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PERSONA 4: GOLN MOD RTOR GAY ROMANCE OPTN
While Persona 2: Innocent S was ahead of the curve, cludg a gay romance optn all the way back 1999, recent history has been more spotty, wh Persona 5 drawg cricism om LGBT+ groups for the cln of two particularly stereotypil gay characters who pop up ocsnally as a nng gag, to the pot of havg their l rewrten the English release of Persona 5: Royal. While had no nfirmed LGBT+ characters, do have one character, Kanji, who’s heavily hted as beg gay or bisexual, but looks like the game uld have gone a step further and clud a gay romance optn – party member Yose – an optn which has been ma available thanks to a mod of the PC versn of Persona 4: Goln, released earlier this year. In some ways, makg Joker and Ryuji gay fanfictn is relatively harmls - people wre all kds of ships fanfictn, and shippg two characters who are clearly extremely close to each other mak sense.
Then aga, boys are allowed to be close iends whout beg gay. If one of the societal symptoms of toxic masculy is men bottlg their feelgs up, another is the labellg of men and boys who don't nform to the toxic standards as feme or gay. At some pot velopment, Persona 4 origally planned to have a gay relatnship between the player character and Yose, who had an uned voiced le featurg a love nfsn hidn wh the game fil.
Asi om the relatnship availabily self, Persona 2 has been said to pict gay people more realistilly than Persona 5, where they were shown as flamboyant, possibly pedophilic ritur.