You only knew this now????? I thought it was obvious. But the thing is— and I really don’t think this otome game is aware of this— Simon is selfish.
No matter how “selfless” his actions were, he thinks he’s doing it for her sake but he’s disregarding how she feels about it. First of all, she never wanted to do the whole record deal thing all by herself. She was angry because she’d prefer to stay with him even if she’s “throwing away her opportunity to shine with all the other stars”. What’s the point when you’re not truly happy?
Oh but the game is like no, no obviously she’s happy to aim higher once she left him (he told her to take the record deal without him, that idiot) but she’s got a hole in her heart boo fucking hoo 😢 leaving him and ending their partnership makes me miss the times where I only sang at a bar!
And what the hell was that scene where they were reunited after several months of not seeing each other? He provokes her when she was clearly upset and angry, confesses his feelings for her, and then the game wraps it all up by having sex. And now they’re just happy again??? How shallow is that??? This is too neatly tied. Their relationship should be strained right now. That pent-up frustration turned into sex— no, that should have been treated as a mistake. Things can’t be forgiven that easily. It’s so unrealistic...
Normally I don’t really care about realism in an otome where fantasies are made for readers to live a more whimsical life. Magical vampire potions that turns you to an enhanced killing machine? Alright. Time traveling worm hole? Sure! Unexplained amnesia caused by an alien force? Dolls turning into real life people? Auctioned off to some bad boy millionaire? Okay.
But there’s a certain disconnect when characters don’t react to things the way people normally do... and when that happens, you get pulled from the story. :T
This new problem with MC losing her singing voice due to stress is just so fucking trite, I can’t take the rest of Simon’s route seriously anymore.
