I'm sorry, I do love this IF so don't take this too negatively but that whole party did made me lose a-lot of love I had for the characters, especially for Imre's route.
After everything the MC has gone through, the voice in their head, the "asylum", their family, the bullying and disdain from a whole town? just for all three of them to watch us go through something as horrific as that? None of them came to check on you afterwards, all of them going off to enjoy themselves knowing what just happened, *And then* each one of them berates and treats you like shit afterwards?? When one of them suggested just splitting up and going our separate ways I almost wish it was an option because I really just wanted to crash out on all of them.
The writing is absolutely beautiful though! This isn't a knock against the story at-all, it's phenomenal and the fact the character's can make someone this engaged is amazing!, this is more of a 'Let me pull a Carrie on them all' kinda thing <3
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For some reason I’m actually getting itchio notifications now wow! So to clarify a bit, they didn’t actually go enjoy themselves. They went to kick James out, he mentions it.
Although I’d like to say how I see it, if you don’t mind ☺️
I don’t think that just because Crowny went through something bad means that it magically fixes the characters relationships with them. Whatever happened with James isn’t a bandaid. It would be one thing for them to say Crowny got what they deserved. It is another to then have all of them act completely differently to them then they have when there are more deeper things going on. Also an important note is that they start all berating each other, no one dogpiled on Crowny.
I’m sorry I just didn’t know what you expected from these three 😭 its been shown that a) they have their own issues b) not a healthy way to show it thats way they next scene with James is the way they show crowny they care because they’re willing to go to prison as accomplices for them. I feel like that’s a good big step to fix their own relationships, all 4
P.S: I hope you don’t take this as me berating you or anything! I just wanted to give my two cents ♥️
Noo!! It's OK, I totally wouldn't take it that way, I felt the same when I was writing my own post since it's hard to convey meaning over text so I struggled to word it properly it's all good!
I get what you're saying, especially the bit at the end where they come together to protect Crowny (That really clicked for me when I did Lorcan's route and he clarified it as 'our' mess <3) I was more so referring to the bit between what happens with James and the meet up with the whole gang, for instance I did Imre's route and after he pulled his little twist I could imagine how much worse the MC felt, so I tried to speak to the other two with their friendship dialogue's but *both* ended in arguments. At that point I just felt like Crowny was/would feel very isolated and their emotions would be a-lot more all over the place/volatile .
However your reply did clear some of that up and help me understand it better! Especially with how everyone wanted to get there own stuff off of their chest, and of-course with everything else that happened that just wasn't going to be possible, this is just very much me going through all of that arguing/emotional turmoil right before the cliff-hanger!