Lux's new lore really resonated with me!

OMG PLEASE... teasing like that is going to kill me,,

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond!! I got very emotional reading that last part so I'll hold you to it!!

Luxannas lore is now one of my favorites!

I love her story and bio but the best part was the "For Demacia" story! I really like how Demacian Justice isn't perfect. How Garen could execute the guy who killed his family that was clearly possesed and then don't care why he did it. That is why Lux is my favorit part of Demacia. She is not blinded by Demacian Justice. She is in a juging society that don't like people like her. Surounded by people who could just outright execute someone without even investigating what truely happened. I bet Garen would even kill that boy that had the demon in him. I don't say that the rest of Demacia and Garen is bad, it just makes for an interesting story. I really like the Demacia event so far. I've only read the crowngaurd part.

The way you told us about the demon and teasing that it was Nocturne was very clewer. I didn't get it until I saw it on the boards. It was not obvious but it still makes so much sense. Even though it is not confirmed every description of the nightmare-man was on point for Nocturne. I mean he is such a great villain in that story. He was almost as good as Gangplank in Burning Tides! If it's not Nocturne then you should consider making it Nocturne, because that demon does everything Nocturne is supposed to do in the best way possible.

Thanks for the great storys! Cant wait to have read them all. Especially the one with Galio and Lux!

Please do give him much love from us.

When did they state a character's orientation?

And yes, it's possible for two people of the same sex to be friends. Just like it's very possible for tow people of other sexes to be friends. Yet if Kahina was male, I guarantee you everyone would be pushing for it.

You also don't know enough to speculate that Lux and Kahina aren't dating and the other stuff only serves to strengthen the possibility that they are. It's not being redundant, it's just backing up the possibility in more ways than one. Right now there's absolutely no reason that Lux couldn't be gay and it seems to me that there's no reason for you to bother trying to dispel the possibility unless you had a personal investment in Lux not being gay.

Also side characters in side stories really doesn't count as anything more than crumbs and I feel like it's pretty disingenuous to suggest otherwise.

I mean...being gay enabled me to be able to fire off intense deadly light lasers, specifically rainbows. You didn't unlock those yet?

I don't think OP is stating Lux is a lesbian, but her story is very familiar and has been lived by many lesbians in the real world. You pretty much just have to replace magic with gay.

Many LGBTQ people are not accepted by the people they live with/are around whether it's family, school, work etc. Often times wishing they lived somewhere they could be accepted. I.e Someone from a country where gays are killed for being gay wishing they could live in America where it is more accepted. Lux states in her story that she wishes she lived somewhere that magic was accepted or even revered.

In some cultures, bis/gays/etc were/are seen as special such as some native american tribes seeing trans/bis as two-spirit people who encompass the spirit of both a male and female.

Also the part with experimental practices and procedures to "cure" the magic, that's all too real for many people who are LGBTQ. Shock therapy, boot camps where they're told to hate themselves, some sick forms of therapy, it goes on.

Certainly! I feel like I did a pretty good job summarizing why in the op though... I gave seven different points to support my reading and explained that I relate to the story because of my own experiences as a lesbian.

Anyway just to expand further on this, the entire narrative about hiding an integral part of who you are in a society that hates it and is disgusted by it can very easily be read as a metaphor for being gay. This is a narrative that in real life commonly applies to being gay. The similarities are fairly obvious: being forced to hide an aspect of yourself because you will be shamed or even hurt by the people around you, a family that tries to turn a blind eye and pretend like nothing is happening because other people learning about her would bring shame to their family, even the presence of "professionals" who would "fix" her "affliction". All of this contributes to Lux feeling like there is something wrong with her and starting to hate herself. These are all concepts and experiences that are very familiar and sadly relatable to many gay people, myself included.

Having established that it's possible to read Demacia's treatment of magic and mages as an allegory for homophobia, we can move on to Kahina. Kahina is established as a female knight that Lux meets and becomes friends with. In between her obligations to her family to attend public events and be visible in Demacian society, she spends her time with Kahina and their relationship develops into a "deep bond" with each other. This can absolutely be interpreted as a romantic relationship. There's also an interesting separation in the story here with Lux's obligations as a highly visible Demacian noble vs the person that it seems she would rather be spending time with. To add on to this, it's stated that Lux keeps her magic hidden while she is with her family, but can be herself when she is away on missions for the organization that Kahina recruited her into. So she can only be herself when she's with Kahina... who is also the first person that did not shame her or threaten her or make her feel unsafe or bad about being a mage.

Finally, the one thing that could get in the way of this reading would be if Lux was in a relationship with a man, and for a long time there were hints at a relationship between Lux and Ezreal. However, this update also sunk that ship, with a voiceline that makes it clear that not only are Lux and Ezreal not dating, but they've never even spoken! This change, in combination with the rest of Lux's lore update, seems like a deliberate move to me and it leaves the possibility of Lux being a lesbian wide open when considered along with everything above.

I hope this was a more sufficiently detailed explanation of my theory! Before I made the original post I was very excited and talked to a lot of people about this, and they all agreed that it's a plausible thing to take away from her story. I also know that I'm not the only person to reach this conclusion independently.