I see that a lot of people here are not happy with how the main character overreacts to the news that Maya and Jill were an item. But I haven't seen anyone complain about how the main character underreacts to Quinn's ongoing torment. Which I find rather strange, considering everything that has happened since the main character was caught in the sorority house.
Things Quinn has done to the main character:
- Stripped him naked and publicly humiliated him
- Tasered him after sneaking into his room
- Attempted to rape him while he was tied to a chair
- Force fed him a used condom
- Kicked him in the balls when he turned her down.
Things the main character has done to Quinn:
- Nothing
- Not a single damn thing
Does this not strike anyone else as a little bit odd? It's not like we haven't had the opportunity to push back. Especially on the Sage route where Sage tells us that she likes how Quinn handles the sorority plans on her own. All we needed to do there was ask Sage if that includes the prostitution ring and then shit would've hit the fan. Yet, we weren't allowed to do that. We couldn't even tell Maya about it earlier when she asked why she shouldn't trust Quinn. If the main character isn't one of Quinn's johns, then he has every reason to tell Maya the truth about Quinn, and no reason not to.
MC: Don't trust Quinn, Maya.
Maya: What?
MC: She's evil!
Maya: Evil? Come on, she's just a bit... rough around the edges.
MC: Nope. EVIL. I know what she does with her girls. She uses them to earn money.
Maya: Uses them how?
MC: Just... don't trust her, Maya. Please!
Seriously, what is this nonsense? Maya just watched him get tasered by Quinn, which she wasn't told about beforehand, and then she found out that none of the other pledges were forced to grind on their guys to wake them up. Why is she defending Quinn here? And why doesn't the main character tell Maya the he suspects that the scholarship is a lie? The obvious and most likely answer to that is that Quinn is so poorly written that there needs to be unreasonable restrictions put on the main character's actions so that he doesn't effortlessly ruin her plans by doing the simplest and most obvious thing possible.
Even though the writer has to limit the main character's choices to protect Quinn's flimsy plotline about trying to whore out Maya, there's no reason why she should be getting off completely scot free here. We couldn't even follow up on Derek's lame plan to steal Quinn's clothes. There's absolutely no options for retaliation of any kind, and that makes the main character a total pushover. Sure we can tell her to eat shit, and then get immediately laughed at, but that was pitiful. Losing your cool like that just makes Quinn think she's in control. You have to maintain your composure and press the right buttons. Instead, start talking about take out food in front of Sage, so that Quinn has to sweat bullets while she prays that we don't spill the beans to Sage right then and there. A simple shot across the bow like that to get her to back the hell off would've sufficed for now. But no, we can't even get that.
I agree with you on many points, I stated some of them when I explained why I don't like Quinn.
I don't agree completely agree on the "attempted to rape" and "force fed the condom" - because that one is mostly on DIKs. Although she did take it too far, since she only had to grind in the first part. But that "tests" were their idea. And I did say I dislike the DIKs as much. They are also responsible for MC's humiliation being naked in public, not that much because of their task to steal the panties, but for not giving him at least something to wear when he brought them that panties.
I also don't understand many things about how the prostitution situation is handled in the game. Either very few know about that and MC is one of the few who're let in, or does noone thinks it's a big deal? But let's say not many people know about it. How can their "business" be profitable enough to cover free tuitions then?
I agree there should be a different way to interact with Quinn. But I believe it's being done for the sake of the story. We just have to accept that for some reason MC doesn't want to hurt Quinn. He either likes her (DIK path) or, is just unreasonably pacifistic (Chick path). Just like that situation with Maya and Josy that people argue they don't like their relationship is forced upon them in ep4, even if they didn't pursue them in previous episodes is explained by the fact it's needed for the sake of story.
Another explanation is I suppose that Quinn really is meant by the author to be "rough on the edges" and not outright evil, but he went too far in the first chapters to show how rough her character is. If you disregard her behaviour in first to chapters and consider last two (when many people started to like Quinn), you'll see her disposition towards the MC and her behaviour towards him change drastically. Although there still is that knee in the crotch in ep4 if you deny her.
Or probably she really is a hidden LI, like
M.Sato said and all the confrontation with her is being kept until we get that chance to either accept her as a LI or reject her, and possibly finally take some counteractions against her.
There's this game, Lancaster boarding house, they got that part right. There was also a bully girl, but it was your choice, to get confrontational with her or not. The thing is she practically requires a separate playthrough style from all other girls. You can get all the other girls by playing the game one way and there you have this one girl on another playthrough. So I guess DPC doesn't want to lock out Quinn just yet.
