Yeah and there's the whole mystery around her motivation.
Eh, this might all sound mean but it just doesn't seem like much of a mystery to me. It seems pretty straightforward from what we've been shown.
- We're shown a scene between Rionna and Quinn that they're short on money and Quinn won't be able to pay her supplier. Referring back to the "Count it again!" scene. (I think depending on whether or not you do the Quinn/Rionna threesome, that either puts them back in the green or they're still in the red)
- Quinn sets up the Prep/Hot Hell Week party in order to "network" with potential buyers
- She gets robbed and now she has no money and no supply.
- At that point in the story, she's in way over her head and she's boned.
- Why does she do all that instead of you know ... studying?
Maybe paying for tuition has something to do with it but for the most part I'm gonna infer from her conversation with Rionna that she's just at school to make money off of students and fuck around because she thinks that's all she'll ever amount to. (She projects onto Rionna). As far as I can tell, the only warm adult figure in her life has been her dad (who probably didn't have a good ending) and he wasn't exactly a role model but he was definitely the only one she could look to emulate. It's not like she doesn't know there are other options. She's fully aware she's marching down a self-destructive path but really doesn't see herself breaking out of that and doing something else.
- Why does she snap when MC offers help with money?
People under great stress tend to snap like that. She was already having money troubles. Now her supply was robbed and she has to find a way to pay that back
on top of already struggling for money. The rain in that scene was a really nice touch. "When it rains, it pours". She's also conditioned herself to think that she doesn't need or want help from anyone. She needs to be in control and would rather use people than rely on them. Then in comes MC who from Quinn's point of view would be the last person to even understand how knee-deep in shit she is, like "Durr, I can help here's 20 bucks". She WANTS to be some kind of mastermind but the walls of reality are assuredly closing in on her. That's like a double-whammy of "things that'd piss her off". Although the Pink Rose stuff may improve things for her situation.
For me, there's no real mystery because we're shown everything. What makes the story around her interesting is that MC is going to be the guy who goes "Hey, maybe there's a different life you could live" making her think that those options are more realistic than she previously thought. All while all the shit she's been up to starts to hit the fan and results in a big clusterfuck. It's gonna be amazing. It's like you're watching a marriage proposal while a flock of seagulls is flying towards the couple and those seagulls look like they've been eating gooood. You see it all unfolding and you just can't look away.
I'm betting that book is just the ledger for her "businesses". If there was yet another diary from a dead parent, I'd laugh so hard.
MC: "Yea, I've been reading my dead mom's diary"
Quinn: "OMG, I also have my dead parent's diary. Would you like to read them together
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![ROFL :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Then again ... I wouldn't put it past DPC to do that lololol.