The fact that he is her boyfriend's father and they share the same social circle that will definitely be affected by this news. The fact that this news will embarrass her in front of her and Mario's friends, her classmates, her father, her sister. These are the obvious consequences that immediately come to mind. But who cares that she slept with the father of her boyfriend, right? She should just cut off all her old contacts, move to a different city and start a new life. Anyway she will be fine. Easy-peasy.
I've already given you the argument. Amber is a mature, educated woman who is also a psychologist. She can handle this asshole who it's not even safe to say actually lusts after her. And we never saw him hitting on her.
I didn't gave Brenda any labels, Bella gave her labels. She said Brenda would be easy to manipulate, she said Brenda was innocent.
You are shifting focus from their perspective that I gave in the paragraph you quoted to our perspective. It doesn't matter what picture of Vanessa you created in your head at the end of the game, this was originally about how Nika and Bella see her before Nika meets her and why exactly he decided to abandon the plan with her. We can't judge the characters' actions by bringing in their defense information they didn't know or consider when they committed their act. Follow the internal game logic. By doing the opposite, you create a false picture of their motives and the reasoning they make up for themselves at a particular moment.
You know why dialogue boxes with a choice of lines sometimes appear in such games? You know, right? Otherwise, it’s easier to make a mini-series than to mess with the engine and code.
It was you who labeled Brenda, clearly belittling her relative to Vanessa based on Bella's words about easy manipulation. Subsequence.
As for Amber, yes, you give an example that has no justification in the season. You don’t really know Holgerson or Amber herself (there aren’t enough sessions). That's why I mentioned several times that this is all speculation and speculation.
I wouldn't apply the same rules to Vanessa simply because I (as Nika) don't know she's cheating. In the example also you (as a player) can't know she was cheating when you decided to set her up. You didn't play the game backwards, from chapter 5 to chapter 1.
Vanessa wasn't even cheating in the first place when Nika and Bella came up with their plan. She was probably sitting in Starbucks, drinking her cappuccino when some blonde approached her and offered to become her friend with malicious intentions. She didn't invite Bella, she didn't even care at all about her and Nika.
Your entire argument comes down to her being an arrogant manipulator with unknown intentions. Meanwhile, we have two arrogant manipulators with known, obvious evil intentions who see her as the same easy victim as Brenda (don't forget about their perspective).
Why should I skip the game through reverse? Do you have a superpower for rewinding time? If we are talking about the player rethinking the plot, yes, this can be done. But only if half of the decisions do not lie with you, through those very dialog boxes.
Starbucks, coffee, some blonde. The only thing I understood is that you really want to write your own alternative novel. It very rarely happens that such liberated people do not change partners like gloves. A long conversation with Cheeto in the jacuzzi will help you. Plus a moment in the kitchen.
Yes, this is also an assumption (only more reasonable after reading a couple of textbooks on psychology and sexology) than yours.
What's the point of your example? An antihero describes the general characterization of a character and their role in a story, not their personality. They don't necessarily have to be reasonable or emotional. They're all different. Antiheroes are not created to try to justify them.
As for Nika and Bella, they are classic 100% antiheroes.
Anyway...
You're talking about justice for Nika and Bella with absolutely no regard for the people who get screwed by them. You could have just said, "Fuck the Holgersons, fuck Brenda, fuck Vanessa. I just like Bella and I like Nika." Instead you're practicing some pointless mental gymnastics calling it "flexible morality". Even a flexible morality should have some rules attached to it, some order that applies to all characters. Including Bella and Nika. But all your flexibility is focused only on getteing their asses out of the hit.
Who said anything about excuses? Why is it so flat?
Anti-heroes don't need to be justified unless they are written as dumb as a plug villains. A complex and ambiguous psychotype, especially one that evolves over time, is created so that you would think about it, and not dress in white and run to justify it.
Here, again, everything is much simpler, you won’t even need to add half of the personality from your head when the author himself didn’t even have time to do this. I will think about justice for Holgerson and Vanessa when the season about them and their “suffering” comes out.
(By the way, I didn’t even try to hide my sympathy for certain characters based solely on my personal preferences. Just like in the example I gave. This also works in both directions, the main thing is not to start adding the personalities of such characters ahead of the author)
Well, “flexible morality” implies that I must know the character, personality and motivation of those in question. Sorry, but based on the characters you added, Holgerson and Vanessa, I’m not ready to make any discounts.
You sure don't.
Let me emphasize: consciously, and not through the prism of a reverse, repeated passage.
