Naomi looks weird but otherwise I agree she didn't do a thing wrong.
Strong disagree.
Based on what we've seen, their relationship was incredibly shallow and pretty much rooted in sex. They have very little in common other than that and a shared relationship with Damon. That's not really the foundation for a deep and abiding true love.
MC didn't seem overly interested in any aspect of her life, and she doesn't seem overly interested in what he's into either. Moreover, as presented Naomi comes across like someone with
deep abandonment issues desperately trying to find someone to be with, and is thus willing to write off most of the issues and warning signs in their relationship, because it's more important to BE with someone and to cling to the illusion that THIS relationship won't end like all the others. It makes their relationship feel incredibly facile and childish... which makes sense because they're teenagers and they're pretty much in the sort of paper-thin relationship teenagers get into, complete with the "we'll be together forever!" and "we'll always be happy!" sort of delusions. They were essentially IN love with being in love. The person they were actually with barely mattered.
The
moment things get complicated, BOTH bail. The MC, in a moment of very understandable and justifiable pain, lashes out against what feels to him like a betrayal. Afterward, in retrospect, he realizes that what he did was wrong but is now too ashamed to seek any form of reconciliation. BUT - she's also fully aware why he's in pain, and should be able to understand why he would lash out (even more so, because she knows
exactly how being abandoned feels). And yet she makes absolutely
no effort to try to reach out to him, to try and discuss things afterward, or in any way see if things could be salvaged. She even had to be pressured by Damon into meeting with him again at all.
Which again ties into her abandonment issues, and is a literal reflection of what she herself said about how she left her foster parents - leave them before they can leave you. Her dream of a pretty perfect eternal love without end or flaw is now broken, and her reaction was to immediately shut it down and run away. Again, an understandable reaction - but it doesn't absolve her of responsibilty in any way. Any more than the MC hurting from his loss makes him completely blameless.
In short, BOTH of them were equally proactive in throwing away a relationship they both swore would weather any challenge. I'd argue the two of them were
completely equal in being responsible for what ultimately happened. Because neither of them did a single thing to stop or try and fix it.
Ideally, they
should both learn from this, becoming better people, and more ready to actually commit to a deeper, healthier relationship in the future (preferably with
other people). Maturity comes through experience, and the experience has taught them both a number of lessons. Sadly, they seem determined to ignore some of those lessons...
(And that's without getting into the fact that
her "You should talk to your mom" and then immediately shutting down his attempt to talk to the mom moment happens shortly before the mother leaves, and is clearly in a moment of absolute crisis - it's entirely possible that if she hadn't stopped that conversation from happening, the entire events of the backstory could have been averted, or at the very least, MC might have gotten more explanation and his reaction to things would have been far less severe. At the very least, she shouldn't have brought it up at all then and there if she wasn't willing to see him pursue it. MC may not see things that way as written, but
I definitely do. I consider that entire night a huge mistake on her part.)
but you have people in common. So some amount of contact and interaction is unavoidable.
Arguably it isn't, since they seem to have precisely one person in common, and were quite easily avoiding each other for months with no real risk of interaction before Damon deliberately forced them back together. She's away at school, he'll be going away in another year. In real life, people who break up in high school can easily go for decades never seeing each other again (or at all, if they avoid class reunions).
The only real reason she came back is because Damon keeps trying to fix things, and is generally breaking them even worse because he's not very good at fixing things. But he'll continue to interfere and keep secrets from the people he's trying to help because he feels like he knows better than they do what sort of help they need, and they would refuse it if he told them what he was planning (something he himself essentially admits to at one point).
Damon's another one for the "good intentions paving the road to Hell" pile. He's not a bad guy, and his own fear over his secret (and the lengths he's willing to go to to hide/protect it) are perfectly understandable. But at the same time, he's doing significant emotional harm to multiple other people in the process. And while trying to "fix" his friend is both understandable and admirable in a way, almost everything he does in the attempt has done nothing but create more problems and crises for the MC to deal with (Damon pushed him and Mira together because both need fixing, Damon's actions essentially led to meeting Ada, pushing the Danielle problem off on MC is creating issues, and the night club meeting was a spectacularly bad idea - and those are just the bigger points). With friends like Damon, you don't need enemies.
At this point, 90% of MC's problems are being directly caused by people he's not allowed to avoid, and which the game doesn't allow you to be mad at. In the moments where you'd be fully justified in having the most righteously indignant reaction to things, the game just has you passive accept everything.
Which is why I'm so convinced the mother is going to come back and the game is either going to force you to accept her or punish you for not doing so. Because it fits the pattern of the writing so far.
Which is a shame, because apart from those moments and lack of agency, the writing is definitely really good.