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[AnnoyedCanadian]

Are they still having lesbian fantasies about prepubescent looking girls characters in video games?

PedoBowser

This one barely counts, but: C.J. and Flick from Animal Crossing are clearly written as a couple. They live together, they refer to each other as their "partners," C.J. is always talking about how talented Flick is at crafting the models, etc. They also have a clear couple dynamic, with C.J. being the loud and boisterous one, and Flick being more quiet and introspective. They get more character development than almost any other characters in the game, to be honest.

And then the official strategy guide tries to be like, uh, they meant they're "business" partners! Who also live together! And it's like, please. I don't even consider their relationship to be subtext: like, basically anyone just reading their literal dialogue who didn't know Nintendo's weird hangups with being "family friendly" would see the two characters refer to each other as their partners and talk about how they live together and speak glowingly about each other and assume they were partner partners, not business partners in a weird off-screen business (apparently running the fish and bug festivals? or something?).

Nintendo, just let C.J. and Flick kiss. (The sad thing is, the recent increase in anti-LGBT+ rhetoric probably means they're even less likely to do that in a 2026 game or whatever than they were in 2020. We're going backwards.)