions are welcome.

1980s

In 1986, Wikipedia:Infocom released Wikipedia:Moonmist, a text adventure mystery with several possible randomly-selected plotlines. In one of these plotlines, the criminal is a female artist who is jealous because her girlfriend has gotten married to a man. This is the first instance of a homosexual character in a video game.

In 1988, Wikipedia:Nintendo released Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Wikipedia:NES. In the first-edition manual for the North American release of the game, Wikipedia:Birdo is referred to as a male who believes he is female and would rather be called "Birdetta."

In 1989, Wikipedia:Capcom released Wikipedia:Final Fight for the arcades. One of the characters, Poison, was born male but, depending on the region, is either a crossdresser or a transsexual. She has since been confirmed as a male-to-female Wikipedia:transsexual woman.

In 1989, Wikipedia:Westwood Studios released Wikipedia:Circuit's Edge for the DOS. The science fiction role playing game, based on a novel by Wikipedia:George Alec Effinger, features several characters who are identified as homosexual or transsexual.

1990s

Wikipedia:Sierra Online's 1990 Wikipedia:adventure game Wikipedia:Rise of the Dragon features an establishment called the Pleasure Dome that caters to homosexual patrons, among other things. One of its patrons is a woman posing as a man posing as a woman.

In Wikipedia:Ultima VI: The False Prophet (1992 IBM PC) and Wikipedia:Ultima VII: The Black Gate the player has the option to pay a fee and be entertained, off screen, by a female or male companion. In Wikipedia:Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle, a bisexual mage will sexually proposition the player character regardless of the character's gender. The player is given the choice to accept or decline.

Wikipedia:MicroProse's 1992 game titled Wikipedia:Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender for Wikipedia:MS-DOS and the Wikipedia:MAC OS requires the male hero to change his sex on a planet where women rule.

In 1992, Sierra On-line produced Laura Bow In The Dagger of Amon Ra, which featured a woman from a small town who gets a job for a New York paper in the 1920s. Two of the women she meets are involved in a secret love affair.

In 1993, Wikipedia:MicroProse released Wikipedia:Return of the Phantom with a gay male character named Charles portrayed as an effeminate theatre director. He is one of the good guys that helps the playable character, a French inspector, solve the mystery of the Wikipedia:Phantom of the Opera once and for all.

In 1993, a FMV game Wikipedia:Dracula Unleashed featured a character named Alfred Horner who co-owns a bookstore. He is indirectly portrayed as homosexual and gives to player character lecherous glances. This was the first time a homosexual character in a computer game was shown as a live actor.

In 1993, Sierra Online's Wikipedia:Police Quest: Open Season featured a Wikipedia:gay bar as a symbol of organized homosexuality. In this game, the player is a police officer trying to track down the murderer of his police partner. His quest leads him to discover that his partner had a double life as a cross-dresser at a West Hollywood transgender bar. The game also featured a Neo-Nazi who calls the main character a "mother loving faggot" if touched.

Square's 1995 SNES RPG Wikipedia:Chrono Trigger featured a major villain who was transgender. The character Flea, a henchman of Magus, was described as looking like a girl. Flea would exclaim "Hey, I'm a guy!" and later "Male or female, what difference does it make? Power is beautiful, and I've got the power." Flea would later appear with his sidekicks in the sequel Wikipedia:Chrono Cross, appearing as a female with a pink wig and miniskirt. However, the battle screen in Chrono Cross displays the enemies' sex with a male or female symbol, and Flea is clearly marked as a man. It is notable that Flea's transgender theme appeared in the US translation of the SNES release, during Nintendo's censorship phase.

In 1995, Shannara, based on the books written by Wikipedia:Terry Brooks, included a snotty and racist gay character, the Seneschal, who wore all purple. This character was similar to the snotty and racist elven character in Simon the Sorcerer 2 who not only had the purple attire, but a Wikipedia:pansy flower in his hat.

In 1995, Wikipedia:The Orion Conspiracy became the first computer game to use the word homosexual (although the 1994 Kirin Entertainment game Wikipedia:Plumbers Don't Wear Ties does use the word 'gay'). The main character, Devlin McCormack, lives on a space station where he investigates the murder of his son and stops an alien invasion. His investigation leads him through the seedy, criminal underworld of the station, where he discovers that his son was homosexual by talking with his son's boyfriend.

