As I’ve stated before, I believe that it will be largely Final Fantasy fans that will reject a homosexual character, rather than the general public. FF simply isn’t popular enough to incite a nation-wide uproar; if it wasn’t a main character it probably would go completely unnoticed.

I can’t imagine that there would be much of a problem in Japan with this sort of thing. The majority of popular anime now days tend to include at least one homosexual character; including them in video games is just a natural progression. There may be some controversy in the West among FF fans, but I really can’t see it escalating past a few angry letters to square and a decrease in sales for 12-15 year old consumers (the latter of which can't possibly be a bad thing).