So does anyone else think something bad might've happened to Sasha? Like she's dead or horribly injured or something by the time borderlands 3/New Tales happens, and Rhys and Fiona are trying to find the Anahadium Shard to being her back?
Stick with me on this for a minute.
While Sasha and Fiona aren't actually in borderlands 3, there is an Echo log from Rhys where he talks to Zer0 about a woman he's looking for. The log mentions that this woman is missing and even Zer0 can't find her. Rhys is upset and says that if it wasn't for the war with Maliwan maybe he "could've done something to help".
Now a lot of people assumed this was Rhys talking about Sasha but I disagree, I think it was talking about Fiona and I think she ran off looking for the Shard to bring Sasha back. The reason I think it's about Rhys looking for Fiona is for two reasons, the first being that the echo log is called "Friends in Invisible Places" and since he's canonically in a relationship with Sasha it wouldn't make sense to call her a friend. And the second reason is because in New Tales when he's upset about Sasha's picture getting teleported away he says he might be able to get a new picture of her from Fiona if he can find her.
But why do I think Sasha is dead or hurt beyond normal healing? Well aside from the voice line from Rhys in bl3 talking about his love life where he says that he's sad now without elaborating, both Rhys and Fiona are confirmed to be actively looking for the shard.
Rhys not only knows what the shard is called, so he's clearly done research into it, but he also says at the ending of New Tales that he had a LOT of personal investment in that shard. And Fiona appears at the ending as well without Sasha, where she talks to Markus and after figuring out where the shard is going she takes off after it.
The ONLY reason I could see those events all happening is if they needed the shard to save Sasha, because I can't see any other circumstance where they would both be looking for a crystal that could bring someone back to life.
