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>relationship shown in the Canto doesn't really seem like anything beyond friendship.
>there's nothing that really indicates that QQ and Ishmael are lesbian lovers.
I'm somewhat split on this
Personally I think the moment where QQ fades away while she asks Ishmael to introduce herself one last time is still one of the most emotionally vulnerable moments in the franchise (even if I consider Ishmael to be my least favorite sinner)
However, I can't see them being sexually intimate because of what QQ had to do herself everyday- forced body mutilation to get rid of the Middle tattoos
So where does that leave my conclusion?
I think they were close enough that marriage could have been a direction their relationship might have headed towards over time
BUT it never got there as they met the Pallid Whale and the rest is history