In 1995, Wikipedia:The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery features the antagonist Baron Von Glower who pursues the protagonist Gabriel Knight sexually and eventually leads him to be turned into a werewolf.

The 1996 computer game Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh featured a homosexual male character named Trevor, who was a close friend and co-worker of the player character, Curtis Craig. Despite his effeminate and flamboyant portrayal, Trevor is shown as intelligent and is very significant through the game's plot. Curtis admits to his psychiatrist that he has feelings for Trevor and might be bisexual, and later the two kiss, although Curtis is also shown as having relationships with a girlfriend and a S&M domme. Creators of the game talked about the mature sexual themes in the game during a 1997 interview. Curtis is the first playable non-heterosexual character in a video game.

In 1996 Wikipedia:Vic Tokai developed the graphic adventure computer game Wikipedia:Silverload, which features a gay barber.

In 1996, the adventure game Harvester had a flamboyant gay firefighter named Fireman Sparky.

In 1996, Wikipedia:Crystal Dynamics released Wikipedia:Blazing Dragons for the PlayStation. It was a graphic adventure game based on a British Wikipedia:cartoon where dragons had human emotions, and real humans were obnoxious villains. Blazing Dragons was influenced by comedians such as Wikipedia:John Cleese of Wikipedia:Monty Python fame. This game marketed the introduction to the video game industry of the comic models that the computer game industry had been using to reference homosexuality. The game featured a dragon knight whose homosexuality was demonstrated by his effeminacy and vanity, and an entire puzzle involved dressing as the princess of the dragons in order to trick the dragon king into thinking she has not run away and been kidnapped by humans. When this fails, it falls to the court jester (who also appears to be homosexual) to wear drag; at one point he kisses one of the other dragon knights, while off camera. This game marked the first time when drag, in the comic model, was allowed to appear in video games.

In Square's 1997 title Wikipedia:Final Fantasy VII, a specific puzzle involves the male protagonist, Wikipedia:Cloud Strife, collecting various articles of female attire in order to audition as the girl that will spend the night with a male character. If the player has found enough items they are chosen as the girl and can play along with the scenario to a certain extent, although the couple is interrupted just as they are about to kiss. One of this articles, a wig, is found in a gym of gay male body builders, and the character can also enter a brothel. Depending on which room in the brothel is chosen the character may end up in a hot tub with around 10 men, including the character Mukki, who seems to proposition the main character both in this scene and when the player meets him later on in the game.

In 1997, Wikipedia:The Last Express has the player meeting two young adult girls named Sophie de Bretheuil and Rebecca Norton who are almost always in each other's company. While at first they appear to be merely close friends, reading the diary of Recbecca suggests they are lesbians, but there are no explicitly homosexual gestures beyond hand-holding.

In 1997 the Sega Saturn title Wikipedia:Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers depicted the protagnoist encountering a cross dresser by the name of Kamanari while chasing down the gambling parlor owner Tatsumi during a case. It is also implied Tatsumi himself is gay.

In 1998 Interplay released Wikipedia:Fallout 2 featuring the first Wikipedia:same-sex marriage in a game. The reaction from the family of the character the player marries is very negative.

In Square's 1999 title Wikipedia:Final Fantasy VIII, an unnamed minor character can be encountered in a bar; during conversation, there is strong implication the character is a transvestite. The player character Wikipedia:Squall Leonhart is given the option to ask if he is really a woman. If Squall asks this the character becomes paranoid and wonders how he knew.

In the 1999 game Wikipedia:Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned, it becomes very obvious that two of the characters, Lady Howard and Estelle Stiles, are lesbians. However, nothing is ever made of this other than Gabriel noticing the one bed for two people and saying "Gee, isn't that cozy?".

In 1999 Eidos released Wikipedia:The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga for the Wikipedia:PlayStation, based on the Marvel Wikipedia:comic book character of the same name. In the "Pantheon Saga", the Hulk joined with a family team of Wikipedia:superheroes to combat global problems such as Wikipedia:terrorism. One of the family members, named Hector, was openly Wikipedia:gay. He appears in Eidos' game, although no mention or reference is made to his Wikipedia:sexual orientation.

In 1999 Funcom released the computer graphic adventure game Wikipedia:The Longest Journey with a lesbian landlady, her long-time lover, and a gay cop. While the game used a futuristic Wikipedia:Blade Runner type setting, the gay characters were not used to show how decadent society had become but were seen as normal and well adjusted secondary characters.

