Has the image of video game characters changed

[tony12]

Just an FYI please tag spoilers as such if anything on Ellie potentially spoils The Last of Us (no, I don't consider her orientation a spoiler).

I don't think any spoilers have been posted so far other than just to say she wasn't sexualized like Rikku was. I do wonder if the popularity of the Hunger Games has played a part in recent years of how people choose to characterize female teenage characters.

Of course she could still be bicurious (with the tendency to women then as it seems) but what is in Left Behind is definitely one true and stated part about her. For the whole bicurious thing I may refer to her (SPOILER)looking at a men magazine and saying she wants to see what is so great about it.

Regardless of what Druckman said he was thinking when he was trying to write that particular scene I don't think too much should be made of one kiss in a post apocalyptic world where you will really try to cling to people you tend to get a long with no matter which sex they are.

Of course she could still be bicurious (with the tendency to women then as it seems) but what is in Left Behind is definitely one true and stated part about her. For the whole bicurious thing I may refer to her (SPOILER)looking at a men magazine and saying she wants to see what is so great about it.

Regardless of what Druckman said he was thinking when he was trying to write that particular scene I don't think too much should be made of one kiss in a post apocalyptic world where you will really try to cling to people you tend to get a long with no matter which sex they are.

So basically you say no matter what creators say it doesn't matter. And that makes stories in general useless as they are written with an intention and if that intention is ignored it is not the true story.

I'm saying that one kiss doesn't necessarily mean that much (especially in the world they were living in). I also do wonder if a site titled gaygamer might possibly have an agenda. Also they obviously did not have the whole Riley and Ellie relationship planned out from the get go. In that same article you linked to they said they had already told the platonic story of Joel and Ellie, the friendship between Ellie and Riley in the comics, and so they said they started brainstorming on what they could do next for the dlc. It's entirely likely that they never intended Ellie from the original game to be gay.