Now this is a story all about how, Rose's life got flipped, turned upside down..
And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there...
I'll tell you how she's the Princess of a town called Bel-Air
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Wait, wrong theme song...
I don't think useful idiot is quite the word for this one. Edwin has chances to go out of his way for all the girls and Rose responds accordingly. You can certainly exploit her and see a more vicious side, but someone on YOUR side for getting a bit of breathing room on finances hits different when you're out of your league on an issue. Rose has extraordinary circumstances and was thrust into it. So how she sees Edwin is in relation to what he's doing to help her with a bit of this also overlapping with assisting all the girls in knowing each other while also having them compete. What was stated before was that Rose is adaptable and that's her greatest strength. Girl certainly knows how to use it.
Still haven't gone through the new update but I think both Vicky and Rose are compartmentalizing what they have to do. We know there's social ramifications with Vicky but that princess is in an office castle so isn't quite dealing with her career. And no matter how much you cash this out, the ramifications and experience still hit you... We just don't know how yet.
I'm not understanding this one... Rose MIGHT look into something short term with Edwin or she won't. It's really not up to us at this time. We gotta see how the story flows. But I do know that if Rose gets help on the debt, there's a certain gratitude to that. But seriously, I'd put this as highly speculative. I'll leave it at that.
My honest feeling is that I would consider Rose getting rid of her debt and move away with her daughter a satisfying, good story end. Same with Veronica saving her gym and getting back with her wife. Felicia? I guess a really good Felicia ending would be Felicia getting a divorce and having her own children and becoming a painter in a distant future.
I don't see why I should consider Edwin starting a stable relationship with a Carnation as the only good Carnations' endings.
I honestly think that the biggest problem with these Patreon funded non-hentai erotic VNs is that hentai tropes totally ruined most of them: why is an erotic/porn story supposed to end with its MC starting a stable relationship with a woman?
I think there are multiple things at play here. First and foremost its Rose's almost obsession about her daughter to the point it becomes almost questionable. Yes, taking good care for your kid is obviously commendable, important and the right thing to do, but for Rose it has gone so far, that she doesn't even know what to do with herself, when her daughter isn't around to be cared for. That is also the reason, why she immediately starts to take care of Edwin and/or Ian, whenever they are around.
A second aspect is that she - for obvious reasons - hates to feel indebted to someone. And I don't only mean the money she owes to the loan shark. It feels like whenever Edwin (or Ian) does something for her, she feels the need to give at least something back. A meal for example or just making them feel good through sex. For her sex is something she does seem to enjoy more and more, but it is also an easy way for her to pay someone back, even if that person just meant it as a favor and doesn't even want anything in return.
At least so far she hasn't really shown any deeper feelings towards Edward in my opinion and I don't think she has space in her heart for anyone but her daughter.
That said she won't skip state after all is said and done, since she explicitly stated she doesn't want to uproot her daughter (circling back to my first point, she is so obsessed with her daughter that she rather goes through the events in the club instead of inconvenience her daughter), but I don't see her and Edwin get into a stable and committed relationship at the end. At least not from the point in the story we're now at and if I interpret TD's comment right, not all the LI paths will lead to a "happily ever after".
I can see a happily ever after for Hana, Mina and it seems to develop for Frankie as well and probably an affair with Felicia (I mean she already is married), but with Rose? Even if she would be younger...right now I don't see a logical path to reach a ending in which here and Edwin are in some form of committed relationship.
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There are good reasons due to circumstances, personality and Eagle Eye view, why I consider Hana, Felicia and Sophia in front of e.g. Mina or Rosi for a relationship.
Hana is rather self-explaining to anyone playing the game. They can form a nice bond, do not judge and want to support the other. There is a happy ending for them in the cards, with kids of their own, in and out of the Club.
Felicia might be an epicurean artist (she actually has won several prices already), who became a gold digger, but she has never forgotten her roots, which is why she wants to save/reopen her old school. Which is the reason she is in the competition at all. Felicia might love sex, but as we can see in the game she is one of Epikur´s children, so she sucks big time at taking and dishing out punishment. She is also one of the most intelligent persons in the game. In addition, she is developing a crush on Edwin, just look at her reaction when you decide to go with her to the art exhibtion for free.
I definitely can see a rather happy ending of Felicia and Edwin, with kids of their own, both inside and outside the Club.
While I know what several other members will say and I am aware of the general situation who are the main LIs of the game, Sophia Lundgren is one of the best fits for Edwin. Both are socially challenged Nerds with a lot of life baggage they carry around. But they can click together (depending on your choices) to the point they banter a bit during the "home invasion". Edwin is aware that quite a bit of their rime together was a test for something, but as we can see with their makeout session in the blue room, they have a connection. Sophia could have sat out this thing without blinking, but she chose to get involved.
I know that Sophia is a dangerous and calculating woman, but she is also a very straight, blunt, eccentric person. She is hardly the best choice to hear out someone. That Sophia and Edwin can click together as well is because they are more alike than some might think they are.
I can definitely see a possible happy ending for those two, along with a couple of nerd kids.
I would put even Dahlia and Mina in front of Rosi and Vera as happy LI choices!