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That seems to conflate taking things slowly with keeping things casual. The former makes a lot of sense (or would have if they didn't immediately start having sex with him). The latter seems like an obvious recipe for disaster.My reading of that is, it's both girls (especially Maya) who don't want to immediately start a serious relationship with some boy they've really known for very short time and who potentially fucked each of them behind the other's back. They like him enough to want to give this a try, but whatever attachment there is at this point, it's on very surface level compared to the pairing they have. The MC is being put on probation so to speak, and it's his behavior while he's said to have a free reign, that's ultimately going to decide whether this evolves into something more.
I think people read too much into that line. about Sage's mom being right. Sage was clearly caught flatfooted by the idea Chad was gay. To me that suggests that Jade's concerns were more generic. She probably warned Sage that Chad was only using her for status and didn't have any real interest in her - which turned out to be true, just in a much more extreme way than expected.By the way, who do you think is some sort of Leah reincarnation in BADIK and what are your reasons for thinking so?
I bet on Jade. Alfred the Fallen made a guess about Magnar. Somebody definitely spies on Tremolo - remember that creepy night scene with flickering lampposts in Ep6.
Jade wanted to expel Chad back in Ep 3 and went angry when Stephen sided with Cathy in the end. If you give away Chad's secret to Sage in Ep8, she says "Mom [Jade] was right". It appears Jade has known Chad's secret the whole time. Yet, blackmailing the jocks makes no sense for Stephen and Quinn as it can jeopardize their illegal business.
As for a Leah analog, I sincerely hope there won't be one and DPC is just trying to make us jump at shadows.
That does seem to be the idea. I just wish it had been *shown* instead of told. The girls just don't react to the competition very much, and a lot of the reactions we do get (like Jill's fit of jealousy if the MC photobombs Tybalt's presentation) aren't actually witnessed by the MC.I don't think it was a case of the mc could see he was fucking them up already and needed to do something. It was more of a case that he realised if he took it further with all of them it would be fucked. He was starting to get serious with all of them. That's just asking to get castrated in the long run.
Nope. No way. Still not buying it in the slightest.When the mc stopped Jade from giving him the footjob she threatened him:
Jade: "You should spend the time left in this class reading and be {b}quiet{/b}..."
Jade: "That way I might not fail you..."
In other words: "You tell anyone about this and you're fucked". Of course she had way more to lose than him.
When she sees him at the prep party her reaction is:
Jade: "Hmph..."
I believe the next time she spoke to him directly was when she gave him a passing grade, and she was extremely curt:
Jade: "Fuckface. Pass. Next."
So sure, he kept his head down and put that shit behind him, but then to find out it's his good friend/girlfriend's mom! I mean, put yourself in his shoes. You're off to meet your (girl)friend's parents, only to find out the mom is a teacher who sexually assaulted you... Sure it's a porn game, we want teachers (at least the female ones) to sexually assault the mc, but if we're trying to find reasons for behaviour, what Jade did was really fucked up.
And once again, we've had an entire fucking year to let all that sink in. The mc walked into it and suddenly when he realised it was Jade, he panicked. He went there to help Maya out and suddenly it looks like it's gonna be very awkward.
That's an OK reaction in my book.
Jade's 'assault' on the MC was a month ago and if you turned her down nothing has happened since. The MC should no more panic here than he should we he sees her in the Prep mansion - when the event was far more recent AND he is the one who would have suffered if she made a scene. Yet somehow he controlled his sphincter in that case. Learning Jade is Sage's mom at the end of Episode 8 *should* have given the MC an overwhelming sense of relief at having unknowingly dodged a bullet. Panicking makes absolutely zero sense if you gave her the cold shoulder.
DPC just plain fucked up, and did so in the laziest way possible. I'm not giving him a pass on this.
The MC's reaction to Maya/Josy in Episode 4 (when he'd already turned them down) was one of the weaker aspects of the game. It's a mistake that should have been learned from, not doubled down on.But what comes next matters more.
We know the mc locks himself in the bathroom, and its independent of all of his relationships: Worst case he's been fucking both and has recently dumped one, if not both of them. Even this situation is salvageable. Jade's not about to let on that she's been doing anything with the mc, so the only problem is how will Jade/Stephen react if Sage lets on that the mc is her boyfriend. Jade might not be too pleased, but she isn't gonna do anything right then and there.
And the best case is the mc hasn't been fooling around with anyone. This just means Jade sexually assaulted him in class but it's all water under the bridge. Jade's not gonna say or do anything about it. And no one else knows about it. So other than the mc panicking, the situation shouldn't escalate.
So while the mc does panic, and I do think it's an OK reaction under any of the potential circumstances, the drama that comes next will make or break this scene for me. Of course with the mc hiding in the bathroom shitting himself, he's already making the situation worse. But this is the same guy who lost his shit when he found out Maya and Josy were a couple. So no big surprise there.
Yes, DPC can try to control the damage and give us a bunch of different reactions in Episode 9, but in my book that's too little, too late. This problem should never have happened in the first place. DPC needs to learn not to pull shit like this, and trying to rationalize away the insanity only encourages him to keep doing it.