Is Ye gay? - Persona 5

Contents:

• IS YE GAY?
• WOULD YOU GO GAY FOR YE?
• DO YOU THK YE IS GAY?
• GAY OPTN WH RYUJI, YE, AND THE UNNAMED TECTIVE?

IS YE GAY?

This might be a strange qutn to ask but is Ye gay? It mak him pretty tertg and funny due to jt how out of touch he yeah TC he's not gay, jt very artsy/dramatic and a b socially eptFightg game mas: button is a tnt button and allows you to tnt may have been te that the whole nu molg thg was for artistic purpos, but 's pretty clear that he do fd her attractive. Throughout the game, he is socially unaware at some pots regardg women and flirtg, so many have read him to be gay or asexual.

WOULD YOU GO GAY FOR YE?

There is also a scene (found here om 13:43 to 18:20) Persona 5 where the player character go wh Ye to a lake often vised by upl and the two of them are mistaken for a gay uple. Persona 5 (2016): Two Gay NPCs; Lala Esrgot; Ye Kagawa. Is Ye homosexual?

The two unnamed men are the only explicly gay characters the game:. They are effemative gay men, who are basilly preyg on the nocent straight mor Ryuji. The game lets you rpond wh a joke rponse to Ryuji that he has to basilly ’man up’ agast the unmanly gay men.

So the scene starts wh the two gay men makg their entrance. The scene is amed as beg reflectn to the boy’s attempts to h on women earlier, so ’s more or ls meant as a ”punishment” towards them wh the st of showg the gay men aga an offensive light.

DO YOU THK YE IS GAY?

And then the gay men nng after them, sce they are gog to forcibly harass them. The boys manage to pe, and the two gay men are never referenced directly the game aga, unls you go out of your way to talk to them Shju, where they make remarks about another male character who is still a mor. This is basilly yet another example of a very troublome trope wily known as "All Gays are Pedophil".

This showg this game is pecially bad due to the two characters beg the only two fely gay men Tokyo Protagonist will teract wh. The ia that ”All gay men are sexual predators, huntg for pecially mors/children” is pecially troublg due to how this stereotype about gay men is actively ed as a reason to abe and hunt Gay mory Rsia pecially.

The group is said to equate homosexualy to pedophilia, and is also alleged to target gay men and subject them to siar abive treatment.

GAY OPTN WH RYUJI, YE, AND THE UNNAMED TECTIVE?

So is worryg and harmful to see the game e this very damagg stereotype towards gay men, pecially this se where the two characters are the only explicly gay men the whole game. But the game giv you explicly no gay romance choic, which is unfortunate, although not exactly a surprise, given how Persona 3 (Outsi of P3P where Female Protagonist uld romance Elizabeth and Aigis) and 4 were absolutely no-no to gay choic, even when would have been the most logil ncln wrg wise (Persona 4 for example removed Yose’s romance optn pletely, even though there are signs that he was origally gog to be one.