: The player in Reach gets to choose Noble Six's gender at a whim. Canon
: should play into that and give Halo its first gender non-conforming
: character. Make it so Six doesn't care whether they're presented as more
: masculine or more feminine, or anything else, because they themselves
: don't prohibit their identity to one or the other. The character is
: already mysterious enough. Having their gender be everywhere would lend to
: that mystique. Not to mention Halo needs a lot more queer characters. I
: think there's been at two visibly queer characters at the most over the
: course of the 14-year franchise. Representation is awesome and for fans
: it's an amazing feeling.

As someone who is genderfluid, I would have loved for Noble 6 to be presented in this way. It would have made them a much deeper character and left it open for any gender to feel comfortable playing as them.

You feel masculine? Male model.

Feminine? Female model.

What does the canon say?

Six didn't come across as one or the other because they never removed their helmet and had a blacked out history. It never came up because they were too busy struggling to survive the Covenant glassing Reach and slaughtering their team.

Adding more queer characters would be a phenomenal way to keep my interest in the series. There are so few represented in the gaming community despite being a vast portion of it. Look at games like Skyrim, You can marry just about anyone. Same goes for Dragon Age, you can find characters of all types of personalities, races, and sexual preferences.

It's nice to finally have some representation and having some queer characters in Halo would give me all sorts of oodles of warm feelings. :)