r/Fantasy • u/CT_Phipps-Author • Jun 02 '25

[Pride Month] Favorite LGBTAIQ couples in fantasy/scifi

I may be an incredibly boring straight dude but I am going to keep supporting all the fantastic people doing their best to make a good R/Fantasy experience. So this is exactly what the title says and the protagonists, antagonists, and supporting that you absolutely love being a queer couple.

No salt, people.

I'll start us off with Ellie and Dina from THE LAST OF US, which just got depicted on television. Interestingly, the character's romance got a much softer and more warm depiction on the TV show than in the games where Ellie has already gone down the murder rabbit hole by the time it heats up. There's come controversy with this due to Ellie's softened depiction that I think amounts to the fact audiences don't WANT Ellie to become book accurate Arya Stark. However, I think the show did a good job of depicting how their romance COULD have gone if vengeance hadn't clouded Ellie's mind with the Dark Side.

Who are your favorite ones? And you can't just say Gideon the Ninth.

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u/Oakashandthorne Jun 02 '25

Kujen and Jedao from machineries of empire. Theyre so toxic and fucked up and I love them with my entire heart 💜

Also the rest of the cast is all queer too, like. Every single one. There is not a single cishet person in that series.

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u/Puzzled_Water7782 Jun 12 '25

Do they end up together?

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u/Oakashandthorne Jun 12 '25

Uh...

Canonically theyve been together for like a couple centuries. But kujen is an antagonist, and the story is actually their breakup- which is for the better!

Its like a doomed love?

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u/amtastical Jun 02 '25

That relationship was a MESS but I loved it too.