So I would agree here however I don’t think it’s really the case. You lock in your entire route in book 1 if she decided to drop the route during book 3 it would have caused backlash beyond belief, nothing is worse than a player whose decision is completely thrown away because the author “Didn’t like the romance”.
Watch it’s going to be you complain to M and they’ll say something like “Why does it bother you, we’re just fucking around…aren’t we?” and then you get the chance to tell her only to have Farah teleport from the other side of the earth to crack a joke.
I swear, the next time F opens their mouth, I’m writing a fanfic where my MC damned well shuts it for them. She’s had it with Felix harassing Mason and making everything worse for her. And she’s not the type to mince words, either. She’d flat out say, “Shut your fucking mouth, Felix.Enough of this shit! And the next time I hear you utter a single fucking word to or around Mason about me, feelings, or how he behaves around me, you won’t have to worry about whether he’ll kick your ass or not. Because I’ll be doing it.”
But yeah, I can see something like that, too, regarding Alima. I just don’t think, in that situation, my MC would say it. She’d just turn around and fucking leave.
And good points about the M route. I which case, I don’t get Mishka’s reasoning with M at all, other than she hates M, which is obvious.
Definitely I don’t think any of my MC’s would even put up with Alima being jealous to be honest, but you know how this type of thing goes.
IDK personally, I mean sometimes it definitely seems like she has some sort of dislike for the character but then at the same times it seems like she actually really likes M as it allows her to write a complete opposite to all the other RO’s as M is the only one who is direct in everything without all the angst a good 75% of the time.
Especially when Alima is one of her favorite characters.
B3!M, from chapter 13 until the end, was perfect. I think we can all agree on that, only made less perfect by her post publication comments about M and that path.
I just have the feeling we ended up with b3!M because she does dislike M so much that she just wrote what she wrote and let it happen. With the others, she put tons of effort into their paths to make everything just so (angsty for A, N, and the LT, and “laid back” for F’s).
It seems the one place she did that with M was taking away the MC’s ability to declare their love for M to keep M from realizing how they feel. In other words, the one place in M’s path where she actually cared was something that was expressly to make their path less enjoyable for the player and to extend the “angst” of M’s forced stupidity for another full book or two.
I just replayed B3 and honestly… i don’t know if I’ll have the patience to wait 3 to 5 years for B4… and I also don’t think i’ll be spending my money on it… like, Sera really needs to learn what the word “pacing” means, that’s my main issue with this series, I just can’t deal with this, at least with a rushed plot I would be getting what I want… this is just so slow and it pisses me off so fucking much, like the only thing I need is fucking character development and progression.
It makes me think 7 books is just… unecessary… if she could just let the story flow naturally and organically instead of dragging everything and writing filler scenes with irrelevant characters she won’t even bother to give detailled character arcs or a important role later on… if she just focused on developing the goddamn romance… we could have that ANGST FESTIVAL she always talks about in B5 to just end the series… plus she would finish writing those books so much faster… no long ass unecessary monologue to just make the book longer… no filler scenes… no bullshit plot devices for the sake of angst.
I’m sorry but i’m just TIRED, i dont give a fuck if the plot and characters are great (they are not)… if the pacing is shit, the whole thing will suck… and that’s what I’m seeing… Wayhaven not being a enjoyable story because of that HORRIBLE ASS PACING… is not just bad… IT DRAGS THE WHOLE FUCKING SERIES DOWN and it makes me wonder if Sera knows how tired/upset people are/will be getting if she keeps this up.
You can’t delay what the plot and the readers are asking for forever and hope that your audience’s interest level will stay the same.
It’s just so fucking stale, it goes nowhere… it’s predictable, you wait half a decade to see A’s character go back to B1, to see M’s realization being pushed back instead of them having a cohesive character arc, to see F… be the same as always, their route just doesn’t progress… and to see N get creepier.
