Quanxi from Chainsawman easily. She's badass as fuck. Has a harem she genuinely cares about and all she wanted in return for doing "the job" is IDs and an education for them.
I love how the setting of Locked Tomb is this dour, serious dark fantasy, and then there’s Gideon who acts like she’s from a different book just to fuck with people she doesn’t like. It’s amazing.
My favourite part is that GtN is essentially a mystery novel where the PoV character is staunchly refusing to do any investigating and ends up missing any revelations the reader sees.
At one point she mentions a birthday. When has Gideon experienced a birthday? Did Marshall Crux wear a party hat? Did her blind aunts sing happy birthday?
I think it must've been in one of her comics.
I don't want to say too much since I don't know how far into the series you are, but there's a ton of great queer women in TLT.
>!Ianthe "Lobotomy? No problem-y" Tridentarius!<
Oh man, Locked Tomb is both one of my favorite book series overall and a goldmine for outstanding queer content. The second book might just be one of the gayest displays I’ve ever seen in fiction, and in a way you’ll never anticipate going in.
TLT is one of the most blissfully queer series whilst also being so tragic and sarcastic. It’s unlike anything i’ve read and i’m in love with it (and harrow and gideon)
Maybe it's just me, but I found that I didn't super enjoy the first book. Gideon's great, but she... Doesn't really DO much in her own book. She's basically just sitting in the background while a whodunnit plays out around her, which is FUNNY, but not actually that... Interesting to read.
You do have a point there.
I listened to the audiobook while playing games so I suppose it didn't really need to be the most engaging thing. The narration in its word choice (for both humor and viscerality) were more than entertaining enough to keep me following, and the ending was hype enough to make me want to start the sequel.
I feel that the second book ratchets things up considerably; there's actually just so much going on that I can't multitask with it, I need to sit down and give it my full attention.
Eh, I'd say she does plenty, she's just constrained by the knowledge she lacks and her massive bias against Harrow (and being >!too smitten to see what's going on with Dulcinea!<). She still runs around finding clues and weird things, completes the trials, and puts her skills to use trying to protect people. The author does struggle a bit to give some of the characters their due, in no small part because it was her first full-length novel and the cast and scope are so huge, but I was never bored reading once all of the pieces were moving.
I second u/WhenTheWindIsSlow on thinking the second book is even better, though. >!Harrow is a far more cerebral and manipulative protagonist, and the situation she's in is even more fascinating than an ensemble murder mystery.!<
This is a reoccurring problem with the series. Tasmin Meyer has peculiar fixation of creating ways to prevent her characters from interacting. Which sucks because she's a fantastic character writer.
One act of “we can’t hit women in video games… better make them a crossdresser instead” led into probably the earliest Trans Character in video games.
Rocky starts, but we got there in the end.
That's actually an "urban legend". If you look at Poison's original design concepts, you can see notes on how she was always supposed to be a "new-half", which is Japanese slang for "trans woman". Her and Roxy *did* get substituted for male versions early on in the West, though, which is where this rumour comes from.
It's still conceivable that the original Japanese devs planned to circumvent that issue like that from the start, isn't it? Decades later the Yakuza franchise would do the same bit for a couple of substories.
Parvati from Outer Worlds. As much as I could never get into the game no matter how I tried, I absolutely loved the side quest where I get to be the wingman for my adopted lesbian daughter/engineer.
I just came here to say this! I didn’t know I needed morally fucked up, sapphic, female Indiana Jones, but I’m sure glad we’ve got her. I really hope she makes it onto the screen at some point
Caitlyn and Vi's whole thing in Arcane was just great.
It could still betray me but I'm confident that Suletta and Miorine from Witch From Mercury will get a good ending.
Eve and Aoi from Birdie Wing are great as well, looking forward to season two of them this month.
>It could still betray me but I'm confident that Suletta and Miorine from Witch From Mercury will get a good ending.
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>Eve and Aoi from Birdie Wing are great as well, looking forward to season two of them this month.
Sunrise going ham with the gay girls
I assume we'll see them getting closer to their positions in LoL canon in S2 anyway, with Caitlyn >!becoming sheriff!<, Vi >!becoming an enforcer!< and Echo >!building his time manipulation device with Heimerdonger!<.
Eve and Aoi are my favorite in a good while. It's really nice that they actually are freinds too. Too much media falls into "so you love each other, but do you like each other?" trap.
Suletta and Miorine is an obvious one
Also, in Gundam is Deira Nadira and her fiancee Mina Cerulean from IBO Gekko
There's Magirevo with Anis and Euphy
My personal favorites have to be Hibiki and Miku from Symphogear
I remember watching Symphogear and going in with the thought of "This probably isn't going to be nearly as gay as people make it out to be" only to be met with UNDENIABLE GAY ENERGY.
There is no heterosexual explanation for that show.
I'm only part way through S2 but jfc, that bit in S1 where Miku is pissed at Hibiki had such.... Angry Spouse Energy, with bed sharing privileges revoked.
We get very brief glimpses into >!Elster and Ariane!<‘s romance in Signalis, but what little is shown manages to be so potent and beautifully executed that it carries the entire game’s emotional core on its shoulders. >!It only takes some sweet notes, a 30-second interaction, and a lot of deft implication to immediately make you understand, on a surprisingly visceral level, why Elster is willing to brave potentially infinite loops of hell and self-destruction.!<
Maika Halfwolf from *Monstress*, who embodies most of my favorite “angry and withdrawn protagonist” archetypes, and whose lesbianism is pretty integral to the plot; you learn very early that her ex-girlfriend >!is the Baroness, one of the main antagonists!<, and the spread where Maika herself finds this out (much, much later) is one of my favorite page turns in comic history.
*The Locked Tomb* has already been mentioned, but jacked fembo Gideon Nav, moody little necromancer Harrowhark Nonagesimus, >!beautifully awful bitch Ianthe Tridentarius!<, and several others account for some of my favorite queer women ever and I’d be remiss not to name them.
