Final Fantasy 16’s queer romance has its problems, but marks a step forward for the series

When we first hear of “Dion the Bold”, it is in a medieval folk song praising his skill in battle. We are lead to picture a model of stereotypical masculinity, whose “lance levels mountains”. I feared that Dion might be profoundly boring – a posturing, macho warrior who lives and dies by only the blandest sort of violence. Fortunately, the sensitive, soulful prince we got instead was anything but. Spoilers ahead for Final Fantasy 16Dion is the first explicitly queer main

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