VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.10.1] [DrPinkCake]

[DarkKiller]

I've had enough now and will quickly get this Imaginary Husband James theory out of the way.

The MC is looking at Isabella and James' wedding photo in EP5. Ergo, James can't just be an imaginary husband, because otherwise the MC couldn't see him either.

Just accept that Isabella is no longer a virgin and James will come back.

I agreed with you until you said he'll come back. I'll only believe that when I see it.
DPC didn't even had the balls to show him and Bella being cosy with each other when they supposedly were happily married, and Bella clearly still has feelings for him. Seeing as DPC avoids even the slightest hint of NTR like the plague, I just can't see it happen, at least for now as the story stands. Perhaps it'll make sense when we learn what the fuck went down between him and Bella.

 

[AchedCroissant]

Spoiler: Arguing about Zoey and I just waiting for a threesome like this with her

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[sixart]

what the fuck went down between him and Bella.

... more or less

 

[Lostanddamned]

I've had enough now and will quickly get this Imaginary Husband James theory out of the way.

The MC is looking at Isabella and James' wedding photo in EP5. Ergo, James can't just be an imaginary husband, because otherwise the MC couldn't see him either.

Just accept that Isabella is no longer a virgin and James will come back.

I'm not sure where you are getting the James is an imaginary husband part from. It's nothing I've said or mentioned in my theory, but you keep putting words in my mouth.

According to my theory and like I've told you multiple times before - James is dead and Bella has suffered a mental breakdown due to the tragic event.

People who have suffered mental breakdowns also suffer from symptoms like hallucinations, sounds or images that seem real but they aren't really there. They also at times get delusional and suffer from paranoia.

So during the flashback, James is a hallucination and Bella is talking to thin air. She seemingly can't get over the fact that he's dead and it's something that she can't accept. It's also why her boss sends her home and that guy sitting outside has an odd reaction while watching her talk to nobody.

Also, it gives a logical explanation to the locked room - James' home office or study, with his belongings and also to that library monologue "I would have cried for help".

This theory has nothing to do with Bella's virginity. It's obvious she isn't one and I couldn't care less if she lost it to James or Neil.

 

[PashafromRussia]

What if Bella has a split personality and James is one of the ego states? Bella's consciousness periodically switches from one to the other, and James's photo is a photo of some actor that one of Bella's alter imagined herself to be?
What if MС doesn't exist?
And the whole game is a fantasy of Bella who going crazy?

 

[shazba]

What if Bella has a split personality and James is one of the ego states? Bella's consciousness periodically switches from one to the other, and James's photo is a photo of some actor that one of Bella's alter imagined herself to be?
What if MС doesn't exist?
And the whole game is a fantasy of Bella who going crazy?

Someone's definitely going crazy!

 

[Kellermann]

I've had enough now and will quickly get this Imaginary Husband James theory out of the way.

The MC is looking at Isabella and James' wedding photo in EP5. Ergo, James can't just be an imaginary husband, because otherwise the MC couldn't see him either.

Just accept that Isabella is no longer a virgin and James will come back.

I never said James is an imaginary husband or even that Bella is virgin. I said that at that particular moment, at the library flashback scene, Bella was having a mental episode and James was there only as a hallucination. I have never been convinced that he is dead btw. I just think Bella has some serious problems that haven't been fully addressed. MC's magic dick may have temporarily alleviated some of her symptoms, but the underlying problem still remains. The more MC dick she gets, the calmer she becomes and less prone to "mental episodes" she is. Also, I've stated many times that I fully expect James to return. It is a juicy drama that DPC cannot miss inserting into the story. Especially now that MC has potentially chosen Bella (after DPC forced the choice of course). It is the perfect way to briefly create conflict in the MC/Bella relationship. Classic DPC storywriting.

 

[PashafromRussia]

I never said James is an imaginary husband or even that Bella is virgin. I said that at that particular moment, at the library flashback scene, Bella was having a mental episode and James was there only as a hallucination. I have never been convinced that he is dead btw. I just think Bella has some serious problems that haven't been fully addressed. MC's magic dick may have temporarily alleviated some of her symptoms, but the underlying problem still remains. The more MC dick she gets, the calmer she becomes and less prone to "mental episodes" she is. Also, I've stated many times that I fully expect James to return. It is a juicy drama that DPC cannot miss inserting into the story. Especially now that MC has potentially chosen Bella (after DPC forced the choice of course). It is the perfect way to briefly create conflict in the MC/Bella relationship. Classic DPC storywriting.

