Talk:Lio Shirazumi

Can I get a confirmation on these claims?
Recently on TV Tropes, someone mentioned that Nasu confirmed Lio to be gay. I'm all for new details regarding Lio since he's one of my faves from Type-Moon (what with the vast majority of his article being provided by me), but the fact that anything to do with the revelation of a character being gay often gets stretched by fandom is why I need some people to dig into this and see which parts are actually true. Also, considering this is TV Tropes, I usually don't trust all of the comments on the site considering how people can easily edit and make mistakes about certain information (as I've seen many times before). So here's what the person claims:

"'Word of Gay: 'Nasu commented in an interview that Lio is subconsciously transgender and is actually attracted to Kokutou and possibly the male personality of Shiki as well.''"

Adding onto that, on the "Word of Gay" page, someone also added:

"Nasu also declared that Lio is also attracted to his Only Friend, Mikiya. Though it was pretty obvious, especially in the novel, such as having Mikiya as his Living Emotional Crutch, acting like his old self only towards him, and completely losing his humanity after believing he killed him. Cue with his Heel Realization moment, realizing he stopped loving Shiki a long ago, that he is only after her as a murderer and that the person who is really important to him is Mikiya."

While I'm all for new info like this, the wording of the commenter seems a bit too one-sided. I also noticed that this commenter could be the same one who used this quote as their reference:

"Heel Realization: Has a moment of this after "killing" Mikiya.

Like Kokuto said, Lio didn't love Shiki Ryougi. I am after Shiki Ryougi as a murderer; if she turns into the same kind of existence, it will all be pointless. An existence is only unique because it is one of a kind. That is why I decided long ago that I will send her to her death as soon as she returns to her origin as a murderer. But only after I had lost him did I realize that the partner that I need, the person who is important to me, is him. Someone like Lio Shirazumi probably wouldn't have survived if not for Mikiya Kokuto. I can only be Lio Shirazumi in his presence. But now he no longer exists. I felt like I've lost half of myself, disappearing along with the person who attached it to this world. I'm sorry, Kokuto. It seems like the Lio that you trusted will be disappearing here." What gets me is how, despite seemingly like a solid translation, having read a fan-translated version of this particular quote, a lot of the context seemed to have been changed for the sake of that person's argument. If all of this is true, can someone help me find the sources for these? I'm looking for sources regarding Nasu's supposed interview about Lio's "transgender" mentality and his sexual orientation. I'm also looking for a source regarding the quote from the novel, if this is official or if someone just modified it to suit their argument.