What got her into the lifestyle? How does she operate? What different challenges would she face? Any of those questions would make a great story, different from the ones we’ve got so far.īesides, the basics need not change at all. If GTA and its history of hookers and shrieking girlfriends has proven anything, it’s that the criminal underground is not gender-neutral - who and what you are matters.Ī female career criminal will have had a different path in life than someone like Franklin or Niko, and it’s a path the series has never explored.

When I say I want a female protagonist, I mean that I want one for whom being female is as much a part of her identity as masculinity is for every other main character. I don’t want an ideologue - I want a character. To be fair, it can be hard to see the addition of a female protagonist in a traditionally male-centric franchise as anything other than a novelty made to satisfy a subset of fans.ĭon’t misjudge my intentions just because I’m a woman: I have no interest in having a female protagonist just to have someone with whom I, a possessor of female characteristics, can identify. I suspect some readers will have an instant reaction of revulsion and dismissal - we’ll be charitable and say it’s because they don’t like change. So why not go in a new direction? Why? Why not? Rockstar has done that particular character incredible justice multiple times. Every permutation of Rockstar’s typical leading man was explored, deconstructed, dissected, and thoroughly mocked. Trevor was basically an embodiment of all the things GTA players do because they can: an amoral, pyromaniacal psychopath. Michael was a career criminal more in the line of Claude or Niko. GTA‘s core story has always been about exploring the tarnished American Dream through the lens of frustrated masculinity a bloody, hyperviolent combination of Fight Club and The Great Gatsby, if you will.īy the time GTA V rolled around, the three protagonists were a study in self-reference: Franklin was a gang banger, in the vein of San Andreas‘ CJ.

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