#and yeah like sure ofc theres elements of fan service

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what do you think abt the implied lgb characters/relationships in genshin (and other hyv games if you play them)? feel like it's always a topic of discourse amongst players wrt to whether it's meant to be genuine lgb representation or if it's just fanservice/fetishization/aimed at straight people but recently i have seen people on twt deny that censorship is the reason hyv can't have explicit gay relationships which is silly and also quite ironic considering the jeht quest w dialogue differences for lumine recently got changed to be less intimate. personally i find the implied relationships to be genuine n not just fanservice but i do like most of the popular genshin ships and think it's nice they have so many interactions and content so maybe i'm biased.

its definitely censorship and its pretty obvious. didn't they just have to rewrite some random background lore too the other day bc a gay relationship could be interpreted (not including the Jeht stuff, and I think we may have seen the same tweets anon lol), despite it really not being so and easy to read as just friendship. the fact they had to change it up many months of its release, after however it was brought to the attention of higher-ups, shows theres definitely someone or some authority that wants to censor any inkling of gay and lesbian relationships from genshin. im not familiar w other hoyo games, but aren't bronya and seele more explicitly lesbians in honkai?

but like come on you gotta be stupid to think ships like beidou and ningguang or alhaitham and kaveh aren't very clear in their attempts to bypass censorship and hint as heavily as possible. there was this good thread awhile back analyzing how beidou and ningguang fit "traditional" chinese lesbian narratives that was quite interesting, like there's obviously deep thought into how these relationships are portrayed. alhaithams VA literally had to redo a line about/to Kaveh bc it sounded too suggestive or romantic or something lmao, but he was just going off of what he could tell their relationship was implying. kaveh's VA also said the same of how he asked if his lines were about/to Alhaitham so he could voice it way differently bc their relationship was so hilariously exes vibes. like hoyo does a pretty good job at making their hinted gay and lesbian relationships easy to spot to an average person, it at least makes you go "wait a minute" and that seems to be the best they're able to get away with under whatever censorship theyre dealing with.