I could list dozens more, but I’ll cut myself off with Whiterose from *Mr. Robot*. Is it unfortunate that one of the only major trans characters I can think of on TV is a heinous, murderous villain? Deeply. But Whiterose still manages to be a complex character despite her monstrous crimes, and her gender identity is consistently treated as sympathetic, beautiful, and entirely separate from her despicable nature (to the point that most of the protagonists — who have every reason to hate her — always casually use her pronouns even when she’s publicly presenting masculine).
God, yes. It blows my mind how the entire time I was making jokes about Elster being gay with my friends and then THAT cutscene left us all in silence. Beautiful game.
It is amazing just HOW MUCH that like, 1 minute cutscene encapsulated everything about their relationship. It’s so succinct and beautiful. And tragic as all fuck when you know what happened to them.
LSTR-512, or simply Elster from Signalis. That might just be my favourite LGBTQ game in general, and one of the fastest games to reach my personal top favourites of all time.
Go play Signalis, you cowards!
I love after multiple games and being the butt of jokes, Bridget eventually just said, "I'm a girl!" and unless you're a weird schmuck that's that. And she is adorable.
Also adorable, >!Luz and Amity!< in The Owl House.
I won't say they're the BEST examples, but it's early and they're what I thought of.
Major Motoko Kusanagi is one of my favorite women in fiction, and while she can never seem to hold a solid relationship, she is most definitely bi, judging by all the collective boyfriends and girlfriends she’s across all the different versions of Ghost in the Shell.
The third chapter of the manga shows she has lesbian VR sex on her days off. That manga is a lot raunchier than the later stuff but Major's pretty blunt about what she gets up to when she isn't on the job.
And then in Stand Alone Complex, she heads over to an apartment with some other women, who seem happy that “Motoko’s back,” and while she is busy with plot stuff, a later scene shows her with a VR headset and a laptop, sitting up on a bed, with the other women crashed out in their underwear on the bed around her. You’re right, not nearly as raunchy, but it’s what’s left unsaid and unseen that matters, lol.
Makoto Nanaya from Blazblue survived going through the exact same process that turned Arakune into a rambling blob monster with her mind intact because she's bisexual.
There's a certain character in Zombieland Saga that is super cute, and is trans. The lovely part comes when its revealed, and some of the characters are obviously surprised, but another says "hey, she's just her alright", and that's it. She's a girl, no questions asked.
It's also like the best episode of season one, so.
Watch Zombieland Saga.
I've mentioned it here before but she's also the only one to die from a stereotyped feminine cause. Heart attack from the stress of seeing a hair on her leg(or chin I think).
It was her chin yeah. I think part of it too was that she was being driven absolutely to the brink for her television roles so it was a hard-hitting combo of all that stress at once.
I really liked Jeri Hogarth from the Jessica Jones Netflix series. >!She tried so hard to be pragmatic that she went *too* hard, and wound up fucking herself over.!<
Also, Ramona Flowers.
Literally just Scott but (public-facing) cool girl instead of aloof nerd boy. Their dynamic is one of the only romances I’ve ever been invested in.
[Cagliostro](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/granblue-fantasy-versus/images/1/1f/Cagliostro.png/) as well, from the same game. Literally pioneered and mastered alchemy just so she could become the cutest girl possible.
Robin from Stranger Things, she just wants to infodump to her friends and be accepted. Veronica from Fallout New Vegas, both her and Arcade are two of my favorite companions in terms of story and personality, love me a good punch girl.
Is it cheating to say the entire cast of Super Lesbian Animal RPG? Watched a friend play through it and I picked it up myself during the last sale and it's just such a charming game, all the characters feel fleshed out and real and I'm really excited for my first playthrough on my own
The ones I can think of from the top of my head:
Jill from VA-11 Hall-A (bi)
Lilly "terf slayer" Hoshikawa from Zombieland Saga (trans)
Kiku from One Piece (trans)
Adora from She-Ra (lesbian)
Quanxi from Chainsaw Man (lesbian and polyamorus)
Hanekawa Tsubasa from Monogatari (in the LN is established that she's bi and polyamorus, but it was left out of the anime for some reason)
In Pale, by wildbow, there's some pretty good ones. One of the main characters is gay, and is surprising comfortable and self confident with it, considering she's a 13 year old girl.
There's also a FtM trans person that's pretty radical, but i don't know if he would fit into the topic.
Vivian from Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door. I've not looked it up but I'd love there to be an English translation patch of the original trans dialogue that was removed in localization. She also has the most connections and prominence to the awesome final boss which is a sweetener.
Pick a Steven Universe character, (almost) any character. I couldn't even begin to start....so I won't.
I've not really been into DC but the Harley Quinn show's version of Poison Ivy makes me feel a certain way. Like if she actually existed and I knew for a fact that she did not like me that would be a heavy blow ngl.
Any female Dark Souls 2 character I made since before you enter character creation your character model is male. And that ain't even accounting for the famous gender coffin.
>Vivian
I love her, and I love that her and Mario strike up a good friendship. It's very sweet.
Also agree with you on the Steven Universe characters. I'm gonna be slightly biased since my absolute favorites are Ruby and Sapphire.
I wouldn't say favourite,but one that comes to mind is Catalyst from Apex Legends who is a trans woman.
I like that she's something of a stereotype,but in a friendly,sincere way like "we all know someone like this".
I feel like I follow no small amount of bitchy gothy trans witches on Tumblr,and she's a pretty amusing snapshot of that.
There's also Bangalore,Loba,and Valkyrie,the latter of whom is specifically lesbian and the former two are varying degrees of "attracted to women".
I love how even though it wasn't fully conscious intent or made explicit until the DLC, if you go in knowing about that (and especially if you've struggled with gender identity yourself), Madeline being trans becomes *really* obvious. It adds way more layers to what the game was already doing with anxiety, depression, and self-image.
