A normal person would either pressure Bella for answers or end this “relationship” with her due to lack of sincerity. The problem is that no one in the world would break up with Bella after she said that you are the air she needs so she can't drown in an abyss of darkness or something like that. Try breaking up with a woman after that and she'll kill you or she'll kill herself.
You're talking about trust and a "long and lasting relationship" 1 month into the thing, with a woman who clearly has issues to solve, you're expecting a clean slate from a person with more than a decade of baggage to get through.
You're focusing on the 10 episodes part instead of focusing on the thing that matters, the time-span of the story itself, which is around 3 months so far, 3 months of knowing someone is nothing.
In my opinion it doesn't make sense at all that Bella wants mc to commit to the relationship without addressing these issues. MC is a kid, he might be ok with that, I don't know if he has a long term plan with her.A normal person would either pressure Bella for answers or end this “relationship” with her due to lack of sincerity. The problem is that no one in the world would break up with Bella after she said that you are the air she needs so she can't drown in an abyss of darkness or something like that. Try breaking up with a woman after that and she'll kill you or she'll kill herself.
But it is not true that he does not ask, he does and Bella gives him an incomprehensible answer. He might insist but it is clear that Bella does not want to talk about it. It is not that simple.
I don't know about you, but would you start a relationship where a lack of trust and secrets prevail? That's what Bella's relationship with the MC is in a nutshell. Furthermore, Bella is not fit to have a romantic relationship with someone else if she doesn't want to put her cards on the table and deal with her problems.
• She gave an ambiguous answer about her relatives: "But they are gone now."
I don't expect her to say everything at once, but that's what will happen. DPC should have made Bella open up a little in each episode, we're in Ep.10 and she hasn't said anything meaningful about James. Like she did with Jill, she will wait until the last second to drop the shit on the MC's head.
He does this in the sixth chapter, after Bella stays over at his place. He asks her about the fact that she is married and she tells him that it is different now. I still don't understand what she meant. MC who is dumb pretends to understand....
I'm on the record saying irl I wouldn't date Bella before I knew what was up with her marriage, but I've learned to enjoy the story and its main character and accept it within the constraints DPC has set.
The DPC's mistake was to sell that Bella's route would lead the player to a romantic relationship with her. As a route to make the MC a lover of a married and lonely woman, Bella's route is a 10/10, but as a route for the MC to have a genuine romance with Bella it is a 1/10 at most 2.5/10; **and I checked Bella's acceptance after Ep.10 and it is extremely low, unlike years ago as you mentioned previously. Just search Reddit for your 'most favorite route' and Bella is in last place in 95% of responses.
I, at mc's age, wouldn't have said no to Arieth either.... You think first love is forever but it's not like you really think about it, you just believe it.
Dunno, Bella is my favourite route, tbh. The relationship with her seems mature. She opens up here and there and the only reason why we still haven't gotten answers with her is because damn Maya subplot is still in the books.
I think that in Bella's head this "Please, stay with me." it sounded different. I think she thought: “I'm going to say that I need him like I need air and I'm going to ask him to stay with me, I'm going to sound so fucking romantic and he's going to love it!” But in my head I was imagining which episode Bella would try to kill me. Was the DPC's intention to make this dialogue seem romantic or scary?
i dont know dude, being with someone out of pity is not working for a long time.
Well, that and she still has nice books. But it's too late to cover up my CHICK card, I guess.
I thought it was a low blow for Bella to ask the MC 'to stay with her'. She must have realized that she won't be able to dodge the MC's questions for long and will resort to emotional blackmail. As I said before, what kind of person would end a relationship with a woman in these psychological conditions? Nobody.
I dunno. By that time, the player has chosen her over dozen of hot girls on the campus. There's no need for that.
For her to have asked the MC to 'stay with her' means that she realized that the MC's patience could not last long and that he will give her an ultimatum at any moment. The MC did choose Bella over the other girls on campus, but that doesn't mean she will have the MC in her hands forever.
MC is 19, full of hormones and half the campus got the hots for him.
Well...that depends on a playthrough. She tried to match him up with Jill, tried to avoid the action with the dude and, when it came up to her happiness or Jill's in EP8 she picked the latter. Trying to keep MC to herself and playing on his emotions for the sake of herself being happy would be out of character for her. Bella is a good, yet traumatized person. Not a manipulator, unless it's Tybalt)
Josy will likely be the first to say she pretty much said it in ep10 in the pillow fort scene. I agree on Bella
