#sorakyle

toxic yuri couple btw

as a soralande shipper, i actually do love sorakyle as a juxtaposition and a precursor to soralande because from the start, sorakyle was built off of a lie (kyle telling soranik that he saw her in the star sapphire's crystal as his true love) and was also ended with a lie (a lie of ommission, wherein kyle did not tell soranik that sarko was their son from the future because he feared that she wouldn't want to be with him anymore if she knew). meanwhile, the soralande dynamic has always been defined by their mutual trust and respect in so many small yet significant moments. when stentar and myrrt are killed, iolande and soranik confide in one another, despite that basically being their first real interaction. when iolande is upset at soranik, she doesn't hold back from telling her (when soranik couldn't save iolande's father from dying), and vice versa (when iolande condescends to soranik about her own planet). iolande is the first person soranik tells that sinestro is her biological father, and iolande lies to keep her secret. when soranik shows up in front of the glc wearing a yellow lantern uniform (the enemy uniform), iolande does not hesitate to cheerfully sweep her into a hug and tell her she missed her. when soranik deflects once and for all to the sinestro corps in that infamous issue of hal and pals, kyle tries to wheadle her to come back, but iolande stops him and lets soranik go.