Fran and Balthier?

[scooby]

I'm going to have to side with Sashi on this one. Fran and Balthier are not an official couple - no matter how much I might want them to be. There is strong evidence that the two have feelings for each other that go beyond friendship, but nothing concrete. The English translation may add to, or detract from, the strength of that evidence.... We'll have to wait and see.

(SPOILER)The penultimate FMV shows them bickering amiably, not having sex among the wreckage. Yes, Balthier lifted and carried Fran with great care - he is undoubtedly devoted to her - but that does not prove that they are in a romantic relationship. Better evidence would be that they live and work together, understand one another extremely well (to the point where Balthier is able to finish Fran's sentences), Fran apparently sacrificed some of her innate Viera abilities (such as the ability to understand the forests?) in order to travel with him - she ran away with him, basically (which sounds awfully romantic....), the forest now hates "the one who took her away", or something, they seem to be quite physically intimate > (just look at his groping hand! and that smirk!), and some people have translated that after Fran is tied up and breaks loose and goes berserk, Balthier remarks that he "always thought she liked being tied up"...or something along those lines.

N.B.: I got most of this information from fan-made translations of the game, which are unofficial and not entirely trustworthy. I wouldn't swear by the validity of any of the evidence I have listed.

However, I get the general impression that Fran and Balthier behave like a married couple, even if they aren't officially together. She is yin to his yang, and all that.