Rehwyn
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On the Kaija love path, most indications are that Kaija does feel something for MC. So I'm definitely of the opinion that she's emotionally compromised from a professional perspective on that path.There are basically two questions here and based on the answers, one of three things is true:
1) Did Kajia feel anything for MC?
2) Did she report it to her handler(s)?
If she felt something she was compromised, if she didn't report it then she isn't very professional or very well trained.
If she felt something and did report it and they left her in the field, then the organization is not very professional. Even if they like MC and would be inclined to be happy for them - you don't leave someone with emotional entanglements in the field, it clouds their judgement. (You also don't pull a protection detail off of an asset and send them on other missions).
If she didn't feel anything, whether she reported that or not, then she is a professional working for a professional organization (except for the part about pulling someone's protection detail and sending them on a coffee run.)
I'm pretty sure we don't know whether or not Kaija reported this to the Templars as soon as she realized it or not. She definitely would be in a bit of an unusual situation though regardless, since I doubt very many real-life organizations would consider ordering an operative to start a romantic relationship with a childhood friend for protective detail in the first place since, the morality of it aside, it'd carry a high risk of emotional compromise in the future.
Once those orders are altered and feelings started developing regardless, it also would create the perspective that there's probably no point in reporting it always, since the Council probably sees it as a positive and will encourage her to continue. And if that's the case and reporting it would accomplish nothing, would reporting it and then being ordered to continue it tarnish the developing organic feelings? I could see how it'd look that way to Kaija. If she realizes she's going to end up with romantic feelings anyways, maybe she thought she'd do it on her own terms.
And of course, once things developed further and they were even living together, the Templars would have to be blind not to see Kaija as potentially emotionally compromised. But they don't pull her from that protective assignment even then (except to brilliantly send her in unrelated missions), which likely validates that they wouldn't have pulled her if Kaija reported anything earlier.
Kaija definitely has some guilt here, but these factors (among others you mentioned) definitely make the Templars look very unprofessional in this matter and, in my opinion, responsible for the majority of the emotional pain MC feels as a result (at least on the Kaija love path). Even on my Kaija love path, my MC is at best neutral to the Templars as a whole, and unhappy with most the Council (especially Statinator. Fuck that guy.
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