not really but really. when I was growing up, it was a real conservative area. small fishing town in the maritimes, lots of Views on Socially Acceptable Behaviour, big Thoughts About Jesus, all that sort of shit. and I was just a kid. I was a kid with a small friend group because I was a real piece of shit but I was a kid
and I was at my friend's house and she had all the games and by that I mean she had a whole bunch of older snes rpgs and shit that her parents got used. sure, there were platformers too, and the odd beat em up, but I never really had much interest in those aside from mario world and turtles in time. one thing we did was we'd both play the jrpgs and tell each other stories we came up with inspired by them
one day I was looking through the (literal) box of games and pulled out breath of fire 2, just kinda completely at random. I was vaguely familiar with the first game but never played it. I didn't ask if I needed to play the first one to understand it because I saw nina and I fell in love
she's in the back, the one with wings
everything changed for me with that. this isn't even a little bit of an exaggeration. I asked if it was any good and it didn't matter what she was going to say because I had to play it. I needed to find out more. I pushed through that game. I pretended as best I could that ryu was a girl. I did everything I possibly could to make that girl as gay as she had made me
I did the same with celes in final fantasy vi. I started my save over in that game to name locke after myself instead of terra once I started drawing those connections around the opera scene
videogames made me gay as hell