macelight replied to your post “just remembered someone decided to talk some shit on the lok fandom...”
He literally says " you could have been my queen" so there is a little evidence. Hr loved her as much as he could love anyone at that point
he does say that but also there’s like. 0 build to them having a romantic relationship before then beyond them interacting on a basic level and him having to go save her so they can get the intel from her
the lack of build is what makes it a stretch for me
and we know nothing about the political landscape of nosgoth; it could have been a political marriage offering that would place her in a great position of power once he took his throne as king of nosgoth, but have purely been that, a reward for being a faithful ally; there needn’t be any love there of any kind really
also, he speaks with so little readable emotion in that specific scene that he may have even just been saying it to twist the knife, to make her hurt that much more as she lay dying. the one thing I can read rather conclusively into that scene is that he’s deeply hurt, because he DID try to trust her, DID try to let himself lean on her even a little, and she turned on him
(ed: i did have to make a small edit to that to clarify because his tone being flat wasn’t necessarily that he wasn’t emotional he just wasn’t like. expressing it explosively? we’ve SEEN kain get more audibly and physically emotional so it’s not that he shuts down when he’s upset, it’s that this specific scene shut him down... that happened a bit in BO2 actually and that was actually some of the writing i LIKED. especially the whole thing with the eternal prison and how quiet he was, and with magnus. ANYWAY tangent over)
given his history that was going to break his heart no matter what their relation was, because it was cementing the idea that he could trust no one, and that everyone would use and manipulate and lie to him
but i must reiterate that ALL of this is up for interpretation and that’s my point! even all of my conjecture above is just conjecture and my own personal interpretations
i’m not denying that he could have had some kind of feelings for her, or been interested in her in some way - but I’m saying that it’s not explicitly canon, and it’s even less canon to state that she was his ONLY love interest




