purseowner
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I'm playing Final Fantasy IX for the first time at the moment, and something struck me about the character of Vivi.
Zidane sees Vivi looking glum and assumes it's about a girl. Vivi replies that he doesn't really think about that sort of thing, which of course baffles Zidane.
It got me thinking - what examples can we come up with of implied asexual characters in gaming?
Now obviously there'll be very few explicit examples, due to the rather lacking representation of asexuals in media in general, let alone in gaming.
(Having not played FFIX before, I have no idea if anything later in the game contradicts his inclusion in this thread of course)
And just for clarification, this isn't about headcanoning characters, it's about implied representation that could genuinely be perceived as such. I'm sure there'll be lots of Nintendo responses too, but it'd be nice if people could come up with more thoughtful ideas - I'm talking about asexual characters not genderless ones.
Zidane sees Vivi looking glum and assumes it's about a girl. Vivi replies that he doesn't really think about that sort of thing, which of course baffles Zidane.
It got me thinking - what examples can we come up with of implied asexual characters in gaming?
Now obviously there'll be very few explicit examples, due to the rather lacking representation of asexuals in media in general, let alone in gaming.
(Having not played FFIX before, I have no idea if anything later in the game contradicts his inclusion in this thread of course)
And just for clarification, this isn't about headcanoning characters, it's about implied representation that could genuinely be perceived as such. I'm sure there'll be lots of Nintendo responses too, but it'd be nice if people could come up with more thoughtful ideas - I'm talking about asexual characters not genderless ones.