Quote Originally Posted by Roogle View Post
I agree with you on your assessment of the relationship between Laguna and Julia. I wish they had more interaction or, at the very least, implied additional interaction as I am never a fan of lost love stories where the star-crossed couple only spoke once or twice. I would love it if they had a continued interaction that makes you really feel for the fact that Laguna "settled" for Raine rather than coming back to Julia.
I don't believe he did settle for Raine. I honestly think that with how confused and pathetically bad at things like that Laguna seemed to be he actually even then after the whole "eyes on me" conversation with Julia just didn't get that she was head over heels in love with him. Perhaps if he'd not been ordered away to fight again he would have learned/gotten somewhere. When he was injured and evacuated to Winhill to recover he meets Raine. Raine is a young, pretty woman who looks after the orphan child from next door and him, nurses him back to health. I think he genuinely fell in love for her and when Kiros shows up and says "I heard she married General Caraway. But she was supposedly in love with a soldier who went off to war and never came back." I think Laguna kind of dismissed the situation as "Well, she chose not to wait for me after all but that's ok because I've found someone who makes me happy on a level I cannot even begin to describe."