Should Lightning have a love interest?

[ShineTheLion]

Well, on a side note to that, it seems that changing Fang from male to female caused unintentional lesbian themes...


But anyway, what if she's not a lesbian?

I think the fact that they changed her from male to female makes it pretty obvious that those two were intended to be a couple. Imagine a dude running up and hugging vanille, and holding her for long periods of time, and saying he's her family. There's not a single person out there that wouldn't think they are a couple. Just because they don't show anything sexual like kissing (which is tactful, really) doesn't mean Fang and Vanille are "just friends" as so many like to put it.

The truth of the matter is, I think it doesn't matter. I think they changed Fang to give the cast a more even balance of male and female, and I don't think they cared that that basically turned the couple into a gay couple. For some, that's a huge advancement for equality just being able to see a relationship like that in a mainstream game title, but for others they want to deny it even exists. It's weird really how quick people would be to jump on the FANG + VANILLE FOREVER <3 <3 <3 bandwagon if they were male and female, but since they are of the same sex, many people say THEY AREN'T LOVERS! COME ON!

Bah, they clearly are, and their relationship is a very genuine and pure one. It's admirable really, and a lot less fake and convoluted than all the forced relationships between FF protagonists in the past (tidus/yuna anyone? where the hell did that come from?)

I may be repeating myself because I remember writing this in another post, it may have been on this topic. Lol. I'll just end with that.

Also to SuperMillionaire's comment, I don't think Squall and Lightning are very alike more than the fact that they both have storm related names. Lol. Squall was very brooding, quiet, defensive, and emo. Lightning is very outspoken, agressive, hot-headed, and a lot more independent than squall seemed to be. I wouldn't compare the two. Squall needed a mommacita. He was too much of a whiny punk to deal with it all on his own. Lightning on the other hand would keep on fighting even if she was the last person alive in the world (which in a sense, she kind of is, in this game).