Board Thread:Sly Cooper series discussion/@comment-1845428-20151130080822/@comment-1845428-20160109211647

Steampower penguin wrote: Yet at the end of Sly 3 she makes Sly her partner in law. And is trying to find the poor sod at the end of sly4. Just because one is independent doesn't mean one doesn't fall in love.

If anything, it Sly who isn't independent of his relationship with Carmelita. Kind of like how the joker wouldn't do crime unless there was Batman that may or may not stop him. If Carmelita wasn't there, half the fun would be gone.

Again, I feel that her "love" for him (if it really is that; we know next to nothing of their post Sly 3 relationship) would tear at her when he's found. Like Sly, she comes from a long line of members of the same occupation, making the law possibly the most important thing to her.

And without Carmelita, Sly would still steal (it wasn't until just before Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus that the two met, and he obviously was a thief before then), but sure, he might not enjoy it as much, which is shown in the Getaway cutscene for Dead Men Tell No Tales. However, like with Carmelita, the family profession is extraordinarily important to him. He gave up his life with her to join back with his gang, going back on a decision he had already made.