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Romeo and Juliet also had sex before their relationship (and lives) ended, and right now it doesn't seem like we're going to get that with Jill unless we break it off with everyone else.Ive long called their storyline for having parallels to the play. I’ve written about it many times, Tybalt blackmail isn’t a million miles removed from the death threats he sends in the play and obviously MC/Jill hiding their relationship now is how Romeo and Juliet end up. Also Derek has more than a passing resemblance to Mercutio (Romeos best friend) in terms of his role in the story and personality. That said, suicide isn’t the only option to keep the similarities going.
This isnt a theory, just a bit of fan fiction really, but Jill/MC story playing out with a sudden confusion not causing them to end their lives but to mutually end their lives as they know it would work.
Miscommunication leads to Jill walking away from her life and wealth to be with MC, at the same time the MC walks away from DIK’s, Uni and perhaps even a relationship with his father to be with her because like in the play they got their wires crossed and confusion caused them to both make huge sacrifices.
It would also lead to, in my opinion, a nice bittersweet ending for the MC which is him being in exactly the situation his father was, but with the hope it will play out differently because his partner survives. Him a dropout working manual labour, his partner a former rich girl madly in love with him having given up her wealth to be together. I dunno, the story coming full circle would be nice. Like I said, pure fan fiction but shows there’s ways for them to “end their lives” for one another without actually killing themselves.
Honestly, I'd really like it if the MC makes good on that pledge to climb up to her balcony, whether he went on the date and said it or not, in order to talk to Jill and she finally gives in to her feelings and they have wild, passionate sex in her room. I feel like this could work on both paths because whether he went on the date or not, Jill could still end up avoiding him for a large part of Ep 7 and perhaps they run into each other on campus and there's just some dialogue differences like, "Are you avoiding me?", on the non-date path, and, "I thought you'd decided not to avoid me", on the date path. Then the MC gets frustrated at her avoiding him and decides to climb up to her room and, badda-bing-badda-boom, we get her first proper sex scene.
Does make me think sometimes that these games with so many female characters can be more detrimental than positive because not only do you have to balance them, even when they're not all main LIs, but you also have to contend with being besieged by people wanting more action with side girls who aren't meant to have a major role.I like BADIK, and playing it again made me remember why.
But PDC seems to me to struggle to make the different stories with different LIs travel at the same speed, if the game gets longer this difficulty will come out even more.
BADIK is a very ambitious game, which focuses on a choral cast with different intersections between the different characters, perhaps condensing the story will be good for everyone
This story honestly could be paced a lot better and could easily go to 12+ episodes, but perhaps if DPC wasn't doing this alone it would be better because then there's more people to share the load and it would get done faster, because 3-5 years working at this pace by yourself seems like an exhausting and daunting prospect for anyone.