In 1999 Acclaim released a racing game titled Wikipedia:South Park Rally, the first of several games based on the popular animated series Wikipedia:South Park for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and PC. Wikipedia:Big Gay Al, a prominent character in the series, is a playable character in South Park Rally. His house is also one of the tracks.

In 1999 Wikipedia:Activision released Wikipedia:Star Trek: Voyager â€“ Elite Force for the PC and Wikipedia:PlayStation 2. In the game the player could play as a male or a female, and in either case a female would flirt with them. Elite Force was notable in this regard, as the Wikipedia:Star Trek franchise has often been criticized for its treatment of gay and lesbian characters on TV.

In 1999 Wikipedia:tri-Ace released Wikipedia:Star Ocean: The Second Story for the Wikipedia:PlayStation. In the game the player could choose to play as either Claude or Rena, and can have a friendship and romance level with each party member acquired. If using Claude, the player can go on a date with a male member of the party named Ashton. In the PSP version of the game, the game includes a scene where the female members of the party can force either Claude or Ashton to dress up as women. If the player chooses Rena as the main character, the player can go on a date with a female member of the party named Precis.

In Persona 2: Innocent Sin, released in 1999 for the PlayStation, one of the playable characters was Kurosu Jun, a schoolboy with a connection to the game's main villain. Jun is a homosexual, and it is revealed through flashbacks that he and the main character, Suou Tatsuya, exchanged gifts as children and promised to always be together. Both Tatsuya and Jun have kept these gifts, and Tatsuya is often seen playing with the lighter he received from Jun. Through the actions of the player, Tatsuya could end up in a relationship with one of three romantic interests; one of these was Kurosu Jun. If Tatsuya and Jun are in a relationship, they receive a special "lovers" contact combo. The game has several references to Jun's femininity: his main weapons are flowers; there is a contact combo where another love interest, Lisa Silverman, puts makeup on Jun and then complains that he looks prettier than she does; and he apparently discovered his ability to use Personae when he was being picked on by bullies for his effeminate looks. In the second part, Wikipedia:Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, Jun appears under the name Jun Kashihara, but his role in the story is extremely tangential. Tatsuya Suou also appears in the game, but though there are many references to the homoerotic content of the first game, the storyline focuses around a love triangle between him, his brother, and Wikipedia:Maya Amano, a female love interest from Innocent Sin. Eternal Punishment also featured a female athlete named Anna, whose relationship with her obsessive admirer Noriko contains lesbian overtones.

2000s

From 2000–2009, several Buffy the Vampire Slayer games were made. A prominent character in the series, Wikipedia:Willow Rosenberg, is a lesbian. In the 2003 game, Wikipedia:Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds, both Wikipedia:Willow Rosenberg and her girlfriend, Wikipedia:Tara Maclay, are playable characters.

Square's 2000 title Wikipedia:Final Fantasy IX features a playable character called Wikipedia:Quina Quen who belongs to an apparently ungendered race called the Qu. Referred to by the pronoun "s/he" throughout, the Qu's bizarre appearance offers little clue as to any intended orientation. At one stage in the game, it is possible for Quina and Vivi, an apparently juvenile Black Mage, to be married. While this scene is optional and treated very much as a light-hearted comic scene with no implication of sexual attraction, it nevertheless treats the topic of pansexuality and same-sex marriage sympathetically.

In 2000 Capcom resuscitated this dormant theme with Wikipedia:Resident Evil Code: Veronica, a Wikipedia:survival horror game. The central antagonist is Alfred Ashford; at the game's end he is revealed as a "cross-dressing freak" who is obsessed with his dead twin sister, in this case a reference to Norman Bates from the Wikipedia:Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho.

2001's Wikipedia:Shadow Hearts contained a homosexual character, a Chinese acupuncturist known as Meiyuan. Wikipedia:Shadow Hearts: Covenant in 2005 also featured gay characters: the two flamboyant Magimel brothers. One was a tailor who would sew magical clothes when bribed with Wikipedia:beefcake trading cards, the other was a vendor for items and weapons. In one optional scene toward the end of the game, a third major character was revealed to be gay; the ensuing offscreen Wikipedia:anal sex was largely treated as disgusting, though one female player character called it "beautiful." Wikipedia:Shadow Hearts: From the New World again featured Gerard, but he is with his boyfriend this time, by the name of Buigen.

