"I adamantly do not ship them, but I like their relationship. I see them more like almost-siblings, like they would have been if Chappu and Lulu had gotten married. I think their dynamic is much more brother-sisterly than romantic. (And that the developers for X-2 REALLY dropped the ball when figuring out what to do with them but that is a rant for another time.)"
I don't really ship them either, but part of me has always kind of liked the thought of the two of them slipping into a comfortable-but-not-really-romantic marriage. Sort of a marriage of convenience, I guess, but also sort of companionate love? I don't know. Part of me imagines that Lulu never quite gets over Chappu, and maybe he's sort of her First and Only Love sort of thing (though that's kind of questionable), but maybe marrying Wakka provides some sort of companionship and comfort and connection that she would be lacking otherwise, so she sort of just goes with it.
And I guess that sets up a kind of sad situation, but I also feel like it's pretty realistic for a place like Spira - it's chaotic and scary and you never know when the people you care about are going to die, so you've grown up with this urge to be as close to them as possible, and you don't want to be alone, and family is a top priority, etc etc. And I imagine that sort of mindset that would be hard to break even after Sin is gone. Then it's compounded by the fact that she and Wakka came so close to losing one another, and losing all the other members of their patchwork family...so yeah, it kind of works for me. In a bleak and depressing way, maybe.
And I'm probably reading way too much into that haha. But I think that makes more sense than the two of them suddenly falling in love and having babies and living happily ever after, which I guess is really what the game was pushing for...
(You might have mentioned this, but are you planning on doing a playthrough for X-2?)
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I don't really ship them either, but part of me has always kind of liked the thought of the two of them slipping into a comfortable-but-not-really-romantic marriage. Sort of a marriage of convenience, I guess, but also sort of companionate love? I don't know. Part of me imagines that Lulu never quite gets over Chappu, and maybe he's sort of her First and Only Love sort of thing (though that's kind of questionable), but maybe marrying Wakka provides some sort of companionship and comfort and connection that she would be lacking otherwise, so she sort of just goes with it.
And I guess that sets up a kind of sad situation, but I also feel like it's pretty realistic for a place like Spira - it's chaotic and scary and you never know when the people you care about are going to die, so you've grown up with this urge to be as close to them as possible, and you don't want to be alone, and family is a top priority, etc etc. And I imagine that sort of mindset that would be hard to break even after Sin is gone. Then it's compounded by the fact that she and Wakka came so close to losing one another, and losing all the other members of their patchwork family...so yeah, it kind of works for me. In a bleak and depressing way, maybe.
And I'm probably reading way too much into that haha. But I think that makes more sense than the two of them suddenly falling in love and having babies and living happily ever after, which I guess is really what the game was pushing for...
(You might have mentioned this, but are you planning on doing a playthrough for X-2?)