BobTheDuck
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I hate being out of reacts. I'll owe you one internet coffee cup of like.Very fair. And I think we've discussed this before but the fact that this is how his traumatized brain portrays her raises even more red flags. If you love someone to the point of almost obsession, to the point you can't let her go, wouldn't your brain portray your idealized version of her?
His dream/nightmare portrayal of Summer matches the other tidbits we got of her personality though. Her agressive nature when Nami first brings her home and her assholish atittude in the icecream scene with Elsa and the MC.
Anyways I'm more concerned on how her future appearance will affect the story. I did once say (and fully maintain today) that Summer being alive and showing up in the future would be the single greatest detriment to this story there could possibly be.
Even the flashbacks are Nika's idealised/traumatised/avoidance memories, so even they could be false. But your point about Summer being aliv and returning... well I don't care if she's alive or dead, just that she should remain out of the story except for flashbacks. I mean if Ocean brings her back, the whole point of healing through a combination of choice and communal support is superceded by a monopoly get out of jail free card.
Nika should work through his trauma without Summer in my opinion, it's a stronger story. Much better if Summer does appear, that sh appears right at the end, in the bad ending, and Nika leaves with her Natural BOrn Killers style. Or She turns up at Nika's epilogue wedding, and he wonders who she is, turns around to look at his bride, and we never see Summer again, like passing ships.
Something non derivative. We've seen too many old flame/returning ex stories to even care. Her as a disruptor and her plot works better if it can't b solved in the game, and that can be its own game later.