TWR is a large company and the way IV is portrayed they seemed smaller and expanding. I mean they employ the sorority sisters and one other person (the guy who just moved into a new position with the company) IIRC. That doesn't make me think that IV is a very large company that can refuse to work with a company like TWR which seems able to throw millions of dollars around in R&D. Of course that's just the impression I got from the way it was all presented. After all Cassandra is being interviewed, for the second time, by the Jimmy Fallon equivalent... She must be somewhat of a "celebrity" for that to take place on national tv.
Now, I could see Cassandra firing them for how "unprepared" she was for the interview considering the women at IV were supposed to help her with it. But I didn't get the impression that Reina had a large company or a lot of power/influence. The business hasn't been around long.
I do think that a lot of us agree that it makes no sense for Reina to hire the MC, nor does it make sense for him to want to work for her, though since he is a nice guy he may forgive her. I just hope that the player will be able to avoid Reina in a love/sexual way. It would be best if he didn't associate with the employees of IV or the house of Ink but that doesn't mean he won't go stick his dick in a hole if they ask him.
I can see your opinion on this, and its reasonable, however Reina was noted to be pretty well off, and the business had been around for several years, and the TV interview was set up by her employers, thinking she had a face and body for TV, not that she had brains, infact most of the high ups are getting fed up with her, and if she cant get a working AI she might be giving BJ's for bread on the street.
As someone who has owned a business I looked at it the way I would do it;
Firstly Id contact my person at TWR, and find out wether her opinion was theres and note what she had said, and that she hadn't mentioned he was her ex, as Cassandra had possibly caused her company harm, and she had the right to know where they stand.
Then based on that, personally id expect Cassandra to either face repercussions, or possibly dump them as a customer, there are more out there, and she seems to have more than enough to not only stay afloat, but keep going forward, sure they would be down a few hundred thousand on one customer, but atleast they wouldn't lose more due to shady dealings.
Also, if Cassandra has the power to fire them, Id just go ahead and cancel the contract with them anyway, dealings with shady people like her always lead to trouble, more than likely they would fight to keep their PR rather than the woman who had been failing them for 5 years and costing them millions, heck what would the top bosses think of the fact that Cassandra downplayed MC, and yet he had working AI back at highschool, and I'm sure Reina can see the writing on the wall about Cassandra, you dont screw up like she has and the rumours not get out. Reina is shown to be well off, and not stupid, so the chances that nothing would happen are very low.
I can see reasons why the MC wouldn't work for Reina anymore, right now atleast, even though she was polite on the phone, but after that TV interview, I cant see any reason why she wouldn't think herself stupid for falling for the lies, and be willing to hire him in the future.
But then I'm looking at as someone who owned a company, and was more than willing to dump customers if I didn't like where things were going (Data security/counter security and Computers etc).
From the way the game is set up (Most if not all were set up as possible love interests), Reina and the rest of the INK's will keep making an appearance, as will Cassandra, my expectation is she will eventually get booted or severely demoted at the very least, but due to certain things in game, she will be around for a long time, June will make peace far easier than the rest of them, since he knows that she was trying to help him, but then she should have known Cassandra was a customer of the business, so maybe there will be some issues.
I can see several probabilities in the long run:
Kindra will need to do some upgrades with the MC to Koko, so that noone steals her, you just know Cassandra will try afterall.
Cassandra getting dropped heavily within TWR, wether she keeps her BF boss or not is iffy, shes too stuck up to forgive anyone even her sugardaddy.
Reina and the IV/INK girls will make peace with the MC, and Kindra, but this will take each of them varying amounts of time.
June bug will have issues due to Reinas treatment of the MC, and will try to make good with him.
And MC will need some help from the Doc to cope with how he was treated.
MC and Kindra will probably get Artemis running just in time to catch Koko being stolen, or in time to save her before she is scrapped for her AI.
As has been stated Kindra owns the House, Lab etc, possibly a lot more, she is not poor, and mentioned doing the DJ stuff because she enjoys it, its not just money to her, the way she acted she doesnt need the money, and her parents were government/military sub contractors, I dont think she is too worried about cash.
There are a million ways the Dev can go with this, but due to how some people talk about Reina and the INK's they need to be careful how they go with explanations and "Peace deals" as if they happen too easily then people will be pissed, if they are too harsh then others will be pissed.
Also someone mentioned how MC cried like a baby in the challenge, that could be understood to a degree, how much stamina etc had it taken etc to ignore her attentions, he had just gone through about an hours hand/blow-jobs, but I agree it went a little far considering how his mother trained him, maybe he should have yelped a little due to tenderness, but his reaction was a bit much.
