CJ and Flick are basically Nintendo’s first openly gay characters. No, Nintendo has never actually come right out and admitted it, but there’s a lot of evidence to suggest these two boys are an adorable couple. First, they live together, and second, they refer to each other as “partners” even though they don’t really work together.
At one point, the official Animal Crossing: New Horizons Companion Guide tried to walk back the whole gay thing by calling them “roommates and business partners,"
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