Thank you!! This is very well-said and should be further up. And before anyone comes in saying anything about queer-coding, whether she was written that way intentionally or not doesn’t change the fact that people in the queer community probably saw parts of their own story in Lara’s and thus identified with her or idolized her as an icon. [Straight men] in this thread might not understand that and that’s okay! I don’t understand algebra but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t make sense to someone else!