In 2001 Wikipedia:Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty featured a bisexual character, Vamp. The conversation in which this was revealed (by Wikipedia:Solid Snake himself) also explains that he was the lover of Scott Dolph, a bisexual Navy commander. The game does not dwell on this point, and accepts it simply as a factor of the character. The 2004 prequel Wikipedia:Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater went further, featuring male bisexuality (Volgin and Major Raikov), and also some other sexual topics rarely touched upon in popular entertainment, such as sexual sadism (Volgin again), polyamory and Wikipedia:Caesarean section.

In 2001, Maxis broke new ground with a new television commercial for its computer game Wikipedia:The Sims. Highlighting the ability of the characters to date, the commercial featured an attractive twenty-something man in a nightclub flirting with a woman, until he is suddenly drawn to an attractive man in the club and after a brief pause agrees to date him. Nintendo's Game Boy Advance and DS versions removed any same-sex romance interactions.

In 2001 Wikipedia:Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix had a Wikipedia:lesbian subplot between two of the major female characters.

2004's Fable allows the player character to flirt, marry, and/or have sex with NPC townspeople of the same sex. If the player married a female character in addition to a male NPC, the personality status screen would label them as bisexual. While the NPCs in the game do not treat the player with any disgust if they choose to be gay, they do not get paid "Wikipedia:dowry" for marrying any male characters but almost all female ones give such. One quest involves finding the deeds to a bordello so the player can free the prostitutes from the male owner. Like the other quests in the game there are several ways of solving this, but one option is to dress as a woman and have sex with the owner when he's drunk.

Fable's 2008 sequel, Wikipedia:Fable II retains its ability for players to choose their player character's sexuality. The game also includes more lesbian, gay, and bisexual NPC townspeople to court and marry. A context-specific line is used in a conversation within the middle of the game, wherein Hammer asks if the protagonist was able to convince his or her partner, wife, or husband to wait for them when they must go away for a ten years. The game also includes a quest in which the player character finds a suitable partner for a famer's son who hints at being gay; the farmer is surprised but accepting that his son is gay, and was unable to find an acceptable partner because the father had previously presented him only with female suitors. Reaver, the NPC known as the Hero of Skill, is bisexual, known to have simultaneous lovers named Ursula, Penelope, and Andrew.

The 2002 2D fighting game Wikipedia:Guilty Gear XX introduced the character Bridget, a young male who was raised as a girl by his parents to avoid problems with a village superstition concerning twins. He works as a bounty hunter to prove his worth. He retains a feminine demeanor and appearance but still identifies as male.

In the 2003 game Wikipedia:Summon Night: Swordcraft Story, if the player chooses a female character and picks Sugar as their summon beast, lesbian innuendo occur. There are other girls, named Razzy and Sanary who also shares lesbian undertones when conversing with Pratty, the female main character. Though, less apparent in the sequel, Wikipedia:Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2, one of the female characters, Lynn, continuously tries to kiss the main character, whether they be male or female. The female playable character, "Aera", shows the same romantic behavior that shows when the player play as "Edgar", the male playable character, with some dialogue changes.

In the 2003 title Wikipedia:Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, a flamboyant Wikipedia:mannequin is shown as the owner of the junk shop and makes frequent but comical references to his sexuality.

The 2004 Atari computer game The Temple of Elemental Evil has an optional story line permitting a gay marriage. In the town of Nulb, a pirate named Bertram begins flirting with male characters in the party and offers a lifetime of love and happiness in exchange for his freedom.

In 2004 the computer game Wikipedia:Vampire: The Masquerade â€“ Bloodlines, the player is able to play a female character and have implied (off screen) sexual relations with Jeanette, another female character. Also there is generally the possibility to flirt with same sex partners throughout the game and additionally there are also some more hints, that different characters have been involved in same-sex-activities. There is also a vampiress character who briefly mentions a relationship she had long ago with a female named Pisha.

In the 2004 Gamecube title Wikipedia:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door you'll run into a Shadow Siren named Vivian. In the Japanese version of the game, Vivian is said to actually be a boy. Her character description translates to "One of the shadow group, Vivian appears to be a girl but is really a boy.". When your partner Goombella uses Tattle on Vivian, what she says translates into "That's Vivian. Of the shadow group, she's the youngest sister... er, brother.". Vivian's sister, Beldam also calls her a man at one point as an insult. All mentions of Vivian being a man were removed from the English version.