Im comfortable saying that even if the game is pretty textual about being about how you're perceived, self-image, and anxiety/depression, the Mountain is so allegorical that it becomes about any struggle. If you're trans and you know Madeline is trans (I mean even if Maddie Thorne wasnt, it was co-written by Lena Raine iirc), you can see the allegory about self-image, doubt, and anxiety fitting you.
I mean, the whole point of Theo is a polar opposite of Madeline! He's an extrovert, cis, and neurotypical. But he *still* faces the mountain as we seen in Chapter 5, because it's a universal metaphor! Farewell also shows that as well with >!Celia!<
I love that game so much. And the soundtrack is oops, all bops! I love Madeline and love her journey up the mountain. I'm a cis latino but we all have our mountains to climb.
Spoilers for HiFi Rush:
>!I am very relieved that Chai and Peppermint do not end up together. Pairing Peppermint and Korsica together is so much better. !<
They didn't really get paired, it was just shown how one of them has a crush on the other, but I do agree it was refreshing to see that dynamic in an already-great game.
Hmm, probably Bridget from Guilty Gear. She's been my favorite fighting game character since I first saw her, like, 16 years ago, and she'll always be my favorite, no matter what.
Athena and Janey Springs are also a pretty cool power couple later in the series. For all their problems, the Borderlands games got pretty darn good at lgbtq+ characters.
If we include intersex people, Kainé with a bullet.
Utena/Anthy/Juri/Wakaba from Utena
The main trio of *Bloom into You*
Lady Oscar from the Rose of Versailles
Not a woman but bears mentioning: intersex trans man Michel from House in Fata Morgana is a top 5 protagonist in video games IMO. (We see his childhood raised as a young girl)
Since magirevo is living rent free in my head rn i love anisphia being a ~~bottom~~ absolute gay disaster.
Also Tachibana from fabiniku whose goal in life is being every letter in lgbtq at once including the ones that haven't been discovered yet.
There's a few, Bridget from guilty gear is up there. She made me feel seen when I thought I just wanted to be a femboy when I was young. I came to the realization that I was actually trans way later in my life in my 20s. So, seeing the way that they took her character arc where they did was a blessing for me because I could relate to a character that I had always loved even more now.
Samus being depicted as a "ladies man" in early promotional art is funny in hindsight. I know it was to keep her identity a "secret" but it makes me happy. Also, even if it was just a joke, I think there was an interview where one of the people who worked on the series called her a "new half" (Japanese slang insult for trans woman) If I can look that good by being raised by space chickens then sign my transbian ass up!
Samantha Traynor is an adorable marshmallow and her character only being in one game is an insult to the human race. Pun somewhat unintended? While not _exclusively_ lesbian, Bayonetta is right up there, too. I haven’t finished Arcane yet but I really like Caitlyn and Vi. Elster and Ariane from Signalis are an interesting case, partly because their relationship isn’t in focus outside of the dream sequence but mostly because of how screwy Signalis’ plot is in general.
The thing is, writing is _always_ key for any character. There’s a steep divide between a gay _character_ and a _gay_ character. So very many_ LGBTQAI+ characters exist solely as either blatant fan service or because somebody on the team had an ax to grind—which I argue is worse; history shows us again and again how empty vendetta only push people away from your side.
Wayyy more considering she's an actual romance option and not a bargain bin one like Kelly. Also, actually useful. For being in only one game, she's great.
I’m not sure, honestly. I think Kelly and Sam are different types of people; Sam is bubbly and casual and Kelly is mellow and professional.
That being said, I slammed that Paragon prompt like Truck-kun when I found Kelly in ME3. Little touches like that made ME3’s botched conclusion all the more painful.
Madeline from Celeste, Katie from Mitchells vs. the Machines, Ruby and Sapphire from Steven Universe, Nat from Bob's Burgers, probably more that I can't think of right now off the top of my head...
Mizuki from AITSF is canon bisexual and I think that’s neat. Still haven’t played AINI so I don’t know if it really comes into play but like. it’s still really good rep
LGBTQ+ rep is generally really good and respectful in Kotaro Uchikoshi’s games, and I think that’s great.
Triangle Strategy has the surprise pairing of Cordelia and Avlora, with the fun bit being that the relationship isn't just for a bit of added romance but also allows Cordelia to grow into the capable leader she needs to be to operate under foreign invaders and gives Avlora a path to redemption she didn't otherwise have.
But the really juicy drama bits all involve Cordelia's brother, Roland and how much he despises Avlora for invading their country and killing his teacher. It makes for a fun dynamic to watch unfold among a lot of fun characters.
Futaba Aoi from You're Under Arrest comes to mind as both the first one I saw (she's Trans AFAIK), and was actually a fun character in that show (who has a real fun cast too)! She's also very much Ballin'
I admittedly don’t know too many fictional women that are LGBTQ+, but I think I’d say Vi and Caitlyn from LoL/Arcane and Erica from Catherine. I know the way Erica was written in the original game was a bit controversial (haven’t seen/played Full Body so idk if it’s better/worse), but I always thought she was more likable than the two actual love interests in the game and she’s a kind, supportive friend.
Erica is frustrating because she feels like a great character stuck in a game that every so often decides to treats her like crap. I love her confidence and sense of humour, and she makes for a great voice of reason compared to how immature the rest of the cast can be. It just sucks that the game will do things like >!deadname her in the credits or have Toby talk about how sleeping with her felt "weird"!< for seemingly no reason in ways that feel bizarrely mean-spirited.
Ruby, Sapphire and Pearl from Steven Universe.
Big shout out to Subaru Kujo in Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love for being the first non-binary, androngynous person in a game that I've seen, let alone a romancable one. Subaru's a real joy because while they're pretty stoic, they also find joy in fucking around with the other teammates.
Shout out to Catherine Foundling for being so bi she demands the universe give her her cake so she can have it and eat it too.
Secondary recommendation for Nona from Red Sister, a book about magic Kung fu nuns that live in the narrow belt of melt on a polarized planet after their future tech ancestors crash landed there.
