Not really though. In the first five PS1 games there was no romance aside from some mildly flirtatious banter she had with some of the male characters. I believe Angel of Darkness gave her a generic early 2000s dude as a love interest but that plotline didn't get developed because the game bombed hard. I played the middle trilogy but I honestly can't remember if she had one (or several) blandly handsome love interest(s) in some of them but it wouldn't surprise me.
I know people ship reboot Lara with her friend from the 2013 game where the main goal was to save her from the island cult. I don't recall getting any particularly gay vibes from that game though
The comic series from the 2013 game leaned in hard to the Sam/Lara ship to the point of apparently a script being written and a cover drawn for a story getting them together but iirc the game company told them to scrap it. The writer occasionally talks about it
I think the only female characters besides Lara in those games were the secret Atlantean CEO villain of the first game and the random witch CEO boss from the London levels from the third game. Why were they both evil businesswomen with magical powers
Perhaps there is a some kind of old money aristos versus new money upstarts thing going on there, but I guess being from Atlantis or being an ancient witch would make your money pretty old
Not really though. In the first five PS1 games there was no romance aside from some mildly flirtatious banter she had with some of the male characters. I believe Angel of Darkness gave her a generic early 2000s dude as a love interest but that plotline didn't get developed because the game bombed hard. I played the middle trilogy but I honestly can't remember if she had one (or several) blandly handsome love interest(s) in some of them but it wouldn't surprise me.
I know people ship reboot Lara with her friend from the 2013 game where the main goal was to save her from the island cult. I don't recall getting any particularly gay vibes from that game though
The comic series from the 2013 game leaned in hard to the Sam/Lara ship to the point of apparently a script being written and a cover drawn for a story getting them together but iirc the game company told them to scrap it. The writer occasionally talks about it
I think the only female characters besides Lara in those games were the secret Atlantean CEO villain of the first game and the random witch CEO boss from the London levels from the third game. Why were they both evil businesswomen with magical powers
Because Core was pushing the agenda that small business owners who're actually Atlantian Gods in hiding are bad.
Perhaps there is a some kind of old money aristos versus new money upstarts thing going on there, but I guess being from Atlantis or being an ancient witch would make your money pretty old