In-verse Quotes on THE Relationship (Xena/Gabrielle)
Here’s what other characters on the show had to say about X/G.
….THE GODDESS OF LOVE …
Aphrodite: “I hate to break up, like, a major love fest …”
Aphrodite: “If it isn’t my favorite girl group!”
Aphrodite: “Gabrielle, I have to say I’m glad to see you’re still travelling with Xena. I was afraid that with me away from Olympus [and love gone from the world], you two might not be so close.”
Gabrielle: “No, we’re—we’re partners.”
Callisto, about to burn Gabrielle, to Xena: “You’re about to watch the friendship of your life go up in smoke.”
Callisto: “Well, we have the perfect bait for that [luring Velasca into a trap]. It’s your precious little Gabrielle she wants.”
Xena, as if that fact weighs on her more than the world would: “I know.”
Callisto: “I long to see you wailing over the body of your friend [Gabrielle]!”
Xena: “Well, it’s not gonna happen.”
Callisto: “Mhm?” [kills Perdicus, Gabrielle’s new husband]
Gabrielle, wailing over the body: “No! Noooo! Perdicus!”
Callisto: “That’ll do!”
Why? Because, Callisto thinks, seeing Gab hurt and knowing it’s indirectly b/c of Xena [via Callisto’s desire for revenge] will hurt Xena enough.
And when Callisto is faced with the prospect of Xena living without Gabrielle for the rest of her life …
Callisto, upon witnessing Xena’s reaction to Gab sacrificing herself to save Xena: “I never thought I’d feel so good again! Seeing poor, dear Gabrielle sacrifice herself makes it all worthwhile. It finally gives me a reason for living—and I have you to thank for it, Xena!” [Xena plunges a knife into Callisto’s heart]
Joxer, deciding he has to stop sleeping with Meg (whom he thinks is Xena): “I’m wrecking one of the great friendships!”
Hope, masquerading as Gabrielle: “What would you make of my feelings towards Xena?”
Joxer: “Xena? Well, YOU know. You love her more than anybody in the whole world!”
Hope, grumbling: “More than anyone.”
Joxer to Xena before her wedding to Ares: “Um, look, I know this is a marriage made in Hades, but I figure we don’t have to abandon EVERY tradition, so—here. Something old. It’s a lock of Gabrielle’s hair. […] And I want you to have it.”
Xena, taking it: “I don’t know what to say.”
Gabrielle: “I know that Hope has to die—no matter the consequences.”
Ares: “Even if that means saying goodbye to your beloved Xena? Think you can just let it happen? I don’t.”
Ares to Xena, whom he believes to be dead: “You’re with her now… . She knew what you needed—unconditional and unselfish love—and I couldn’t give that to you. But I appreciated you in ways she never could—your rage—your violence—your beauty. When you sacrificed yourself for others, you were hers—but when you kicked ass, you were mine. I love you, Xena.”
Oh yes, Ares? In fact, Xena is the one thing Ares and Gabrielle agree on …
Ares: “Is there anything you and I agree on?”
[Gabrielle shoots a wry look towards Xena]
Ares: “Oh, yeah. Anything else?”
Ares, having proposed marriage to Xena: “What do I have to do to show you I’m serious?”
Xena: “Die.”
Ares: “Well, sadly, I’m a god. I know—a wedding gift. Say … Gabrielle.”
[ …]
Ares: "Come on, Xena. Becoming Mrs. God of War is a small price to pay to find her.”
Ares (lying): “See, Gabrielle made a deal with me. In exchange for saving Hope’s life, she offered me her soul. Yeah—you’re right. It is QUITE a bargaining chip. Unless we cut a new deal. So—I have Gabrielle’s soul. What could you possibly have that I would exchange for that?”
Xena: “You want my soul.”
Ares: “That could work. I let Gabrielle live—but you must be my wife in your next life. And I guess, seeing as how it was one of those in-front-of-the-Fates kind of deals, that would be—forever? Eternity.”
Xena: “And you would let Gabrielle and me live out this life in peace?”
Ares: “Okay—sounds like a deal. ’Cause you know … she’d do it for you.”
… ANYONE ELSE? … RANDOM PEOPLE WHO JUST MET THEM, PERHAPS?
Mael (bad guy of the week): “All you have to do is look at her [Xena] to see she’s unnatural, an affront to God. A woman with the strength of ten men? Out in the world alone, save only her scrawny little companion? It’s a complete abomination! And to think this FREAK of nature has my brother …” [This is from “Altared States,” which began with Xena and Gabrielle off screen, their clothes scattered on the bushes, having a conversation that was about fishing but sounded like it was about sex.]