In Capcom's 2004 Wikipedia:Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations for the Wikipedia:Nintendo DS, an effeminate chef called Jean Armstrong frequently confuses other characters about his gender. Although he is very effeminate in appearance, movement, and fashion style, he clearly has a beard and mustache, yet characters still become confused of his gender.

In Wikipedia:Rockstar North's 2004 Wikipedia:Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas the police officers in Wikipedia:San Fierro will say various things one would expect from a comical, homosexual character such as "Drop the soap, honey!", "Lets wrestle to submission!", and "I'm on your ass, Daisy!". In this model, homosexuality is a joke, attached to gender inversion and used to denigrate the police, an enemy in the game. There is, however, both a clearly gay employee working at the counter of an athletic apparel store who makes flirty comments towards the protagonist, CJ, as well as gay-friendly decorations, including a gay-pride rainbow flag on some streets of one of the game's cities, San Fierro, the game's version of the city of Wikipedia:San Francisco. There is also a Wikipedia:dildo found in the police station's shower room, even though female police officers are virtually non-existent in the game. A previous installment in the series, the 2002 Wikipedia:Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, has construction workers who look like the similarly-dressed member of the Wikipedia:Village People, who shout quotes from the Wikipedia:Village People songs "YMCA" and "Wikipedia:In the Navy". Other "Grand Theft Auto" titles have references to a city park where some of the adult patrons go to engage in public homosexual sex acts.

The character Wikipedia:Doctor N. Gin is portrayed as an effeminate character in Radical's 2005 Wikipedia:Crash Tag Team Racing game. He is shown occasionally wearing a ballerina costume to boost his self-esteem and using pink fuzzy slippers in his inventions in the same game. In the following Wikipedia:Crash of the Titans, N. Gin reveals his desire for "chicks" over his factory's intercom but is disgusted at the thought of girls in a later cutscene.

In Wikipedia:Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon, the main character, Raidou, confronts two Japanese disaster gods known as Binbogami and Yakbyougami who are both portrayed as effeminate and fiercely masochistic. Binbogami is shown to be pursuing Raidou sexually, even going so far as to encourage Raidou to "whip" him when his life bar is reduced to half during two boss fights against him. The game also includes cross dressers in the Mannen-Cho location.

In Wikipedia:Eidos Interactive's 2005 sequel to Deus Ex, Wikipedia:Deus Ex: Invisible War. One of the manners which the character can gain access to the apartment of Seattle's Minister of Culture is to flirt with the Minister of Culture at Club Vox (he will give the character his key). Although there is a gender choice available in the game, this method works only if the character is male.

In Wikipedia:Cavia's Wikipedia:Drakengard 2, the enemy character, Yaha got incredible beauty that can charm all men and women from his pact, in return of the loss of "pleasure" of sex. He is in love with his male old friend, Urick who is one of playable characters.

In Wikipedia:Bioware's Wikipedia:Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the party member Wikipedia:Juhani was written as lesbian, though bugged coding on the initial release allowed her to be attracted to the player character regardless of gender. In subsequent patches, she reverts to homosexual preferences. She and another female Wikipedia:Jedi were also heavily implied to be lovers. (It is worth noting that this would make Juhani the first known gay character in the Wikipedia:Star Wars universe).

In Bioware's 2005-released Xbox RPG Wikipedia:Jade Empire, the main character can be either male or female. If the player chooses a male character, he can have a romantic relationship with the female characters Dawn Star or Silk Fox, or the male character Sky; a female character can romance either Sky or Silk Fox. Also, if the main character is male, it is possible for Dawn Star and Silk Fox to end up in a relationship with each other.

The computer and console game Indigo Prophecy from 2005 includes a gay Wikipedia:stock market follower named Tommy. One of the game's protagonists is good friends with him and Tommy's knowledge of the stock trade is essential in progressing in the game. If asked, the character makes comments about homophobia in the workplace and gay acceptance.

The 2006 Wikipedia:adventure game Wikipedia:Broken Sword: The Angel of Death includes Brother Mark, a Catholic priest who is strongly hinted to be homosexual, although he denies this.

In the 2006 title Wikipedia:Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3, there is an unnamed female student NPC who has an intense lesbian crush on Mitsuru Kirijo, one of the main female characters. This crush goes as far as her having romantic fantasies about her as well as threatening the main character with revenge (if she's lying) after she tells her that she has pictures of her in a bathing suit.

