#like you can’t convince me the Mishima Zaibatsu DONT have their own News propaganda outlet they ABSOLUTELY DO or at least DID have one at a

[fightinggamegirlfriend]

ridley amora doesn’t confess her feelings for lars until like the end of tekken 8. She has them so bottled up because she likes the idea of pining from a distance, and to her it’s much better to imagine a relationship that she could have as opposed to being in one that would ultimately fail. But also again the people around her have been slowly tearing at that castle she’s built around her heart brick by boring brick, so in a way the bottling of these mentions are a final remanent of her old self.

Upon finally hearing the words come from Ridley’s mouth, Lars would be relieved somewhat, because admittedly he does harbour some feeling for her + he looks up to her. This is because she’s one of the few people who indirectly helped instilled his decision to rebel against the Zaibatsu and break away from it, creating Yggdrasil. Although I should stress that before the campaign mode of Tekken 6’s story mode (pre-amnesia), Lars kinda put Ridley Amora on a bit of a pedestal, you know, the parasocial kind of pedestal - long before he even properly meets her. hilariously, he’s not the ONLY Tekken character that does this, Leo is also guilty of this behaviour/thought process regarding Ridley. Obviously both come to learn that Ridley is actually more of a normal person/is slightly dorky and less badass as the certain media outlets portray her to be. Yes it’s underwhelming, yes it’s slightly disappointing but it turns out the real Ridley Amora is more interesting than the Outrage bait headlines. Anyways back on topic, just when Lars is relieved to hear the goth-skate punk has feelings for him, he also feels some growing pains of regret for not taking any earlier opportunities to let his feelings for her be known. To him, if he had been a little clearer in his gestures of affection towards her, or was a little more straightforward with his words then perhaps maybe it wouldn’t have taken soo long for them to get together.

but there is an aspect of ‘maybe it was best for it to take THAT long for us to even be together’. I mean There’s no way they were going to be together in Tekken 6 or 7 because there’s a literal historical event going on (Mishima Zaibatsu’s war on the world + G Corporation + Azazel + Lars’ Amnesia + so many other things), that actually it would have been emotionally detrimental for both parties to get together while everything is going on, because they would be so exhausted to even. Entertain the idea of a proper relationship + Ridley NEEDS to have time to have her castle walls around her heart broken down FIRST, before even entertaining the idea of pursuing a relationship.