But, lbr, isn’t Saphir kind of a little in love with his brother? Like beyond something brotherly, maybe not quite bordering into sexual, but definitely more intense than your standard brotherly relationship

I don’t really think so. I mean, I know it’s a fairly popular interpretation but it’s not as though they have a normal family relationship to begin with. They pretty much only had each other when they were kids growing up on a dead planet in the middle of nowhere populated solely by criminals. That’s instantly a stronger and more co-dependent bond than normal siblings. Then suddenly this crazy evil dude pops up and gives him strange powers and now his brother is basically insane and obsessed with this woman to the point where he’s ignoring everything else and playing straight into Wiseman’s trap. I think Saphir can be a bit more obsessed with his brother than normal brothers would be, under those circumstances, without it being because he’s in love with him. He just wants to have his normal, nice, not-messed-up brother back, and for him to remember what their goal was; to get out of the hellhole that was their lives, not imprison ladies.