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There's the Aya Path ending and a whole other FIVE Aya variant endings, for a total of 6... which is exactly as many as the other ending types... which is insane if you think about it, if only because all of Aya's variants could be considered Good Endings for the MC. Laura, not so much in most of them. >.>"Haven't played through Aya's perspective for whatever reason but I think I've seen all of her endings. So I'm speculating somewhat blindly. My guess is Laura is to do a lot of heavy lifting. And it will take place over a longer period of time. Eventually making her think she can have Harry without Laura hurting him. Especially if the branch starts with Harry kissing Aya back. I can see her wanting to hurt them badly because of it.
Are you seriously saying you played through basically half of the endings with only Harry's perspective? Because, if you play through the All Perspective, you literally CANNOT avoid her perspective...
ANYway, getting back to the point...
In her path, which is the first thing you need to see before you can unlock the other 5 Aya variant endings... it's BECAUSE Laura was involved that Luca got done in. He got greedy and tried to have them both, and he ended up biting up more than he could chew when Aya used Laura to keep him distracted while she wrapped Harry around her finger and then screwed up Luca and Laura with her yakuza connections.
The fact of the matter is that the big difference between the girls, is that Laura presents herself to be strong and smart... when she's not particularly strong and her intelligence is debatable. Aya presents herself as silly and dumb... when in fact she's very smart and she's definitely strong. Both are batshit crazy btw, but the nuance of their insanity is different, and Aya's insanity comes out on top.
Most importantly, Aya knows that Luca's a Mafia kid, but HE does not know that Aya's a yakuza princess, which lets her have a hidden hand that he can't prepare for.
The dev needs to address these things without suddenly giving Aya the idiot ball, or making her seem mentally weaker than she actually is. On top of that, we have at least three endings that show that Harry CAN become good enough in bed to compete with Luca (The Good Ending and its Aya variant, and arguably, the Aya version of the Fallen Hero ending). Aya should be smart enough to figure that out and stubborn enough to want to make it happen even IF Luca fucks her until she has a strong sex addiction. She's shown to not be anywhere near as short-sighted as Laura after all.
This means that sex alone shouldn't work the way it did with Laura. (And with Laura it worked because she's too short-sighted to think that Harry could accept her as she is... all without going the extra mile of telling of him in the first place, and too short-sighted to think that he'd be willing to learn how to deal with her beyond normal nympho needs. That's on top of the fact that she's not even considering the fact that Luca will eventually throw her away like a used tissue the moment she's no longer useful in tormenting Harry and/or stops being a good enough hole to fuck...)
I'm not saying it's NOT doable.
However, I AM saying that it'll take a lot of work, a lot of thinking, and possibly more effort than the Dev might be able to put in. As someone who's done some writing of their own under certain circumstances, I can easily say that knowing what points you need to reach in your writing... and actually hitting them in a satisfactory matter is not easy. Plus... if I'm not mistaken, the dev made a comment along the lines of "I'll make her fall even if I have to completely mess up the characters." or some such... which is... uh... not encouraging.