HornyyPussy

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Wow... Discussion got serious up in here. We all have life experiences that color our perception on how the characters in the game really are based on what we've seen or heard (and choose to believe or not). The best thing about this kind of game is everyone is varying degrees of right based on what they know and to a significant degree how their playthrough goes.

I don't want to change anyone's views on things or give anything away... but you know I enjoy interjecting and hopefully add rather than detract to these kind of things. I also have the benefit of having been a player before a collaborator with Cheeky and while I know more to base my judgements on obviously to write for the characters... My views aren't the end all, nor even are Cheeky's. That is part of the beauty of a choice based game with a degree of open interpretation. You have the tools to make your own narrative to a great degree.

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You are a brave man for stepping in in the middle of this Ace ;)
 

HornyyPussy

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Ok! *puts on hip waders and a brave/foolish (didn't take much...) expression

I'm on Ava's side regarding Elaine (well duh). I won't go deeper in to the discussion about abuse since I have literally nothing to add to that.

I do think people are being a little harsh on her but as Ace said, we all see things from our own perspective so it's all good. I'm also 99% certain that Elaine is not the villain here and after the cliffhanger i'm even more certain (99.1%). I think she is being set up by Bella/Jo.

Is calling Elaine a cold hearted bitch hardcoded or a choice? I don't remember calling her that since I went the kind route with her from the start. Almost all accusations about how she behaved towards the MC has come from Bella and Elaine herself in my game.

*gets out of these ridiculous rubber pants......
 
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Crippy

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Ok! *puts on hip waders and a brave/foolish (didn't take much...) expression

I'm on Ava's side regarding Elaine (well duh). I won't go deeper in to the discussion about abuse since I have literally nothing to add to that.

I do think people are being a little harsh on her but as Ace said, we all see things from our own perspective so it's all good. I'm also 99% certain that Elaine is not the villain here and after the cliffhanger i'm even more certain (99.1%). I think she is being set up by Bella/Jo.

Is calling Elaine a cold hearted bitch hardcoded or a choice? I don't remember calling her that since I went the kind route with her from the start. Almost all accusations about how she behaved towards the MC has come from Bella and Elaine herself in my game.

*gets out of these ridiculous rubber pants......
You ain't the only one on AVA's side...I love her as much as my wife will allow me to! :)
 

felicemastronzo

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if we take away Elaine's feelings of guilt towards MC and her desire (sincere or not) to rebuild a healthy relationship with him (sentimental or not), I think she has very little left. she would become the parody of the sexually repressed milf....

if MC is very hard on her, she never doubts the reasons of his anger, she hopes he will one day forgive her. but in the same way even choosing the opposite options it is always MC who forgives her, the past is never erased, at the most the guilt is partly shifted towards her father, but Elaine never completely exonerates herself

but then heck there really is a path of guilt....

if it was all a misunderstanding, an overreaction of Mc, if we remove this premise, what is the meaning of the story we are living? why Elaine would have been so uncomfortable with the presence of Mc to have to kick him out of her house the day after the funeral of his father? why should she get involved with lawyers to make sure that both have something?

the past is not in question, what is in question is the truthfulness of their present relationship, which is deliberately kept doubtful, with more shadows than lights
 
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DA22

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I've already done this dance with you and you know my theory. I don't think she will end up being the villian in this story. I've said I could be wrong, but that's the way I'm leaning. As far as ignoring and avoiding equaling abuse sorry that's going way to far. Most teenagers are not trying to spend any time with their family anyway. He was fed and looked after not tied up in the basement and beaten. I wouldn't even go as far as to call it neglect. It certainly wouldn't meet the legal standard for charging them with neglect. He wasn't loved by her, but she wasn't his mother so not really a crime. You can say mistreated to a point, and I'm certainly not pretending she was a saint. She was not good to him that doesn't make her a demon.
Sorry, I am afraid I have to disagree with you on this one. The kind of neglect Elaine and the dad heaped on MC is most assuredly also emotional abuse and can in the long run lead to severe mental problems and abusive relationships, though MC might have the luck that his more early youth having been in a more stable loving situation with his mom will protect him from that. Fact it happened soon after losing his mom, will not have helped though.

Thing is long term emotional abuse is every bit as damaging to a person as physical or sexual abuse, just even harder to proof and see. It is not for nothing that by now things like coercive control and similar abusive patterns are accepted as full on abuse when they happen between a man and a woman in a relation and is even accepted as ground for jail sentences or if the abused one gets violent not to send them to jail. Now if that is the case for grown men and women in an emotionally abusive relationship, do you think it will be any better for a kid or young teen?
 
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