You mean Kira, right?
Yep, you're right.
According to Pearl she did not attack Kira to kill, she did it to chase her away to save her from her father's wrath.
I mentioned this as well. With what we know of Kira, would that have worked? Wouldn't her twin know this? What would Pearl have done if Kira had lost and refused to leave?
I'm not saying it makes no sense for Pearl to do this. I specifically said: "I can honestly understand that Pearl betrays the MC to keep Mira safe."
What I'm saying that even if the MC understands _why_ she did it, he doesn't _have_ to agree with it or her methods. They spent many evenings together between visiting Blackbeard and arriving at the island. At any point, Pearl could've confided in him instead of stealing the artifact.
If you are comparing that to Selena. It really is not. One of them puts their so-called friends in active danger. Even after she denies it, she is very well aware Taron was going to kill both MC and Eliza. That's active betrayal. Not even counting she was part of the ambush that Eliza got kidnapped and it was her who lured Eliza away from MC for the ambush. On top of that, she gloated at the cell. She even mentioned how not either MC or Eliza survive the situation. I am still salty that MC can't kill her and let her sister go. She deserved the worst.
But we were looking at the end result regarding Pearl, right? In the case of Eliza, she's said several times that she now feels better than ever. If we take her at her word, then the worst aspect of those two months of being unable to walk, was the MC being away from her.
Playing devil's advocate, I could say that Selena acts out at the cell because she wanted to gain Taron's trust and cooperation, or that she was overreacting because of feeling guilty.
While their methods were different, what Pearl did wasn't that different from what Selena did. Pearl was putting her sister's wellbeing over that of Eliza & the MC. In Selena's case, the MC could've murdered her sister in cold blood to get even. Pearl doesn't even get an angry look.
You don't sense a certain imbalance there?
Yes, MC do believe it could help someone she does not know, a person she never met. She did not know if the chalice would work, even if it works would Eliza accepts it, Eliza (a person she only know as MC's friend, if Pearl even know that much) was not going to die, if Eliza did not get the chalice there could be another way to help her too. Her sister was in greater danger than somebody she did not know.
All of this has no bearing on how the MC should feel about the chalice getting stolen by someone he trusted.
He's at this island because it's said to contain the only artifact able to heal Eliza. And Pearl steals it, dooming Eliza to never walk again.
He's at that island because he feels he failed to keep Eliza safe, that he's responsible... That getting her to walk again would absolve him. It would be his every right to be furious with Pearl.
Also, another huge difference, Pearl did not follow through the plan, she helped MC and Kira.
That's fair. But should that mean that all is forgiven? That the trust that was lost is entirely gained back?
Would the MC who murdered Selena's sister just let it go? Or would a guy like that want something to hold over Pearl to make sure she'll never betray him again?
So I still find the idea of her just sitting there and waiting for him for a decade and then just sort of being "finally, there you are - well, let's get on with that adventuring" to be ... unhealthy at the very least.
This is an aspect of this game's writing that I don't really enjoy either. For some reason, every LI has to be pure. None of the women have ever been with a man, except for the MILF who says she only had sex once in her life. It's ridiculous how this world is filled with 20 y/o virgins. Even that sex-craving Brenda-chick went out of her way to say that she's only been with her toys.
