FINAL FANTASY XIII

One taught me love

One taught me patience

Okay, so I’m a huge shipper of Hoperai and all.

But I really don’t think it was requited before Reminiscence.

For one, we don’t see any actions or thoughts directly from Lightning that would suggest her returned feelings, and for another, she… treats him very crudely throughout all of Lightning Returns. She goes to great depths to help people like Noel, Snow and Sazh, and the one time she seriously thinks just about Hope, it’s at Lumina’s prompting and it’s about how she may or may not be ready to kill him. That’s not how you talk about someone you love; that’s not even how you talk about someone you care about as a partner, friend and surrogate sibling, since if she knew something was up with Hope she should have shown some ounce of caring towards the real Hope, wherever that Hope may be. Like, she does not really show any concern for Hope’s fate until he literally disappears on her, and that’s while we’re hearing again and again about how Hope’s serving God in sketchy ways and Lightning totally does not trust her God at all.

lightning:

Tomb Raider

Spyro

Supermario

Pokemon

Final Fantasy

This is Ravus.

He’s not very good with words.