This would be a bit sad, because an interesting debate lives through the exchange of different opinions. Since we cannot read the minds of these characters, it is unavoidable to make assumptions. Nothing is wrong with that as long as they are convincing and have substance. If we treat a speculative discussion not in terms of winning or loosing, but rather in terms of introducing various point of views, i do believe it's worth it.
I see it usually the same way as you. But as Lucy and how her Character was/is handled is my main Problem with the Game right now, it is very exhausting and tiresome to debate over this. Because all we now about her is from a handfull of sentences/comments from her and Veronicas Introduction and Competition, wich in adition partly came from Characters that are not trustworthy at all. If you cannot underline your Asumptions with Facts/Good Arguments, such Debates often only lead to frustration and destroy the discourse.
For the next parts i think you confused the names of Victoria and Veronica.
Yes i did, indeed, it was late^^
Sorry this doesn't really add up, you expected a single mother Victoria to work two jobs and live from paycheck to paycheck to be able to pay for their living expenses. Just how many jobs should Rosie work to pay off the debts? A day has only 24 hours.
Also don't underestimate the urgency to pay on time, she has already goons observing her home and sitting in her kitchen. She needs that money fast, that is exactly what the club offers in case she wins.
Running away and keep a low profile to avoid being spotted by her loan sharks who are probably affiliated with the mafia (these are gambling and ponzi scheme debts, remember?)? With a child? At compulsory school age? Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Leaves prostitution or porn, as you suggested. And i really don't know which of both is worse, at least with prostitution you have a higher chance to keep it private, opposed to the public character of porn. Looking at some of the harder genres of porn i am often wondering if those girls wouldn't be better off with classic, vanilla prostitution.
Yes, i probably underestimated the urgency here. But, still, Loansharks usually don't kill their Deptors because then they wouldn't get their Money back. So it may be unlikely that the collectors would settle for a small payment every Month but not completely impossible.
Same goes for the Run away thing, last Time i looked Loan Sharks (or other people that are not Law Enforcement) couldn't easily call Schools or Goverment institutions to find people on the run. Besides that, even if they could find them, it would be a question if it's worthwile. Spending a couple of thousand bucks to getting a couple of thousand bucks usually isn't worthwile the hassle that comes with it.
As for the Porn vs. Sexwork thing. We shouldn't forget that becomming a Carnation has nothing to do with normal Sexwork. In the Club, you basicly give away your Human rights, so they can do whatever they want to you only to entertain sick rich bastards, and i don't thin there is a "No Pictures/Video" clause in the Deal. So yes, i think the Club is much worse then doing Porn or normal Sexwork, even if the chance of being discovered is bigger.
I think and hope that is not the last appearance of Lucy, i would bet we get a deeper understanding of her as PC unfolds.
I would like this if the devs would reconsider their approach to Lucys Character. If she get's the same chance as the other Women i'm fine with it, but if she still would be the one Character that serves only as a cheap crowdpleaser for the "Hardcore Abuse" folks i would quit the Game immediately and regret the time i wasted to play it. Call me to soft but this would be a no go for me.
Nope, i like it just as it is, and hope she gets even more screen time. Yes that's mean, but you can't help everyone.
Oh come on. You can be (if you want and as far as i have played) Kind and Supportive to every Women you meet, but by pure chance Lucy is "too much" because you "can't save everyone". That's, im sorry please dont take this personally, but that is a Stupid Argument.
I always thought about PC as a Game with at least 2 Routes, a "Good Guy" and a "Bad/Evil Guy" path with respective endings for the Characters. So if i want to play a "Saint" in Hell i should be able to Help/Save everyone including Lucy. Of course, same but different, goes for an "Bad Guy" playthrough. Or mix it up, be Kind/Save the Characters you like and ignore/take advantage of the Characters you don't like. Oh Boy what wonderfull horrible ideas would i have for Kathleen.
I think Kathleen stated that she became a House Girl in exchange for her Son getting into the School despite her loosing against Veronica. But yeah it would fit with Kathleen and that ugly bastard of her colleague to take it away from her in the end to totally destroy her...
Agree on that.
Could be a "good" Bad Ending if you play the "Evil Guy" version of MC. Although i would never see it because i never could let this happen to her.
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A lot of parents who love their children unconditionally and want them to live a happy and fullfilling live, don't feel the urge of putting them into a high-class institution where they frankly can't impress their peers with either their lifestyle and money or their intellectual proficiency; Lucys' kid has nothing going for him in that surrounding, which is in my opinion a surefire way to get him badly bullied. I can hear them already say: "What got you in here? How many cocks had your Mother have to suck for it?" Although an overzealous mother like you described her may have overlooked this danger.
Lucy feels to me rather like one of those overachieving mothers which compensate their own shortcomings by imposing expectations of success on their children. Showing her son off like a trophy, as a living proof, that she is not a failure with her unhappy marriage, that she has done something right in her life.
Initially i wanted to let this part out because, as i already said, i think we know not enough about the School, Lucy, and her Son, to make a meaningfull asumption. But i will pick your viewpoint of Lucy as a "Mother that pushes her Son as a proxy for her shortcommings" out because i think that this wouldn't add up with the few glimpses at her Personality we got from her.
Those Caracters are usually more like Kathleen, arrogant and selfcentered. And besides that, it would be likely that her reaction to Kathleen mocking her with "your son was not smart enough to make it on his own" would be a different one. It would be much more likely that her reaction would be anger instead of Emotional Pain and saying "he only deserves the best". After all, with him failing, he would have foremost failed and dissapointed her, maybe she even would resent him. And in the End, if she would be such a Person, she most likely would never be in the Club in the first place, if her goal was to get her Son in this School to make up for her shortcommings, to boost her self-esteem, why would she put herself through such a Humiliating process.