favorite ships

each of the androids' stories in the game focuses on a kind of love androids are capable of experiencing. familial love, friendship and romantic love. and with markus representing the power of romantic love, i think it was a ridiculous choice to remove the ability for markus to experience a queer romance, especially with the character he has so much more chemistry and compatibility with in contrast to the straight equivalent. he was forced onto north, a character that disagreed with his ideology at every possible chance, criticized peaceful approaches and was vengeful. he was FORCED onto a romance in a game about freedom. they couldve done so much with simon there.

simon was pining for that man since he stepped FOOT into jericho and i stand on that. simon, to me, is an incredibly gay coded character. he's constantly defending markus in his choices, rooting for him, praising his leadership. sacrificing his life for markus and the cause. WALLAHI he stares at markus with such love and fondness in his eyes. he SACRIFICES his own PHYSICAL HEART and dies so markus can stay alive. they're LOVERS in every sense of the word. he's also always peacekeeping, wanting to hear markus' thoughts and preventing fights, the deepest devotee to markus and the cause among the core four. you can just see the admiration in his eyes.

they had so, so much potential as a queer romance and i hate that it was scrapped. markus has such mlm energy (though i THINK this is because he's an unexpressive/rigid character and therefore feels so stiff and disinterested in his romance... he's flirting with his girl and hitting the :/ but anyway) i'm fond of them and they're very poetic. one day i will write a fic about them because they deserved more from quantic dream.