Hana Tsu-Vachel is a player character in the Fear Effect horror video game series for the PlayStation. She was introduced in Fear Effect in 1999 and is most notable and remembered because of her controversial bisexual relationship in the game's 2001 prequel Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix. She was supposed to return in the canceled sequel Fear Effect Inferno for the PlayStation 2.
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Hana is a freelancer of French and Chinese descent who was once a teenage prostitute and a member of a vast criminal organization known as the Triad. In fact, the Triad still claim her as their property, and it is in part to earn enough money to buy back her 'contract' that she works such high-risk and high-paying assignments. Brash and edgy with a penchant for sarcasm, Hana is as skillful with her tongue as she is with using firearms and piloting vehicles, able to finagle or flirt her way out of many difficult situations but equally capable of solving problems with weapons if need be. In spite of a demonstrated level of sophistication, she is not above using sex as a weapon.
Hana's close partner and male love interest is another mercenary, Glas Royce. In Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix, her friend and lover is Rain Qin, a female hacker with a past shrouded in secrecy who Hana discovered during a mission a few years before the story begins.
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Hana and Rain as seen in one of Retro Helix ads
'Once and for all, let me set the record straight. Hana is not a lesbian! She likes men...and she likes women. Who she chooses to go to bed with at the end of the day is not a big deal! (...) The only reason I wanted Hana to have a female companion this time around is because it gives me the ability to create an extremely interesting love triangle further down the road.'[5]
Stan Liu
Retro Helix gained some notoriety for a suggestive advertisement campaign in gaming magazines, hinting at a lesbian relationship between Hana and Rain. Director Stan Liu would go on to state in various interviews that Hana and Rain were not necessarily lesbians, but simply two women who in this particular instance had developed a physical relationship. In fact, the only scene in the game itself that matches the overt sexuality of the steamy ads is one where the two women disrobe on an elevator and embrace specifically to distract the male guards watching them on a security camera - most of the game is actually spent with the duo apart and talking via radio. Liu suggests that human relationships are not so black and white as to be reduced to categories, but often fall into a grey area. According to GameCritics.com, 'Publisher Eidos may have played up the girls-gone-wild lesbo angle by having [...] Hana Tsu-Vachel and Rain Qin, straddling each other in their underwear for the print ads, but the actual game wasn't the promiscuous orgy that ads teased.'[6]
Hana also stars in two Image single-issue comics based on both Fear Effect games.[7][8] In 2004–2006, German film maker Uwe Boll planned to make a live-action film featuring 'sexy heroines Hana and Rain in a much edgier fashion.'[9]
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According to a review by GameSpot's Frank Provo, 'Rain and Hana's relationship ultimately proves itself to be the game's tearful legacy.'[10] GameSpot's Carrie Gouskos featured Hana and Rain in their article 'Great Loves', despite being portrayed 'in more of a 'hey dude, it's hot lesbians making out!' way', but noting rarity of video game female homosexual characters before them 'so Hana and Rain's relationship, while at times gratuitous, was nonetheless quite interesting.'[11]GamesRadar US called them 'the sexiest lesbian heroines ever to appear on PlayStation.'[12] In 2007, Alexander Villafania of Inquirer.net featured them on the list of ten 'most memorable video game love teams', stating 'just imagine Lara Croft and Joanna Dark making out in a video game,' citing the promotional posters.[13] In 2011, UGO.com included the 'hard-edged heroine' Hana on the list of top 11 'girls of gaming', remembering her for 'hot body and unique style,' but most of all for 'the suggestive ad campaign for Fear Effect: Retro Helix, which depicted Hana and her new... friend Rain Quin in some very suggestive poses.'[14]PlayStation Official Magazine included Hana among the ten characters they wanted to appear in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, stating: 'Consider these reasons for Hana’s inclusion: she’s a half French, half Chinese assassin; she’s packing an entire arsenal of inexplicably concealed weaponry; she’s locked in a battle for her soul with the King of Hell. See? Didn’t even mention the unzipped catsuit.'[15] In 2013, Hana was ranked as the 28th greatest heroine in video game history by Michael Rougeau of Complex, who commented that 'the fact that she's an openly gay protagonist makes her even more of a badass, even if that relationship is somewhat sexualized for a male audience.'[16]
In 2008, Ryan Ash of Gearfuse listed her as one of the 25 of the 'sexiest video game babes ever', because 'any game character who bares it all and isn’t afraid of a little carpet munching is a prime candidate for this list.'[17] In 2010, GameTrailers included her on their countdown of the top 10 'babes who are out of your league' at number three.[18] UGO.com included Hana among the 50 'video game hotties' in 2011, commenting: 'We're all for a little girl-on-girl action, especially because the game's director wanted to make sure that fans understood that Hana 'swings both ways.' Duly noted.'[19] In 2012, both Hana and Rain ranked 27th on the list of 'hottest' video game characters by Larry Hester of Complex,[20] and tenth on ScrewAttack's list of top 'hoes of gaming',[21] as well as placing at number spot on the list of 'hottest female video game characters' by Kristie Bertucci of Gadget Review.[22] In 2013, the lesbian scene between the two in an elevator was ranked as the 10th most controversial moment in video games Cheat Code Central,[23] as well as the fifth lesbian scene in gaming by ZoominGames.[24]
On the other hand, Dave Meikleham of GamesRadar included her on the list of 'game characters that deserved to die' for her possibility to die of fright during the gameplay, calling her 'a big scaredy cat who has no place in the survival horror genre.'[25] Anthony Burch of Destructoid criticized the prequel, stating that 'instead of remembering Hana, Glas, Deke, and a supernatural crime story, gamers remember the absurd lesbian relationship between Hana and Whatsherface.'[26] According to Destructoid's Conrad Zimmerman, 'Hana's homosexual attitudes in Fear Effect 2 raised a fair bit of controversy at the time, with some groups shocked at the flagrant sexuality on display while others simply hoped they'd get a little more action out of Hana. Sadly, the latter would wind up the more disappointed.'[27] Adrian Hatwell of Voxy.co.nz devoted an entire page in the article 'Brief History of Gaming Sexual Failures' to criticize the portrayal of Hana's and Rain's relationship, adding that Stan Liu 'in fact he even back-peddled away from the one area where he might have been awarded some kudos - in actually depicting queer characters as positive lead roles in the game' to make clear Hana is 'a hot-blooded heterosexual female that just chooses to go to bed with women sometimes,' a subject of 'male fantasy'.[28]
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