Quinn is a main girl, just not a love interest.
She's actually the 2nd most important character in the game after the MC. For example, the entire plot of Ep.5 derives from Quinn's decision to push the HOTs toward the preps and not telling Tommy/Rusty about it. The DIKs storming off, the adventures in the Prep mansion, the DIK house being trashed all flows from Quinn's decision.
One could take any one LI out of the game with some rewrites, but remove Quinn and BaDIK is an entirely different game.
Maybe. Quinn and Maya are in a fierce battle for most influential NPC, and I don't think we can say for certain who has the crown until we learn just how Quinn figures into the rumor about free tuition. I know it's easy to assume the free tuition is just a side effect of Quinn's Nefarious Plot(tm), but the whole HOT financial situation is so convoluted I'm not even sure of that any more. Either way, it there's no arguing Quinn is very important.
This reminds me of a question I've been pondering. Why was Episode 5 titled "HOTheaded?"
The HOTs spend a lot of time on screen, but for the most part they are little more than fuckable props. Maya and Josy are important, but not as HOT pledges. Sage gets a big role, but she is extremely levelheaded. Melanie and Sarah reveal they have some sort of agenda, but only for those on the Sage path. The other HOTs have bit roles, and most are pretty rational.
Quinn is the driving force behind the events at the Hell Week party and she is definitely not acting rationally, so she seems to be the most likely reference. But it does seem odd to make her the titular character when she is fairly passive in the episode and barely interacts with the MC at all.
Then again, maybe it's meant to be a foreword looking title. Heather's conversation with Riona indicates even more trouble is brewing in the HOTs, and the walls continue to close in on Quinn. So maybe the title refers to the fact this is when the HOTs were committed to a self-destructive course of action that will play out over Season 2?
The previous titles had fairly straightforward meanings (though I guess you could argue Episode 3 was a sly reference to Maya's secrets finally being revealed). This one feels a lot more nebulous. So I'm just wondering if I'm missing something obvious for Episode 5.
Any thoughts?