I mean if you constantly choose the boyscout option don't be surprised that you get the boyscout result.
I can tell you that you most certainly have not solved their problems by giving verbal affirmation.
If anyone thinks that Rogue, Jean, and Laura's issues are solved by end of the Chapter 1 then you've underestimated our ability to cause you pain.
To build on this, by the end of year one, the most you help the girls with is
giving Rogue someone she can touch and allowing others to see her more than the girl who can kill you with a touch, helping Laura to become more open to being friends and not seeing everything as a threat and help Jean find some artistic way of expressing herself and maybe help her deal with her stress some.
Now, for each of them, that counts for a lot, but, and I speak from personal experience, helping with one problem doesn't necessarily make the rest go away, and, let me assure you, each of them has
a lot more going on that we've barely hinted at. People paying attention may pick up on a few threads, but in the grand scheme of things, we've just dealt with their surface-level issues.
We're also trying to avoid the whole 'character has to overcome the same problems every season' thing, because that's lazy writing, but these aren't things that just 'go away' because someone says 'stop being sad all the time'. So, as an example, while Rogue will still be depressed, expect new and exciting ways for her life to go wrong!
Remember: we don't stop tryin' til you start cryin'!
Yeah but hes hogging ALL the skirts though!
Jean will have to work double time with her gay beam to make this work...
It's even worse when you remember how small the mutant dating pool probably is at this point. There's probably at least a few people at the school who can't think of their school life without the words 'and then there's this asshole' coming out of their mouths when they think about Null.
