Uhm, what? Zarina only really comes across as jealous if Lena is hostel towards her and sides with Ivy. Zarina seems rather supportive of Lena if Lena makes even a modicum of effort to be nice. She has a clear distaste for Lena's "dress" or lack thereof if Lena has the skimpy bikini or takes her top off, but that gets glossed over pretty quick if again Lena isn't also a bitch.
I know very little about makeup myself and just assumed that she was talking herself up more than anything. Are their different makeup variables she puts on Lena? I don't think the way she did up Lena's face, at least that I've seen, was any different than Ivy's makeup. I took Ivy's shot of "slutty" makeup as just another of her manipulations to try and keep her place as top dog.
The supportive I was referring to though was when her, Lena, Jess, and Mike are all outside talking music. That seemed far a far more genuine conversation than any Ivy has had about Lena's hopes and aspirations outside of being an only fans model. She seemed jealous of Lena's patronage from Seymour, sure, but didn't really come across as bitchy to me either.
I'm not saying she cannot be bitchy and jealous, because she absolutely can be, but I guess I didn't react as negatively to it or find it nearly as offensive as some of you. Especially in comparison to how Ivy has been portrayed lately.
But I'll go back through the scenes with a different lens and see if my opinion changes.
yes zarina isn't a total bitch towards lena, but only if lena verbally distances herself from ivy.
let's be real here, she is a bitch even if you play nice with her and badmouth ivy. that's true alone on the fact that she is wording sentences in a way where she portraits lena as if she is already agreeing to what zarina is saying. "oh poor you, having to deal with ivy all the time." "don't say anything further, i know how bad she is." lena is basically forced to agree without saying anything, so that the only way for lena to refute zarina's claims is to openly deny her. and when she does, zarina expresses that lena is naive/stupid and does not see the truth. zarina downplays lena's mental capabilities if she doesn't play by her game.
and besides the clothing choice of lena is also always subtely ridiculed by zarina, which she only poses as compliment if lena agrees and returns a compliment herself. meaning that to get on zarina's good side you need to stroke her ego.
i mean, i would never want her as a friend myself, but as a character for a playable story she brings interesting plot to the table, next to her "plot", if you know what i mean. it's similiar with characters like axel, who might be interesting story-wise, but complete catastrophes in real life.
Quite honestly I am not sure. I said while talking to BlandChili and Blurpee that if we were to consider Lena's pool party a mirror of Ian's beach event, there should be major outcomes for the main crew and as a mirror event, it be expected for Ian to show up.
That being said, pool party has no main players in it. It has 3 characters freshly introduced, they just can't have any major outcome on the story yet (and if they do it'd be bad story telling).
This leaves Mike, who doesn't really matter much. He was an absentee for a while and Gillian approaches Ian with or without a potential breakup. Also Gillian cheated on Ian with Mike, so there's potential there but the relationship isn't canon yet so it's unlikely to matter for final day.
Jeremy has no major play either, at best he can 'break up' with Louise, which means fuck all outside of making Jeremy/Lena a real thing. That would be relatively negligible imo. Maybe some Ian/Jeremy drama if Lena is in a committed relationship and cheats on Ian? but that's reliant on a very specific path.
Billy is irrelevant.
And then there's Ivy. Lena could crashout and knock her teeth out but unlikely. Ivy could fulfill her homewrecker role if Ian did hit on her. But yeah, any potential drama that could unfold on final day is mostly tied to her.
It wouldn't make sense for Ian to show up imo.
i still think it would be strange to have both options of ian at home and at the pool party. story-wise you are right, but for the sake of simplicity i expect ian to show up on all routes.
besides it's not like there aren't possible impactful situations to be made here. the dreaded ian ivy might finally come. also with the talk about mmf threesomes, both jeremy and mike are there, even anthony was talked about via phone. it wouldn't surprise me if the threesome scene with mike and jeremy will be rehashed, like ian switches with mike, so the threesome is with jeremy. and then cuck ian could maybe catch lena having sex with anthony or whoever.
but yes, this seems most likely only impactful for an ian in a relationship with lena.
Imma be real, I want high stakes. Sum for the story. If all there is is some cheap fucking, meh.
and that's why i fear the next update will only get "some cheap fucking"
Ahh ok thank for clairyfing so every update does include both mc & fmc but they just get different priority/screen time depending on the chapter?
basically yes. i mean technically even 1 minute more playtime is already a shift in priority, but most updates try to have a balance. last time with the beach update it was ian's mostly. now it seems to be lena's.
An artistic depiction of what Eva might look like when she's figuring out how one sentence changes slightly (it's hard) depending on whether Lena stepped on the same rake (fucked Axel) or not.
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you may laugh, but that isn't really that far fetched. you know how football players get a massive heat spike in their brains while playing? football is by all means a simple game. if that wasn't true it wouldn't be so widely popular like it is. but that of course doesn't mean it won't give your brain huge stress. keeping all the other players in check and still knowing where the ball is at all times, is no easy feat.
you have to keep in mind this game is over 5 years being developed already. for someone to make a mod for it, you'd have to work up all that to this point. if there were already a mod like this, you'd
"only" have to keep up with every update. but from scratch? yeah i don't see it coming anytime soon.
I didn't pick any charisma option and still got it. I just chose the lust one
yeah well i was responding to a post claiming to only choose charisma options. that lust options work, or better even, i know that. this issue was solely meant for charisma options.