The 2006 Wikipedia:Rockstar Games title Bully (Canis Canem Edit in Europe) features optional homosexual content. The game's central character Jimmy Hopkins can kiss various characters, male and female, in order to regain health. Neither Jimmy nor any of the other six bisexual/homosexual male characters show any outward signs of overt femininity or other stereotypically homosexual traits, with the possible exception of the gay member of the "preppy" clique who is depicted as being suave and somewhat effeminate. One of the female characters in the game alludes to Jimmy's "experimentation" with the other boys in a cutscene in which she states, "I'm like Helen of Wikipedia:Troy, but you seem more interested in boys named Troy". In Bully: Scholarship Edition, developers added an achievement (an in-game award) called "Over the Rainbow", which the player unlocks by kissing a boy twenty times.

In the 2006 title Wikipedia:Enchanted Arms features Makoto, an openly gay character who identifies himself as female.

Nintendo-published Wikipedia:Baten Kaitos Origins for the Nintendo GameCube also features a transgendered character, of sorts. One of the three main characters, Guillo, speaks simultaneously with the voice of both a man and a woman, and is gender neutral throughout the entire storyline. Even though Guillo is a "puppet", Guillo has a very masculine personality, yet also is clad in high heels and has breasts. Guillo is also part of a bitter love "quadrangle" for Sagi, the main character, between Guillo, Milly, and Lolo.

In the 2007 horror Wikipedia:first-person shooter Wikipedia:Clive Barker's Jericho, the Ancient Roman Governor Cassus Vicus claims it had been a while since "tasting" both genders after becoming aroused while confronting the Jericho Squad. Vicus is portrayed as overly perverted and morbidly obese and is said to practice Wikipedia:cannibalism, Wikipedia:Sadomasochism and "blood orgies". The game's author, Wikipedia:Clive Barker, is openly gay and has created characters with a certain disposition towards Sadomasochism of every sexual orientation.

In the 2007 title Wikipedia:Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, there is a character named Heather the player can get on their team who is implied to be a lesbian, who claims to have joined the army to 'meet all the pretty girls'.

In the 2007 game Wikipedia:Mass Effect, the player can play as a male or female character. In both cases, there is an option for a subplot romance and sexual encounter with the alien Liara, a member of an all-female race that is able to reproduce with any sex of any species. The game received a lot of criticism for the "sex scene", although it was hardly explicit, showing only brief, blurred shots of Liara's buttocks twice in a thirty-second scene.

Abu'l Nuquod, one of the assassination targets in the historically-based game released in 2007, Wikipedia:Assassin's Creed, is strongly implied to be gay. He believes 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.

The 2007 Wikipedia:visual novel Wikipedia:Fatal Hearts features a lesbian character named Lucy as one of the available love interests for the female protagonist.

In the 2008 game Wikipedia:Fallout 3, the player meets a female Ghoul named Carol who is suggested to be in a romantic relationship with another female Ghoul named Greta. They have apparently adopted a son, named Gob. While it is never made clear if they are romantically involved, if the player is a Female, Greta will warn the player to stay away from Carol.

The 2008 tactical RPG Wikipedia:Valkyria Chronicles has several optional squad members whose profiles indicate they fancy individuals of the same gender. For example, a male squad member named Jann has strong feelings for muscular men, particularly Largo. He wears makeup, has an effeminate voice and is flirty towards men, including the player character who is his Wikipedia:commanding officer. Similarly, Dallas is a female squad member whose profile states that she "fancies women" and "hates men". Dallas has a crush on Alicia, the game's heroine, and her profile states that she became upset after Alicia's marriage until she became infatuated with another major character, Rosie. The game also features a bisexual character, Ted, who has both the "fancies women" and "fancies men" potential abilities in his profile.

In the 2008 title Wikipedia:Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4, Kanji, a playable character, has a Shadow Self that rants about how he hates girls and likes boys. Cross-dressing and the questioning of one's gender are also featured in the game.

The 2008 Wikipedia:visual novel Wikipedia:Heileen features a female protagonist with three romantic possibilities, one male and two female.

In 2008 Wikipedia:Square Enix released Wikipedia:The Last Remnant which contains a minor character, the barkeep, who is known to flirt with the protagonist, Rush Sykes, when spoken to over the course of the game. He comments on Rush's physical appearance, refers to him with an affectionate nickname and offers a "personal tour" of Athlum. He shows obvious attraction not only to Rush, but also fellow main character David Nassau, stating that "You just can't keep from looking at him," and calling him "the beautiful Marquis," also stating that he is jealous of Rush's interactions with David and even questions the relationship between the two.

