. I don't know. I often give DPC the Benefit of doubt the, expecting him to do better, or reasonable. Just like, with the whole Jill being Virgin thing, I expected him to do better. Yeah Yeah, I don't care the whole "oh it was obvious" -shit. Her being Virgin add nothing positive to her character at all, quite the oposite, in my opinion. But that is an another long story.
May be My moral compass is off, but I fail to understand what DPC try to achieve here. I fail to understand how in any Scenario Jill could see MC as a Bully, or a Dik affinity MC as the "Bad Guy" in the story in anyway shape or form, generally speaking. When, Tybalt is the one who is lying, manipulating and Blackmailing Jill, whereas MC was nothing but Nice to Her, regardless of his Affinity. MC not putting up with Tybalt bullshit, and putting him in his place in the only way he truly understand, is make him the bad guy, the bully. I'm not buying it.
Part of me, want Jill to end up with Tybalt, to get what she deserved for her Stupidity. or at least not abel to protect her, and neither should Bella do. as long as MC and Bella, protecting guarding Jill, She not gonna grow as a person.
That is why, I hope, the whole Cold shower and "Jealousy stats " actually a positive effect for Jill. it would be great, if these Characters would actually develop, and this Affinity would be less relevant once they like you. out of nowhere Jill is sense that Dik MC is off for her, for whatever reason , regardless if he is the most nicest decent person toward her. all in all, may be I'm wrong but it has no logic for me.
and Good Hope, DPC stop doing this, " Redeeming " shit with characters. I really dont want this " I was not always Rich, I raised from where I came " bullshit, with Tybalt. Keep a pice of shit to be a pice of shit, for fuck sake. and let the Love Intrest to learn and grow and develop. Instead of keeping them in a static stage.
Thing like the Cathy's panties is much more believable, scenarios, than the secret " Force Power" that does not make sense regarding of the context fo the story , as in the Jill Blackmail story. Dik MC is 'off" for, her. Tyblat who actually doing the shit is with her is okay,.
like I said, it's probably me, but it does not make any sense to me. but hey at least we can be Neutral. - that is something
I don't see it quite the same way. I don't think DIK affinity automatically makes someone a "bad" guy, but I do think it leans towards that in a way CHICK affinity doesn't. (
Though that is arguably a result of how poorly realized the whole affinity system is in the first place.)
In the case of Tybalt, it's a matter of proportion. For all his lying, manipulation and condescension, the guy is zero threat. His vendetta against the MC accomplished nothing more than ruining the mansion's ground floor (and potentially his teeth). His first "date" with Jill would probably have torpedoed any chance the guy ever had with her even without Bella's interference. Hell, his whole master plan amounts to little more than wasting ~8 hours of Jill's life. Tybalt is
useless, and at a certain point that becomes a problem.
Just as an adult humiliating a young child will always look bad no matter how big a brat the kid might be, the MC really shouldn't keep wailing away on Tybalt like this - not unless Tybalt manages to win a round or two against him first. You can say that's unfair to DIK affinity to punish them for taking DIK options, but I'd say the real mistake was framing DIK options as being so disproportionately cruel. I'm not saying Tybalt should be "redeemed;" I don't think that will happen and I definitely don't think it needs to happen. What I am saying is that Tybalt could become unintentionally sympathetic if the MC keeps tormenting him like someone pulling the legs off an ant.
On top of that, there's the fact that Jill, at least as currently presented, seems like exactly the wrong person to see the humor in the MC running up the score this way. Some girls could' Quinn, for example, would probably be a little too enthusiastic for my taste. But Jill isn't wired that way; if she were, there would be no need for this charade because she'd have slapped Tybalt and told him to fuck off a long time ago.
Jill can't simultaneous be such a pure and innocent soul that she refuses to trust her lying eyes but ALSO chuckle at the MC repeatedly making Tybalt suffer long past the point where he could offer meaningful resistance. To me, that smacks of protagonist centered morality. In theory Jill's arc could involve her rejecting that naive innocence and deciding Tybalt really does have it coming. But arcs in this game have been very slow so far. The longer we see the MC extract revenge for offenses Tybalt couldn't hope to inflict with both hands and a SWAT team, the harder it will be for Jill to credibly conclude he deserved it.
So yeah, unless Tybalt becomes a legitimate threat (and I think that ship has sailed), if the MC keeps this shit up it should cost him a shot at Jill's path. But that doesn't mean I think she should simply dump him without warning. What I want to see is for Jill and a DIK-ish MC to grapple with their different personalities. That's where I think things like the jealousy stat could have beneficial side-effects. As Jill can say, pursuing a DIK MC isn't the storybook romance she expected. But the fact that she's torn up about it means she must care about the MC.
So why not lean into that? Let a DIK MC and Jill explore what they like and dislike about each other. Let them try to work out ways in which each can change to give them more common ground. Do "Grease" without requiring the characters pull the full 180 in the last second. If an MC insists on doing everything his way, yeah, Jill will ultimately write him off. But if he's willing to reign in his excesses a little, then he can encourage Jill to come around and recognize why Tybalt is so loathsome in the first place.
No idea if DPC would actually do something like that, of course, but that's the only way to salvage something worthwhile out of the whole Tybalt mess. And I think it has the potential to be a lot more involving than the simple storybook romance the CHICKs would get.
