Just out of curiosity, because I've heard this before and I don't really understand it, but how does romance cheapen a relationship? If I fall in love with someone, somehow now that means my relationship with them is cheap?
If it's done tastefully and respectfully, I don't see why it can't happen. I'm not saying I ship Jill and Chris, because I don't really care enough about either character to ship them with anyone... I just think its cliche to say their relationship is cheap if they develop anything but a platonic bond with one another.
Wait, what? Piers and Claire know each other?
Anyway, I ship myself and Leon. Or myself and young James Marcus solely because he reminds me of Dr Kirk from Dino Crisis. Stud muffin.
no it would cheapen their current sibling-like relationship in my book. I myself was in situations where me and a girl considered turning things romantic but ultimately chose against it as we felt that it would cheapen our current deep bond with each other. Sometimes you have such a special bond of friendship that you feel a romance would cheapen it by comparison. I am not saying being in love is always cheaper. I am saying that compared to certain special kinds of platonic relationships a romance could cheapen it and also endanger that relationship as romances rarely last as long as meaningful and deep friendships. Its just my own opinion though and I believe there is a seperate thread for that issue so I don´t wanna get into too much detail here as this is easily a debate on its own.
and yes Piers has met Claire. he has written her at least one e-mail which can be seen as file in Revelations 2.
This is the content of that mail:
"Dear Claire,
On behalf of our unit, I just wanted to say it was real nice to get to see you the other day. Thank you for taking the time to talk with everyone. The guys really appreciated it.
I know you were surprised by the men's reaction upon first seeing you. Let me explain. When we heard that Terra Save would be arriving on location, well, the men knew that you'd be coming and so they got a bit excited over the idea. They'd only heard stories about you, and since you're the Captain's sister, well...let's just say they were expecting someone more along the lines of his build. I tried to tell them otherwise, but their imaginations got the best of them.
So then when you arrived...well, aside from not being what they expected, we don't get to interact with a lot of pretty women in our line of work, so that's why they had the reaction that they did. Then they had to remember that you're the Captain's sister, and it made them all awkward... I'm sorry about that, ma'am.
You probably saw it for yourself, but we all have a lot of admiration and respect for the captain. In addition to being a very capable leader, he treats us like family. He's an inspiration to us all.
Speaking for the men, we're all looking forward to the chance to work with you again. Our paths may not cross often, and I know you're busy, but it'd be nice to talk every now and then, even through email. Just between you and me, if you have any pictures of the Captain when he was younger, I'd sure love to see them! I hear he was very different back then, but he won't show us anything...
There's a lot more I'd like to say, but it's time to get ready for our next posting. These missions aren't easy, but it's nice to know we've got allies such as your organization backing us up. Keep fighting the good fight.
1LT Piers Nivans
BSAA North American Branch "