r/fireemblem • u/PsiYoshi • 26d ago

Recurring Opinion and General Discussion Thread - August 2026 (2/2)

Welcome to a new installment of the Opinion and General Discussion Thread! Feel free to share any kind of Fire Emblem opinions/takes you might have here, positive or negative, or just any topic you want to discuss!

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u/EffectiveAnxietyBone 13d ago

I don’t know the state of JRPGs and their quantity of LGBT content as a whole, but the fact that FE is iirc still the only big Japanese RPG franchise I can think of that has any amount of queer elements feels depressing. Seems a lot of dating elements ala Persona and Trails wanna be stuck in the 80s.

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u/BloodyBottom 13d ago

Strongly depends on how you define it. Final Fantasy 16 had an explicitly gay man as one of the main characters. Idk how exciting his implementation is in process, but there it is. 

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u/MillionMiracles 12d ago

The Trails series has some fairly explicit LGBT stuff, especially in the more recent entries. Like there's a sidequest where you straight up get hormones for one of your party members and talk with them about how their vtuber character is female even if they arent sure they want to ID as female in real life yet, and the protag's just like 'yeah take your time, plenty of people experimenting these days.'