Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25306358-20140815234603/@comment-995426-20150102152547

Yeah, Mikey's being written to love Renet.

I mean, I liked Mikeyhead, but LH did spend decades trapped in DimX, and maybe he changed lot in that time and wasn't quite the same person Mikey once bromanced and snuggled with. It's only natural sometimes that people eventually move on and find someone else to (b)romance and snuggle with. :)

As for Raph, he doesn't seem very desperate for companionship. He seems to have a powerful yet very confused love for Slash, who used to be his pet, but now is a grown humanoid person. There's still so much love there, but they both have a lot of baggage for each of them to sort out before they can even stop being estranged anymore, let alone be everyday friends. I mean, let's face it...sometimes you love a pet as dearly or more so than anyone else, but it's not quite the same thing as with other human(oid)s. And now that Slash is a walking, talking intelligent humanoid, it seems to be that UST between them was going to be inevitable. And not just inevitable, but already happened&mdash; had Slash being a full-on yandere, which in nearly every other context is associated with obsessive romantic attraction ("if I can't have you, no one can!", etc.). Raph wants Slash to come back someday, and Slash seems to want to be able to come back, but I think Slash stays away at least in part because, if he were to come back, he'd probably want a wee bit more than to just be "one of the guys." And who could blame him? Raphael already showered him with love and affection for years. So, with Korrasami already in our rear window, I wouldn't be too surprised if Raph's next encounter with Slash brought back at least a hint of that UST&mdash;indeed, if the writers don't do that, I would be disappointed in their disregard for story continuity in a series that has already made continuity such an important story element.