All of this is why I find Erynn 'dangerously' naive, and immature.
Erynn is naive sexually, as she has only had the one partner in Zane.
This *leads* to immaturity in her interactions with the MC in the sexual situations they find themselves in if you go down that route.
She's also looking at the MC as the 13 year old who left(for a good portion of time at the beginning). She froze him in time on an emotional level, even when she's acknowledging his physical growth and changes. That is an immature thing to do because shes kept the MC in her head as her friend of yesteryear, without taking a little time to get to know the man in front of her.
I'd even argue that she was dangerously immature with herself because of Ethan.
She knows MC hates Ethan because of the way Ethan treats/bullies the MC.
She herself has both witnessed it on the day of the confession *AND* before that.
Her words in the scene were (to paraphrase) "Why do you always bully him?"
Where Ethan responds with a flip "What? Why not? It's funny."
"ALWAYS" implies she has seen this behavior multiple times or at the very least, more than once.
She knows Ethan is a douche while she is 15/16. And she allowed the relationship with him to continue. Now I can't speak for others, but when I know someone is a POS, as long as I'm not related to them, I cut them out with no second thought.
The modelling gig brought Ethan back into the fold of Erynns life so she had a choice: Find another agency or keep with the one that Ethan family is involved in. She chose the latter. I won't blame her for making a business decision when MC wasn't even in the picture. That's smart and can't be second guessed.
Keeping it from the MC *and* knowing he won't be ok with it, and still expecting the MC to just be Ok with it because Erynn is trying desperately to reconnect with the MC is NOT mature.
Now someone might say, that's a double standard because Lexi lies to the MC and I'm OK with it.
I *am not OK with Lexi lying.* However, I am ok with being given the choice to hear her out and forgive her later.
Lexi's lie directly involves two people the MC cares about. While that sucks, MC has no bad blood outside of the lie with either.
We(the player) are only given the chance to forgive Erynn after learning firsthand that she is still involved with the person who has tormented the MC. Of all the shortcomings MC has - his feelings regarding Ethan are unequivocally correct.
That's a tough pill to swallow, and definitely one I can't forgive easy.
If someone hurts me(lies to me) like Lexi, I can forgive but I sure won't forget.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. If Lexi were to screw up again its a done deal.
But if someone lies to me about still being involved with someone who tormented emotionally and physically assaulted me, that's really tough to forgive. And someone who does that, at best I am wary of.
I think it's immature of Erynn to have worked in modeling, had all the bad things that have happened to her because of Ethan, and still expect the MC to be like, "All good, no worries."
I think it's immature of Erynn to act as flirty with MC and constantly looking for compliments, without having an idea of how it might be perceived by the MC.
I think it is immature of Erynn to not make tough decisions about the situation she has let spiral out of control until MC shows up.
All of these only start to change *AFTER* MC is in the picture. And that to me is the biggest flag of immaturity - she needs MC to set her on the right course instead of figuring it out, like most people have to do in life.
And damn, I really enjoy talking about this game. Even if no one agrees with me, I just enjoy a good chat about this game.
