I find the story with Zoey the Destroyer retarded.
The interlude was a waste of time, resources, and expectations. What was technical in it that we needed an aside? Her backstory shows she has a backstory. The MC is dripping in women that you can build relationships with -- which is the point of AVNs -- and that's just thrown away because some past friend figures out surfing and finding herself was less important than her most intimate relationship. It invalidates any concept of romance or relationship in the story, because some old "friend" can come back and declare their love. Ooh, we can make her be a DIK or Chick! Who cares? Is she a 2nd MC? Whose entire DIK system has been pointless since the DIK Sage path likes Chick options now.
No writer, especially not a romance one, would do this in the way it was done in a story of finding a lost love. This could not have worked, as DPC threw a giant wrench into everything he created.
Rejecting Zoey should be mandatory; perhaps some kind of writer fetish message from their past, failed girlfriends. (We certainly know the Interlude was. Ooh, what if I pursue my dream of finding myself and abandon the most important person in my life guy I play with, then perch around him for months, as I work up the courage like a poor-me retard to tell him my feelings?)
Meanwhile: Sage, Bella, Maya, x24+, etc.