shadowreader2013

replied to your post“Alright,
guess I’m not gonna fanfic this any time soon, so here we go….”

                       This…is literally never said. I mean, I’m sure
anybody would feel more obligated to stay if they were in a
relationship. But I don’t think Scanlan was going for that and was
literally focusing on how everybody has somebody. I actually had a
similar thought pattern in regards to relationships in VM b4 Scanlan
left        

Yeah, of course that’s not what he said literally. He couldn’t, for one thing, because Ashley wasn’t there to talk to directly.

What
he did say, literally, is that Grog has Pike, Vax has Keyleth, Percy
has Vex, Scanlan has no one. And he focused on the romantic
relationship, over the fact that say, Vex and Vax are twins, even though
that’s a way more substantial way of having someone in your life. His
statement was everybody has somebody, but I don’t, and that was part of
the reason he left. Even though if he’d meant that in a familial or
friendship sense, he’d have plenty of people. He’d just heard Pike’s
poem to him, even. Not Grog’s song, something that will likely break all
of our hearts forever, but her poem.

So what he expressed
was his dissatisfaction with not having a partner in this, despite the
fact that Grog had been his close partner all the time, just not in a
romantic sense. And while also being fully aware that Pike loves him in
some way, just not in the romantic way, just not in the way that was
enough.

And by listing the romantic relationships over the
blood relationship, or the strong friendships even, the implication is
that a romantic relationship is more meaningful to him than the bonds he
does have here. A romantic relationship that Pike turned down. So the
implication is, if she hadn’t done that, it would have been enough to
make him stay. And the implication is there, no matter if you think he
was going for it or not.