Gay Main Character

[Sepho]

Yang has never appeared to me to be black. I've always considered him to be more of middle eastern or Arabian heritage. Think Karnov.

[Alice]

Yang looks chinese to me... eh!

All the final fantasys from 7+ have some kind of love story inbetween, and its probably my favorite part, ff 8 wouldnt the same without rinoa and squal, 9 wouldnt be the same without garnet and zidane, and 10(2) the whole story was that yuna was looking for tidus... cuz she loved him.. 7... pretty obvious between aerith and cloud.. >.<

see so obviously the love story plays more into it than you think.. the game istn about fighting, its about the stories :P they dont just make these games to make u fight, if they jus twanted you to fight theyd sell u knives!

[DocFrance]

If Yang is black, then so is General Leo.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

It does get indistinct the further you zoom out, but Yang is darker than everyone else except Edge and Cid, who are dark in their own ways, and of course we never actually see Golbeza's skin.

EDIT: General Leo is white as can be.

[Flamethrower]

Just because his skin is darker than most of the others doesn't mean he's black. Middle-eastern people typically have darker skin than caucasians. Edge looks more black than Yang does.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Again, black doesn't have to mean African.

[Flamethrower]

Alright then, but by your definition, wouldn't Josef be the first black Final Fantasy character? Him and Yang look awfully similiar.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Not really, though.

[Flamethrower]

Haha, I don't even know which one of those is Josef. I'm guessing he's the balding guy with blue hair. I've only played Dawn of Souls, and in that game, I think he looks similiar to Yang. Still, even in the original game, look at his status portrait.

Josef:



Yang:




They look similiar to me.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Well, in that sense, sure.

[DJZen]

Actually, now that I think about it..... Yang looks a LOT like Karnov.... And in his profile picture he really doesn't look black at all. Sorry, 'kishi, I think you're gonna have to conceed this one.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Not at all. In FFIV, a character's battle sprite is his most prominent image and therefore his most definitive, superceding his profile portrait the same way it supercedes his concept art.

[Sephex]

You guys, Kishi just knows this stuff. Back off.

[Del Murder]

I always thought the name Yang and the fact that he's a martial artist and comes from a castle full of martial artists that has Chinese sounding music would imply that he was modeled in after a person of Chinese descent. I don't know why I think the music of Fabul sounds Chinese, but it does.

As for gay main characters, I wouldn't want one in a game soley for the fact that it would be a big deal and it would get a lot of hype. Then the plot would focus on the person's gayness instead of fighting some crazy villain or your father or something. If you had to fight your father because he didn't like that you were gay then that would be pretty cool, though. During the makeout scene in FFX I cringed, so the thought of two guys getting a long steamy FMV is not appealing to me. But if that aspect of the character's personality is done subtly and tastefully then I wouldn't have a problem with it as long as the battle system was fun.

[ShunNakamura]

As long as they had a good plot in which the character was gay it would be fine. If they did there research they could have teh main character treated as gays are in the most intolerent of cultures in some of the cities... this would add some depth... obviousally it would be like the inn in thamasa(did I spell that right) in FFVI where they charge outrageous prices.... untill you talk to strago.

Anyways.... I do have to aggree taht too much hype and sterotypes probably wouldn't be good.