woke-up-on-derse:

tredlocity:

tredlocity:

Honestly, the word “playersexual” is important when it comes to discussing LGBT representation in video games, and people who call it an erasure of bi/pansexuality are missing the point.

When someone says an NPC is playersexual, they’re not saying “this character is not bi/pansexual.” What they’re saying is “The confirmation we get of this character’s bi/pansexuality can only be found by playing multiple playthroughs.”

Because of this, not only we will never get that confirmation if we only play one playthrough, it also ties bi/pansexuality solely to the player’s romantic option benefits. Their bi/pansexual identity only exists so that the player can romance them, and nothing more.

Really, the difference between a bi/pansexual character and a playersexual character is that a bi/pan character will talk about their sexuality independent from the player character’s romance ambitions. That’s still pretty rare in video games, and people who use the word “playersexual” are saying they want more.

sometimes a playersexual character feels less bi/pan and more like it’s a bug where the devs forgot to code in that you can’t romance this character while playing the same gender :/ if a male npc is all flirty and always talking about how much he loves banging women but you can still romance him as a dude, he’s playersexual. if you romance a chick on both a male and female run and all that changes are the pronouns, she’s playersexual. it takes away all the nuance that comes from being not-het and makes it all a matter of convience