Except for one line at the end of episode 3, nothing tells us about mental problems. In addition, this line may be another example of a bad letter. Perhaps there was some dramatic event in her life.
Most likely, this is the cheating of her husband, judging by her heightened and inadequate perception of loyality.
I assume that she could expose her husband in bed with another woman. Or in some other way, like spying on him. Bella could have fought with him, even inflicted some injuries on him or his mistress, because of which he left her with a big quarrel. But they didn't get divorced and that's why Bella believes that he will come back. She forgave him, which she explicitly says in the second episode. Her husband's belongings are kept in a closed room, because she believes that he will return from another woman to him. Everything else is just fiction for which there is no confirmation.

 

[znar25]

It's been 3 months plus a week since the Interlude and DPC isn't even half way through development. August, even if you are thinking the very last day, is less than 3 months away. Thinking we'll have an August release isn't just optimistic, it's blindly optimistic bordering on delusional.

Some efficiencies could shorten the time. That is, remove all the Zoey content.

"AchedCroissant, no....I was just joking...you know....a joke..... I didn't mean nothin' by it....."

( gunshots) :::::: BOOM....BOOM::::::




As Znar fades away he hears over the radio net..... "Znar two-five is down........ Znar two-five is down........"

 

[Kellermann]

Except for one line at the end of episode 3, nothing tells us about mental problems. In addition, this line may be another example of a bad letter. Perhaps there was some dramatic event in her life.
Most likely, this is the cheating of her husband, judging by her heightened and inadequate perception of loyality.
I assume that she could expose her husband in bed with another woman. Or in some other way, like spying on him. Bella could have fought with him, even inflicted some injuries on him or his mistress, because of which he left her with a big quarrel. But they didn't get divorced and that's why Bella believes that he will come back. She forgave him, which she explicitly says in the second episode. Her husband's belongings are kept in a closed room, because she believes that he will return from another woman to him. Everything else is just fiction for which there is no confirmation.

Certainly the source of Bella's problems are from some dramatic (or traumatic) event in her life...be it James cheating, James catching Jill giving Bella a handy, the death of child, James going MIA in military action, an attempted murder (j/k on that one), James revealing he is gay, or James disappearing on a plane flight to Timbuktu, it could be any number of things. The fact that Bella had some kind of dramatic event does not disprove her mental problems. Rather, it affirms it imo.

You don't think we have been given ample bread crumbs leading to the fact that Bella has mental problems? With everything we have seen both from her actions and the internal thoughts? There is the library breakdown, the MC library post sex breakdown, the library flashback scene, the MC/Bella date breakdown outside of the library, (a lot of library breakdowns for some reason ), the fact that she rarely smiles or laughs anymore, the list can go on. If it is all just a DPC red herring then that would be a colossal eye roll.

 

[LizaS]

What if Bella has a split personality and James is one of the ego states? Bella's consciousness periodically switches from one to the other, and James's photo is a photo of some actor that one of Bella's alter imagined herself to be?
What if MС doesn't exist?
And the whole game is a fantasy of Bella who going crazy?

Someone's definitely going crazy!

 

[Cricco]

Come on, just look at her horny face. I don't have it because screenshotting makes me feel like a creep, but come on. Bella defenitely has an axe and knows how to use it.

 

[znar25]

It appears ArchedCroissant has hired a special consultant to address some of the Zoey critics.

 

[znar25]

Bella is perfect. Any other argument is nonsense.

 

[Lostanddamned]

Bella is perfect. Any other argument is nonsense.

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That scene in MC's room is going to be

 

[dalli_x]

the whole point of the final chunk of the last episode was MC's existential crisis leading to the breakfast conversation and in turn leading to his ultimate decision and the epilogue of that decision. MC was sure about his choice, that was the whole point. and having played the Interlude, Zoey literally comes back to be with MC cause she thinks he is "the one". she isnt coming back to just be friends with him lol, her entire purpose to to disrupt whatever is goin on in MC's life.

I think that is why DPC allowed us to play Zoey as DIK or NEUTRAL/CHICK. A DIK Zoey will fight for the MC because she thinks it belongs to her. But a NEUTRAL/CHICK Zoey realizes that it is her fault because she was chasing a meaningless dream and could not expect the MC to be waiting for her.

