The vast majority of AVN require extreme amount of suspension of disbelief. This is pretty much on the same level as other games IMO.
If you haven't been around people before, sure.
If you have and specifically around the type of individuals that this VN has, then no, this is pretty egregious in how absurdly unlikely it is for any of these characters to get into the team.
Skylaroo said:
This is just factually incorrect. MC doesn't have hero complex. MC needs these girls to turn the team around because everyone else sucked and MC would lose scholarship if the team didn't win. MC is doing this out of his own necessity, not any desire to fix people.
They're not mutually exclusive, MC clearly
wants to help where he can, and it's just going to tip more and more to that side as time goes on.
Skylaroo said:
I get it that they are quite strongly refusing at the moment, but I don't think they are by any means acting as if it's never going to happen no matter what.
If you don't know people, sure.
If you know people who are like these individuals, it is extremely unlikely. I've been around a lot of individuals like these in my life, and I think one out of maybe 200 have done things they didn't want to do. Can't convince someone who doesn't give a fuck, especially not if you're some random dude aswell.
I'll only quote those that I actually talked about in my initial post, didn't talk about Desiree because she's obviously not on the team right now nor does she seem likely to be at the moment. There'll probably be another 2 or 3 updates before she considers that given the current trajectory and writing.
Skylaroo said:
3. Zoe's reason to not join the team is clearly because she doesn't think that the others are taking it as seriously as her (hence, she's playing in the city team), she even briefly mentioned that she's willing to play if with MC before MC abruptly cut her off and went on a tirade. So if the team showed that they're taking it seriously, she'd be willing to join the team.
She, straight up, had nothing indicating that she was willing to listen to MC nor even consider it before MC lost his shit, and there were quite a bit of talk leading up to it. Her personality is just sour as fuck and she doesn't seem to take the team seriously at all given that she KNOWS who MC is, even idolize the dude yet still went "yeah nah, maybe if you get rid of everyone else because I hate them". Moreover, the MC doesn't know that she would be willing to play for the exact reason you just outlined.
Skylaroo said:
4. Fiona is an unknown at the moment and not a straight "never going to do it".
She despises the MC, punched him in the face, either was directly involved in physical assault of the previous coach or had friends/family do the assaulting and she just stood by it. Literally nothing points towards her being interested, and again someone like this in real life would never even fucking consider going back on what they initially feel/believe. This is exactly why I'm pointing out that this VN requires some extreme suspension of disbelief because if this was real life, it would just end right here.
She's also just the least redeemable individual out of all of them, like at what point would you have to go on a fucking peyote spirit quest to Bratva headquarters just to get her to consider playing a goddamn game?
Skylaroo said:
5. Saki is also an unknown when it comes to why she doesn't want to play, but she's much more open to it when compared to Fiona because she definitely sees MC in a more positive light.
Sure, more open to it, but seeing someone in a positive light doesn't really matter at all, again given how she is as a person, zero reason to think that she'd all of the sudden get serious about playing for a dude she's only just met outside of VN magic.
Skylaroo said:
6. Lexi doesn't have zero interest in playing. She said she just needed to be convinced that volleyball would be more fun than partying. She even literally said "I'll think about it"
You do realize that's like the most common excuse for not wanting to do shit?
I've worked with a lot of youths, I've been that youth, if I gave you the "I'll think about it" response it means to fuck off and stop bothering me.
This is what I mean, outside of VN logic, these characters just do not work from a fundamental perspective and is why I have issues with suspending my disbelief for them. If their characters weren't as extreme in their distaste of anything relating to volleyball and the MC, it wouldn't be as jarring.