#like literally anyone else would've been fine. why'd they have to pick her

[crossdressingdeath]

The thing for me with Nevec@nis (censored to avoid the tags) is... well first off I just don't like it as a romance but that's a me problem, not everything is going to be For Me and that's fine and if it was just that I wouldn't be bothered, I'd simply ignore it, but also it just kind of makes me feel scapegoated. Because Lucanis's romance getting locked off if you save Minrathous makes sense! He's busy and he doesn't trust you as much as he would've if you'd prioritized his city and he's just generally not in a position to fall for you. That fits, that makes sense, I genuinely like that. But... then he still falls for Neve. And I want to make it very clear that I don't blame Neve for prioritizing Minrathous (of course she does, it's her home), but at the end of the day where Rook has to consider both options and make a brutally hard snap decision Neve doesn't consider Treviso at all. And again! I'm not saying that's bad! Of course she's going to push you to save her home! Neve has done absolutely nothing wrong and as with Lucanis if you save Treviso she does pledge her faction's help in aiding the damaged city and does what she can to help! She feels like shit about it! But... so does Rook. And Rook at least made a choice; for Neve it wasn't a choice at all, she chose Minrathous without hesitation. So Lucanis still being open to a relationship with Neve when he shuts Rook out even though she also holds responsibility for that choice as the one who pushed them to save Minrathous at Treviso's expense and the one who most benefited from that choice just feels a little unfair! I know that he doesn't blame Rook for what happened exactly, but it feels like he's shoving all the blame onto them! That's the issue I have more than the relationship itself or Lucanis's romance getting locked off; I wouldn't mind either of them separately, or if Lucanis and Neve only ended up together if you save Treviso or something like that, but when Lucanis cannot see Rook as a romantic prospect after they sacrifice his city but still goes and falls for Neve it just makes me feel like a scapegoat, like on some level he's blaming Rook so he doesn't have to blame Neve. And I know that's not the writers' intention and not what Lucanis is doing in-universe, but it just doesn't feel fair or reasonable and it wouldn't be a problem if he fell for literally anyone else and that does really bother me.