No this is not another couple thread, this is merely a question about a certain couple.

A lot of people here say that Diego/Godot x Mia is canon. Diego seemed pretty much intrigued of her in 3-4 and as Godot at the end of 3-5, said that "The woman I loved is now dead."

But did Mia ever show any kind of similar feelings? In 3-1 she seemed less 'determined to avenge Diego', and more like Dahlia had to pay for her three murders, and making Terry commit suicide. I don't blame her, a woman like Dahlia had to be convicted. Course she may not shown any sort of feelings in 3-1 to keep some spoilers secret. But still.

And even after you find Godot guilty of the murder of Misty Fey, Mia merely says "Thank you for setting Godot free and for surpassing me" or something to that affect. Not a single hint from Mia at all which leads me to believe that this pairing may be one-sided. In Diego/Godot's case, his love for Mia is canon. But as for Mia's true feelings about him, we don't know yet. So the pairing itself, involving BOTH people, isn't exactly canon.

Just some food for thought...

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I suck at debating, but I remember that she said something a bit different after you win 3-5.

Something like, "Thanks for saving Diego." First name. Dunno if that means anything, but it certainly contradicts her courtroom formality.

As for past canon, Grossberg referred to Diego as Mia's boyfriend in 3-1.

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Mia tends to be a little tight lipped about herself in general I notice. I can see her as the type that has a hard time expressing her feelings, not cannon, but there is little to disprove her feelings towards him either.

We can be pretty sure she probably respected him by how they talked at the end of 3-4 as well.

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Also witness in 3-1 how every time Phoenix or another person in the courtroom talks about Dahlia using words like "sweetheart", "lover" or anything like that-- Mia gets so angry she physically attacks Grossberg.

Not only was the image hilarious, but when you replay the game you understand why she was so upset. I think that was a pretty big hint that the two of them were in a two-sided relationship.

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I actually think that 3-1 was very much about Diego. Even though Mia asked Grossberg to let her take the case in the first place because she noticed that Hawthorne was somehow involved, it's pretty clear to me that she intended to nail her for Diego's poisoning, too, from the get-go. She brings the newspaper clipping of the incident with her to court (basically the only real evidence available to her relating to it) and spends a big chunk of the trial trying to make a connection. She probably needed it to prove Phoenix's innocence, sure, but she couldn't have known that from the beginning, given the cases in question, and the fact of the matter stands that she was completely and utterly convinced that Phoenix's case and Diego's poisoning were connected in some way, shape, or form without... any real evidence to go by. To an outsider looking in, the two cases are completely unrelated, save for Hawthorne. Add to it that she says to Grossberg sometime after showing the newspaper clipping "I need to finish this myself," and I think it's safe to say that Diego was a pretty powerful motivator for her. There's also Grossberg's "boyfriend" comment if you want to count that.

In the present timeline, I'm going to have to agree with what was said before that Mia is a pretty closed person in general. She does a huge personality 180 from 3-4 to present, and since all the times she actually comes in contact with Godot, they're in court, I really can't see her dragging personal issues to the forefront too much. But I can say that the way she talks to Godot is an indicator in and of itself, despite how shortlived it is. The only time she really talks to him is when she's asking if it's all right for Phoenix to bring out the truth of 3-5, and, well, given how justice-driven Mia seems to be and how professional she is in court, that line seemed really emotionally-charged, especially coming from her. There's even an argument that can be made for that last conversation she has with Phoenix, but it's sticky and probably long-winded, so I won't go into it unless someone really wants me to.

Anyway, I could go on about this for a while, but yeah. I personally think Mia is a really, really complex character, and it's kind of hard to pin down her motivations for much of anything. But from what I took from 3-4, 3-1, and the way she acts in 3-5, I don't think it's a stretch at all to say the feelings were mutual.

Wonderfully put. I couldn't agree more!

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