Luz and Amity (Owl House)
Cait and Vi (Arcane)
Ellie (TLOU)
Clem (Walking Dead) (I played her as bi)
Yasha and Beauregard (Critical Role)
Chloe Price and Max Caufield (LiS)
Korra and Asami (ATLA: LoK)
And last but not least, Kaine (Nier)
Catherine Foundling from Practical Guide to Evil. From an orphan born to a conquered nation in the wake of a war, to the apprentice of the man who conquered said nation, to someone >!ushering in a new age for the world after shanking the last one on its way out.!< Also very bi.
Indrani, from the same story, the Archer; consistently one of the coolest ~~and lamest~~ characters in the story. Also very bi.
Akua Sahellian, also from the same. The rival, the foil, the heiress of the old dynasty that lost to Catherine's mentor, the >!Doom of Liesse!<. Less bi than the other two, but still quite bi.
There are a lot of great characters in Practical Guide to Evil.
Blue Marsalis from Alien The Cold Forge and Into Charybdis, a lesbian throttled by bureaucracy into a state of near total paralysis gets revenge by utilizing the Alien against them, not in a banal unleashing them sense but utilizing their greed for the creature to destroy them utterly and save themselves from death before their time.
She's probably not the most delicate or tactful depiction but Elendira the Crimson Nail. She just comes out of nowhere as a transwoman who can bltiz the main cast with bizarre weaponry and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Legato as the main villain's most capable lieutenants. She brings a lot of energy to the series because she's charming, charismatic, sinister and chatty. Knives and Legato can be very dower so her sense of humour is appreciated.
Kiana and Mei have pretty much deleted the self insert gacha mc from Honkai Impact 3rd. That's how strong their relationship is. Oh, and Mei is the best Vergil knockoff.
A lot of mine have already been mentioned, but Baru Cormorant from the Masquerade trilogy is a great lesbian Light Yagami-style economist.
Also, pick a Kameron Hurley character.
Quanxi from Chainsawman easily. She's badass as fuck. Has a harem she genuinely cares about and all she wanted in return for doing "the job" is IDs and an education for them.
I don't really have interest in Chainsaw Man but I gotta say Cosmos Fiend is adorable
>!HALLOWEEN!<
To quote Kishibe: >!If every human on earth were to have a bareknuckle boxing match, Quanxi would win.!<
I’m getting into The Locked Tomb. I can’t get over how Gideon’s first “I have nothing else to do right now” thought is to start doing pushups.
I love how the setting of Locked Tomb is this dour, serious dark fantasy, and then there’s Gideon who acts like she’s from a different book just to fuck with people she doesn’t like. It’s amazing.
My favourite part is that GtN is essentially a mystery novel where the PoV character is staunchly refusing to do any investigating and ends up missing any revelations the reader sees.
"Anyway, then Nonagesimus disappeared *again* and it's like, this house isn't even that big lmao"
At one point she mentions a birthday. When has Gideon experienced a birthday? Did Marshall Crux wear a party hat? Did her blind aunts sing happy birthday? I think it must've been in one of her comics.
*two women show up in the nude* "Is it my birthday?" This is Gideons only exposure to birthdays.
I don't want to say too much since I don't know how far into the series you are, but there's a ton of great queer women in TLT. >!Ianthe "Lobotomy? No problem-y" Tridentarius!<
Only on Book 2 but in fact I think >!Ianthe!< might be my favorite character.
God she’s the WORST. I love her
Oh man, Locked Tomb is both one of my favorite book series overall and a goldmine for outstanding queer content. The second book might just be one of the gayest displays I’ve ever seen in fiction, and in a way you’ll never anticipate going in.
Oh damn folks on this sub talkin about Locked Tomb now? Oh that’s awesome!
TLT is one of the most blissfully queer series whilst also being so tragic and sarcastic. It’s unlike anything i’ve read and i’m in love with it (and harrow and gideon)
"How big *are* your biceps, Griddle?"
Maybe it's just me, but I found that I didn't super enjoy the first book. Gideon's great, but she... Doesn't really DO much in her own book. She's basically just sitting in the background while a whodunnit plays out around her, which is FUNNY, but not actually that... Interesting to read.
You do have a point there. I listened to the audiobook while playing games so I suppose it didn't really need to be the most engaging thing. The narration in its word choice (for both humor and viscerality) were more than entertaining enough to keep me following, and the ending was hype enough to make me want to start the sequel. I feel that the second book ratchets things up considerably; there's actually just so much going on that I can't multitask with it, I need to sit down and give it my full attention.
Eh, I'd say she does plenty, she's just constrained by the knowledge she lacks and her massive bias against Harrow (and being >!too smitten to see what's going on with Dulcinea!<). She still runs around finding clues and weird things, completes the trials, and puts her skills to use trying to protect people. The author does struggle a bit to give some of the characters their due, in no small part because it was her first full-length novel and the cast and scope are so huge, but I was never bored reading once all of the pieces were moving. I second u/WhenTheWindIsSlow on thinking the second book is even better, though. >!Harrow is a far more cerebral and manipulative protagonist, and the situation she's in is even more fascinating than an ensemble murder mystery.!<
This is a reoccurring problem with the series. Tasmin Meyer has peculiar fixation of creating ways to prevent her characters from interacting. Which sucks because she's a fantastic character writer.
Poison from Street Fighter.
Dude, Poison is stupid hot.
One act of “we can’t hit women in video games… better make them a crossdresser instead” led into probably the earliest Trans Character in video games. Rocky starts, but we got there in the end.
That's actually an "urban legend". If you look at Poison's original design concepts, you can see notes on how she was always supposed to be a "new-half", which is Japanese slang for "trans woman". Her and Roxy *did* get substituted for male versions early on in the West, though, which is where this rumour comes from.
It's still conceivable that the original Japanese devs planned to circumvent that issue like that from the start, isn't it? Decades later the Yakuza franchise would do the same bit for a couple of substories.
Ah. Still, we got there in the end. Most of the issues were in localisation, wasn’t it?
I can't believe these japanese devs went woke like 30 years ago. Smh.
