It could be that DPC considers a main girl to be any girl that has the chance to appear in every chapter from beginning to end.
Obviously there are some others that appear later, some who don't appear in any chapter and some who might not make it to the end.
Told you already. Main girls get those end of episode reports and their own path at ep 8. Sage is a main girl, Jill is a main girl, Isabella is a main girl, Maya is 80% main girl and Josy is 20% main girl. No one else counts. Doesn't mean you can't be interested in their story or be their fan. They just aren't main girls.
Maya, Josy, Bella, Jill, and Sage. That's who it's always been and who DPC has officially designated so.
Well... Mine was somewhat a rhetorical question. Of course,
de jure or
officially, a girl is a
main girl if Mr. DPC says so. I was just calling attention to the fact that,
de facto, the only difference between Quinn and the
official main girls is this DPC's
fiat. If this was a TV show, she would undeniably be part of the main cast. But not only that. Since it's a
dating sim/romance AVN, she has lot of romance time, sex scenes, and plot importance. I doubt that, if there wasn't the banner, Mr. DPC declaration about who the MGs are, and the report at the end of each chapter, one could tell she's not a main girl. The other side girls (some, for me, unfortunately) don't come even closer to her in importance and screen time. I think the closest one is Lily, with this rolling thing, but she's far far away -- it's only "the closest" when compared to the others. Some side girls you can't even picture their personality, but, in Quinn's case, you have a clear picture -- no wonder many love her and many hate her. As for the others, take Camila, for instance. I doubt anyone can hate her except for some irrational antipathy; on the other hand, though I like her, there aren't many reasons except she's hot, pretty, an amazing fuck, and a nice girl. One could say it's enough, but people have been bashing Josy since the last update or so for being just like that. It's just that people see Camila only as a side girl and only expect that from her, while, since Josy is a main girl, people expect her to be a more well-rounded character. People can't complain this about Quinn: it's all there -- either to love or hate.
What Quinn is is a main anagtonist (official term used by DPC). She gets given more importance and is seen more than other SGs because her story and what she's doing is a driving force of the main antagonistic plot going on in the background that will eventually come to a head later and get the MC and others involved in the mess. But, just like other SGs, if not involved with her, you the player and the MC barely interact with her nor do you know much of what's going on with her, so she's still not like a MG in that sense since MGs are practically ever present with the MC even when not on their paths and she is not.
Well, this is odd... Because Mr. DPC can
define who are the
main girls, but he can't define what an
antagonist is, and Quinn didn't show traces of antagonism except in the first episode. An antagonist must be an obstacle in the protagonist's pursuit of his (or her, since, I'm talking in general terms and not only in BaDIK's case) goal or objective. Moreover, the antagonist, unless it's a beast or a force of nature, must be consciously and actively opposing the protagonist. Quinn was merely an annoyance or a brat in a scheme that, in fact, wasn't her plan only but involved the whole of the DIKs. The first problem in BaDIK's case is: what's the goal? what's the objective? But even we ignore that, what MC's goal or purpose or objective Quinn consciously and actively opposed? The answer is none. Just for having the
restaurant isn't enough or make her an antagonist if she doesn't oppose the protagonist. There are no antagonists by accident. Unless she's scheming against the protagonist behind his back, and it will be revealed later, if Mr. DPC declared her to be a
main antagonist, he doesn't know what an antagonist is. No wonder we can barely detect what the main plot it (and, if there's one, we're still in the story introduction).