In the 2009 game Wikipedia:Dragon Age: Origins. the player may choose a male or female character from the start of the game. The main character has an opportunity to have sexual encounters with one party member of the same sex. There are also opportunities to have sexual encounters with NPCs of the same gender throughout the game and notably within the first 30 minutes of game play. Like its spiritual successor, Wikipedia:Mass Effect, there are brief sex scenes (about 30 seconds); however there is no visible nudity. It should be noted that the two party members who will have a same-sex sexual encounter with the main character identify (through innuendo or descriptions experiences) that they are bisexual; therefore making the main character the only potentially gay character (excluding NPCs). One example of gay NPC's in the game are the effeminate Wade and Herren. The couple own an armor shop in the games capital and give a quest to the main character. In a Downloadable Content episode released by Bioware it is possible to chase them from the shop to a back alley where Herren teleports himself and Wade to safety. The game designers admitted Herren and Wade were lovers after the release of said DLC.

In the 2009 JRPG game Wikipedia:Final Fantasy XIII it is heavily implied that two of the main female characters, Fang and Vanille, are lovers. Although they hug a lot it is never clearly spoken. Fang is very protective of Vanille, and Vanille is pretty dependent on Fang. Their relationship is very intimate and whenever they are apart they talk of how they miss and need each other.

2010s

In the 2010 Nintendo DS video game Glory of Heracles, one of the main protagonists, Leucos, is a cross-dressing lesbian. She spends most of the game pretending to be a man, but the other characters see right through the charade and it is a source of humour.

In the 2010 JRPG game Wikipedia:Resonance of Fate it is implied that one of the cardinals, Pater, is in love with Zephyr, the male protagonist. it is later revealed that he was in fact interested in Leanne, the female protagonist. Additionally, the barkeeper of the Chit-Chat Noir is flamboyant and feminine, uses make up and flirts with Vashyron, the second male protagonist.

In the 2010 video game Wikipedia:Red Dead Redemption, one of the minor characters, Quique Montemayor acts and moves flamboyantly. He appears to be in love with Captain Vincente De Santa, a more major character in the game, and a captain in the Wikipedia:Mexican Army. De Santa seems to be quite open about his relationship with Montemayor, and both major and minor characters make suggestive comments about De Santa's inclinations, such as "He'll do a lot of things when men are on their knees," by the protagonist. After De Santa's death, another major character comments that, "a lot of young boys will sleep safe in their beds." Red Dead also features a very minor female NPC seen in a side mission involving a stolen horse. After the side mission is completed, the women can be seen flirting with female prostitutes in a nearby bar on occasion.

In the 2010 video game Wikipedia:Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, based on the graphic novel series, Kim Pine can perform a special move in which Knives Chau appears and kisses her, giving her health whilst damaging enemies. Kim's ending in the game also implies she gets together with Knives. Like in the graphic novel series, the character Roxanne Richter is a lesbian who had previously dated Ramona Flowers. Wallace Wells, Scott's mature gay roommate from the comic, also appears in the game as both a background character and running an item shop. Also Steve is a playable character who, in the comics, is revealed gay at the very end.

In 2010 video game Nier, NPC swordswoman, Kainé is intersex.

In 2010, new Wikipedia:downloadable content, Wikipedia:The Ballad of Gay Tony for the video game Wikipedia:Grand Theft Auto IV features an eccentric gay night-club owner named Tony Prince, the titular "Gay Tony". He is a close friend of the protagonist.

In Wikipedia:Mass Effect 2, developed by Wikipedia:BioWare and published by EA, female Shepard is able to date and to sleep with her Yeoman Kelly Chambers. Male Shepard is not able to date any male characters.

Wikipedia:Fable III continues the series' option of becoming a lesbian, gay, or bisexual hero and includes more LGBT NPC townspeople. Reaver returns, this time inviting the hero (of either sex) to have a "private party" in his bedchamber (though he/she cannot accept this invitation).

The 2010s installment of the Fallout series, Wikipedia:Fallout: New Vegas, contains at least two confirmed LGB joinable NPC, and other references to homosexuality. Furthermore, the main character, the unnamed Courier, can be chosen as male, with the perk (character trait) Confirmed Bachelor, giving him several advantages with other homosexual male NPCs (and, following the stereotype of the homosexual as more understanding and perceptive about emotions, grant him the ability to better understand the plight of the otherwise mute companion Christine) . This perk has a female equivalent, the Cherchez la femme perk.

