PERFECT topic for a critic like me to answer.
About the bad boy: that he acts like a total douche to the protagonist and is so full of himself. Even doesn’t feel ashamed to speak it out loud. (“Of course you’re hot, nobody can resist me” blablablah… if he would be joking, ok, but no!)
He keeps moving with his muscles (macho thing in Episode I don’t like, except when it’s irony). Even starts namecalling.
One story I’m reading (and willing to stop because of this:) he called her trash. TRASH, people.
And what does this naive girl do? Of course first getting very upset, but one episode later forgives him. Even sleeps with him. So the douche keeps acting like a douche and even gets sex in charge.
Seriously?
Next he seems to act a little cooler, but eventually ends up being a jerk AGAIN. He even sleeps with other girls after getting a fight with the protagonist and thinks he’s the man.
He keeps attracting her and eventually pushes her away again for maybe 6 times in the whole story.
But eventually the WORST thing is, as I said, the GIRL cooping with all of this. She ALWAYS gives him a second chance! Why?
I wanted so bad the choice: “doesn’t forgive him/doesn’t give him a second chance/ends up alone”, but this will not happen and especially not when the boy is a bad one. He will simply always win.
In all of the months I’m playing Episode, I think these choices appeared one or two times. That was it.
I know it’s only a story, but why does the author seems to like these jerks so much?
It would be less irritating if the girl would stop liking him and therefore he SINCERELY would try to change and eventually succeed (but NOT just overnight, that wouldn’t be realistic either) or just not at all. But that seems impossible.
It’s a pity I’m thinking of not reading this story anymore, because the rest of it seems cool and the subject is not a cliche (for me).
But this guy screws it up TOTALLY and the girl is so blind and idiotic for wanting him. He knows it, and his ego adores it.
As a reader, I just can’t stand it anymore.
Sucks less, but can also be irritating: the best friend. I’ve started to read two (or maybe more) stories where the best friend is this sexually obsessed but at the same time very naive, not respecting the sexual privacy of the protagonist, hyperactive, supergirly, only wearing clothes very colorful girl.
She has an overall nice personality yes, but these things I don’t like.
That’s it for now. I will write more if I get more inspiration.
! I didn’t want to attack any author personally and therefore I didn’t give the name of the story I was talking about. This is only my criticism, my opinion and even feedback if you want, so please, don’t take it personally.
I’m sorry for my mistakes in English. I’m not bad at the language, but I’m not used to speak it a lot anymore due reasons, so…
