Would you play Persona 6 wh a strictly gay male character? - Persona 5

Contents:

• HOW PERSONA 5 LETS DOWN S GAY PLAYERS
• GAY CHARACTER P5
• PERSONA 5 ROYAL SHOULD DIAL UP THE GAY
• PERSONA 5: CAN YOU BE GAY?
• PERSONA 5 ROYAL: JOKER AND AKECHI ARE DEFELY GAY FOR EACH OTHER AND ATL CAN'T TELL ME OTHERWISE
• PERSONA 6 NEEDS A GAY ROMANCE OPTN
• WOULD YOU PLAY PERSONA 6 WH A STRICTLY GAY MALE CHARACTER?

HOW PERSONA 5 LETS DOWN S GAY PLAYERS

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. 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.

GAY CHARACTER P5

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. 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.

At the end of the scene, the people the boat next to you and Ye thk you two are a gay uple. It’s also a scene where the ma protagonist shows some distrs of beg even labeled gay, and you are not given any other optn about .

PERSONA 5 ROYAL SHOULD DIAL UP THE GAY

So ’s a shame how this game is fely agast the ia of even havg a gay optn for you to romance. This is weird, pecially parison to Persona 2, which actually let you choose a gay romance optn a very rpectful manner.

It’s also a real missed oppoturny, pecially sce the only gay characters shown before are harmful stereotyp. Around the same time the game you meet wh the two gay men, you also meet up wh Lala Esrgot.

PERSONA 5: CAN YOU BE GAY?

Her wrg is more or ls the stereotype of a hosts Okama Bar (Okama Bar is a gay bar wh ually drag queen hosts), yet the bar she seems to be nng is not a gay bar at least explicly.

Persona 4 first seemed to go ep to LGBT them, but then backed out twice favor of different typ of story arcs altogether, while lettg one of the ma characters (Yose) act like a rampant homophobic wh no one actually llg him out if durg the whole game.

And like mentned before, Persona 4 also seems to have removed a gay romance optn at some pot durg velopment, even though those l were even dubbed english.

PERSONA 5 ROYAL: JOKER AND AKECHI ARE DEFELY GAY FOR EACH OTHER AND ATL CAN'T TELL ME OTHERWISE

TL;DR: While Persona 5 has one fairly well wrten LGBT character, overall the game do bad job wrg about the sexual mori, wh outright harmful stereotyp and plete lack of gay romance optns. The velopers acknowledged an terview that a ntroversial scene the origal Persona 5 picted two of the game’s only gay characters as predators, and that they knew didn’t go over well wh many of the game’s fans.

PERSONA 6 NEEDS A GAY ROMANCE OPTN

In the origal Persona 5, a pair of unnamed gay men approach the character Ryuji unprompted durg a mandatory -game vis to Shju. It’s a eply unsettlg and unnecsary scene that pats the game’s only two visibly gay men as predators, and the whole suatn is played off as a joke.

In Persona 5 Royal, the two gay men are no longer unnamed; they troduce themselv as Angel and Julian (or Julie, if you’re “feelg scy”).

The punchle is now “isn’t funny that the gay men ma a boy wear women’s cloth, spe the fact that they were clearly makg him unfortable, ” stead of the prev joke that was based on the punchle of “isn’t the implied implied threat of sexual asslt, or even rape, hilar? Was my therapist gay or trans? A lot of the game’s most egreg cisns have already been heavily reported on; one scene the origal, the only two openly queer characters the game, a pair of gay men you bump to while on a missn Shju, are actively predatory and harass an unrage male stunt – your teammate, Ryuji – before rtg him off somewhere.

WOULD YOU PLAY PERSONA 6 WH A STRICTLY GAY MALE CHARACTER?

(In the terts of fairns, Atl altered this scene for Persona 5’s expand edn, Persona 5: Royal – but the problematic power dynamic between two gay adults and a high school stunt remas.

The Shju scene, spe revisn Royal, is still wildly homophobic. Kenh Shepard, a gay vio gam journalist wrg for Paste Magaze, scribed the suatn aptly 2017; that “everyone this game assumed I was straight, and those expectatns fected nversatns like a disease… shows me views me at bt as a joke and at worst somethg revoltg to be feared. ” No player actn or batn of player choic n shake the expectatns; every time a dialogue optn close to somethg potentially homoromantic or, at the bare mimum, un-straight, the world reils at .

Leavg asi the very obv cricisms of the game’s choice to reprent queer people that way – and that’s not “leavg asi” bee ’s not worthy of discsn, and parenthetilly that discsn has already been done far better by someone else – how do you square a game that als eedom om societal norms by grippg sperately to the homophobic, nservative stat quo? Well, there aren’t any gay characters, as far as I n tell, and there are no actively ntroversial scen featurg queer characters, but don’t take eher of those thgs as an endorsement per se. Still, they haven’t reprented gay characters as predatory/harassg/crimal, which the very loost way unts for somethg.