Quote Originally Posted by SannaR View Post
Most likely due to it being a trope in many a Sci fi or military fiction where the person who is in need of a verbal dressing down gets either A no dressing down and a steamy or aggressive smexy times. Or B the roll in the hay still happens with the dressing down happening before, during or after said intimacy happens. It happens so often that people tend to see it/read it as short hand as fraternization is going to happen. Why so many have had been grossed out by that scene. Due to the age difference and the obvious power imbalance. Why when Werlyt came out and they put in the whole there wasn't anything in between them many had a "Oh thank goodness." moment. Though it doesn't change how Livia talks about Gaius as even if you don't read her whole "You're keeping me away from my Gaius and only I can be at his side." crap as not romantic it is still kinda creepy for a person whose ment to be in a father daughter relationship.
Thanks for pointing out what I generally suspected might've been going on. Yeah, Livia's absolutely and very clearly not okay, but the only indication of there being a sex thing going on comes from people projecting nonexistent subtext from other media onto it.

We know what FFXIV writing inappropriate sexual situations is like. We especially know what that was like during ARR, and it wasn't wink-wink 'you know what this means' subtext about a very specific trope. If they wanted that to be part of the text around Gaius it would've been written in twelve-foot tall neon text on the wall of the Praetorium. You wouldn't have to dig for that treasure chest.