I'm not convinced that Isaac is a sexual being. And that, um, makes their romantic relationship all sorts of creepy especially from Claire's side.
I think he's probably not, fundamentally, and I do find it a little hard to know how to feel about what that means. If he's perfectly happy to go along with it because she enjoys it, because it's an easy-for-him way to maintain a relationship he values, and because it's an important human experience and he's really interested in and excited by participating in those, maybe it's not particularly creepy. I do ship them, so I'd very much like to look at it that way. But it's entirely possible to see it as her using him, and even easier to it as her putting human expectations that she shouldn't really have onto him. And to me, some of what's really interesting and complicated about that relationship is in the extent to which Claire has been projecting too much onto him -- something she does seem to have decided she was doing -- and what might or might not be left when she stops. I would love to see canon explore that more, and to see them find their way to someplace healthier, whatever that might look like.
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I think he's probably not, fundamentally, and I do find it a little hard to know how to feel about what that means. If he's perfectly happy to go along with it because she enjoys it, because it's an easy-for-him way to maintain a relationship he values, and because it's an important human experience and he's really interested in and excited by participating in those, maybe it's not particularly creepy. I do ship them, so I'd very much like to look at it that way. But it's entirely possible to see it as her using him, and even easier to it as her putting human expectations that she shouldn't really have onto him. And to me, some of what's really interesting and complicated about that relationship is in the extent to which Claire has been projecting too much onto him -- something she does seem to have decided she was doing -- and what might or might not be left when she stops. I would love to see canon explore that more, and to see them find their way to someplace healthier, whatever that might look like.