Talk:Jonah Maiava/@comment-28321166-20151107203821/@comment-73.106.168.122-20190830233620

I f*cking HATE Sam! She is such an annoying twit. She's rich, spoiled and self absorbed. The only reason people ship Sam/Lara is because is the current preoccupation with retconing pre-extant characters to be whatever the important minority is at that time. Right now it is LGBTQA+ persons and by the end of the 2020s it will have long been something different.

The problem with Lara/Sam is it will be passe in a few years. Imagine the year 2045 somebody has watched/read/played more than a few of the new tens TV shows, movies, books, comics and games. One of the things they'll notice is a by then rather campy obsession with "strong gay characters", just like we now look back on shows of the sixties and seventies and find the preoccupation with oppressed black people frankly annoying.

So as for me, I would ship Lara/Jonah over Lara/Sam any day if for nothing else to make the Tomb Raider (2013) timeline stand out among the rather boring propaganda pieces of today. However I don't think Lara should really be shipped with anyone. (at least none of the already seen characters) I see her as a somewhat broken person, someone who's seen a bit too much and lived a little to hard. I don't think it would be in character for her to even be ABLE to form a lasting relationship with anyone, anywhere.

I could see her having meaningless flings, just bonking someone with the right looks or who came off as charming. I could see her even ruining her relationship with Jonah by taking it too far. (a great way to add some real pain into there balance, which would help push her into hardened treasure hunter mode by the way) But I think her personality, lifestyle and work would keep her from ever having a true love interest.