Zoey realizes this herself because of the stories she heard from Emma and Bret. But in EP8, Elena told the MC that maybe staying friends with an ex-date (ex-girlfriend?) isn't such a good idea. This suggests that DPC will give us a choice.

 

[dalli_x]

1- Religion has no place here. We are literally the members of a Den of Inequity
2- DPC is responsible for every single facet of his game, by choice. For those who think this is going to go more than a couple more chapters, do you really think he would start resolving some of the relationships here in chapter 8 if there are going to be 20? Exactly. He wouldn't. This particular story will be ending within a few more updates. 10 is my bet for the final, but for sure by 12. He can not keep up this pace. Plus he wants to do other things. So what are you going to do with the soon to hit ending???? Cry? Please, WE ARE REPROBATES. We nut and move on.
3- Look, Pink is not good at some aspects of this. He is brilliant at others. Visually he is hard to beat. Story...... not so much. So why get bent out of shape about the Jade/Stephen/Sage thing???? Just accept it as a stupid way of writing, and go on. It is always going to smell, look, and taste bad. Just gut it up and swallow!

Peace
PS
Quinn is NOT a love interest!

1) Religion is even a part of the game. Patrick is religious and therefore makes life difficult for Maya. Just because it is (in my opinion) an adult VN with intimate content doesn't mean it has to be immoral.

2) DPC doesn't break relationships, does it? Relationships change from romantic to friendly or the other way around.

3) How can you judge the story now even though it's not over yet? We all, myself included, lack the context of a completed story. That's why we have theory, fanfiction, discussion and debate.

But you are right about one thing. Quinn is not an official love interest.

 

[felicemastronzo]

. While I won't deny, that zoey arrival might shake a bit MC feelings, I dont think he will second guess his current relationship if he has any.
It will be in the hand of the players like always, and they are the one who gonna choose to go for it. And then complaining about it here..
No matter whos path their on , most people won't reject a possible sex scene, and they will complain if they can't get it, and they complain if they get it, but it has a consequence, it's just the same old circile..

I myself guilty about this too, so I know what I'm talking about..

I don't think Zoey will be just a side girl, like Riona for example, with whom we can decide whether to kiss her or not, whether to phone her or not

I believe that Zoey will be "plot," and that until she has fulfilled her plot function (after which she can be a secondary girl and that's it) MC's feelings toward her will be as predetermined as those for Josy were in the first season.

no forced sex, but we won't decide how many doubts it will put in MC's head, how many clarifying meetings the two will have to have, and we won't be able to avoid the reaction, the concern, the jealousy of the LI we had chosen

 

[dalli_x]

the patch is worse than the hole....

so Sage would willingly hide who her parents are from MC because she knows he would have his own reasons for wanting to avoid them? she basically tricks him out of selfishness, not trusting him to consciously let him choose, because she wants his support "at any cost"

come on.. the only one who has a reason why Sage is not clear is DPC

To find a conclusion. It does matter that the MC doesn't know that Stephen and Jade are Sage's parents because DPC wanted to shock the unfaithful DIKs in this player world. Boooom. It worked. Everyone who fucked Jade, Sage and more girls felt the shockwave and is now worried about the consequences. Plus point DPC.

If the players had known beforehand so Sage was a Burke, it wouldn't have gone "Boooom". Plus point DPC.

That's why DPC gave Sage the character she has. Sage is still an introvert, but she hides it, as we can read at the end of EP7. Ergo, she doesn't peddle her last name because she wants to do everything on her own. We only know that Chad, Quinn, Stephen, Jade and Tybalt know her last name. Maybe Riona too because she may have found out from Quinn. This is a very intimate group of people. Either family or closest friends.

Besides, I don't give a shit that Sage is a Burke. I see her as a good friend to my MC and she wants to help my MC's LIs. That is what is important to me and not that my MC didn't know before so Sage is a Burkle. Priorities.

 

[dalli_x]

I agreed with you until you said he'll come back. I'll only believe that when I see it.
DPC didn't even had the balls to show him and Bella being cosy with each other when they supposedly were happily married, and Bella clearly still has feelings for him. Seeing as DPC avoids even the slightest hint of NTR like the plague, I just can't see it happen, at least for now as the story stands. Perhaps it'll make sense when we learn what the fuck went down between him and Bella.

If the MC is not on Isabella's path, it would not come to NTR when James returns. Even if the MC had been on Isabella's path, I would be the last one to spoil Isabella's happiness with James.