Before ep 10, I had a lot of interest in Riona as one of the side girls. Her behavior in the new episode—flirting with Jamie and Leon in order to make the MC jealous—killed that. Killed my boner as fast as walking in on my grandparents fucking.
I absolutely
hate that immature bullshit. To be fair, Riona is 19 or 20 and therefore
is immature, but goddamn.
Her compliments to Jamie at the beginning make very little sense to me.
Riona. You deserve better [than Dani], dude.
Jamie. I do?
Riona. Cheating on her put aside. You’re one of the good guys.
Jamie. Thanks, I guess.
Riona. [looks at MC] There aren’t many good guys out there.
Jamie. I’ll have to take your word on that.
Riona. Yeah, some guys only want one thing from you. But not you, Jamie.
Jamie. Uh… I don’t?
Riona. No. I’m happy to be around you.
MC. [as they make eye contact] (Is she flirting with him?)
“Cheating on her put aside”? Cheating automatically makes you
not a good guy. Jamie wants a relationship with Dani, but hates how she makes him feel emasculated, so he fucks around to overcompensate. Leon’s right; he should just break up with her. Anyway Riona is one of the girls he fucked.
And because he fucked her with no intention of leaving Dani for her, Riona is absolutely wrong: sex
was the only one thing he wanted from her. He didn’t want more. Never did.
Now of course Riona could be projecting Tremolo’s attributes onto Jamie in order to grab Tremolo’s attention—which is why Jamie sounds a little confused by the conversation (“Uh… I don’t?”) Still, it’s a little hard to defend this behavior as casual flirting when you’ve previously fucked the guy you’re flirting with. When you’ve fucked
all the guys you’re flirting with; Riona gets around, you know. (Not to slut-shame her. Tremolo gets around too.)
Anyway every time I’ve played this game on non-Riona paths, I simply have the MC shoot her down: no it doesn’t make him jealous, and stop messing with his brothers. And I was a little tempted to ditch the Riona path altogether. That’s just how much this immature shit bugs me.
But maybe Vinny will murder her in the next episode, so… problem solved?