Yet the scene is loaded with masculinity. Both are rounded characters with varied motivations, and both are explicitly queer. Even taking Tyler’s sexuality out of it, you have a gay man and a trans man together. That Tyler and Michael are dating when the lake scene occurs does make it more special, though it works even if they are just friends.
My Tyler was gay and was into Michael because, come on, it’s rural Alaska - how many eligible singles do you think there are? Tyler can be gay and into Michael, gay and not into Michael, bi, pan, straight, or ace, depending on how he is played. There, from both Chloe’s responses and the general construction of the game, it feels not so much like you’re choosing in that moment whether or not to kiss Chloe, but that you’re deciding if Max is straight or if she’s a lesbian. There’s no definitive moment like Max electing to kiss Chloe in Life is Strange. Michael is interested in Tyler, but Tell Me Why’s choices are far more subtle than in Life is Strange.
Michael is one of Alyson’s friends, and he’s a gay Tlingit man, one of the native communities of Alaska where the game itself is set. The scene centres around Tyler and another character, Michael.
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