I honestly think that DPC is sort of pushing the 'get with Bella, but still like Jill' path as the 'true' path for Jill. The reason for it is very simple - if you 'like' the current version of Jill, you are liking a character who was created by her parents to be a model daughter, as opposed to Lana who was more of a rebel and would have been good friends with Sage. For mine, Jill as she is at the moment is incredibly repressed emotionally - she can't even say that she hates Tybalt (even though it's abundantly clear that she does). She'll never express herself the way that would allow her to tell Bianca that she is being cheated on...everything is always about 'how it will look' rather than what it makes her feel. She's even internalising everything when she has sex, FFS - to the point where she literally thinks that she hopes she can orgasm - instead of just enjoying it, it's more about the 'performance'.
But if you go down the Bella, but still have feelings for Jill route, you are forcing her to face the fact that her naïveté is not always going to be viewed as cute and wholesome. At the moment, she is the same character as Sandy Olsen that is mocked in the movie Grease with the song “Look at me, I’m Sandra Dee”. Well, in that movie, Sandy does her own introspection at one point:
Look at me
There has to be
Something more than what they see
Wholesome and pure
Oh so scared and unsure
A poor man’s Sandra Dee
It’s at that point that she enlists the help of a friend to change her image - and I’ve always thought that Jill will go through the same radical transformation, probably with the help of Sage (who will become friends with her). You can start to see her becoming more extroverted based on the costume she chooses to wear to the party - if you’re on the pure Jill path, she’s very wholesome and not sexy at all. But on any other path, she is wearing the bee outfit - either as a way to flaunt to the MC what he turned down (if she liked him) or as a way of being less of a prude. On the Bella/Jill path, it’s most definitely both.
Jilly, you must start anew
Don’t you know what you must do?
Hold your head high
Take a deep breath and sigh
“Goodbye to Sandra Dee”
Jill simps get the neutered, watered down version - the goody two shoes princess/ugly duckling who they can keep locked in a cage, which is what they want. Real Jill fans who want to see her grow and blossom get the sexy as fuck, lady in the street but a freak in the bed/beautiful swan that soars.
). But that still doesn't make her the best LI for me - I like Josy and Bella more.
