Okay, fine, here’s the rub with that though, while in most cases the leader of a band is the lead singer that is not always the case and it is especially hard to see here given how much more, aside from a somewhat volatile temper (but the mc can have a temper almost as volatile) confident, assured and put together Rowan seems to be, why not make them the leader of the band? They seem to have the confidence and the looks for it and currently everybody in the story fawns over them much more than the mc anyway. To me the mc feels more like a shy awkward songwriter than any sort of potential bad-boy lead singer at this point. Which can be fine, the industry needs singer/songwriters too.
But as presented thus far the mc seems a bit unsuited to be the lead singer of a wild rock band and the personal issues seem like a bit of a cop out for how relatively weak the outgoing options are.
Mind you this is just my take but, aside from writing this as a non-interactive novel I have two bits of advice.
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Since the mc seems to be a songwriter first and foremost and one who needs to get over some issues at that it seems to me like Leonard Cohen type career arc would have suited them far better, begin from their songwriting prowess and from there get to know the industry and slowly grow into a good performer with a more quiet, understated and subtle charisma, again just like the late, great mr. Cohen. It seems to me career like that would play to the true strengths of the mc as they are currently presented and it would still allow them to write songs for people like G, Rowan and Blake as well as work on their own, solo, career with Orion. There is no one correct way to be a musician or artist and follow your passions after all. But the current way they’re attempting to do it seems one the mc, as presented in the game at present, is particularly unsuited for.
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Retool the story to give a more satisfying arc to the outgoing personality or scrap the outgoing options altogether and replace them with different varieties of (social)awkwardness and explore those themes more fully in the context of the current BOTB setup. Albeit at the cost of the mc likely never becoming the kind of sexy bad-boy singer I thought we could be from the original blurb.
Sometimes we want things we are not particularly suited at and this option could casts the concerns of the mc’s parents in a different light too. But then it becomes a story about do you follow your passions and stick with something you are passionate about the cost of being just average at best in spite of your best efforts or do you ultimately crave external validation/fame/parental approval, wealth or simply being the best at something more and find something else you might be able to be truly great/talented at but not particularly passionate about otherwise?
As for the rest this story seems have quite a few issues that tie into the doormat mc discussion we just recently had here.