My point is, she hasn't apologised and wouldn't have apologised. Any apology made now will only be because she has been put in a situation where she has no other choice.
Yeah, she hasn't apologized because she was so wrapped up in her own problems, she literally forgot about the things she did to him. She
moved on without addressing the things she did to other people, because she never gave herself that chance. Or, in her circumstance, wasn't afforded it due to her situation. Emma stated as much when she said that explained why Aine is so nice, instead of the absolute asshole that Steele remembers. I don't see why that's so hard to get. It's right in front of you, yet you seem to want to suggest that the only way for her to reconcile with Steele is if she sought him out before all this. That's not how any of this works. I'd already told you that a lot of people are so wrapped up in their problems and lashing out, that they don't see or even think about how they're affecting others until they're put in position where they're confronted with it. Aine's apology, if she ever ends up giving one, would be just as legitimate as one given when they were in high school if it's genuine. There's no time limit on doing the right thing and it's asinine to assume there is.
That's not what it implies at all. My point was they are all fucked up and that changes the perspective. She didn't bully him because she believes she's better than him and wanted to hurt him, she did it to try and dampen her own pain. Sure it was a shitty way to do it but you can't hope to move forward in a situation like that without understanding everything involved.
What? Why would the fact that they're all fucked up or that she didn't do the things she did out of any genuine desire to hurt him change anything? She still hurt him in the end, even if she was lashing out at the world for the shit going on in her life. It makes no sense to point this out, when you've literally just finished diminishing the issues that one person is facing in the face of the things that the girls went through. As though, for some reason, their problems are more serious than his because the have destructive ways of dealing with their problems? It's ridiculous. You can't say that and then try to say that your point was that they're all fucked up. Especially after you've made a point that you think the only thing he went through was a little name calling, even though the game heavily implies that they took advantage of his soft-heartedness and his lack of self-esteem to make him do things while humiliating him in return. There is no excuse for what they did and you know that. If you didn't, you wouldn't have made a point of trying to point out that "two wrongs don't make a right".
The only flashback I saw in the whole game was her on the phone to his mother where it basically boils down to "you are a servant, you only follow Aine, you love my son here have some rooms in my house" ..... what bad shit are you talking about?
Any bullying is barely mentioned.
None of it has gone into detail. The only thing anyone has said is they ordered him around.
He claimed he was madly in love with Aine yet had his dick out rubbing it on a drunk passed girl he then fucked.
I'll rescind my statement about the mother showing any ill-will towards the girl's actions, since there isn't a scene that directly shows her being super pissed off about what the girls were doing. However, I will say that you're completely wrong about the mother saying all that. I mean, she goes as far as saying:
"I wasn't able to personally confront you girls when you were bullying Kei before, since I was always away due to the nature of my work."
"But instead of me confronting you, to my surprise, you contacted me and kept apologizing all the time"
If that's not any indication of bullying, then I don't really know what other type of detail you want from her. I should also point out that NiiChan also point out that Klara did report the girls for their bullying. So, that should reliably suffice as more than enough proof.
As for the detail of the bullying, it's kind of obvious that the bullying went beyond name calling, since Kei mentions that Emma's request is a lot like what they did to him before since she promised to pester him until he said yes. Because, as she stated, her only duty is to Aine as a sworn servant of her family. Emma doesn't even protest this, since she knows full well that he's right. She even makes a point of pointing out that the reason why she's doing all this is because she knows that Kei is so soft-hearted, he wouldn't stand up for himself when Aine and Emma were bullying him all of the time through high school.
Also, I'd like to admit that the bathroom scene between Kei and Gwen was a little dumb, since it's just an excuse to do dry humping porn. It could have been handled a lot better and in a much more sensible fashion, since the two of them ending up having drunken sex wouldn't have been too much of a stretch. Or, if she just unzips his fly and basically blackmails him into letting her have sex with him, which would've given him a reason to resent her. Because, at that moment, she betrayed his trust and took advantage of a reaction that he had to get HER rocks off. Although, I dunno what you'd think about that, since I've noticed on the forums that you take issue with a lot of male-led smut games. In any case, that situation was still bad and could've been handled a lot better. Oh, also, just because he was in love with Aine despite her bullying him doesn't mean that he was forbidden for having sex with someone else. It's not like they were in a relationship or anything so...
You missed the point. She called him piggy then he started calling her an emotionless robot that only talks in monotone and can barely express herself and is just a follower.
What did he get out of that situation besides upsetting things further?
What did she get out of calling him Piggy? What's your point here? Why are you making an argument about someone being not-so-pleased about being called a name that carries bad memories of a time in their life when they were bullied for being overweight? Why are you treating his reaction to what she did like it's the worst thing in the world? You can't expect someone to try and be the better person when the other person isn't even making a point of doing the same. Why would he show her respect when she's not showing him respect in that moment? If you afford someone that courtesy when they won't even respect you, they'll just walk all over you. Or, if you're like Kei, they'll use your feelings for them to your advantage to make you do things you don't want to. I mean, for christ's sake, the entire game has three people that are victims of being made to do someone else's whims through coercion. The idea of a person wanting to demand a measure of self-respect for themselves isn't some foreign concept and it seems that Kei, Aine, and Gwen all realize that even if they're not ready to demand it completely from certain people within their lives.