Too damned long
I highly doubt it. She just likes angst better than anything else, and in those two routes, all she wants is angst. But, at the same time, she promised to give “just as many moments” for A and M as for N and F. So what happens is that she allows these “moments” that are awesome, then either pretends they didn’t happen, retcons them, or A/M suddenly take ten steps backwards with no explanation or reasoning for the sole purpose of dragging it on longer.
This says it all:
And if you doubt that, all you need to do is read the tumblr post where she said she had to interrupt the MC from telling M they loved them because M would’ve realized they are in love, too, and this was not when she wanted it to happen!
I think you may be on to something here. She clearly disliked M in the novels she had planned, and had made M a very hateful, distrusting, rude person who refused to trust the MC no matter what (i.e., she likely used M to make the reader feel sorry for the poor, abused MC for having to put up with the horrible treatment from M). I don’t think she has ever let go of her hatred of the character, and that’s where all the negativity regarding M asks comes from, trying to convince everyone that M’s horrible, while at the same time shoving the narrative that “some day way in the future” they’ll actually care enough to realize they care.
So I could totally buy that she figured no one would put up with M or want to do the route after b1, and figured b2 (getting screwed and waking up alone) would seal it. Her clear displeased surprise over people loving M’s route in b3 could stem from the fact that she figured everyone would give up after the slam pig comment.
Oh, I agree. B3!M before chapter 13 is pretty fucking emotionally abusive, too, and suffers from the same bullshit that A does (hot/cold treatment, acting like they care right before they give the cold shoulder or say something awful). And I agree about N and F as well. F is very abusive to their friends, particularly M, A, and the MC on their paths. With friends like that–intentionally saying stuff they know will upset A/M and make them pull away from the MC more–who the fuck needs enemies?
Yeah, I know. I wouldn’t be surprised if she tries to remove that in the future so the narrative will match her words.
Again, I agree with @notapretzel that this is a terrible idea. Alima shouldn’t have a damned thing to do with M’s realization, because it totally lessens it. Especially when we now know M would’ve realized if the MC had said the words first. To take that away just so one of M’s ex slam pieces can say something to make them realize it is just all kinds of fucked up.
That said, I can see Mishka doing it just to ruin M’s revelation. She took away the best place for it, so obviously she has something in mind that could ruin the whole damned moment.
What does the MC wanting a better place to live and a better car have to do with Rebecca? The MC has a job and pays their own bills.
The point here is that the text intentionally paints the MC as barely being above a hobo, unable to afford an apartment that’s bigger than a Cracker Jack box and a car that isn’t better suited for the junkyard than for anyone to drive. Yet, despite both of those things, the MC makes enough money to fill their house with electronics, so unless they bought said electronics off the back of a truck behind a deteriorating building, it doesn’t add up.
What’s more, Tina–who is also a police officer who started work around the same time as the MC–can afford a house with a mortgage. Verda can be explained away that his husband is loaded, but Tina cannot.
So the reason for the MC having a shitty car and a cruddy apartment is because that’s how the author wants it for laughs. And, really, to show just how horrible everything is for them while UB lives in an underground mansion and drives a shiny new SUV and Rebecca has a McMansion of her own that sits unused because the woman is mental.
The wet scene could’ve come elsewhere, where it made sense. There was no need for it here. It’s just one more of those “moments” that are forced in because she thinks they’re cool, but they make no sense at all (sorry, I would never have gotten in my car while dripping wet and covered in plaster, because not only is it gross, it’s unhealthy and only a complete and utter moron–or someone who was drunk off their ass–would do such a thing).
More and more, I wonder wtf her beta testers did, because they missed a lot.
My main MC is going to blow that car to hell at one point in what I’m writing for her. She won’t miss it a bit.
Pfft, you expect anyone in Wayhaven to be allowed to have a normal conversation instead of passive-aggressive, tween angsting bullshit? Not in this lifetime!
Because Alima is one of her favorite characters (read: she’s gonna be a Mary Sue like Rebecca) and M hurt her, so she must be used to torment M-mancers and to make them look like shit if they don’t prostrate themselves to kiss her perfect feet.
Hell, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if Mishka writes a scene with the MC being bitchy about Alima and M defends the woman.
