Ike is gay

If some people internally wanted that, they likely wouldn't have "gotten away," with it since Ike was 1 A main character 2 Stereotypically masculine 3 More or less stereotypically Heroic, especially to western sensibilities even if less so for the Japanese public, and it would have been met with some severe amount of backlash to both markets if done at the time of either game.

Mist and some of the other characters mention and hint at this on multiple occasions throughout the game. That slightly stronger romantic subtext would probably get denied as much as what we have is, even if there was slightly better proof than what we ended up with.

Cancel X. Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts. He'd never be the sort of person to flaunt his sexuality, no matter what it was.

Who is Ike rsquo : And here is why he isn't, it has never been officially stated all of those can be also interpreted as friendship And here is the big one Shipping is not fact it is fans wishing for relationships that never exist and only have some semblance of possiblity, it's inheritly fake

It might be why more of these sorts of relationships don't exist all that often in fictional media. Log In Sign Up. What do you need help on? He has no romance in his supports and he doesn't marry anyone.

One element that I've always considered if it was official from the start: Even if they had the go ahead to make it slightly more romantic, I think the broken and emotionally isolated and damaged way they both would approach it would make it significantly harder to point out and confirm than characters who flirt in an obvious and almost deviant fashion like Heather, Niles, and Legault.

This means I paradoxically ship them, but don't at gay same time. Pushing back against the narrative that Ike from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance / Ike Emblem: Radiant Dawn is homosexual. Due to Ike's relationship with Soren being more prominent, a lot of people understandably interpreted him as gay, but then this got some pushback from people who either shipped Ike with a woman in PoR or were homophobic (definitely the former moreso than the latter imo).

This is very likely. I think there's a chance that at least some writers on the team wished to push a gay angle with Ike, given what's in the games right now between his much more emotional supports with both Ranulf and Soren alike in Path of Radiance, and their paired endings in Radiant Dawn, but that never canonically surfaced the way character's like Heather, Legault, Niles, Leon, and so on have been made official.

He literally has zero romantic interest. So even they were "gay," even just for each other, we likely wouldn't get it confirmed with anything short of the writer retroactively giving us a word of God moment. Sores obviously from being ostracized early on by both races until Beorc started assuming he was a spirit charmer developed in an emotionally unusual way, and ended up developing a bond together that might be typically classified as a romantic relationship if they weren't in such fragile and traumatized positions, especially so young.

Soren is also likely the same, but since he's inadvertently effeminate due to his stature and him taking moreso after his mother in some amount of his appearance and his clear obsession with Ike, he gets pegged as gay when I don't think either of them properly fit that stereotypical bill.

I guess it'd be close to being "gay," but without typical romance or sexual relations, but they're certainly bonded to each in a deeply attached and codependent with each other in a fashion that certainly transcends "brotherhood," or "just BFFs, bro!

With them just being exceptionally scarred individuals, and having formed a potentially unhealthy relationship with each other out of a misguided instinct for "brotherhood," or "family," with Ike having just lost his mother and Soren never having any real family at all.

Ike 39 s sexuality : The downside of the Japanese version is that it makes Ike’s and Soren’s relationship come across a bit like a stereotypical Seme/Uke thing to me imo (Soren is even more adoring of Ike in it and acts even more submissive towards him, while Ike acts more dominant and “manly” towards him) but it’s the source material so it counts

If this was the intention, and the nuanced and borderline toxic relationship was intended to be something in the middle, it doesn't seem like most people would like to it from that middle ground. That's just fanon. I ran out of room on my last post, so I thought I'd slip this here.

Ike isn't gay, but he is pretty dense when it comes to social situations. Those who think otherwise are trolls. I think people are way too complicated to simply apply these kinds of labels, especially when both games did the leg work to show us just how screwed up both of this characters are at a basic, emotional level, which ended up explaining a ton of both of their strange moments in both games to boot, given their trading off in blunt, forward, and sometimes even cruel moments between them.

This topic contains spoilers - you can click, tap, or highlight to reveal them. It's much more complicated, in my opinion, than either side typically presents.