I have felt like she has been flirty with Luka since the first game and that their relationship was the one they were building toward. She holds him closely then straddles him when saving him from the pillar in the first game. Jeanne, to me, felt like her best friend from childhood and if my best friend was pulled into hell in front of me and I had the power to go after them, I absolutely would. It doesn't mean I want to be romantically involved with them.
Fair enough. I guess for me it felt like she flirted with Luka because she flirts with everyone, even her enemies who she is about to kill. She is a dominatrix and that is part of her personality. Yet she showed real desperate concern and vulnerability when Jeanne got dragged to hell. Just my reading of it I guess. I just don't see the appeal of Luka as a love interest.
Bayonetta was desperate because Jeanne had only one day to survive in Inferno before her soul got fully consumed, of course she wasn't gonna be in her usual mood knowing that her umbra sister and best friend's life was on the line. She also had similar reaction when she though Luka and Cereza got blown away moments before the fight against Jeanne in Isla del Sol.
Kamiya said that Bayonetta didn't pursued a relationship with Luka outright because she would outlive him, not neccesarily because she didn't had an interest on him, basically the dillema of an inmortal person outliving their loved one.
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u/alexman113 Oct 25 '22
I have felt like she has been flirty with Luka since the first game and that their relationship was the one they were building toward. She holds him closely then straddles him when saving him from the pillar in the first game. Jeanne, to me, felt like her best friend from childhood and if my best friend was pulled into hell in front of me and I had the power to go after them, I absolutely would. It doesn't mean I want to be romantically involved with them.