This is way too late of a response, but I'm going for it anyway. The point I was making was that it doesn't matter that they are victims and it doesn't matter that you plan for them to redeem themselves. Because, in the main character's eyes as you have written him, there is no reason for them to bother. The guy is a doormat. A prime example of the type of person that will let people walk all over him and not do anything about it, much less hold them accountable for the things that they did. FFS, the main character doesn't even tell Emma to fuck off
! If that's not a doormat, then I don't know what is.
I just don't get it. Why make a character this way? What's the point? If you wanted him to be a punching bag for other people, then why not just leave him as his fat self and just make him into a masochistic cuck? It'd be easier to just have him go along with being dommed by one of the girls and he'd have an abusive girlfriend that treats him like trash. Why try to make it seem as though that he has some form of self-respect, when his actions make it abundantly clear that he doesn't? It baffles the mind. N.C.! He shouldn't be considering helping any of these women, much less talking to them considering that none of them are respecting him as much as his roommate does. The way the MC is written makes it seem like the idea around him is that he is "a boy that's pathetic and weak enough to be bullied by a woman", as if such a thing is impossible or otherwise worthy of mockery.