Naiyima: [Alti’s] soul is not destroyed. It will return many times—filled with evil—but you will always be there to meet it. And you, Gabrielle. You both walk a path together. Think of yourselves as lines in the mendhi—separate but forever connected. Mendhi contains truth.”
. . . . SO WHAT ARE THEY?
… PARTNERS, SOUL MATES, GIRLFRIENDS, LOVERS …MORE?
Callisto: “I can arrange it for you and Gabrielle … to just walk out of here… . And you and Gabrielle can live happily ever after.”
Xena: “What’s the catch?”
[ … ]
Callisto: “There’s a reason you can’t allow you and your partner peace. It’s your guilt …”
Xena: “You’re trying to tempt me from my way by offering me peace.”
Caligula: "Never turn your back on [Xena]. She and that—that—that bard of hers—yeah, like we don’t know what’s goin’ on there, huh?”
Lucifer: "You’re a mortal female with a lying tongue, savage tendencies, and a blonde girlfriend …”
Alti, seeing Gabrielle: “Well if it isn’t Xena’s little bitch!”
Caesar, summing up the series: “Had I not betrayed Xena I’d be ruling Rome today. Instead I get stabbed in the back by my good friend Brutus while Xena gets to ride off into the sunset with her girlfriend. Hardly a fitting end to Julius Caesar.”
Alti to Empress Xena: "I saw the way you looked at her [the playwright Gabrielle] tonight during the play. Wouldn’t Caesar give anything to have you look at him that way.”
Odin to Brunnhilda, chastising her for not yet killing Xena: “My ravens, they tell me you’ve fallen in love with her [Xena’s] partner. Is it possible that you thought killing Xena would kill any chance you had with Gabrielle?”
Brunnhilda: “Those mangy stool pigeons.”
Brunnhilda: “Is Xena all you think about?!”
Gabrielle: “Xena is my family. She is the most important thing in my life.”
Gabrielle: “Xena and I have a connection. It’s stronger than either one of us. We’re soul mates.”
Brunnhilda: “My love is strong, Gabrielle. I can feel it.”
Gabrielle: “I am trying to tell you that Xena and I are meant to be together. We didn’t make it that way, it just is.”
Xena [in the distance]: “Gabrielle!”
Gabrielle: “Xena!”
Brunnhilda: “I can see your heart lies with Xena, but I’ll prove to you which one of us deserves your love.”
Brunnhilda to Gabrielle: I’ll become an eternal flame for you. Only your true soul mate will be able to pass through the fire. You’ll be safe.”
"Wealthea” (the amnesiac Xena): “This Gabrielle truly loved Xena, didn’t she?”
Beowulf: “And will till the end of time. Gabrielle saved you from what you were—as you must now save her.”
Xena, about to attempt to cross the eternal flame: “Beowulf—if I’m not the one …”
Beowulf: “You are. Brunhilda’s flame will recognize you as Gabrielle’s soulmate.”
Brunnhilda as the flame: “Xena … Xena … the love in your heart burns stronger than any flame. You belong together, Xena.”
Nigel, a 20th century reporter: “Gabrielle, Xena. I have only one more question left—the question that Gabrielle has been avoiding all evening—the question that has never, ever been answered. Are you two … lovers?”
Xena: “You’re asking—?”
Nigel: “That’s right. I’m asking, ‘Are you two … lovers?’”
Xena: “That’s none of your beeswax, Nigel!”
Gabrielle, soothingly: “Okay, Xena. You know … you just risked everything to bring love back into the world.”
Xena: “So what?”
Gabrielle: ”I think you should answer the question.”
Xena: “Oh, you do, do ya?”
Gabrielle: “Yeah.”
Xena: [Sighs]
Nigel: “W-wait—wait. Hold it. Hold it. [Clears throat] [Much flirty elbow-nudging and grins occur between Xe and Gab while Nigel addresses the camera] And now, ladies and gentlemen, a world exclusive. For the first time anywhere, Xena and Gabrielle reveal the true nature of their relationship. Gabrielle—Xena—are you two … lovers?”
Xena: “You want the truth?”
Nigel: “That’s right, Xena. We want the truth—the whole world wants the truth!”
Xena: [Visual Fades In and Out]: “It’s like this—[burst of static—TECHNICALLY—[static]”
Nigel’s Voice over static: “What? What?”
[Text on black screen: PLEASE STAND BY]
Nigel’s Voice: “It’s dead?! The battery—?! This is the world’s greatest story and you’re telling me the battery is dead?!”
… IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (“Soul Possession”) … .
XWP Fan #2: “Hey! Speaking of the Warrior Princess and the bard, what happened when your boyfriend Harry found out he was Xena in his past life—?”
XWP Fan #1: “And that your past-life counselor was none other than his beloved sidekick Gabrielle?”
Annie (the reincarnation of Joxer): “THEY GOT HITCHED.”
