Talk:Alucard/@comment-58.173.117.108-20180817214302/@comment-1672596-20180924200949

Just an FYI, Alucard is supposed to be a bishonen, which is a Japanese artstyle for depicting handsome men in their culture. It has literally nothing to do with whether they're straight or gay or, heck, even have gender confusion. Raiden from Metal Gear, for the record, is also a bishonen character, and he's explicitly heterosexual, having a girlfriend and eventually wife by the name of Rosemary, even had a kid with her. Another example is Zero from the Mega Man X series, since he (well, technically it, since Zero's an extremely advanced android and thus technically lacks a gender, but he's got masculine programming) also looks fairly girly, yet, like with Raiden, he also had a girlfriend, the Reploid Iris in Mega Man X4 (though that relationship ended very badly resulting in her death), and if that's not enough, Zero is also implied to at least have some feelings for Ciel in the Mega Man Zero series (BTW, as a side note, Zero [well, his Mega Man X incarnation anyway] and Alucard share the same voice actor in Japan). I can name plenty of other bishonen men who are straight in Japanese games, like, I don't know, most of the male Final Fantasy protagonists like Cloud Strife or Firion or, heck, Cecil as well.