Give me your top 3 girls that are "wife material". I'll go with:
- Sage (of course)
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- Bella (love doesn't care about age gaps)
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- Jill (even though I don't like her very much
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Well this one sparked a lot of thought. Coincidentally I fully agree on this down to the order. Jill does have some strong competitors for third place, but it is rightfully hers. I could go into detail and extend the list to top five or maybe even ten, but there is something more important that must be addressed first.
What might surprise some people is me putting Sage before Bella on my list. This does not mean I suddenly favour Sage over Bella because I don't. I put Sage first because with absolutely everyone else marriage is left to the imagination of the player. With Sage it is straight up shown. And it is shown so heavily that I have often thought MC might marry her during game rather than in the epilogue.
I'm going to straight up predict it. In episode 12 on Sage's path there will be a marriage proposal. What I dread is DPC being an asshole and making it a cliffhanger so we won't get the answer until ep 13. What excites me is that I can see Sage being the one who does the proposing. Not as in her doing the tradition in gender reversal and getting down on her knee with a ring, but rather just suddenly blurting it out. The episode goes through its twists and turns and then while watching the fireworks MC says something optimistic about the next year and future in general and Sage just blurts out what she feels. It could be the other way around too, but I really want to see Sage have that moment.
Now if Sage were the only one with a proposal she wouldn't just steal the episode but the whole season if not the entire game so the other mains probably have their own versions of this. I could easily see Jill and Bella having their own moments, but the episode has to do some work in setting it up. I can see it, but I wouldn't suspect it happening if I wasn't so sure of Sage and that's why Sage has the number one spot.
The trick is that while the proposals might make the paths formulaic the relationships will be very different from each other. I see Jill as having the classical romance version and the proposal being a part of her ILY moment which is why she didn't have one in ep 11. The big difference between Sage and Jill is that with Jill she and MC will be engaged in season 4 and plan their wedding. With Sage she and MC elope and season 4 is them actually being married. With Jill everyone will be excited about them getting married. With Sage everyone will be shocked that they got married.
Bella I see as being VERY different. I think the ILY might come fairly early in the episode perhaps even as a part of dealing with the secret room shock. After that Bella's past will get a lot of attention and MC will help her with all her emotional scars. By the end of the episode marriage is an afterthought because what Bella wants is a child. Season 4 with Bella is about preparing for parenthood and dealing with the obstacles of a student/teacher romance. The marriage isn't delayed because they want to plan a big wedding, but because Bella has to get legally divorced before they can get married. Emotionally they are getting used to a relationship that is de facto a marriage and that is why Bella is a challenge to Sage's position as the number one rather than being only just ahead of Jill.
I actually ended up making a lot of predictions there. I do have some ideas for other paths too, but they are more vague and this post is enough of a wall as it is. But one last prediction. If MC had the Quinn/Riona threesome he can't propose to Jill because he won't have enough money for a ring. This might block other proposals too, but definitely Jill's.
