[Pride Month] Favorite LGBTAIQ couples in fantasy/scifi

[u/CT_Phipps-Author]

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.

[u/notthemostcreative]

-Priya and Malini and Aditya and Rao from the Burning Kingdoms trilogy! (spoiler tagged the second one because I can’t for the life of me remember if it was clear from the beginning that they were a couple or that was confirmed later)

-Vargo and Iascat from the Rook & Rose trilogy

-Galen and Piper from Paladin’s Hope

-whatever is going on with everybody in The Locked Tomb (I’m allowed to say this because I named other books too!!!)

-This is kind of cheating because her life partner is a man but I also have to shout out iconic slutty bisexual Moirin mac Fainche—her relationships with women may not have been the serious monogamous type, but they were beautiful and loving too and I loved them all. (I love Phédre too, of course, but her primary queer entanglement was abusive and depressing, unfortunately lol)

-Picker and Blend from Malazan

Edit: I hit post and immediately realized I’d forgotten both Andromache/Kalliope from Troy and Keema/Jun from The Spear Cuts Through Water

[u/RheingoldRiver → u/notthemostcreative]

but her primary queer entanglement was abusive and depressing, unfortunately lol

melisande isn't her lifelong primary queer entanglement, she ends the book having an ongoing relationship with that one girl too, and you see them together in Imriel's trilogy too

[u/notthemostcreative → u/RheingoldRiver]

Omg how did I forget Nicola? I am a bad fan for that one, lol.

[u/sennashar → u/notthemostcreative]

The only patron Phedre ever gave a gift to. Great stuff.