Not invalid points but i think both are manageable. There's plenty of ways to put a character in a villainous role yet still have them interacting in non-violent ways with other characters. Soap Operas have done that for decades. Also pretty much every CW Show. Granted, CW is trash TV but...this ain't exactly highbrow entertainment. lol
I can even see a few scenarios in my head already for how it could all play out, devolve into open civil war, and still end with everyone happily reconciled and forgiving each other. If we're going with multi-season long story arcs.Especially considering how many years it takes to get just part way through one season. That's plenty of time to do some storycrafting.
Gracie is without a doubt shown to have issues (I won't analyze whether she's a psychopath/sociopath or not lol), but so does Luna due to trauma they experienced in their childhood (Luna from her being captive of The Mysterious Six, & Gracie due to her unknown experience in "the Woods"), hence I don't think that would really amount to neither of the DeLuca sisters into becoming a villain.
It just feels like one more thing MC needs to do to help Gracie overcome her troublesome past and heal from her trauma.
Besides, fans like Gracie because she's a bright (not just in intelligence, but also her personality in most matters) girl, and some even downright dislike the way she acted towards MC in that Blizzard Princess event.
Granted, I didn't mind it, and I actually think it added a nice wrinkle to Gracie's character from a "happy, bright princess-like character" showing that she's not perfect, but making her an actual antagonist?
Nah......just don't think it's a good idea, since I think that's gonna tip the scale too extreme to her "negative" side (for me, Gracie being a girl with issues that MC helps overcome like he will do with Luna works just fine. No need to change the formula that works).
So if it is revealed that the MC is having an affair with Isabel(Whether it's true or just being implied through circumstantial evidence) this would immediately move Isabel back onto Gracie's shitlist. The whole reason she was there to begin with is that Gracie thought Isabel was cheating on Antonio.
Previously, someone else asked half-jokingly to Hopes "Considering MC does naughty things to girls in their rooms or even in the living room (i.e. Isabel), shouldn't each girl already be aware that MC is doing lewd acts to other girls?"
Hopes' reply: "In real life, yes most likely MC will be caught red-handed already. But for the sake of game logic, we assume other girls aren't aware."
So unless Hopes removes that game logic limiter sometime in the future, I'd say Isabel is safe at least until then.
But even if the so-called game logic limiter is removed and Gracie finds out, I'm not sure she'll have that big of a reaction.
I mean, her being mad at Antonio initially was based solely on Gracie not having realized Antonio is a bisexual (and also her not knowing it could very well be that Antonio had been cheating on Isabel instead).
With this secret known by her now, I'd say chance of her being mad at Isabel is a lot smaller, especially if she realizes over time the growing distance between Antonio and Isabel.
What if when the time comes Gracie has a choice....Team Cordia where she will forever be refused the chance to join the Family business....or Team Antonio where she will be given free reign. Where she will be free to target Isabel. Where she can finally become the thing Cordia fears most and the thing Wilfred longs to see: The one true worthy heiress to Cordia. At least in Wilfred's mind.
That scenario is unlikely to happen.
The main story of the upcoming update (coming soon) is Gracie forging a plan to get Cordia & Wilfred to accept her into the Family Business and implementing it (with MC & Joey's help).
While we wouldn't know the 100% of the outcome yet, from the preview pics shown, I'd say the outcome is pretty favorable for her (and also, there's the fact that Hopes said before that "helping Gracie get into the Family business will be one of the pre-requisites on unlocking Cordia route").
Additional wedges can be driven between Gracie and the MC by her discovering the hidden cameras, whether she finds them on her own or with Wilfred's nudging her in their direction just like he did Antonio. Psycho/Sociopaths have fragile egos. Getting outmaneuvered like that just adds more fuel to the antagonistic fire. We already saw just quickly all the affection Gracie has shown for the MC was replaced with cold-blooded apathy the moment she merely suspected he had outplayed her. Imagine her reaction when she gets confirmation that he outplayed her?
Hopes never revealed what his plans are for the hidden cameras (perhaps he may reveal them, or not. I asked him the question before, but he said there are no plans for hidden cameras as of this moment).
But I'd like to think even if cameras are revealed, it wouldn't really affect her affection towards the MC too much.
I mean, outside Luna (her older sister and best friend), MC is the first genuine friend she made (she tried to make other friends before, but didn't work, finding them "boring"), and I don't think she'll throw that all away just because she thinks MC outplayed her.
Some may disagree, but I think that "cold-blooded apathy" was not genuine, but Gracie's attempt at humor (but being Gracie, it's a twisted sense of humor, heh)