Also the same game features the character Veronica Santangelo, a young Scribe from the Brotherhood of Steel, confesses to the main character to have nursed a crush for another girl in the Brotherhood (hinted to be Christine Royce, another joinable NPC, mute and enslaved, who references having been in a relationship with a girl in her Brotherhood days), ended badly because of the disapproval of her girlfriend's parents. Arcade Gannon, a doctor with the Followers of the Apocalypse is clearly gay, discussing his orientation if certain dialogue paths are chosen. Furthermore, if the Courier is male, Rose of Sharon Cassidy, another joinable NPC, will jokingly tease him, and if the player has the Confirmed Bachelor perk, will hint that the Legion of Caesar, a paramilitary formation in the Mojave Desert, is mainly staffed by homosexual soldiers. On the other hand, if the player plays as a female Courier with the Cherchez la Femme perk, Rose of Sharon will simply state that when she's drunk enough she doesn't care about who gets in bed with, and drops the dialogue abruptly.

Japanese 2010 SRPG Wikipedia:Blaze Union, developed by Wikipedia:Sting Entertainment, features a character named Eater with dual personalities, one male and one female. Although Eater's body is female, she is treated as male when the male personality is in control, as this is how he identifies himself. One route of the same game portrays the lead character Gulcasa and his close friend Nessiah in a questionably intimate relationship; while it is never stated outright that the two are lovers, the possibility is implied. Wikipedia:Yggdra Unison, a 2009 game from the same series, supports the possibility by showing a number of Nessiah's personal effects (e.g. clothing) in Gulcasa's home, through a number of conversations between the two characters with affectionate overtones, and Gulcasa's inability to use an item only equippable by virgins.

In 2011's Wikipedia:Dragon Age II, the sequel to Bioware's Dragon Age: Origins, the player may choose to play as either a male or female version of the protagonist, Hawke, Champion of Kirkwall. Each will have the option to romance one of two members of the same-sex if they choose to do so: Anders or Fenris for the male player character and Isabela or Merrill for the female player character. The player can also sleep with male or female prostitutes regardless of Hawke's gender.

Wikipedia:Gloria Union, developed by Wikipedia:Sting Entertainment in 2011, features a character called Kyra who is Wikipedia:intergender, and treated as such in the game's interface, which determines unit formation based on gender. Kyra's formation is a combination of the male and female versions.

Wikipedia:Magical Diary, a 2011 RPG and life simulation set in a school for wizards, features a female protagonist who can date male or female characters. Several background characters are depicted as gay or bisexual, and one student is mentioned as having two fathers.

In the 2011 role playing game, Wikipedia:The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the player has an option that allows to marry any character, regardless of gender.

Wikipedia:Mass Effect 3 includes same-sex romance options for both female and male Commander Shepard. One of the male options, Lieutenant Steve Cortez, mentions he used to have a husband. There is no direct indication such relationships are considered in any way unusual in the Systems Alliance or the galaxy in general. However, roughly halfway through the game, a background discussion can be heard between an unnamed female human soldier and an asari clerk about trying to get the human's daughter (from a relationship with another asari named Neeota) to stay with her asari family. When asked why she doesn't send her daughter to be with her family, she states that they had disowned her for her relationship with Neeota and that they'd rather see Cerberus (a major terrorist organization) show up than her. It isn't expanded upon if this is due to homophobia or xenophobia, as the soldier simply says "guess why".

In the fighting game series Wikipedia:Tekken, Lili de Rochefort, a Monegasque teenager and street fighter is hinted at being lesbian during the events of the Wikipedia:Queen's Blade crossover game as she is seen ogling over and being close to other female characters during several cutscenes.

In the autobiographical Wikipedia:Dys4ia (2012), the player controls a character undergoing hormone replacement therapy and transitioning from her natal sex. Journalists for The Guardian and the Penny Arcade Report observed that the game featured observations of the politics and personal development of those experiencing Wikipedia:gender identity disorder.

In Wikipedia:Guild Wars 2, a 2012 Wikipedia:massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Wikipedia:ArenaNet, the minor characters Caithe and Faolain are depicted as being in a lesbian relationship. Both are of the Sylvari race, a plant-like people who do not reproduce sexually. As such, the Sylvari people do not base their relationships upon reproduction, but rather love, sensuality, and finding beauty in one another.

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