I’m like that…except when there’s bad drama, then I go into the homer backing away into the bushes meme 
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Omg my mc and august are besties to the max hahaha. When they wait for mc before breakfast in part 1 and then the photoshoot if you joke and say “wanna hold my hand?” They do it and start swinging mc and their hands together.
I forget a lot of interactions in the update since I sped run the first time for seven and then did my second mc who romances Orion lol but I like the conversation you can have with August in that scene near the end if you choose.
They’re just a very calming cool influence. Especially to my mc who is a total mess 25/7 I love them as a friend 
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I love those scenes. August will make a great bestie! I love the friend scenes so much with them.
Ooh, I need to try that out. I went for Orion, because… Orion. And that scene was so damned cute. I want tipsy Orion more often, lol. I was just sad we couldn’t have a G scene. I’m becoming a G addict…
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I don’t know…it seems a little like the band is also walking on eggshells when it comes to the vote and the fallout. Maybe they are afraid MC will fall apart. It’s hard to say because we really know so little about the fallout and how MC was coping. with MCs band it’s just that they don’t cuddle the MC while doing it. It seems to me like there are things unsaid and confrontations pushed back to an unhealthy degree.
I just hope we get the opportunity to try to ment things with Seven and them stonewalling and not just passively letting things happen to them.
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I don’t really get that vibe from them. And MC isn’t Seven, who the band knows is emotionally unstable. With looking at the band scenes from the demo as a whole, I get more of the impression that they know the MC may be bothered by Seven’s hatred of them, but they aren’t really concerned about it because MC isn’t unhinged like Seven is. And they figure MC can deal with their own shit, anyway (i.e., all the “You okay?” instances are just rhetorical questions, because they aren’t going to stick around and support the MC, no matter the answer).
As for the vote–I agree with you that things are unsaid about the vote and the post-vote blowup, and they’re ignored to an unhealthy degree. Both of the MCs I have so far actually hold it against the band, and aren’t happy with how they felt railroaded, but neither of them had the balls to just walk away. I’m hoping for a blowup at some point to air all the bad feelings my MCs carry around with them.
Part of the vibe I get is also that the band is accustomed to the MC going along with whatever they want and putting their own desires at the bottom of the pile to please everyone else. It explains why Rowan didn’t care a whit about the MC’s feelings and was clearly shocked the MC didn’t bow down to his demands.
Little things may build up with them–like whether your MC takes the center spot at the photo shoot, makes Devyn move from the “front man” seat in the interview, etc.–until either the MC blows up at being pushed aside or the band blows up at a MC who is taking the role of front person for the band and not allowing them to push the MC aside. Saying they’ll accept the MC as the leader is one thing–actually going along with it when the MC makes a decision they don’t like is quite another, and that’s where I think it may become a problem, because Amy said the band will put the MC in their place if they don’t like what the MC is doing. So will the MC allow their friends to bully them or will they step up and tell their friends how things will be if they feel their decision is what’s best?
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Oh yes, I didn’t mean like SV. But a more subdued version of that. I really hope we get a possibility to bond with Rowan in a one on one setting. Hanging out in the hotel room and Rowan taking time to catch up or something.
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From that one flashback on Patreon I also got the impression that Rowan actually has problems really relating to people and with MC he finally connected as friends. He seemed quite popular but lonely.
But could be me being optimistic though.
Yeah, this could get interesting. I also believe that this could become a problem. Like, you wanted MC to be the singer and the face of the band. But do you really? I don’t know them good enough to really get a read on how they will react.
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I wonder what the band’s actual reason was for voting out Seven because I’m not convinced by their initial explanation. Seven is a triple threat – attractive, talented as a vocalist, and a skilled writer – so their rationale for wanting Seven as a background singer makes no sense. Moreover, having two lead vocalists is not unprecedented; successful bands like Queen, The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, U2, and Radiohead have embraced this concept. I sense there must have been some behind-the-scenes incident between Seven and the rest of the band that MC was not aware of, leading to the vote.
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That or they just didn’t preferred him over us 
The songs performed solo by the MC did better than the duets with Seven and iirc the MC was also more successful at the time than Seven, so I guess the band wanted to capitalize on that. Tbh, that vote fiasco makes little sense without tons of headcanon.
What I understood so far is that eventually Seven and the MC would have fallen apart despite the vote because Seven was jealous of the MC’s success, maybe due to their fear of abandonment or for whatever other reason, that was bound to happen anyway at some point. Iris makes a comment, during the bus vote, that Seven is not easy to deal with either, and I don’t think that comment was just about current Seven, so the band might have had a problem with them pre-vote.
As for the band pushing back the vote discussion to an unhealthy degree, my take is they all feel guilty and don’t know how to address the elephant in the room for fear that the MC would lash out at them and/or blame them for everything. We know that Seven and the MC were joined at the hip, either being bff or romancing Seven, the MC would have never suggested demoting them, it had to come from one of the other band members.
