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Point 1) For the most part, the love situation is left up to the player. You get your choice of a lover for Tatsuya in IS (though iirc it\'s only listed as explicitly romantic with Lisa and Jun, whereas with Maya it\'s the more ambiguous \
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Point 1) For the most part, the love situation is left up to the player. You get your choice of a lover for Tatsuya in IS (oddly, their relationship only becomes explicitly romantic for Lisa and Jun; for Maya it becomes 凄くいい感じ, or \\\"extremely intimate\\\" in the English release, without the sexual connotations), and Maya\\\'s feelings in EP are left up to the player, according to Tadashi; she loves whoever the player wants her to. Katsuya is in love with her, of course, and Tadashi says that Tatsuya does love her in a special way, but would see it as disrespectful to date her. So, in the end, the situation is pure YMMV.
Point 2) The age difference doesn\\\'t really affect much, if you\\\'re being purely objective about it, because Tatsuya is still the oldest of the Tsumi kids and Maya is the youngest of the Batsu adults--both of them are on the cusp of childhood and adulthood, in their own ways. Though it\\\'s enough to turn some people off of the pairing, which brings us back to the YMMV example.
Point 3) This is the main point I wanted to address, because there\\\'s some translation fuckery here. \\\"Her love\\\" is explicitly romantic because of the possessive, so that discussion is out, but the problem is that it wasn\\\'t in Japanese. The original term used wasn\\\'t even referring to Maya, it was just 大切な人 (taisetsu na hito), which just translates to \\\"(an) important person,\\\" though given the context a better translation would just be \\\"someone special.\\\" I really don\\\'t know why they went with this translation--bias, I guess?
Point 4) Artemis and Apollo are twins, though depicted as husband and wife in some of their earliest incarnations, but their starter personas, Vulcanus and Maia, are also husband and wife. IIRC Vulcanus was also married to Aphrodite, the Greek version of Lisa\\\'s ultimate persona, and its design is modeled after the lighter given to Tatsuya by Jun, so it seems so be some bizarre shipping amalgamation and you can make what you will of it.
I\\\'m not really trying to advocate any ships here, just clarifying some details to avoid confusion. I have complicated thoughts on their relationship myself, which I\\\'m not going to elaborate on because it\\\'s a long explanation and I don\\\'t want to spark a shipping war all over again. What bugs me is when people reduce the entire story to their tragic star-crossed love and completely ignore the fact that Tatsuya did everything for ALL of his friends, not just her, and being separated from them is just as painful as being separated from her.
Point 2) The age difference doesn\\\'t really affect much, if you\\\'re being purely objective about it, because Tatsuya is still the oldest of the Tsumi kids and Maya is the youngest of the Batsu adults--both of them are on the cusp of childhood and adulthood, in their own ways. Though it\\\'s enough to turn some people off of the pairing, which brings us back to the YMMV example.
Point 3) This is the main point I wanted to address, because there\\\'s some translation fuckery here. \\\"Her love\\\" is explicitly romantic because of the possessive, so that discussion is out, but the problem is that it wasn\\\'t in Japanese. The original term used wasn\\\'t even referring to Maya, it was just 大切な人 (taisetsu na hito), which just translates to \\\"(an) important person,\\\" though given the context a better translation would just be \\\"someone special.\\\" I really don\\\'t know why they went with this translation--bias, I guess?
Point 4) Artemis and Apollo are twins, though depicted as husband and wife in some of their earliest incarnations, but their starter personas, Vulcanus and Maia, are also husband and wife. IIRC Vulcanus was also married to Aphrodite, the Greek version of Lisa\\\'s ultimate persona, and its design is modeled after the lighter given to Tatsuya by Jun, so it seems so be some bizarre shipping amalgamation and you can make what you will of it.
I\\\'m not really trying to advocate any ships here, just clarifying some details to avoid confusion. I have complicated thoughts on their relationship myself, which I\\\'m not going to elaborate on because it\\\'s a long explanation and I don\\\'t want to spark a shipping war all over again. What bugs me is when people reduce the entire story to their tragic star-crossed love and completely ignore the fact that Tatsuya did everything for ALL of his friends, not just her, and being separated from them is just as painful as being separated from her.
