Yeah, I looked at that set. I'm not entirely sure how to interpret it. Her looking at that photo of Brit, I can see why people would read selfless love for her daughter. And of course, maybe Neon's canon is that indeed is what she was feeling there, I don't know for sure. But based on what we see from her in the game now, I can't help but read it a little more suspiciously as something less enduring that we just can't read from the outside. I don't think we know a whole, whole lot about Isabella's or Brittani's past, so I'm not sure what exactly I'm picturing, but she's so narcissistic now, that's what I imagine in that photo too.
I guess I can see what you guys see too, if I try. If I put myself in her shoes, and assume there isn't just a lump of coal behind those beautiful, bouncy breasts, I can see a lifelong dream smashed at the shoals of motherhood. She didn't become a model, or a film star, or whatever she was picturing for herself; she became a stripper. So, in a weird way, maybe her pushing really, really hard on Brit to 'make it', is her trying desperately to ensure her daughter's future so she doesn't turn into a self-hating pole-swinger. Because for her and Brit, it seems that it's either the stars or the grime, nothing in between.
But then we see that comment she made to dark Guy, and that all basically disintegrates for me. I think this is more of an embittered mom trying to live vicariously through her daughter. Maybe the truth is that, the above interpretation is how it began, and then it got twisted along the way as she blamed her daughter more and more for how her life turned out? It's interesting to think about either way.
