sweet and kind mc having a crush on mirabel but ultimately staying choose to stay loyal to nora how would this go ?
I suppose the level of pain here would be largely up to the player and how invested the MC becomes with Mirabel before committing to Nora. If I was playing this route, I personally would probably play an MC who has a light crush on Mirabel from childhood but never really expressed it except in brief, subtle moments (a longing glance here, an unnecessary touch there). Both would be torn, both would know something is there, but because neither is willing to act on it when they know it will never be, the pain would be a passing thing. Over the years, MC's loyalty to Nora would eventually morph into love and both he and Mirabel would move on. Maybe that's a boring answer but we are talking teenagers experiencing these sorts of feelings for the first time, and at the end of the day those feelings aren't what carry a marriage. Action is. Commitment is. You've described to me a sweet, kind, and loyal MC, and Nora is also all these things, I can only imagine that two people sharing these qualities and values who put in the work despite not always feeling like it would forge an unbreakable bond over the years. It might be hard in the beginning, but marriage is always hard.
Didn't expect to go on a semi-philosophical rant there sorry 😅