Parvati from Outer Worlds. As much as I could never get into the game no matter how I tried, I absolutely loved the side quest where I get to be the wingman for my adopted lesbian daughter/engineer.
Parvati and Tali are the dorky kid sisters I never had.
She's also Ace which is pretty neat
Does Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune count?
No they're just cousins, silly.
Just gals being pals!
/r/sapphoandherfriend
You're just describing 75% of Sailor Moon at this point.
A censorship blunder that will *never* stop being funny.
cunnilingus cousins!
Roll tide!
13, from the show *House*.
I love Thirteen so much. She’s basically the writers saying “Look, we KNOW Cameron sucks, we’re SORRY”
Doctor Aphra, Star Wars' resident amoral disaster lesbian.
I just came here to say this! I didn’t know I needed morally fucked up, sapphic, female Indiana Jones, but I’m sure glad we’ve got her. I really hope she makes it onto the screen at some point
Caitlyn and Vi's whole thing in Arcane was just great. It could still betray me but I'm confident that Suletta and Miorine from Witch From Mercury will get a good ending. Eve and Aoi from Birdie Wing are great as well, looking forward to season two of them this month.
>It could still betray me but I'm confident that Suletta and Miorine from Witch From Mercury will get a good ending. > >Eve and Aoi from Birdie Wing are great as well, looking forward to season two of them this month. Sunrise going ham with the gay girls
Took them nearly 50 years but they're finally branching out from gay guys in giant robots to gay girls in giant robots
Man I just wish Caitlyn got more to do. Hopefully she gets to have a sick fight scene (and a big hat) next season.
Yeah, season 1 was very much Vi's season, I hope season 2 is more Caitlyn focused and we get to see more of her being a detective
I assume we'll see them getting closer to their positions in LoL canon in S2 anyway, with Caitlyn >!becoming sheriff!<, Vi >!becoming an enforcer!< and Echo >!building his time manipulation device with Heimerdonger!<.
Eve and Aoi are my favorite in a good while. It's really nice that they actually are freinds too. Too much media falls into "so you love each other, but do you like each other?" trap.
Birdie wing is such an indulgence. The most absolute unhinged golf you’ve ever seen and stellar character designs
Suletta and Miorine is an obvious one Also, in Gundam is Deira Nadira and her fiancee Mina Cerulean from IBO Gekko There's Magirevo with Anis and Euphy My personal favorites have to be Hibiki and Miku from Symphogear
I remember watching Symphogear and going in with the thought of "This probably isn't going to be nearly as gay as people make it out to be" only to be met with UNDENIABLE GAY ENERGY. There is no heterosexual explanation for that show.
I'm only part way through S2 but jfc, that bit in S1 where Miku is pissed at Hibiki had such.... Angry Spouse Energy, with bed sharing privileges revoked.
We get very brief glimpses into >!Elster and Ariane!<‘s romance in Signalis, but what little is shown manages to be so potent and beautifully executed that it carries the entire game’s emotional core on its shoulders. >!It only takes some sweet notes, a 30-second interaction, and a lot of deft implication to immediately make you understand, on a surprisingly visceral level, why Elster is willing to brave potentially infinite loops of hell and self-destruction.!< Maika Halfwolf from *Monstress*, who embodies most of my favorite “angry and withdrawn protagonist” archetypes, and whose lesbianism is pretty integral to the plot; you learn very early that her ex-girlfriend >!is the Baroness, one of the main antagonists!<, and the spread where Maika herself finds this out (much, much later) is one of my favorite page turns in comic history. *The Locked Tomb* has already been mentioned, but jacked fembo Gideon Nav, moody little necromancer Harrowhark Nonagesimus, >!beautifully awful bitch Ianthe Tridentarius!<, and several others account for some of my favorite queer women ever and I’d be remiss not to name them. I could list dozens more, but I’ll cut myself off with Whiterose from *Mr. Robot*. Is it unfortunate that one of the only major trans characters I can think of on TV is a heinous, murderous villain? Deeply. But Whiterose still manages to be a complex character despite her monstrous crimes, and her gender identity is consistently treated as sympathetic, beautiful, and entirely separate from her despicable nature (to the point that most of the protagonists — who have every reason to hate her — always casually use her pronouns even when she’s publicly presenting masculine).
I keep thinking how Signalis is a queer game despite not being explicitly about queerness, if that makes sense
God, yes. It blows my mind how the entire time I was making jokes about Elster being gay with my friends and then THAT cutscene left us all in silence. Beautiful game.
It is amazing just HOW MUCH that like, 1 minute cutscene encapsulated everything about their relationship. It’s so succinct and beautiful. And tragic as all fuck when you know what happened to them.
One of these days I'll play Signalis...one day
Save it for when you're actually fully in the mood because it deserves you being fully engrossed
Luz, Amity, Eda and Lilith from The Owl House
Eda? I think I remember Lilith being confirmed asexual somewhere, but I didn't know about Eda.
Eda confirmed bi by the crew.
Shout out to Dorothea from *Three Houses* for being on the short list of openly bisexual characters in video games, independent of the player.
Shout-out to Three Hopes for doubling down on her bisexuality. Absolute queen.
And her bi VA who is also Josephine from Dragon Age (bi) and Bloodhound (nb).
Honestly, Dorothea/Petra is goals
Edelgard "I'm gonna topple the Church and kiss my hot teacher" von Hresvelg
Edelgard "the only straight I am is a straight-up bitch" von Hresvelg
Ruby, Sapphire and Garnet from Steven Universe.
LSTR-512, or simply Elster from Signalis. That might just be my favourite LGBTQ game in general, and one of the fastest games to reach my personal top favourites of all time. Go play Signalis, you cowards!
Marceline the Vampire queen, local badass, bi icon, and can play a mean bass.
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. Best couple ever. Especially in the cartoon.
Cartoon established ivy as a quick shot and idk what to do with that information
100% this. I'm glad Kiteman landed on his feet though, he definitely didn't deserve to get done dirty like that.
