She's that trope I really dislike, but seems to be popular. Constantly snippy and always making smart ass comments. MC is never allowed to call her on her bullshit. Only ever does what she wants to do and doesn't care about anyone but herself. Doc says stay in bed, she's up before he's even left the house. Everything is always someone else's fault. Her cat rips the curtains, but it's Zeus' fault. There's no cat food in the house - it's MC's fault. For baffling reasons to me, that type of LI is very popular, but I can't like it at all.
People pull the "she helped MC through the dark", but what did she actually do. She fucked him, that's it. She didn't talk with him and help him work through his grief and feelings. She didn't hold him, comforting him as his grief got too much. (Granted, she might have if MC had told her what was going on). She gave him a vagina, he could have got that in many other places. I'd argue, since she was looking for a daddy to fuck, she got just as much out of the fuckbuddy, if not more.
People claim she had a hard life. Lost her father and then got scammed out of the thing that reminded her of him. Isa had just as hard a life, if not worse, her parents died when she was young (I'm pretty sure we'll discover they were murdered) and then her Uncle gave her to a group that drug/rape/pimp out women. It's only that Isa took responsibility for herself she was able to avoid it. Isa turned out pretty nice, she's helpful, self-reliant and caring to others.
I don't like Alex as a friend either (yet), because it still feels like a relationship to me. The dialogue and behavior is still closer to lovers than friends. Alex is going to be talking to her sister for a while, so MC goes to talk to Isa, before they even get 2 sentences, Alex arrives 'am I interrupting?' Isa is coming to MC room for a massage, so what does Alex do, comes in there before her and climbs on top of him, to be lying on top when Isa comes in. Everytime you sit on the lounge, she puts her feet on you. Even Isa knows and can see how badly she still wants him. I know she will be an integral part of the story going forward, I just can't wait to get to the point where she lets him go and acts like a proper friend.
A lot of that is on the MC too, if you dumped your fuckbuddy, you don't let her come and lay on top of you, you don't let her put her feet on you, you don't let her shit get uncalled, you don't give her a hope that there's a chance. That just creates drama and problems and Alex gets hurt even more further down the line.
Looking at the render backgrounds and the dialogue, she is deliberately written to be like that. If you turn down Val, you get different stuff, so IMO, BTT has written her like this on purpose. So, I'm not pissed at the writing or the AVN, just her as a person. I actually really enjoy the story, the way it's written and the shit that Alex is doing. BTT warned me a while ago, so I knew what was what, going in. But Isa is getting going in the next update, so I decided to get it set up ready for the update. I do expect those things that annoy me about her will slowly disappear as the Isa path develops.
As for LI's (as Meatloaf once famously said, 'Two out of Three ain't Bad'), so I'm happy.
OK, I'll go and take a chill pill now, climb off my soapbox and warn BTT I went on a rant.