Another part is that Cece just feels more real than other AVN characters. I don’t know much about mental illness, but many people have mentioned how authentically every aspect of her illness was handled.
CeCe also never acts like a character in a porn movie. She is in no throuple and doesn’t have an instant overwhelming attraction to the MC. Her initial desire to help him applies to everyone else she meets as well. In contrast, Lexi’s invitation for 6 strangers to stay at her house for a week doesn’t ring as true.
Finally, she is goofy and attractive and both a leader and totally lost. There is *so much* there, like a complete person that you know really well, not ”the funny one“ or ”the mean one” or ”the dumb one.”
Thanks, that makes a great deal of sense in the interpretation. I'm not sure that Lexi's invitation of the strangers is so weird in the context of her lifestyle, where random gatherings of strangers is the norm. I'm thinking regular societal norms might not apply there. Also, she is desperately trying to overcome social awkwardness in everyday social situations which she is not used to and which she way overcompensates for. I have seen this kind of thing in real life many times and don't find it that weird. I have to agree on the throuple thing though. Still, you could attribute that in large part to Holly, who of all the characters is probably the most rounded and the most stable. One could easily make a case for her leading her lost friend through any path to "normalcy" in social interaction and Lexi is obviously open to experimentation. Is anybody really surprised, ever, about what type of sexual scenarios A list celebrities get themselves into?
Just to be clear, Lexi isn't the most interesting character to me either, but I see many similarities between her and Cece, and although less developed within the context of her personal anxieties I could see the path she was on after the game end too. In all the endings that I've seen so far except where she finishes with the MC and gets engaged there is a sense of deep regret and sadness, sometimes bitterness, and you can see her pulling further into her shell, not emerging from it. She is going in the wrong direction whereas despite the struggle Cece is presumably moving in the right one in all the ending scenarios. Who knows where that leads?
It just seems like an interesting dichotomy to me and interesting how perception and reactions differ as well.