I could play Mike path as Lena if he hasn't a girlfriend. I don't know, maybe i like and care so much about Lena, but i simply don't see "my Lena" make with another girl what Axel and Cherry did to her. Simply don't feel right to me.
Probaly not, because i will play Lenas showing her that she's a person so much better than Cherry that she never will do the same thing Cherry did.
I could be completely wrong with this but I wonder if Cherry really is as 'guilty' in all of this as she looks.
It struck me that Cherry may have been in the same position as Lena when she was with Axel. By that I mean, perhaps Cherry didn't know about Lena and thought she herself was Axel's girlfriend, and finding out that Lena was the 'other girl' (or so she thought) was as much a shock to her as this whole thing was to Lena. In short, Axel was the only one who knew the whole truth about it.
Seeing as the event is told from Lena's POV as the MC, Cherry doesn't say anything about it (because we follow Lena out of the apartment and never get to hear Cherry's side), and Lena was and is obviously still too angry about it to consider anything other then what she perceived of the event - Cherry may have been just as innocent as she was in this whole setup.
We only get to see Lena's perspective on the incident, which leads me to think that what
actually happened could be revealed later on.
This single-sided view of an events is often used in writing in order to have the reader make a foregone conclusion about what happened. It's effective because it appeals to our desire to make judgements about what we perceive order to feel more secure about people and events around us. It's a bit of an Achillies Heel of human nature, or maybe 'double-edged sword' is a better term; and it's a 'flaw' in our psyche that is fun to exploit by writers (and illusionists/magicians), and is often done.
So in other words, we hear from Lena what happens and think we're being served the whole pie, when in truth we're only getting one-third of that pie at the moment. The other two-thirds being Cherry's side of things (which could be that she was as innocent as Lena in this) and Axel's side of things (which is probably the full story - him knowing about both of them and being too arrogant and smug to care about what he was doing to them, or that he could get found out).
If this is true, we'll probably get the full story if Lena and Cherry have a confrontation (maybe if Lena is with Axel and they accidentally meet Cherry), where they start bitching about that event and then one is like 'Wait... you thought you were his girlfriend? You were the other woman!' and then them coming to the realization. It would be a nice start to Lena and Cherry potentially bonding and becoming friends towards the end of the game.
The other way it could come out, which may be less likely but not impossible, is if Axel confesses what actually happened that day. I'm not sure what the exact circumstances would be to lead to this moment, only that, if anything, it would be because he's come to care enough about Lena and feel bad enough about what he did back then to come clean. The sort of thing he feels he has to do - risk telling her the truth and potentially losing her - if they're ever going to be good together. If it happened it would probably be quite a way along, because Axel would need to do a lot of growing and reflection first, but it would be a nice feature of a 'redemption'-type story. And after all, it would fit right in with the transformative nature of a lot of these characters' routes.
Axel may be a douche, but I think it's wrong to think that's all he is - we've barely scratched the surface of this character in the content so far (and as I mentioned, it's easy to cast judgement with limited information). If that's all Axel turns out to be I'll be incredibly disappointed, but I have faith that Eva will do Axel's character justice, and give him some dimension as his route unfolds. Also, everyone has their good and bad sides, it's just that Axel's "dark side" is being used as part of the plot so it's cast into the light. In the end, no character is above redemption, or corruption unless Eva sets it in stone.