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IIRC, Seven and MC just sounded worse together as a duo than each of them doing it solo.
Which is a bit weird because the criteria by which you judge a duo is completely different from a solo singer but I get what the author meant.
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That too.
I’ve no music talent sadly so can’t say how duets are judged, but maybe their voices weren’t compatible.
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From what I’ve read via the game, patreon and Amy’s tumblr, Seven wasn’t as much of a charismatic singer back then as they are now.
All these years have apparently made them much more of a stage presence and better singer.
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Headcanon and my MC-wise the group being very cautious around Seven makes sense - Ivan really dislikes people getting into his personal shit and for him it was Seven first and band the second because, well, Seven got him into the music to start with.
But them pushing him around and the general vibe… it’ll be hard to headcanon, honestly. Maybe it’s the fact that Ivan Smirnov and Jackal, his stage name, are two different people, maybe it’s the fact that group is the only thing holding him relatively stable (well, as stable as he could be), maybe it’s his fame-chasing tendencies making him willing to scream like a wolf while living among them (paraphrased russian proverb, it sounds better in my native tongue) because, well, there’s really no other chance to blow up.
But this feels to me like trying to headcanon around the fact that MC is pushed down and talked around, not with. I do hope it will get better and that Ivan will continue pushing forward - he already takes the role of a leader eagerly, he takes front seats, he views himself as the main protector, but honestly… if our group is so willing to put us back into our place, what does that really mean? I’m afraid they’ll be used as a cudgel the second MC shows teeth or expresses anger at their situation, like it was with Orion: in my finished second run of Ivan he felt like he primarily cared about his singer producing bangers while staying on the clean and narrow, which is… lol. Plus, mutual abrasiveness was off the charts.
Generally this feeling of isolation and loneliness works for Ivan, but not really for anyone else. Group is supposed to be friends, and strong ones, yet I really haven’t felt it in the demo despite replaying it twice and being as nice as possible towards them. It feels, again, like MC’s place as a singer kind of replaced what their original role was in the band - like they’re not a friend, but a very important part of the group and changing them would be incredibly risky.
I wonder what the post-break up Seven times were like, though. Because for my character it was extremely horrible no-good binge of cigarettes, drugs and unprotected sex after which he released an album in which there was nothing but thinly veiled diss tracks. If there’s an option in the future to choose that the MC took the breakup incredibly poorly and started spiralling, this really raises a question of what the band was doing to prevent it or to help MC.
Because that could justify things, at least a bit. If we get the scenes where the band drags MC out of the gutter and helps them with their personal shit, I think it would really help to sell them as actual friends.
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From what we know so far, the same could be said for Seven and the MC so I don’t really see a problem with that, we haven’t seen or know what SV’s creative process is like, and we don’t know if Pope and Kieran are active participants or are letting the other two handle the lyrics and everything until is time for them to play their parts.
I’ve this image of Pope and Kieran exchanging secret glances whenever Seven sings them any new song about the MC, silently screaming “not this again ffs” but push through the pain because people love that shit.
I reread that scene and my delusional brain wants to believe the MC is being an unreliable narrator (they already are but more so in that moment), but ngl stuff like that makes it hard to believe Seven and Avina aren’t a thing.
That would be really interesting.
Yeah, probably showing it at least to people close to you can help, although they might spin it as your friends having your back. Maybe the only way is to show it to everyone. On the plus side, I can see this being one way to turn the table on the cheating allegations, if Blake is the one stealing it that is.
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Given the lyrics I usually write for Ivan, it’s really going to be tough turning this into an actual issue if he steals just one line from the demo about regret being like balls. Like, if you actually steal that, you really should re-think the way you make decisions.
Although, maybe he can steal a demo diss track from the post-break up album that wasn’t released because it was that vicious and personal. I hope we’ll get an option to state that we wrote a diss track after Seven broke up with us and Blake steals that one.
That still won’t help the mc when it comes to their contract should they “win” it just gives the label some additional leverage of Blake should he win. The media will likely just frame it as mc dragging other people down into the mud with them…and possibly succeeding. But that makes them still very much the designated villain.
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Blake steals a song from us, we successfully prove it was ours… but the media frame us as dragging people down into the mud with us? Why? How does that make any sense? I’m genuinely confused.
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Designated villain I don’t like the sound of that 
The “magic” of “reality” TV. It is at this point already proven the mc did not make it into the contest on their own merits, but were cheated in and in order to keep Blake out at that.
If Blake “steals” a song from mc, even if the mc can prove it, it will just look like more manufactured reality tv drama to most. Just another scene the showrunners put into the narrative and mc is still the villain because they tried to cheat Blake out of their rightful spot in the first place and that is how the show and the broader media circus will probably frame it.
So, really, just another staged reality tv mud-fight where the mc is very much doing the dragging down in the overall narrative.
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