I've often championed the opinion that there's no main or side girl* in HH who isn't a 10. Some are just 10+.
Nowadays, mostly still feel that way, but I think there's a bigger gap between my 10+ girls and my 10s. Ashley, the Clones, Sylvia, and (as of 16.2 though maybe not in 17) Lucia, just haven't measured up to the rest of the cast in a good while. Ashley also might crack that next update. But yeah. Still a 10, my polyamorous ass would still date them all no problem, but I'm definitely worried I'll give more attention to Maria, Android, Lin, Kali, Moon, Kate, Vanessa, Nia, and Hana.
Also Ellen and Jin have never cracked that level. Jin has some potential, but I've never seen anything I'm interested in from Ellen.
*main and side girls are the ones that have tracked events or stats. Everyone else is a background character
It takes a lot for someone to to make me not want them in the main harem, but sadly she pushes most of my buttons (bleach blond, yandere, loli-ish, etc.) and caters to none of my kinks, so when she started to threaten people (and my dick IIRC), I would have probably called the cops on her if the option had been there. Did not help that I am really touchy about being raped, and some of her early events were way too close to some things that happened to me IRL, hit way too close to home there.
So, while I do feel sorry for the kid, and I want to help her, the first half of the game was her rubbing me the wrong way at every opportunity. I kept trying to ignore what she did, while she kept poking me in the eye, metaphorically speaking.
Whereas, Felicity (for example), who started off rubbing me the wrong way, never went that far, and she caters to some of my kinks (pink hair, cat-girl), so it was easier to forgive, forget, and move on. Even Autumn's overt racism at the start did not bother me as much, because I knew she would learn better soon, she was basically brainwashed (and the game has a serious lack of redheads, so I am desperate to take what I can get there).
Ashley has one thing that keeps me going with her, and not holding a serious grudge over how it all started, my pity. I want to help as many people as I can, and she is part of that, but that kind of trust, once broken, is almost impossible to repair, I know all too well.