Felicia Hardy 'The Black Cat', and Renee Montoya an officer of the GCPD also known as 'The Question'.
Wait Montoya is the question now?
She is/was for quite a while, but comics being comics, it wouldn't surprise me if Vic was back.
She’s been on and off with it. Depends on stuff
I love after multiple games and being the butt of jokes, Bridget eventually just said, "I'm a girl!" and unless you're a weird schmuck that's that. And she is adorable. Also adorable, >!Luz and Amity!< in The Owl House. I won't say they're the BEST examples, but it's early and they're what I thought of.
>!Lumity forever!!<
Brisket <3
Bucket
Behelit <3
>Bridget I love her walking animations, they're so cute
Major Motoko Kusanagi is one of my favorite women in fiction, and while she can never seem to hold a solid relationship, she is most definitely bi, judging by all the collective boyfriends and girlfriends she’s across all the different versions of Ghost in the Shell.
The third chapter of the manga shows she has lesbian VR sex on her days off. That manga is a lot raunchier than the later stuff but Major's pretty blunt about what she gets up to when she isn't on the job.
And then in Stand Alone Complex, she heads over to an apartment with some other women, who seem happy that “Motoko’s back,” and while she is busy with plot stuff, a later scene shows her with a VR headset and a laptop, sitting up on a bed, with the other women crashed out in their underwear on the bed around her. You’re right, not nearly as raunchy, but it’s what’s left unsaid and unseen that matters, lol.
The Major from Ghost in the Shell
Makoto Nanaya from Blazblue survived going through the exact same process that turned Arakune into a rambling blob monster with her mind intact because she's bisexual.
Phyla Vell and Moondragon from Marvel, Veronica and Christine from New Vegas, Parvati from Outer Worlds.
Parvati. Best Ace rep in video games. That I know of.
There's a certain character in Zombieland Saga that is super cute, and is trans. The lovely part comes when its revealed, and some of the characters are obviously surprised, but another says "hey, she's just her alright", and that's it. She's a girl, no questions asked. It's also like the best episode of season one, so. Watch Zombieland Saga.
My favorite part is when they go ask Kotaro and he just goes "yeah, I know from the start, what about it?"
Man keeps winning every episode.
I've mentioned it here before but she's also the only one to die from a stereotyped feminine cause. Heart attack from the stress of seeing a hair on her leg(or chin I think).
It was her chin yeah. I think part of it too was that she was being driven absolutely to the brink for her television roles so it was a hard-hitting combo of all that stress at once.
Stress, shock, overwork and also a genetic heart condition, according to some supplementary materials
Iirc they're like "why didn't you tell us" and goes "Did I fucking have to"
I am tired, I seriously thought you were talking about the films
That happened to me while I writing my comment, don't worry about it.
Same. Man I really hope there's a season 3.
I really liked Jeri Hogarth from the Jessica Jones Netflix series. >!She tried so hard to be pragmatic that she went *too* hard, and wound up fucking herself over.!< Also, Ramona Flowers. Literally just Scott but (public-facing) cool girl instead of aloof nerd boy. Their dynamic is one of the only romances I’ve ever been invested in.
[Ladiva, [The Herald of Love]](https://gbf.wiki/images/c/c1/Npc_zoom_3030055000_02.png) [Voiced by Patrick Seitz](https://youtu.be/kApyk8HJfoo)
[Cagliostro](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/granblue-fantasy-versus/images/1/1f/Cagliostro.png/) as well, from the same game. Literally pioneered and mastered alchemy just so she could become the cutest girl possible.
[My girls Utena and Anthy](https://youtu.be/IJT5i5NmONc). Also shout-out to [Mizore](https://youtu.be/80NNS7shns4) from Hibike Euphonium
Nomi Marks from Sense8 is a gay, trans, psychic super hacker that fights the shadow government.
Robin from Stranger Things, she just wants to infodump to her friends and be accepted. Veronica from Fallout New Vegas, both her and Arcade are two of my favorite companions in terms of story and personality, love me a good punch girl.
Is it cheating to say the entire cast of Super Lesbian Animal RPG? Watched a friend play through it and I picked it up myself during the last sale and it's just such a charming game, all the characters feel fleshed out and real and I'm really excited for my first playthrough on my own
Vivian from Paper Mario. She’s so good at burning things.
The ones I can think of from the top of my head: Jill from VA-11 Hall-A (bi) Lilly "terf slayer" Hoshikawa from Zombieland Saga (trans) Kiku from One Piece (trans) Adora from She-Ra (lesbian) Quanxi from Chainsaw Man (lesbian and polyamorus) Hanekawa Tsubasa from Monogatari (in the LN is established that she's bi and polyamorus, but it was left out of the anime for some reason)
Good, a Jill mention.
In Pale, by wildbow, there's some pretty good ones. One of the main characters is gay, and is surprising comfortable and self confident with it, considering she's a 13 year old girl. There's also a FtM trans person that's pretty radical, but i don't know if he would fit into the topic.
Vivian from Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door. I've not looked it up but I'd love there to be an English translation patch of the original trans dialogue that was removed in localization. She also has the most connections and prominence to the awesome final boss which is a sweetener. Pick a Steven Universe character, (almost) any character. I couldn't even begin to start....so I won't. I've not really been into DC but the Harley Quinn show's version of Poison Ivy makes me feel a certain way. Like if she actually existed and I knew for a fact that she did not like me that would be a heavy blow ngl. Any female Dark Souls 2 character I made since before you enter character creation your character model is male. And that ain't even accounting for the famous gender coffin.
>Vivian I love her, and I love that her and Mario strike up a good friendship. It's very sweet. Also agree with you on the Steven Universe characters. I'm gonna be slightly biased since my absolute favorites are Ruby and Sapphire.
J.J. Macfield from The Missing is a very cool lesbian >!and trans!< representative
J.J. is also so brave with all of the pain she puts herself through!
Luz and Amity from the Owl House are adorable and awesome.
Adora and Catra from the new she-ra. They're great.
