winterwolf200
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We can also infer some things from what the author is trying to do with the Mia character. Something some of you have already picked up on. The fact that she's a victim, she's likable, lovable even, and a love interest for the MC.You conclusion is interesting because I see that being a route, but you arrived there with headcanon. We have only two sources in the game about the college events. Mia and Lacey. And for just one day, Isaac. We can infer some things about things they don't say, but the general picture has to be from things they say, otherwise there is no picture. And while they disagree on the liking it part, they both agree Mia was the initiator. How would Mia benefit from revealing her part in it, if that wasn't how it happened? She could just say it was all Lacey.
You can definitely encourage someone to do something they want and still be a horrible friend for doing that. If my friend is an alcoholic and I'm constantly calling him to bar hop because I'm bored, I'm a bad friend. It's called enabling. My alcoholic friend isn't seducing me to call him, I do it because I'm a selfish prick. So her liking it is irrelevant in terms of Mia doing the right thing or not.
And that comes from someone who thinks Lacey is fully responsible for what she did in college, because I don't infantalize adults. But Mia is still the shittiest of friends.
We can also choose to trust the MC's gut, Anna's judgement, and Lacey's apparent tolerance of "monstrous" Mia.
"How would Mia benefit from revealing her part in it, if that wasn't how it happened? She could just say it was all Lacey." - she doesn't. She's not doing it for herself. She's used to doing everything Lacey wants. She was, as she's been saying, the one that picked Lacey up from her sessions, washed her, put her to bed, cared for her. We don't know how many hours she must have spent outside the door, or the building, waiting for it to end, hating every second of it, hating herself for going along with it.
No. She's not Lacey's friend except in Lacey's mind. She is in love with her. Not as obsesive as the MC, but...
She's not an enabler. She's a puppet. Of course she couldn't do the right thing. She could only do what Lacey wanted.
THIS is how MIa gets redeemed.
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