Thanks
mnotwoke for directing me towards this post, i think it's really smart and sums her up really well.
Tori is bitchy and full of attitude, but doesn't go out of her way to create conflict.
Sometimes she shows a hint of a softer side, on both scenes(after the race and at the beach) with her she seems very guarded about enjoying kissing and caressing, sounds like something holding her back, can't allow herself to get romantic.
She gets a bad rep because at times scenes are tonally against her, the early scene at the bar is one such example, it's portrayed in very pro-Layla way, we see what Layla is thinking and that Tori flirting with MC pisses her off, but from Tori's perspective she's just flirting with the new hot guy in school, just doing her thing.
Only after getting rejected (and over Layla who she seems to have some dislike), she shows some claws.
I also find it interesting that she seems to have no issues with Valeria, just Layla and Elena... interesting wrinkle that she doesn't hate every hot girl competing with her for male attention.
Elena who btw knows Tori enough to know that she hates being called by her full name Victoria, so again maybe some history here...
Is it possible that "good girls" Elena and Layla
started rumors about her way back in the day?And she just embraced it?
That would justify the animosity.
The only thing that is really shitty is the whole "she doesn't fuck losers", maybe her path should've had dual entrances(and i don't mean front door and back door
), like if you fucked her earlier and licked her during stretching... she still gives you a shot.
I think there's a way to do that without toning down her "Tori-ness", just start the scene with her sarcastic about your loss instead of sympathetic.
And we get to fire right back at her "poor" performance and we get a "losers" path to Tori.
If you didn't fuck her in the early portion of the game then maybe she only comes at you if you win the race.