- Feb 26, 2021
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I did backpeddle on my Quinn simping from my original post when it was rightly pointed out to me that Quinn's actions hurt the DIKs' and the HOTs' reputation. I was looking at the scene from Quinn's POV which I still think she's correct about - she had no choice but to ditch the DIKs and go solicit the preps because she was short her dues. Tommy has absolutely no ground to stand on criticizing Quinn on anything she did, which is why she appears to win the argument with him, but anyone else from the DIKs or HOTs has ample ground to call her out on her shit obviously.I can't agree at all; no matter how badly Quinn needed the money, there was no excuse not to tell Tommy and/or Rusty the HOTs were ditching so the DIKs could make other plans. That was Tommy's point, and on that point he was 100% correct. Not only was that Quinn's job (explicitly given to her by Sage), but it's the sort of basic courtesy any friend should do for another. Instead, Quinn ducked the responsibility leading to a completely predictable clusterfuck, then lashed out when people called her on her mistake.
Pointing out all the Tri-Alpha parties Tommy ruined is a bizarre defense, because Tommy has never had anything but contempt for the jocks. Are we supposed to take that as an indication Quinn hates Tommy and the DIKs? That seems unlikely, and yet here we are. Quinn would rather avoid a tough conversation than admit she might need some help - even when (as Tommy pointed out) there was no way to avoid that conversation permanently.
Quinn is completely in the wrong on this. I think that's precisely why she's so angry about it; it's hard to maintain her self-image as a cunning chessmaster when her pawns can easily point out her mistakes. Unfortunately, the only way Quinn seems able to deal with that dichotomy is to completely stonewall any sense of introspection and lash out whoever tries to help her make the connection.
And I think that says everything we need to know about Quinn. She's on some industrial-strength denial.
But put yourself in Quinn's shoes for a minute and consider - what choice did she really have? She had to ditch the DIKs or be short on her dues to some drug dealers. Telling the DIKs, and Tommy, wouldn't have changed the fact that the were getting ditched for the preps, and Tommy likely would have reacted the exact same way by feeling betrayed (despite doing nothing but fuck things for the DIKs himself) and starting shit with the preps anyway, possibly ruining Quinn's chances to make up her losses. Again this is playing Quinn's Advocate, she's clearly in the wrong as a drug dealing super-bitch, but Tommy ain't no better. He's a walking liability and Quinn looks out for #1, I wouldn't have told his junky ass anything either. Yeah she could have somehow cushioned the blow for the DIKs and HOTs but it was a tough position.
I don't think Riona will be okay even WITH our help, I think DPC is setting her up for a fall. Riona is super nice to everyone, non-judgmental, is getting her own establishing scenes, and is the poster-character for Quinn's drug and prostitution services. If anything goes wrong, and it will, better believe Riona's gonna take a hit. I hope we can save her from it cuz I'm a big fan of the character but yeah. I do think that something happening to Riona would impact Quinn a lot, at least from the proximity of the fallout.Given that the only way to help Riona is to fuck her, I'm hoping she'll be okay without our help, too.
And frankly, I'm skeptical this will make much of an impact on Quinn either way, unless the connection between her own actions and what happens to Riona is extremely short and extremely direct. Quinn's mental filter is too strong for any sort of indirect consequence to break through.
You know why I'm favoring Quinn over Chad bro, it's cuz she hot af. No doubt Quinn is morally worse than Chad, I agree that Quinn is probably #2 or even #1 asshole in the game, if you don't go on her route she's Queen Cunt to some really cool people, including MC. I never claimed that Quinn shouldn't receive any retribution for what she's done, I'm not dilusional, I just wanna bang her. If Quinn were a man or not hot, I'd give her the Tybalt treatment ASAP. Truth is though, Chad deserves to get his cock kicked in by someone, nothing hyperbolic about it. Comparing him to Quinn doesn't lessen that fact.Chad was an asshole, I'm not eager to defend him. But I don't think lunging straight to blunt, violent retribution is the best way to handle this sort of situation.
Besides, I don't understand why Chad deserves a beating for all his sins while Quinn gets the soft glove treatment despite her putting both Sage and Maya through a considerable share of shit on her own (and that's before her little pimping ring has been discovered - it can get much worse for Sage!). Quinn also uses drugs, uses the HOTs for her own benefit, allows beefs to get started between the DIKs and HOTs, and (unlike Chad) takes a personal pleasure in tormenting those under her control; you'll note that Chad does not flip off the MC when walking away (even if the MC remained silent during the hearing).
It's one thing to advocate hyperbolic beatings to fictional characters that happen to be assholes, but it's another to claim that only certain assholes merit that treatment. The only bigger asshole in the game than Quinn is Burke. YMMV, obviously, but that's how I see it.