I'm sorry but I'm a bit curious as to how people have ended up with the MC and Robin rumors flying around. How does one get to that? In my playthrough, I'm mainly focused on the story around Bella and MC(romantically of course) along with their struggles to fix their mental health. So I'm not sure how players have gotten that interaction as well as the reporter reporting on it. Can someone explain that bit to me please?
I agree with quite a bit of this. But to keep it fair, Zara was already playing dirty and the incident with her top being exposed was entirely on her. The MC is no saint, but using mind games during battle(whether it be sports or anything else) is commonplace. He did not create any new problems. He saw that there was already friction on their team, and he also saw that Zara was quite prideful and confident in her abilities. Him being sexist, while low of him, was to play on Zara's weakness of pride and confidence. He analyzed every weakness of their team and exploited them all. Which again, is quite common in battle(sports or anything else). The entire sequence was mainly meant to show off the MC's quick-thinking and intelligence, as well as his planning and tactical analysis.... maybe his manipulative nature as well.
I'm not defending his actions, but I am saying that what he did was not in any way out of the ordinary when it comes to sports. In that regard, people are too sensitive these days. Nadia and Zara's response was still uncalled for, no matter how you try to spin the situation. Both Nadia and Zara, prior to this, had never experienced anything negative with the MC. Given that MC had not spent as much time with Zara as with Nadia, Nadia still should have known that MC was playing them from the start. I mean, he got her to help Sonya(the Islamic girl that's actually experiencing REAL sexism) to spend some time out of her probably oppressive home with them to play games. If that doesn't speak for his views on sexist behavior, I'm not sure what does. Now Zara doesn't know him that well, but in the few weeks(I'm taking a wild guess here on how long they've been attending college up to now) since college had started, Nadia had enough time to get an idea about him. Especially considering what he did for Sonya. She could have spoken to Zara about it and upped their game plan. That would've been the mature way to handle it.
Again, I'm not defending the MC's actions. I think everyone's at fault here, but he didn't do anything too far out of the ordinary when it comes to sports. Their reaction was definitely something out of the ordinary. Also, I've played Bella's route exclusively, so forgive me if I have gotten anything wrong or misunderstood anything about your post.
