Basically everyone here except maybe two people has completely misrepresented what i was saying, so I don't know if I need to somehow clarify or what but I will try:As for Annie's reaction:
Have you stopped to think why Annie hasn't made a move on Orion despite being love with him for years?
The main reason is because she believes he would never like her. So she suppresses her feelings and hopes
It's not so much, "Oh he flirted with the waitress, therefore he's a bad guy, therefore I'm not interested in him anymore"
It's much more, "Oh...I guess...he's not really all that into me. Okay then, I guess I'm not too surprised. I was dumb to think otherwise."
As for the other girls: Annie knows there's genuine love. That's what this game's about. And she's choosing to believe that Orion's love for the others doesn't diminish his love for her. Flirting with the waitress isn't love though, it's just an indication that sexual attention is flippantly unimportant.
What? I genuinely don't know what point you're trying to make.Well if we were, then going in without foreplay shouldn't be an issue to a person's first time as well.
100 agree with ya.(general commentary on the Annie/Orion waitress debate)
Annie's reaction to Orion flirting with the waitress when he's supposed to be on a date with her – her not having arrived at that point is irrelevant – is fully in character for her. She can accept him being interested in the rest of the girls in their group because she knows they all have a real bond (though at the moment he's not openly with any of them – none of them know for sure that he's been with anyone but them, as far as I am aware). The waitress is a random. If Annie is so unimportant to him that he would, to all appearances, be willing to have sex with a random – which is exactly what the waitress was aiming for and she was not shy about making that obvious, so this was not innocent flirting that was never intended to go anywhere – why would she want to be with him?
The fact that they've been friends for so long, with them recently admitting their feelings, makes it more likely, not less, that this behaviour would snap her back to friend mode. She let herself be vulnerable and at the first opportunity he's considering propositions of sex from a waitress at the restaurant where they're having their first proper date.
This is different to previous experiences with Eva and Maat. Orion wasn't romantically involved with any of the girls at that point. He had no idea of any of them having an interest. He was a free agent. With the waitress, in context of where they are in their relationship at that time, his flirting would constitute a major betrayal of Annie's trust.
It's true that stories do not have to be realistic, but they should be internally consistent. And that reaction is internally consistent with Annie's character and her relationship with Orion.
I think it a little odd that an opportunity to exit the relationship with Annie was offered so late in the day. If you're committed to the date surely you want to follow her path. So it being an option was a surprise. But her reaction if you flirt, that was not.
Basically, even when you're a harem master, if you go flirting with a stranger when you're supposed to be on a date with a girl, you deserve everything that you're about to get.(general commentary on the Annie/Orion waitress debate)
Annie's reaction to Orion flirting with the waitress when he's supposed to be on a date with her ....
The point I was making was that even if the game has fantastical elements and has its own rules as you have pointed out, there are still certain common sense things that exist in our reality that are still true in the setting.What? I genuinely don't know what point you're trying to make.
When you create a reality for a story, you have to set the rules of that reality and then follow those rules, only breaking them with good reason, or you lose immersion. If one of the rules is "guy is head of a harem which openly includes several women," then having one of those women completely cut out because of a pretty minor incident seems odd. Again, no issue with her being mad or it causing conflict, just the complete cut off seems too far to me.
But if one of the other rules is "master of the harem is caring and protective of his girls," then having him want them to feel comfortable and loved and feel good when they're having sex makes perfect sense. It's completely within the rules of the story's reality. Just because a story differs from objective reality doesn't mean nothing matters and it's a total free for all.
ETA: I really hope this isn't what you're going for, but on the off chance you're equating taking a girl's virginity with no warmup to flirting with a waitress then you're way off the deep end and we're having completely different conversations.