But she won't keep her job and her reputation if she's in relationship with a student and neither Burke and Tybalt will accept this. That's why they kept their relationship a secret. That's the whole point.
Maya did lie when she said she had a boyfriend, then she covered it with a half truth. Half truth that was way more damaging than the lie itself. I get that she wanted to be honest (but not completely honest), but only managed to screw it up even more. She had good intentions but managed to get everything worse, that's why I said she's unintentionally toxic.
Perhaps i haven't been here long enough to know about this animosity you are talking about. What i've mostly seen is the "dishonest while expecting honesty" part. Having dealt with such people myself, i have to admit that this is what made me dislike her the most.
I agree with this. I don't want the LI's to go poof either. Especially on a small campus where you're bound to run in to people. However if I kill the romance part of it then I want that part to go poof. Kind of hard to be just friends if I keep having to read the MC's internal monologue about how much he still cares. SIGH
Maya may have made a mistake, yes, but I think describing her as "toxic" is a bit much especially when, again, you consider the MC's part in all of this.
The player did this to himself not the MC (with DPC's help). Your above situation only works on the M&J path. On the DIK route the above story never happens. I never tell Maya I like her, I don't agree to help her, etc. etc. However the underlying story still happens because DPC failed to take into account that we may make different choices than the ones he needs to happen.
in this way, however, we give Maya all the mitigating factors and the MC all the aggravating ones
This can also happen on a DIK route because, as we know, players can still take the M&J path through the first 3 chapters whilst also making DIK choices but they ultimately get rejected because of their DIK status. This is certainly the player's choice, but if we look at these events as though they are a fixed, canon story, then it can be viewed as the protag's fault for not recognising the red flag of Maya not wanting guys to be interested in her and pursuing her anyway.
She tells him she doesn't want guys to be attracted to her. That should have given him pause to wonder why and maybe back off a little and instead just try to be her friend not pursure her romantically.
I know her family issues are deeper than having a date with me when she was alone at home, but that was the reason why his dad grounded her. I am her friend and I want to act like a good friend so I went there hoping to be able to explain him that situation. Then it happens that my presence results completely unnecesary, well I'm glad but also feel mislead by the way that choice was presented. OK, no hard feelings. And I admit escorting her to the dorm might have been a mistake on my part. But again, I just felt it was the friendly thing to do. But DPC doesn't allow me to behave as a friend even after making a choice that implies I just want to be friends, he wants me to absolutely ignore them to make clear I'm just a friend. Well, that's not what being a friend means, at all. Only now I know she still feels something for me... and my only option to keep things in the friendzone is telling Derek I'm not interested? Really? That's why I feel the intermediate, probably wrong played paths are not that well fleshed out.
but at the same time she never drives MC away with her actions
And here I thought he was just going to do the main LIs.
(Although it's quite the contrast with Josy who pretty much bared it all and Riona being a teasing little minx. )
The problem with this is that its fixed. Even if you tell Maya that you aren't interested, even if you refuse to help her, even if you actively try to push her away the whole emotional attachment still happens. There is not a way to just "be friends". I understand what you are referring to however you refuse to understand mine. This is a plot hole that refuses to acknowledge the players choices and just runs off as if we never made a choice in the first place. Not everyone pursues her, I realize you like her but not everyone else shares your attraction. The game refuses to acknowledge that some people want absolutely nothing to do with her.
Was he? I don't think so. She admits she says that to prevent guys from hitting on her, then she tells us that. The sensible thing to think is that she's available. It's not the MC's fault not to understand what she's not saying. That's why I said she made it worse by saying she lied. And after that she had lots of opportunities to tell us not to go any further and she didn't until it blew in her face. That's her fault and her fault only. Not doing anything and hoping everything ends up fine by itself without her doing anything. That's Maya.
The lie was better than the half truth at preventing the MC not to hit on her. The MC can't read minds. I still can't believe you pin the blame of the half truth on the MC...
I think most of it is just people filling time while waiting for the next episode. I was much more disappointed with the MC in my main play through (episode 4 he was pretty whiny - although someone pointed out he's an 18 year old with limited social experience which makes that much easier to accept). I went back later and did another play through to get the rejection from Maya/Josy and that one felt like they were wrong to me since all through episode 4 they want to talk to the MC and when they have the talk and reject him it makes it seem to me like they set him up (to the MC it isn't like that at all since he falls right into friend mode). If the game was further along I think most people would play past those scenes and be focused on the rest of the story, most of the character bashing comes from needing to occupy their time.
I think I know why... Because it would be insensitive towards her character considering the events that might transpire in the upcoming episode.quite the contrast with Josy who pretty much bared it all and Riona being a teasing little minx.
You do realize that all of this is the same for bella right? and its actually worse when you consider we dont know what the situation is with her husband or the secret room but her relationship with the mc will be the same as jades would be. At least with Jade we know why she's cheating on her husband and i don't really see tybalt or burke being an issue when it comes to jade's relationships. Now obviously at the moment theres not even an inkling that the mc or jade are wanting to be more then fuck buddies but i'm just saying that im open to the idea of jade getting a proper route as shes currently one of my favorite characters.
I think Quinn is the 6th LI but also the antagonist for the story. As I said before she is Vader to someone else’s (probably Vinny’s) Emperor. She will have a proper ending, but it might happen before the final episode or even season.
