Just finished the available chapters and I want yalls opinion. Is Skylar being forced as the main heroine?
My original playthrough was where I chose Jessica and after I finished I did a quick run using skip to choose Skylar.
They got pretty lovey-dovey. Weirdly so IMO given the limited nature of their previous interactions.
They acted like long-time lovers reunited at last.
If you were skipping, you possibly missed that they had more than limited interaction.
And while I don't believe in love at first sight, I do believe in rapidly forged connection to another human being. It's happened to me more than once. You meet someone and find that you can talk endlessly to them about almost anything even though they were a stranger the day before, including things you might not talk about to most people. The park skateboarding scene with Skylar is, to me, them connecting that way.
It doesn't always turn into anything more than a close friendship. I wouldn't say it's common – you will meet many people in life and this will not happen with most, but it seems to happen to a lot of people at least once or twice in their lives.
Moving quickly to sex happens all the time in the real world. Even without that level of connection.
As for "forced", if you chose Jessica then Skylar is a friend. For now. I'm fairly sure we've been given the opportunity to reject everyone, except for the choice between Skylar and Jessica (where you have to choose one, and the one you choose is then on a romantic path with you).
She may still be the main heroine, but I would not consider that "forced". You will never control everything in the story. If she's the main heroine, that's no more "forced" than that the MC travels back in time. It's part of the plot.