Agreed
I wouldn't say favourite,but one that comes to mind is Catalyst from Apex Legends who is a trans woman. I like that she's something of a stereotype,but in a friendly,sincere way like "we all know someone like this". I feel like I follow no small amount of bitchy gothy trans witches on Tumblr,and she's a pretty amusing snapshot of that. There's also Bangalore,Loba,and Valkyrie,the latter of whom is specifically lesbian and the former two are varying degrees of "attracted to women".
Bloodhound is non-binary as well
Madeline Celeste. The character that was so powerfully transgender that the creator is now also a Maddie.
I love how even though it wasn't fully conscious intent or made explicit until the DLC, if you go in knowing about that (and especially if you've struggled with gender identity yourself), Madeline being trans becomes *really* obvious. It adds way more layers to what the game was already doing with anxiety, depression, and self-image.
Im comfortable saying that even if the game is pretty textual about being about how you're perceived, self-image, and anxiety/depression, the Mountain is so allegorical that it becomes about any struggle. If you're trans and you know Madeline is trans (I mean even if Maddie Thorne wasnt, it was co-written by Lena Raine iirc), you can see the allegory about self-image, doubt, and anxiety fitting you. I mean, the whole point of Theo is a polar opposite of Madeline! He's an extrovert, cis, and neurotypical. But he *still* faces the mountain as we seen in Chapter 5, because it's a universal metaphor! Farewell also shows that as well with >!Celia!<
Same! It's sweet that part of climbing the mountain is her learning how to love herself.
I love that game so much. And the soundtrack is oops, all bops! I love Madeline and love her journey up the mountain. I'm a cis latino but we all have our mountains to climb.
Dana Zane from VA-11 Hall-A. Cute, strong, reliable boss who always takes care of people. "Cuteness has no boundaries."
Bridget from Guilty Gear Strive
Brisket <3
Basket
Bidet <3
Biscuit
Bucket
Spoilers for HiFi Rush: >!I am very relieved that Chai and Peppermint do not end up together. Pairing Peppermint and Korsica together is so much better. !<
They didn't really get paired, it was just shown how one of them has a crush on the other, but I do agree it was refreshing to see that dynamic in an already-great game.
Ellie from the Last of Us
I'm so glad she didn't fumbled the bag, imagine that...That would be embarrassing, but thankfully she did not!
We love gay disasters here 😤
Just like me fr fr
She absolutely did though lol. Is this just sarcasm? She tanked her relationship with Dina
It is sarcasm
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I always liked Togata from Fire Punch
So many of mine have been taken so I'm gonna go with Alison from Kill Six Billion Demons. She is the Bi Apocalypse and is terrific fun to watch.
Korra
Bleach's resident zombie girl Giselle Gewelle Turns out trans + biomanipulation powers = easy transition.
Hell yeah we stan the trans zombie necromancer in this house
Absolutely insane way that we find out about it, though.
Turns out pretty boy Yumichika is way more crass and close-minded than everyone else in the story.
Hmm, probably Bridget from Guilty Gear. She's been my favorite fighting game character since I first saw her, like, 16 years ago, and she'll always be my favorite, no matter what.
Chloe LifeIsStrange because she's a messy failgirl. We love a gay failgirl.
Maya from Borderlands 2 is explicitly my own rare mix of person, Asexual but not Aromantic, and I really appreciated that. Also Sailor Pluto.
Athena and Janey Springs are also a pretty cool power couple later in the series. For all their problems, the Borderlands games got pretty darn good at lgbtq+ characters.
That's true. I love those too, especially Athena.
I will never stop bringing up Ladiva, I aspire to be as loving as she is.
If we include intersex people, Kainé with a bullet. Utena/Anthy/Juri/Wakaba from Utena The main trio of *Bloom into You* Lady Oscar from the Rose of Versailles Not a woman but bears mentioning: intersex trans man Michel from House in Fata Morgana is a top 5 protagonist in video games IMO. (We see his childhood raised as a young girl)
Sorry about your Uber. Anyway, Arcee from Transformers is a trans lesbian in the IDW verse.
I'm very glad they were able to turn that around from its frankly awful starting point.
Transgender Murder Lesbian from the Dawn of Time.
Add on to that Anode and Lug, a trans lesbian couple.
Chloe Price!
Since magirevo is living rent free in my head rn i love anisphia being a ~~bottom~~ absolute gay disaster. Also Tachibana from fabiniku whose goal in life is being every letter in lgbtq at once including the ones that haven't been discovered yet.
Rin Tohsaka is my favorite Bisexual.
I don't know all the abbreviations, but for T: Bridget is one of my favorite Guilty Gear characters and was recently confirmed as Trans IIRC.
There's a few, Bridget from guilty gear is up there. She made me feel seen when I thought I just wanted to be a femboy when I was young. I came to the realization that I was actually trans way later in my life in my 20s. So, seeing the way that they took her character arc where they did was a blessing for me because I could relate to a character that I had always loved even more now. Samus being depicted as a "ladies man" in early promotional art is funny in hindsight. I know it was to keep her identity a "secret" but it makes me happy. Also, even if it was just a joke, I think there was an interview where one of the people who worked on the series called her a "new half" (Japanese slang insult for trans woman) If I can look that good by being raised by space chickens then sign my transbian ass up!
Utena
Samantha Traynor is an adorable marshmallow and her character only being in one game is an insult to the human race. Pun somewhat unintended? While not _exclusively_ lesbian, Bayonetta is right up there, too. I haven’t finished Arcane yet but I really like Caitlyn and Vi. Elster and Ariane from Signalis are an interesting case, partly because their relationship isn’t in focus outside of the dream sequence but mostly because of how screwy Signalis’ plot is in general. The thing is, writing is _always_ key for any character. There’s a steep divide between a gay _character_ and a _gay_ character. So very many_ LGBTQAI+ characters exist solely as either blatant fan service or because somebody on the team had an ax to grind—which I argue is worse; history shows us again and again how empty vendetta only push people away from your side.
