Talk:Lara Croft (Survivor Timeline)/@comment-36066194-20190617234728/@comment-2038153-20190618021954

As I've said before, many times now, I'm okay with leaving Lara and Sam's relationship ambiguous on whether the two have romantic feelings for one another or are just friends. As for Lara and Sam's relationship and why so many people see them as gay it has nothing to do with the fact that they are Both strong women, it's because more then half the writers of this series ship them and add as much subtext to their relationship as they can.

Rhianna Pratchett, Gail Simone, Mariko Tamaki and Jackson Lanzing have all openly stated that they openly ship Lara with Sam and enjoy not only writing both characters but also exploring their relationship. TBH all I want in this series is for Sam to return and for her and Lara to mend their relationship as there's more that can be done with the series in terms of character with Sam then there could ever be with Jonah.

Jonah is pretty much just in these games to sing the praises of Lara Croft and get captured/rescued (seriously at the time of this writing Jonah has needed to be rescued more then 8 times in the games along whereas Sam has only ever been captured 5 times (one of which was Jonah's fault BTW) and was able to save herself and Lara 3 of those times). Jonah has also had ZERO character development and on top of all that has only ever made the situation worse in EVERY GAME!!!

Sam getting captured by the Solarii a second time, Jonah was the one who trusted Whitman against Lara's warning. Trinity locating the Divine Source, Jonah stupidly held onto the Atlas while he was getting captured for No Reason! And Trinity almost remaking the world was due to Jonah's "Brilliant" plan of trying to steal a Helicopter in order to escape.

The only reason Jonah is still here is because he was a safe option where as Sam has grown well beyond what she was suppose to be. I'm okay with her and Lara's relationship being left up to the players as to what sort of relationship they have so long as Sam comes back and she gets to show off what an awesome character she is. Jonah has gone as far as he can, (which wasn't very far to begin with) so bringing back Sam is really the best choice both for the series, (two awesome leading ladies can only be a good thing) and for Lara's character.