{"id":932042,"date":"2025-03-24T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/?p=932042"},"modified":"2025-03-24T13:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:35:44","slug":"the-search-for-better-nonbinary-representation-in-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/the-search-for-better-nonbinary-representation-in-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The Search for Better Nonbinary Representation in Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

This piece contains minor spoilers for Dragon Age: The Veilguard.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

When <\/span>Apex Legends<\/span><\/i> took the gaming world by storm with its surprise reveal and launch in February 2019, players fell in love with its six original playable characters \u2013 and one in particular, Bloodhound, becoming a fan favorite. At the same time, however, Bloodhound\u2019s gender became a topic of community debate due to their androgynous appearance and the fact that they were referred to in a gender-neutral way. This led Respawn Entertainment, the studio behind <\/span>Apex Legends<\/span><\/i>, to reaffirm on social media that Bloodhound is indeed nonbinary, a fact that had already been stated in <\/span>a developer interview<\/span><\/a> on the game\u2019s launch day. And yet, despite Bloodhound being one of the most well-known nonbinary video game characters of all time, many players today still do not realize that they are nonbinary.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I didn’t know Bloodhound was non-binary until very recently, as well as my friends who have played Apex for about 2-3 years now.
\nWe all collectively thought that Bloodhound was male until we discovered they were NB.s https:\/\/t.co\/4Sme1Cua2X<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Spirit (@SpiritYuuki) March 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n