First off before I continue let me just say I am not on Damien's side I just wish we didn't lose him as a team mate that is all.
Ok well if you want to say that Damien was partially to blame for the incident at the bowling alley then we can say the same for the MC. If he didn't provoke Ryker there then he wouldn't have gotten in the fight and Wendy would not have got hit. It would have been just as easy for him to not go outside or go back inside and call the police. I get we all want Damien to be the bad guy (so you could have Jasmine and not feel as guilty), and point out how he fucked up. The problem is a lot of people are looking at everything towards the MC like he could do no wrong at all. Well guess what the MC is not perfect either he has lied, cheated, injured several people, went to jail as well. Hmmm wait that sounds just like someone else but who, oh yeah Damien did the same thing.
I don't agree with Damien's methods but I have come to terms to accept why he did what he did. I wish we didn't lose him as a team mate that is my main concern we barely have a team. I feel the team is going to struggle without someone with his skills is all. I am sure the MC will be superman and win all or most of the games himself but it would have been nice to have someone like Damien there as well. You know a Scotty Pippen to Michael Jordan, or a Kobe with Shaq kind of thing. Just my opinion
Thing is you can look at the situation purely from Damiens view, try to be objectively neutral (Operative word is try) or from MC's point of view. Now whether MC could have been wiser and gone inside to call or not at certain moment it was too late for that and main fault MC made was he reacted to a situation that was created and set up for him against his will and Damien did help to create that situation freely and of his own will even if we can debate if Damien tried to do the good thing at end or not.
Remember also due to Damien's actions (yes he does bear some responsibility for that as a member of that posse if not the main since he did enable Rykers behavior and he could also have called police way earlier if had wanted to) before the alley was even reached by Ryker, if MC had not stopped Ryker Harper would have been hit full face by a baseball bat. Damien was a willing and participating member of that posse. Now that is unforgivable in the end and Damien did know of what Ryker was capable in his craziness.
Now with all the betrayals of Damien in the eyes of MC and also the betrayal of Jasmine (Yes he did betray Jasmine by not setting her free when he found out he was truly gay and telling her the truth about that), even if Damien would be a full saint in reality which he is not just as he may not be fully evil, you are asking of MC to be inhumanely forgiving of Damien to even ask him to allow Damien back on the team and school. Now to be honest I think MC showed both his inner kindness and all the forgiveness but unable to forget he could, when said that Rachel and Belle would help him to build his life anew somewhere else and his help his mother as well if Damien would help and had been honest.
What more can you even expect from MC? Even if he would have been so inhumanely kind and good or stupid to give Damien another chance, how could he ever trust him. In my eyes MC gave Damien as much of another chance he could and it is now up to Damien to grab that chance. Also Damien's actions have consequences in how he is seen by all in game not just MC, whether you want to see him as fully evil or a good person who did bad things. To me BD struck a good balance and for many he might have even been to lenient with Damien.
