#also i've read that juhani's writer stanley woo confirmed that juhani is gay

[lesbiannova]

Juhani is a Canon Lesbian Character; Juhani is not Bisexual

I am making this post because despite the fact that Juhani from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a canon lesbian character is already a fairly common knowledge among LGBT fans of Star Wars, I have seen some people who actually believe that Juhani is bisexual; some even go as far as saying that calling Juhani a lesbian is bi erasure.

Therefore, as someone who has made mods for the Knights of the Old Republic games and written a detailed Juhani romance guide, I would like to present hard evidence from the game files to point out that Juhani is in fact a lesbian, a woman who is EXCLUSIVELY attracted to women.

The most crucial evidence comes from k_hjuh_dialog.dlg, Juhani’s main dialogue file which contains all the conversations covered in my Juhani Romance Guide. If you use KotOR Tool to browse the game files, k_hjuh_dialog.dlg is under KotOR I > BIFs > templates.bif > Dialog. I recommend using DLGEditor to view the .dlg files from KotOR games.

Here is a screenshot of my DLGEditor with the most relevant part of the k_hjuh_dialog.dlg file:

(Click here to see a larger, un-cropped version of this screenshot)

The highlighted dialogue shown in the screenshot (”I feel I must apologize for the way I acted towards you before, in the grove. It was wrong of me.”) is the beginning of your first personal conversation with Juhani after Juhani joins your party (here’s my YouTube video for this conversation). As shown in the screenshot above, once you begin this conversation, the script k_hjuh_p17 will fire, and this is the source of the script in question:

void main() {    int iGender = GetGender(GetPCSpeaker());

   if (iGender == GENDER_FEMALE)    {        SetGlobalBoolean("T_JUHANIROM", TRUE);    } }

(In KotOR Tool, you can see the source script  k_hjuh_p17.nss under  KotOR I > BIFs > scripts.bif > Script, Source)

As you may have guessed from the above script, k_hjuh_p17 sets the Global Boolean T_JUHANIROM to TRUE if, and ONLY IF, the player character is female. The T_JUHANIROM global is used by the game to check if Juhani’s romance is active or not. In other words, the game activates Juhani’s romance ONLY IF your player character is female, as soon as you start Juhani’s personal conversation after she joins your party. If your player character is male, Juhani’s romance will NOT be activated.

If this is not hard enough evidence that Juhani is a lesbian, a woman who is EXCLUSIVELY attracted to women, and she is NOT bisexual, I don’t know what to tell you.

The KotOR game used to have a bug that allowed male player characters to access Juhani’s romance, which is probably why some thought that Juhani is bisexual. HOWEVER, the bug had been fixed in later patches. By fixing the bug, the game has made sure that ONLY a female player character can romance Juhani.

Even though the word “lesbian” or “gay” is never used in any of the KotOR games, it does not change the fact that Juhani is a woman character who can only be romanced by a woman player character, which means Juhani is gay, a lesbian.

In conclusion, Juhani is a canon lesbian character and has always been intended to be such. Juhani is NOT bisexual. Calling Juhani a lesbian is not bi erasure because she is not bi. In fact, claiming Juhani is bi would be erasing the identity of the very first confirmed lesbian character in any Star Wars media, including the old Star Wars EU in which KotOR is part of. Also, if you ship Juhani with any man, or making or using any mods to allow male characters to romance Juhani, you are homophobic and lesbophobic because you are erasing Juhani’s lesbian identity.

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