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In my limited experience, it's not that
In games and movies it's usually:
This character who famously has been hetero, now suddenly bus gay and we just recon that they were always gay, you just didn't notice
Which is then followed with a "huh?"
I rarely see people having issues with characters being gay or trans or anything really, it's just when it gets shoehorned in really badly, or when everything about the show/movie/game is really bad, but my main character is gay, so now you MUST LOVE THIS PRODUCT!
Just make a good product, and I honestly don't care if your main character is straight, gay, brown black or purple
Name a single example, please
Non game one, Dumbledore was declared gay by Rowling.
In games, Kaiden Alenko becomes gay in ME3 if he's still alive.
I'm pretty sure Kaiden is one of male Shepard's romance options in the first game dude.
1 was straight or liara only. 2 was straight with aliens except for Kelly being a bi option which didn't actually trigger the romance achievement. 3 actually had some gay/bi options, but only Kaiden was a character that already existed.
Looks like you're right. It looks like they did consider making Ashley and Kaiden bi so the VAs did record lines for both. I always thought he was bi because there are options to flirt and Bioware did make bi characters earlier in Jade Empire.