for a large part of the chapter I liked Derek too, the scratch card gag was also funny, the memory of the Halloween party cute.
but in the finale there's the usual excess of pathetic drama typical of DPC, Derek claiming to be at BR just to protect Maya, the same Derek we've seen so often drunk and completely caught up in nonsense without any use (if it was for a girl...).
never mind that one of his first gestures was to send a perfect stranger to his sister's room, who at this point in the story could be Quinn's future right-hand man one step away from being expelled from college. but apart from warning Maya of Patrick's visits (apart from the only visit that mattered) how would he have protected her?
There's no pathetic drama here.
This is a script move that shows the character's double bottom. Most of the time we see Derek, a cheerful and reckless guy, such a typical Stifler from teenage school comedies. Derek is a comedic relief and his task is to amuse the player.
But here strange things begin, it seems like we see that he is a complete idiot, but at other moments suddenly reasonable thinking awakens in Derek - dude is cunning, pulling off various schemes with his studies, and behaves consciously about Throuple relationships, stops following the image of a chatterbox. Something doesn't add up.
This is described quite cleverly in Ep. 10 - we can find the answer in Sage/MC's (Sage route) dialogue at the party when they discuss Maya's family:
“I don’t know about Maya, but Derek seems to dull the pain with jokes and stupid things. I joke about it too, and it helps me.”
Derek is not a stupid idiot. This is his mind's defense mechanism. He found how to distract himself from the nightmare in which he lives, so as not to burn out. People are always trying to distract themselves from the bad things. Some people can’t stand it and fall into drug addiction and alcoholism, some find a hobby that helps them distance themselves, some behave unusually, Derek protects his mind with humor and stupid antics. Quite humanly and everything fell into place.
never mind that one of his first gestures was to send a perfect stranger to his sister's room, who at this point in the story could be Quinn's future right-hand man one step away from being expelled from college.
I don't see any problem here. MC being on Quinn's route is not going to harm Maya in any way, just like Quinn, who was the object of trolling on her part, but real harm? No. And Quinn is now completely neutral towards Maya, they act towards each other as if they don't exist, which is good.
And secondly, how does Derek know about this? MC didn't tell Derek that he and Quinn have become close, well, I see a problem here out of nowhere.
I did it Right but still I missed
