#which got me thinking that... yeah i dont even remember what disapproval I've gotten from her since act 1

[pagesofkenna]

what all of you people who haven't romanced Lae'zel don't get is that romanced Lae'zel is obsessed with Tav. she gets ahold of their body just one time and cannot stop thinking about them. the first time you go from 'casual sex' to 'committed relationship' is when she challenges Tav to a duel, because that's how she was trained to show compatibility, except that for me after she got just one lick in she immediately stopped and said no I can't do this, I can't hurt you, I don't want anything bad to happen to you ever, and isn't that strange for someone trained to be a weapon in a society that only prizes how good you are at killing??

she gives you a series of petnames over the course of the relationship, from 'source of my bruises' (/affectionate) to 'object of my obsession' to 'my everything'. in her last romance cutscene (that I've seen, at least) she takes Tav to watch the sun rise over the city and tells them how beautiful she thinks it is, and how before Tav she never thought to look for beauty in the world

and also, when I was looking up the romance options for this game, basically everything I saw assured me that you can really only do one romance 'path' but if you want to sleep with Halsin certain partners will be OK with that, including Lae'zel. I didn't get Halsin's offer until fairly late, and went to ask Lae'zel how she felt about polyamory; she immediately clocked that I meant Halsin, agreed with me about hot he is... and then said no. gave me a possessive 'you're mine and if you want to sleep around I'm breaking it off'. which, like, I'm a bit disappointed by but also something about her being so possessive of Tav that she doesn't want anyone else to touch them, even when the internet was under the impression that she 'doesn't care'? it's so endearing to me. she cares SO MUCH

do you see what I'm saying here? Lae'zel is OBSESSED with Tav