Quinn never promised anyone a mother fucking thing. Maya assumed and when you assume you make an ass out of u and me. Then she had the audacity, the unmitigated gall, to slap Quinn for a lie Quinn never told. Maya was shooting her mouth off to the MC about free tuition the first time they met. That was before we even knew there was a Quinn.
I want to know how Maya could afford her books in the first place without any tuition money. How the fuck did she even get in the door without paying her tuition? That's a real hole in the writing. Asking the game player to suspend reality (the reality the game itself creates) when the plot forgets to connect events is what leads to these arguments.
Besides, one look at Maya and Quinn would know nobody is paying for that shit when they can get Riona, Camilla, Sarah, et. al.
We also need to return to a rather important plot twist:
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Maya didn't even get mentioned in this conversation. So, no, you're not wrong.
Maya wasn't mentioned for the same reason Mona and Camila weren't: she'd already been accepted as a pledge. Ash, Lily and Josy were candidates Quinn was supposed to vet before allowing them to pledge. There was nothing further for Quinn to do in Maya's case, hence no reason to mention her.
Although I've been a big proponent of the "James is dead" camp, after spending that time analyzing her for that post, I'm starting to think it's more simple:
She cheated on him, he cheated on her (not in that particular order) and they split.
I'm thinking he cheated on her with Jade (hence her animosity towards Jade) and she cheated on him with Jill (based on that uncomfortable scene when the mc and Jill both sleep over at Bella's, as well as a comment Bella makes to herself about fooling around with friends).
She was angry at the time, but up until the MC came along, she really wanted James back. Once the mc came along, it significantly complicated her feelings. Considering cheating ended her marriage, but she still held out hope of patching it up, cheating with the MC was definitely not going to help things.
Finally she's come to terms with the idea that James isn't coming back, so she's happy to move on with the mc.
I'm not sold on the above, but it's highly plausible.
All that said, while I love to harp on about her being a crazy bitch, she doesn't really come across all that crazy, she's just upset about her husband and struggling to move on and she just doesn't tolerate too many people.
She also has an ax in her shed (so do I for that matter, and a hack saw, a jig saw, a lathe, and a whole lot of other shed related tools), but I think the idea that she murdered her husband is just a fun theory, there's no real indication.
I'm mostly with you on Bella, but given all the virgin drama from Jill in Episode 7 I'm pretty sure she didn't 'cheat' with Bella.
I'm sticking with the theory that Bella was
a lot wilder in her youth. She tried to tone it down after getting married, but either couldn't or something else went wrong and she blamed herself for the failure. That's why she's so damn straight-laced these days, why she was borderline panicked by her 'adultery' in Episode 6, why she says the MC couldn't handle her when all her stops are out, and why the future MC said he would have called for help in the infamous Episode 3 monologue.
Considering her disdain for the HOTs to start with (I don't know if she cares for any of them any more than she did initially other than perhaps Ashley who wasn't a HOT at the time anyway), it is sad that Sage is now going out of her way to try and help such a two-faced person to come back into the HOT's fold.
Sage takes "Don't turn on each other" seriously; Maya joined the HOTs, so she's Sage's sister now. You don't always get along with siblings, but you are supposed to be there for each other.
And frankly, I think it would have been a terrible look for Sage to ignore Maya storming out after brushing off Maya's concerns AND her knowing full well Quinn has some judgement issues.
I don't hate Maya, she's pretty much as flawed as the next person, but unfortunately for her, her one major problem (her dad controlling her finances) has become her main defining characteristic (other than her liking movies).
But who knows, get her out from under her father's thumb and she might have a chance to be a whole different person.
I'd love to see Maya grow too, but I do think it's worth reminding everyone that Maya's character arc isn't that she needs tuition. It's that her asshole father is a control freak who has done everything in his power to prevent Maya from living her own life. The idea that she'd instantly shrug off the feeling of helplessness he deliberately instilled in her seems ridiculously optimistic. She needs to walk before she can run.
Remember the picture of Steve. This option controls which mother Josy has.
CHICK: Lana is alive and Josy is her daughter. However, Lana has changed and may return to the family. I think that the Josy/Maya/MC throuple only works here. If the MC forgives Steve, it could be that in the end Lynette (if she is still alive) forgives Neil because of a fling.
NEUTRAL=1 Cock: Lana is alive and Josy is her daughter. Lana has not changed and when Josy changes from Neutral to Chick, Josy will learn that Jill is her aunt. But Lana and Josy will still not be readmitted to the family.
DIK=2 Cocks: Either Lana is not her mother or Lana is the madame who is also Tommy's mother. Who says that Lana didn't have twins. Derek and Maya are already very different. This is also Josy's single route. But be careful, Josy will do anything the MC does.
Good grief, Dalli. At this rate I think you're going to hit full meltdown before we start season 3. Please tell me you don't have the corkboard with red strings yet?
Maya would never have ratted out Quinn on the prostitution. That would have required Maya to actually do something, an action that Maya seem's to be incapable of. And don't kid yourself that Maya would never have accepted Quinn's offer. She folded under pressure and gave the MC a grind job.
I think she would have happily ratted Quinn out anonymously, but I doubt she'd want to get involved in a big public scandal. Her dad would NOT like hearing she was pledging a sorority without telling him, and she certainly couldn't explain her real reason.
As for whether she would have accepted Quinn's offer, probably not. I think that like Camila Maya would have insisted on limits to her activities that Quinn wouldn't have agreed to (based on what we know of the way Quinn's operation runs, of course). Given time it's
possible Quinn could have worn Maya down, but Maya needed the money too urgently for Quinn to pull that off.
