It's post time! For today's blog post, I will be talking about Hephaestion from Fate/Grand Order. Recently a pickup summon featuring Hephaestion has been available in the game. Because of this, it's my first time seeing this character. And once again, I was disappointed to see that it's once again a girl. But I'm more than disappointed, I'm angry. Hephaestion was a real person, and it's been long debated whether Hephaestion and Alexander were just best friends or lovers. But in making either of them a girl, why does this matter at all? Oh no, a regular relationship, so tragic. It completely ruins any sort of possible uses for the characters. It's like they're afraid of implying any of the men might like each other, since they also refuse to state the genders of Astolfo and Enkidu. For some reason, they're perfectly fine making the girls flirt with each other; heaven knows there's enough of them to do so. So why is it such a tragedy to imply the same for guys? All or nothing, I say. Of course I'd rather there not be any romance in the first place. But if you're going to, then at least make it fair and balanced. I hate everything this character stands for, and I wish the creators could just get one thing right in the history of this entire series; not that they respect history anyways. But, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Seeing that Hephaestion was a girl was just so aggravating after seeing everything else they've messed up, so I wanted to talk about it. Regardless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!