On one hand Harry is blindly, deafly, and nearly undyingly firm in is admiration of Laura, I wouldn't call it love per say. On the other hand Aya nearly pushed him away from that thinking, if only for a brief moment. Right until Laura has sex with him turbo slut style, a side of her he doesn't know. In the Laura routes he is more determined to love Laura regardless of the odds, regardless of what's shown to him by Luca and Laura. I'm unsure if that's completely better for Aya as she says she will lose her mind without Harry, but that's clearly up for debate.
I was taken aback when Luca said he loved Harry. Felt like the truth in a strange way. Harry is wrong for leading Aya along, sense he wont follow through with his convections about her, if he has them. His willingly blind unwarranted admiration of Laura led to all this pain, yet why did he forgot why he ran out of that room for Aya during that meeting that day? It's quite rich that he goes home and cries like he's magically the victim of the pain he's caused. He doesn't know the whole truth of the matter, but that statement still stands true based on his own perspective.
When he felt Laura's boobs through her dress that night in the club, he should've know. They were not in a bra, so completely unlike the Laura he knew. That was a one of many massive slaps to the face, with back stroke, that anything he had with Laura as long since been gone, he should've felt it, known it. He ignored every sign, every tell up to that point and beyond, that she was no longer Laura. Laura clearly changed in the bedroom down the taste of her vag, he knows he had nothing to do with that. She had sex with him in a back room of a club, sucked him off in a aquarium, and that's all average good 'ole Laura, apparently. If Harry had one hint of a care about the himself, Aya, or hell even Laura, he would've left the club with Aya firmly in hand, sent a breakup text, more than the Laura deserves really, but there is a order to things, then dived balls deep into Aya.
But it's not that type of story. I can see clearly where the issues with agency comes in, Harry sees what we see, we see what he sees then some, but he just goes with the flow straight off a cliff, seemly aiming for it. He holds a highly mentally demanding job, so he's not mentally challenged, so why ignore everything? Harry is written as a good, kind hearted man, but he is anything but good man, he ignores that not Laura is clearly manipulating him to hurt Aya. What gets me the most, if he thinks Aya is getting subsumed by Luca, just like his ex, why not tell Aya about the video Luca gave him? Warn her? He knows it's her. Isn't he her friend at the very least? No instead he begins to think about the clearly having more sex than him turbo slut, that told him to break it off with Aya in the most painful way possible. He must hate Aya's very existence, the breath she draws in. If Harry was spineless and had ran away, it would've been better. Pushover? Spineless? Those titles imply some level of victimhood, not titles I'd give to him, his actions are willful, with purpose. Instead he dons the mantle of Antagonist.
It's frustrating while that's part of the genre, this is frustrating in a bad way. It's so bad, that the image of Harry's character up till now is completely destroyed. It's arguably OOC levels of writing. Is this Harry? The man harbors hate for everyone in the story. This makes him nearly worse than Luca. Which fits nothing, Not Aya's intuition about him, not any character's description of him. Am I wrong in thinking this isn't Harry? What he's done is far from someone who could be described by anyone as good.
I didn't write much meaningful feedback the past few updates, so I put this together. I think it's constructive, mostly. Aya's character is as screwed up as I thought, maybe more so. She didn't get to make her move and there is still another update to the route left. Maybe it will get crazy(crazier). I have no idea what Harry's character is anymore, maybe that's by intent, but I wonder. Because of that I can't say I'm enjoying the route as much as I was before.
