Relationship between Yasha and Beauregard

Relationship
Beauregard and Yasha are close friends, and are attracted to each other. Because Yasha is very reserved, and left the party often, their relationship took a while to develop past Beauregard's initial one-sided attraction. However, they have grown much closer, sharing playful moments, watching each other's backs and teaming up in battle. They have a lot of admiration for each other.

Beau has been attracted to Yasha and flirted with her since they met, but backed off out of respect when she learned Yasha was still mourning her wife, Zuala. After much time, as Yasha showed signs of having moved on and being open to a new relationship, the two began flirting openly. Every member of the Mighty Nein seems aware and supportive of their mutual affection, especially Jester, who has talked privately to both of them about their romantic interests and has tried to push them towards each other. Although they have not confessed romantic feelings to each other as of yet, Yasha has given Beauregard a letter to tell her what she admires and loves about her, and that she feels safe knowing Beau's watching her back.

History
Yasha and Beau first met in Trostenwald, when Beau and friends visited the traveling carnival where Yasha worked as security. When Yasha asked Beauregard to hand all of her weapons to gain access to the show, Beau asked if she could keep her "walking stick", referring to her Bo staff. Yasha declined but offered to carry Beau to her seat, which the monk was happy to agree to. Once inside, Beau asked Yasha to hold her through the show. Yasha refused without proper payment but seemed to take the request as a compliment. A few days later, Beau attempted to get a "good look" at Yasha's nude body in the bathhouse in Zadash by delaying her own departure, and was successful.

Beau comforted Yasha when she learned of Molly's death, highlighting their growth as friends. Yasha then left the group again for a while, but when she came back, Beau was still interested in Yasha. Beau and Yasha did form a friendship, outside of Beau's flirtations. After learning about Zuala, Yasha's deceased wife, Beau opened up to Yasha about her ex-girlfriend Tori in an effort to relate through loss of loved ones. She admitted the situations were not at all the same, but offered commiseration over losing a loved one.

While Yasha did find Beau fascinating and attractive, she initially had no interest in any romantic relationships. Given Yasha's past, she was still reluctant to grow emotionally or intimately close to anyone because, as she told Jester, she was afraid to lose them.

Beau was very distraught over losing Yasha to Obann's mind control, but hid her distress from the rest of the group, for the most part. She admitted to Jester she was more upset than she showed, and that she listened for thunder at night. She was suspicious that perhaps Yasha knew more than she let on going into the King's Cage, but didn't blame her for her actions under Obann's control. In the Chantry of the Dawn, Yasha was forced to stab Beauregard in the chest, nearly killing her. Although she could not control herself, Yasha eyes were full of tears.

Upon being rescued from Obann, Beauregard assured Yasha that she didn't blame her for what happened with Obann, despite almost dying by her hands. After she was welcomed back into the party, Yasha developed a closer fondness and appreciation for Beau than before, their interactions became more frequent and playful, and at times Yasha responding positively and even returning Beau's advances. Yasha also stood in defense of Beau against her father Thoreau Lionett and stepped in to confront Isharnai without hesitation after Beau explained her reasoning about the deal she was going to give, which was to abandon her friends forever.

After Beau was knocked unconscious by the Death Gaze of the bodak on Rumblecusp, Yasha hurried to heal her, and when Beau asked her to hold and carry her, she agreed and carried Beau for the next stage of their journey. Beau is the only person Yasha's ever allowed to wear her shawl, lending it to her while she rested after the attack, despite saying when they first met that she never takes it off.

Yasha had a dream where Zuala, trapped beneath the surface, called out, "Don't let me be the shackle that holds you down. I am proud of you." Yasha then spread her wings and flew away into the sky, feeling relief. Later, After escaping from Vokodo's lair, Yasha used her Necrotic Shroud ability to try to catch Beau, who was falling off a cliffside. To everyone's surprise, her wings were no longer ghastly but covered in glowing white feathers. Yasha flew up and caught Beau midair, then flew to a nearby rocky platform to set Beau down. Yasha was confused, yet happy, and Beauregard, flustered, thanked Yasha for taking her along on her first flight.

Beau later confided in Fjord that her feelings for Yasha ran much deeper than even she wanted to admit, and that from the moment they first met, Beau had fallen for her. Despite wanting to not address them out of respect for Zuala, she realized that maybe Yasha's own feelings towards her were mutual, and that she wanted something far more meaningful and not as "fleeting". She also confided in Jester that she didn't want to make the first move because of Zuala, and therefore had "left the ball in her court".

Beau later invited Yasha to join her and Caleb in doing research at the Valley Archive in Zadash, and she offered her own contributions to Beau's theories about how Vess DeRogna could be connected to the Eyes of Nine and the Tombtakers. When the Nein went to Molly's grave to find out if his body was still there, Beau reached out for Yasha's hand, who gripped it tightly in return, as the two watched the others dig. That night, Jester asked Yasha about how she felt towards Beau, and she admitted that she had developed feelings for her. Jester suggested that the two share one of the beds in the room that the three were staying in, but Yasha insisted in sleeping on the floor so as to not make things awkward between them. Jester then helped Yasha write a poem to give to Beau.

Beau checked in on Yasha the day they planned to venture out into the fields of Eiselcross proper. She had noticed a brief yet unpleasant reaction to Trent Ikithon's telepathic speaking during a dinner the Mighty Nein attended a few days earlier, which gave her concern due to Yasha's past enslavement by Obann. Yasha, in turn, confided that she still felt horrible about the battle in the Chantry of the Dawn, unsure as to what she would've done if Beau died by her hands. Unlike past times where she was quick to deflect or downplay, Beau assured Yasha by saying "I knew it wasn't you. But, yeah I can imagine. It actually sounds so much worse when you still have your own thoughts mixed with someone else's like-- probably be easier to just be lost." Yasha then later gave Beau the poem she and Jester worked on.

On their second night of the trip to their destination, Beau took a bath in her Nein-Sided Tower chambers and had a look at what Yasha gave her, only to discover it was once a poem but then became a letter, detailing what she's seen in Beau and what she admires and loves about her, and saying she feels safe knowing Beau's watching her back. Beau was left a stunned and crying mess upon reading it, dipping herself beneath the water, reading the letter repeatedly before she went to sleep.

Upon being "invited" by the tiefling with Molly's body, Beau cited past experiences to compare their current situation, the King's Cage in particular and how they lost Yasha to Obann, and that she clearly wanted to avoid a repeat of their circumstances back then.

Trivia

 * In Beau's second official playlist, Marisha referred to Yasha as a "crush forged in battle".
 * Beauregard and Yasha are both lesbians.