SPOILER ALERT!
We are always going to disagree on this, I feel; MC's biologicaly mother portrayed as a despicable character in the Novel through her self-absorbed and selfish nature, and by her toxic behaviour, and I have no empathy towards her. That the MC feels no love or respect towards her, and feels ashamed of his mother and feelings of total resentment, is completely understandable and credible. The MC attempted to reconnect in some level with his mother and her display of her real nature was a shocking experience and repulsive in his eyes, I get it, but let's remember the rest of the context... she didn't recognise him to begin with and he played along even encouraging her behaviour, which I find strange and in some ways manipulative. In parallel, he has just discovered that his father has developped a biological weapon [hugely manipulative] which has the potential to wipe out human beings and at best change the very nature of people; his father that has always seemingly hidden key things from him and others, including the true nature of his biological mother. A father who, in my eyes, suffered from delusions of greatness but who was also incredibly manipulative. Yet the MC seems to accept his father's flaws fairly readily, in the same PTSD state he finds himself in when he acts as both judge and jury by infecting his mother with his father's virus, removes her financial support and, again in my eyes, shockingly wrecks the life of an eighteen year old and his family, through some notion of justifiable retribution?! With these actions, the MC is as vile and selfish as his mother, and as manipulative and narcissistic as his father. Yet at the same time, we have been encouraged to show empathy towards our talented hero; it is a huge flaw in the story. Let's remember, the author portrays the MC as a just and good person, who waves the banner [along with many of his friends] of some sort of moral high ground, one which I find far too black and white in it's portrayal and highly polarized in a perverse way in an erotic novel, but at the same time I can accept it as a vision by somebody who has lived a life very different to my own. What I cannot readily accept, no matter how we perceive the MC's nature and his hurts, is how coldy he can willingly judge and destroy the lives of others.
Just started playing.. And good thing she shared that with her best friend, cause that attutude sure as hell would turn any other dude away xD Jesus..