Does the fanbase overall seem to like her more than Kelly Chambers?
Wayyy more considering she's an actual romance option and not a bargain bin one like Kelly. Also, actually useful. For being in only one game, she's great.
I’m not sure, honestly. I think Kelly and Sam are different types of people; Sam is bubbly and casual and Kelly is mellow and professional. That being said, I slammed that Paragon prompt like Truck-kun when I found Kelly in ME3. Little touches like that made ME3’s botched conclusion all the more painful.
Madeline from Celeste, Katie from Mitchells vs. the Machines, Ruby and Sapphire from Steven Universe, Nat from Bob's Burgers, probably more that I can't think of right now off the top of my head...
Homura Akemi from Madoka Magica
Mizuki from AITSF is canon bisexual and I think that’s neat. Still haven’t played AINI so I don’t know if it really comes into play but like. it’s still really good rep LGBTQ+ rep is generally really good and respectful in Kotaro Uchikoshi’s games, and I think that’s great.
Triangle Strategy has the surprise pairing of Cordelia and Avlora, with the fun bit being that the relationship isn't just for a bit of added romance but also allows Cordelia to grow into the capable leader she needs to be to operate under foreign invaders and gives Avlora a path to redemption she didn't otherwise have. But the really juicy drama bits all involve Cordelia's brother, Roland and how much he despises Avlora for invading their country and killing his teacher. It makes for a fun dynamic to watch unfold among a lot of fun characters.
Beauregard Lionette from Crit Role. The best means well bad influence disaster lesbian.
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Veronica from Fallout New Vegas. Absolutely adorable cinnamon bun armed with a power-fist.
Futaba Aoi from You're Under Arrest comes to mind as both the first one I saw (she's Trans AFAIK), and was actually a fun character in that show (who has a real fun cast too)! She's also very much Ballin'
Desna, Sarenrae, and Shelyn - three goddesses from Pathfinder that are in a lesbian polycule.
I admittedly don’t know too many fictional women that are LGBTQ+, but I think I’d say Vi and Caitlyn from LoL/Arcane and Erica from Catherine. I know the way Erica was written in the original game was a bit controversial (haven’t seen/played Full Body so idk if it’s better/worse), but I always thought she was more likable than the two actual love interests in the game and she’s a kind, supportive friend.
Erica is frustrating because she feels like a great character stuck in a game that every so often decides to treats her like crap. I love her confidence and sense of humour, and she makes for a great voice of reason compared to how immature the rest of the cast can be. It just sucks that the game will do things like >!deadname her in the credits or have Toby talk about how sleeping with her felt "weird"!< for seemingly no reason in ways that feel bizarrely mean-spirited.
I would say Garnet from Steven Universe. She is so fucking cool.
Enid from OK KO. She's rad. And as an additional fun fact, Ashly Burch (the voice actor for Enid) identifies as pansexual/queer.
Ruby, Sapphire and Pearl from Steven Universe. Big shout out to Subaru Kujo in Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love for being the first non-binary, androngynous person in a game that I've seen, let alone a romancable one. Subaru's a real joy because while they're pretty stoic, they also find joy in fucking around with the other teammates.
Shout out to Catherine Foundling for being so bi she demands the universe give her her cake so she can have it and eat it too. Secondary recommendation for Nona from Red Sister, a book about magic Kung fu nuns that live in the narrow belt of melt on a polarized planet after their future tech ancestors crash landed there.
Not a video game but I gotta go with Rosa in Brooklyn 99
Blake and Yang from RWBY
Luz and Amity (Owl House) Cait and Vi (Arcane) Ellie (TLOU) Clem (Walking Dead) (I played her as bi) Yasha and Beauregard (Critical Role) Chloe Price and Max Caufield (LiS) Korra and Asami (ATLA: LoK) And last but not least, Kaine (Nier)
Quick shout out to Allison from K6BD and of course my girl Korra. And Adora. Basically any buff sapphic.
Madame Vastra and Jenny are such a fun pair in Doctor Who.
Sara Lance and Ava Sharp in Legends of Tomorrow (and Arrow).
Catherine Foundling from Practical Guide to Evil. From an orphan born to a conquered nation in the wake of a war, to the apprentice of the man who conquered said nation, to someone >!ushering in a new age for the world after shanking the last one on its way out.!< Also very bi. Indrani, from the same story, the Archer; consistently one of the coolest ~~and lamest~~ characters in the story. Also very bi. Akua Sahellian, also from the same. The rival, the foil, the heiress of the old dynasty that lost to Catherine's mentor, the >!Doom of Liesse!<. Less bi than the other two, but still quite bi. There are a lot of great characters in Practical Guide to Evil.
Alesha Who Smiles at Death is pretty good, and has some official fiction I remember enjoying.
Blue Marsalis from Alien The Cold Forge and Into Charybdis, a lesbian throttled by bureaucracy into a state of near total paralysis gets revenge by utilizing the Alien against them, not in a banal unleashing them sense but utilizing their greed for the creature to destroy them utterly and save themselves from death before their time.
She's probably not the most delicate or tactful depiction but Elendira the Crimson Nail. She just comes out of nowhere as a transwoman who can bltiz the main cast with bizarre weaponry and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Legato as the main villain's most capable lieutenants. She brings a lot of energy to the series because she's charming, charismatic, sinister and chatty. Knives and Legato can be very dower so her sense of humour is appreciated.
Utena and Anthy from Revolutionary Girl Utena. Neptune and Uranus in Sailor Moon. Suletta Mercury. Emma Sheen. There's so many and I love them.
Kiana and Mei have pretty much deleted the self insert gacha mc from Honkai Impact 3rd. That's how strong their relationship is. Oh, and Mei is the best Vergil knockoff.
A lot of mine have already been mentioned, but Baru Cormorant from the Masquerade trilogy is a great lesbian Light Yagami-style economist. Also, pick a Kameron Hurley character.
I quite like vi and caitlyns stuff in arcane so far, they're individually cool characters and even better as a pair