- Aug 4, 2020
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This whole Maya thing...In this case, I think the difference is meaningless. I certainly don't blame Maya for the fake boyfriend ruse or keeping her painful secrets early on (when the MC was still a relative stranger). But by the time she was asking to have sex with with him in Episode 3 there's no excuse not to mention that she currently has a girlfriend and she (Maya) is really torn up about liking the MC.
Okay, that's not quite true. There IS an excuse, namely that Maya was afraid the MC would be angry and abandon her when he learned the truth. That would indeed have sucked for her and as we see, her fears were not unjustified. So I'm genuinely sympathetic. But that doesn't make it OK to hold off on mentioning Josy while still trying to start something with the MC.
Now as I said, I understand why Maya lied by omission. So personally, I'm quite willing to forgive her. But she does need to be forgiven, because there's no question that what she did was wrong. IMHO, obviously.
She's gay, inexperienced, oppressed by her father, in a failing long distance relationship, having feelings she doesn't understand for a guy she only just met...
Why should she have to put all her cards on the table?
She should be allowed to work things through without spilling her guts about everything in her life.
Fuck, I'm married and I don't even tell my wife about the people I'm fucking around the neighborhood! (Ok, I lied about the last part, but it does make the argument more compelling, no?)