Who says it's not going to happen? Say her father finds out she's staying with Josy, blows up at her, including cutting her off financially, and Quinn witnesses it? Quinn would have to be a pretty lousy pimp to not try to leverage an emotionally desperate Maya at that point. And it could very well work - it certainly has worked on a lot of women in real life. It sets up just the kind of conflict you would expect from the guy who did AL.
Her Dad has already cut her off financially, so there's not much more he can do in that regard and it's the whole reason why she wants to join the HOTs in the first place. He's also shown up once already and basically asked Derek to spy on Maya for him so I don't think we'll be seeing him on campus again any time soon.
Whose heart do you guys think is gonna be the worst to break? My money's on Sage, she seems on paper like the person who would take it the best, but with Chad breaking up with her soon I don't think telling her you can't be together will go to well wit her. For me at least in theory and I don't know if I will change my mind, but I've pretty much narrowed down my choices to Maya or Jill, for reason that I won't ramble on at the moment.
But I was really really just starting to like Sage, in 2028 when this game eventually finishes I'll do a play through with her, but I think I'm on that shitty road of breaking her heart.
I think that, for those players who are pursuing them but ultimately choose someone else, Sage and Jill will be the most heartbroken. Jill is definitely falling hard for the MC and while she knows he's dating others, that's not going to be any kind of comfort to her if he chooses to end things because, right now, he's the best guy she's known and dated so it won't be easy to get over that.
Sage is also getting there too in terms of her feelings, and it depends where there relationship goes from here because if they're still FWB by the time a decision needs to be made, she can certainly be disappointed and even heartbroken, but she would only have herself to blame because she didn't try to lock it down when she had the chance.
But I think the 2 of them will get over it. Jill may end up with Rusty since the game seems to hint that this may happen, and Sage in particular will hopefully have been shown what type of guy she deserves and won't go for guys like Chad anymore.
Also, this game will not take 8 more years to finish. There is, at most, going to be 16 episode and each episode takes around 4 months each, so after ep 6 we'll still have potentially 10 episodes left which is 40 months, meaning it'll probably be around 3 and a half years before it's done, maybe even 4, but certainly not 8.
I agree... to a point.
Maya obviously wouldn't WANT to turn tricks for Quinn, so if the question is ever put to her straight up she will clearly say no. But she has shown that she can rationalize her way into terrible decisions by downplaying the cost and overvaluing the upside, then refusing to re-evaluate as the situation devolves. Her pledge to the HOTs started innocently enough, but it keeps getting worse. Even though she thought about calling it off after it escalated to public and/or group sex, she couldn't actually go through with that.
So as much as I don't like it, I do think Maya could wind up feeling trapped into going along with Quinn's schemes under the right circumstances. But those circumstances are tricky. If you don't isolate Maya from her friends (Derek, Josy and the MC), I don't think she'll feel the despair needed to cross that final threshold. On the other hand if you crush her spirit too thoroughly, I think that rather than join Quinn's band, Maya would instead cave to her father and resolve to become the soulless 'good girl' she was supposed to be all along. (Which, in some ways, might be an even worse fate. Isn't this a pleasant topic?)
So while I agree that Maya is vulnerable to coercion and pressure, I think she's currently in a place where those feelings are still manageable. That could easily change (especially in routes where the MC rejects her and still pursues Josy). In that event, it's even money which way Maya would turn when she breaks.
None of this, of course, should be read as my personal desire; I'm firmly in favor of Maya getting some heavy character growth and patching up her life once and for all. But I definitely worry about what could happen to her.
The thing is though that people do have limits and there's a huge difference between grinding on a guy you've been getting to know for the last couple of days and viewing it as a "prank", and blowing some random guy through a glory hole in a bathroom stall. Some people might give in to that need for money and others won't, no matter how much harder and more difficult the alternative route is.
This is why I feel that we have Mona, because she now knows what's required of her for the tuition and we've seen that Quinn will likely try to sweet talk her in to coming back and doing these things which Mona which likely accept. To me, Mona is going to be like the mirror opposite of Maya, an example of what might have happened if Maya was all by herself, but because she's not by herself she'll grow stronger from having supportive people around her and even if certain things don't work out for her, she won't resort to such depraved things because she's stronger for having had these people with her to guide her on a different path.
Anyway, this whole discussion about whether or not Maya will sink into depravity when the chips are down are probably largely moot as it's likely that Quinn's whole drug and prostitution business will be dismantled before anything that could negatively happen to her that might drive her down this road.
unfortunately in the triangle between Maya, Josy and Mc someone will be screwed
Why? At this stage, it's still entirely possible for it to work out, provided that there are no burning buildings and no dramatic moments that cause an unavoidable break-up despite what choices we make. There's honestly a far greater chance of seeing this throuple survive than there is seeing Maya go down the depraved route for her tuition.
