Yes, I will listen to her explanation, pretend to forgive her, let her hang around with us, and then let her see me in a realtionship with any / all of Cece, Lexi, Linda, Kira, Robin
I'm not sure how she will explain about her homicidal husband, who she seems to love and has sex with as you are leaving.
st "I'll be right there, Melvin honey. Hang on a sec."
ml "Don't worry sweetheart. I'll be right up."
me "It's fucking two stories down to the ground."
st "You'll survive. Might break a leg, but you won't survive him."
st "Hey hun."
ml "What the hell?"
st "{size=22}I want you, baby.{/size}"
ml "{size=20}You're naked.{/size}"
st "{size=18}You're not. But let me help you with that.{/size}"
Yeh Drifty said he wanted to put her in as bad a light as possible and he was incredibly successful at that, So successful he might need have a rethink whether chapter one does not need some rework to make Steph way more viable as a LI, from the outside and not knowing all he has planned it seems he overhit the mark of what he intended.
Well he is the dev so it is all his choice but putting in the description of that walk and maybe losing the hubby at least or not let it be a loving relationship with sex while you almost broke your legs would help.
That scene as is does not show any love for MC or care but her using him out of lust not a trying to reconnect maybe physically first to regain lost intimacy, it for sure does not show her as the wonderful person she is rumored to be. It might be fear making her act like that, but still. Of course on the route where MC rejects sex now withouth that earlier description of the walk she just comes over as an extremely selfish person that is all about her.
Until now we as player are basically asked to override all the negative we have seen, just based upon the opinion of two of our friends in the game and even that letter though it tells you she cared for MC when she wrote it has its own red flags about her character if you look at it with that negative view of her and that letter was two years ago before she left and got happily married as far as we as players can see. Betraying MC even further later on or at least giving up on him.
Edit: I am not trying to say Drifty has to change that part, just that any dev does have the right when he notices a certain scene does not have the impact he wanted or is way stronger as intended, he has the right to revisit that scene so it will conform to his vision for the game. I am still planning to at least talk to Steph and leave open the option to forgive her if her story is good or she at least shows real remorse and acceptance that she fucked up seriously both for her and MC if story is less good. Just a relation (as friends or more) might be very hard to contemplate with her married status, not that I am against a bit of Netori once in a while, but it does not fit with the feelings MC has for her if he forgives her and I do not want him to become her lover on the side always waiting for when she has time for him either. Than he has better options around in my opinion, even if just partying with the new women in his life.