Mona also won’t answer her phone, she took her shit and left.
Maya on the other hand slapped Quinn in front of everyone and stormed out. Sage see’s her at the library and has a conversation with her.
She can’t have a conversation with Mona, because she isn’t sat in the library to be approached, because she left. She also won’t answer her phone. What more can Sage do?
That's an extremely poor explanation, I´m afraid. I know most of the people here are fans of this game. I´m too (well, mostly... I´m playing right now the "CHIK" path with Jill and it´s cheesy as fuck. That scene of the picnic and the horses...
![Cautious :cautious: :cautious:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
) but I think we shouldn´t always be so eager to justify the writer.
Mona doesn´t take the phone, so Sage doesn´t even care any more about her... She could, at least, talk with the HOTs that were close with her, try to understand why she left so suddenly after being accepted in the sorority, even try to talk with her family... But it´s all about Maya. Because it has to be, for plot purposes, even if it doesn´t make any sense. That part is extremely poorly written. It would only have some sense if the MC is not at all into Sage's path.
Why Sage would be so eager to get involved into the life of the ex-lover of his lover? (again, Sage knows that the MC had a story with Maya if the MC goes to live with her after leaving Maya's room) Just because Maya leaving make the HOTs look bad? Poorly written.
It´s like the MC being suddenly best friend of Chad and helping him with his problems, in spite of the harm that did to Sage. Even if the writer forces the MC to forgive Maya and they have to be friends (something that, equally, is really poorly written. The fucking MC has to be a saint or something, forgiving so easily humiliations and lies from women he has been in love?), it´s really weird that the new romantic interest of the MC is so eager to trust, befriend and help the MC´s old romantic interest. The most I think about that scene of Sage being so nice and caring about Maya, someone that barely knows and has reasons to not to be so fond about, the worst it looks to me. Sage is also a saint, suddenly? And she knows how to get thousands of dollars for the tuition of students? Why she doesn´t help first Riona, Camila, or even the MC? The MC is going to have to get into debt to pay his own tuition... but Maya, the drama queen, is more important for Sage? Again, only makes (kind of) sense if the MC and Sage have cero relationship, like a "massive CHIK" gameplay.
The writer trying so hard to inspire the player that artificial heartwarming feeling with scenes like this one (and others even worse) is going to destroy the game. Sage was the only female character among the students that is not either a bitch, a slut, or a so-sweet-that-gives-diabetes brat and/or prude, but it seems that the writer is loosing her.