I -- look, we know my thing is smart-mouthed queer ladies who like to hit things (and possibly have abandonment issues). Like this is literally the formula and I've lost all capacity to feel shame about the fact that I require at least two of these characteristics.
Steph Gingrich - The very first time Steph shows up in Life is Strange Before the Storm she's behind a DM screen and I was already like "oh no, I love this kid" because BtS Steph is a lot of fun. And then. AND THEN she gets a bigger role in LiS True Colors but the first time we see her, she's dancing like a dork and air drumming in the radio booth? Which Alex thinks is the coolest thing ever because Alex is absolutely right? I love absolutely everything about that game but I swear this girl was specifically geared to come for me.
Beta - The only real departure from this formula unless you count her tech skills as a very specialized form of hitting things. Okay, and we don't actually know if she's queer, but we definitely know the two people who share her DNA are (thanks, Burning Shores DLC!) so it wouldn't surprise me and I kind of headcanon her as being somewhere on the aro/ace spectrum. So again, not really part of the formula but if you take "gifted child never allowed to forget the extremely high expectations imposed on them and absofuckinglutely struggling with it" and add a generous helping of debilitating anxiety, that's going to resonate with me SO HARD so yeah.
As for all my alums and ex-pats, you will never convince me that Tahiri didn't have all the UST in the GFFA going on with Jaina so yeah, they all fit into that formula. Hitting things is literally what she, Beau, Yasha, and Kennedy all do.
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Steph Gingrich - The very first time Steph shows up in Life is Strange Before the Storm she's behind a DM screen and I was already like "oh no, I love this kid" because BtS Steph is a lot of fun. And then. AND THEN she gets a bigger role in LiS True Colors but the first time we see her, she's dancing like a dork and air drumming in the radio booth? Which Alex thinks is the coolest thing ever because Alex is absolutely right? I love absolutely everything about that game but I swear this girl was specifically geared to come for me.
Beta - The only real departure from this formula unless you count her tech skills as a very specialized form of hitting things. Okay, and we don't actually know if she's queer, but we definitely know the two people who share her DNA are (thanks, Burning Shores DLC!) so it wouldn't surprise me and I kind of headcanon her as being somewhere on the aro/ace spectrum. So again, not really part of the formula but if you take "gifted child never allowed to forget the extremely high expectations imposed on them and absofuckinglutely struggling with it" and add a generous helping of debilitating anxiety, that's going to resonate with me SO HARD so yeah.
As for all my alums and ex-pats, you will never convince me that Tahiri didn't have all the UST in the GFFA going on with Jaina so yeah, they all fit into that formula. Hitting things is literally what she, Beau, Yasha, and Kennedy all do.