Though I'm still not entirely sold on whether or not her kind can be in love.
She's said I L... before (I think) but that was as far as she went and that was earlier on.
I hope she can. I also agree that she already is.....
But, for example , a hundred years ago I read a book by piers anthony, And Evil....(I think.)... was part of the Incarnations of Mortality series... But, I think in the end satan declared his love and it didn't go well for him. (I dunno....long time ago....and I'm an old fart now so who knows....) lol
I know that's way out there....but still could be a possibility....
Cheers
I wouldn't discount sucuubi's ability to love. If I may be so bold, I'll declare that the succubi of this setting are able to love. To support my claim, I'll use Rae as an example, since she's the only succubi we personally know and regularly interact with. Rae is established as being arguable the most emotionally intelligent of the girls, and although this could be explained by Rae being a spy diplomat, I instead think its the game devs interpretation of succubi. If you think of it, a race of beings specifically talented in seduction wouldn't just be skilled at that particular emotional expression, but rather I think the devs have made it clear that succubi have heightened emotions and awareness of others' emotions. That sounds rough at first, but do remember that over breakfast in a repeatable event, Rae establishes that she's much older than the MC and possibly even older than Lyriel, and that's an awful lot of time to learn about one's own emotions and the emotions of others. I personally think that Rae is going to fall in love with the MC on account of how she really isn't treating the whole situation all that seriously, not after she accepted that it'll take a while to teach the MC to fully control the pocket realm. She kinda seems to treat the whole situation like a vacation, and as life has been slowing down, and she no longer has to deal with all the agendas and intrigue of her occupation, I think she's starting to re-evaluate what she really wants from life.
I tend to agree with Beh on this matter. It seems we often have this tendency to take mythology
others have made for
their works and always apply it henceforth for all works in perpetuity. This is a bad habit because it can block the ability to see differences in later works that happen to involve the same creature type. Some of the more popular and recent vampire games on this site are an excellent example of this: Bram Stoker, Anne Rice, and several others have changed the ideas about vampires over time. It's probably better always to assume what we think we know could be changed in a new work.
That applies to our succubus here. Azraesha is bound by laws or rules that the succubi in general are only whenever Zanith says she is. Otherwise, I don't think it's safe to take anything for granted as being true for her. I don't believe there's any doubt that she's falling in love. Otherwise, she wouldn't have almost said it (if that happened; I can't remember now for sure either). She wouldn't talk about deep personal matters —
especially about what comes next for her after escaping the house — with the MC in the way that she does.
I'm not going to pretend I'm absolutely right about Rae or anything, and I'm not going to act like I haven't made my own set of mistakes romantically in life. But from everything I've seen, I'm 100% convinced she's in love already but either hasn't realized or just can't admit it to herself. There's probably a part of her mind, subconsciously or not, debating about her feelings.
You can't possibly be in l— No, no, that's just silly. . . . Besides, it would never work out, sweetie. Think about it: living in his world, always spending time around him? Ridiculous!
. . . Always spending time around him? He has been quite sweet to you, not to mention all of the women in the house. And his appetite when it comes to sex: he's an animal! I love when he takes me from behind. . . . And then when he sits down and just talks? No other human male ever did that for me. Come to think of it, no other male really ever did, full stop.
Stop it, Azraesha! There's absolutely no chance it would ever work out! Think of what my mistress might say? There are also certain rules that can never be broken. . . .
And so on. I'm obviously only guessing, but I imagine this type of thinking happens more and more often to her as time goes on. Speaking of time, I suppose we'll know for sure when enough of it has passed.