Ikenfell feels just like a fanfiction, and I mean that in the best possible way.
The LGBT+ representation in this game is amazing, but there is something very special and signifigant about a black, human, adult character, using neopronouns. This case, as far as I’m aware, is the first case that they are used to reflect and represent real human beings, and it is absolutely incredible. But in all of these cases that I’m aware of, they are used exclusively for non-human characters aliens, bringing an implcation that neopronouns are nonhuman. Now, I am fully aware that neopronouns have been used in media before my own set were coined by a book, in fact. A main character in a video game, in media at all, that uses neopronouns. One of them uses he/him pronouns, and the other uses ze/zir pronouns. And that’s something that is severely overlooked by those with binary genders. Why is that good? Because not all nonbinary people do. And it goes even further- only one of these characters uses they/them pronouns. Of the six playable characters, three- an entire half- of them are nonbinary.
No, the characters aren’t only diverse in sexuality, but in gender as well. I’m not just talking wlw and mlm characters, though there were plenty. On the note of characters, the representaion mentioned earlier is certianly no exxageration, with just about every named character being explicily LGBT+ in a way that I’ve never seen before in officially published media.
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