She was under heavy stress before her daughter got injured, coping with a divorce and working in an environment where she is a topic of gossip (her husband cheated on her with somebody in the same office and everybody knows about it), and now she adds the stress of trauma with a child. It is not easy. She wanted to move on with her life and put the MC behind her, but now she is being forced to depend on somebody she wanted to get past and, if you are playing it nice guy MC, she is being made to accept the fact that while he did something awful, he is not the awful person she wanted him to be. If he was awful this would be easy. So she lashes out because she is very stressed and her feelings towards him are confusing and of all the things she has to deal with right now, controlling her reactions to a man she has very difficult to parse emotions toward is the one she is willing to let slide because it is less important than seeing her daughter safe and healthy.You and I probably selected pretty closely with Allison - I've tried to be understanding and empathetic the entire time since MC is the one that cheated, but I felt like by the end of this episode it's pretty obvious on that path that the MC is doing literally everything he can to help Lily and Allison so any reasonable adult would lay off from the constant attacks given the circumstances but Allison mostly just continues to berate him throughout, so I have begun to pull away from Allison by the end of Episode 2, even choosing not to do the dinner date with her.
I do hope those of you on her route enjoy though, she's a cutie.
This isn't meant to defend her behavior necessarily as her ex-husband does not deserve the treatment he is receiving about this, but it is understandable. I actually like the way Allison is portrayed in this just because it is a good display of people being complicated. I don't know how much the creator intended with all of this stuff, but if you do the dinner date she gets even more complex just because realizing she might still actually love the MC is too volatile an ingredient to add to her entire life going insane right now.
Is she the nicest? No... Maggie probably is. Is she the sexiest? No, the spy next door or the college study group probably is. Is she the most exciting for the MC in game? No, that is probably the redhead Jasmine. But is Allison the most interesting? I personally believe so, yes. The spy or Maggie might be considered more interesting with all of the weirdness at play in their stories, but that feels a bit over the top in the drama and surreality to me. Allison is both completely believable AND interesting. That is impressive.
Side note: I really want this all weirdness from Natalya that seems so shady and industrial-espionage-y to be a complete red herring and she really is just a smart, sexy, foreign sapiosexual. It would be hilarious, but she'll probably try to steal the battery tech at some point and we have to either outsmart her or convert her to goodness and truth and the American way with our dick.
