DPC said some of the side girls would get paths and endings, so in my mind it appears that there is 3 levels of girls.
Main Girls - Sage, Jill, Josy, Bella, Maya.
Side Girls (or whatever you want to call them) - it looks like those that are candidates for endings are Quinn, Lily & Zoey, and possibly Rio & Nicole.
Lewdable Girls (or whatever) - everyone else.
you forgot the Madam Rose ending
For me, LIs are girls who have a pathway and will require either a break from that path or an ending. They are, whether official or not, possible "girlfriends". Within that umbrella term, Main Girls are the five who have interlinking storylines/key involvement in the main (canon) storyline (so Sage, Josy, Maya, Jill, Bella). Side Girls are the other girls who have paths but are not integral to the main story, even if their paths give them a lot of content (e.g., Quinn, Lily, Nicole, Riona, likely Zoey). Lewdable Girls are all the others who you can get scenes with but have no actual pathway (e.g., Camilla, Sarah, Mel, Sandy).
Quinn has path. Broccoli is potential gf, i mean the whole broccoli stuff is this. (Lily with rolling the same and maybe Rio with the dating, but she isnt a sure call right now.)
Quinn as "antagonist" (what was called by others here many times) should have key involments in the main canon storyline.
-taking out naked mc on collage to get caught by Balla
-giving hard list to Maya
-taking Jojo in hots to cause problem through Tommy to diks
-Sage... i think i dont have to say anything
-Jill, okay, i cant recall anything important between Jill and Quinn. the best was come to my mind is unimportant (Quinn is the reason why are the hots at prep party where mc set up a little fire, so Jill's pianino was in danger by water. but it hasnt effect on mc and Jill relationship.)
-extra, Quinn started the drug war with vinny who stole the dik laptop and almost shoot down mc
"and will require either a break from that path or an ending."
i dont understand this part. if you mean, she need chance to like your mc or dont like your mc, than Quinn has this choosing.
so, if i dont misunderstand something your points make Quinn to a main girl.
if you remove her
-mc has nothing to do with Balla.
-Maya hasnt that "strong" or "deep" relation with mc (if you didnt duck with Maya (or Jojo) than Maya (or Jojo) will reject you at libary. but you duck with Maya because of the list from Quinn)
-Jojo would live in a dorm room with her new roommate (if with Maya, than they break up because Patrick. if not with Maya, than they break up, because they are "distance") + less party with diks, so distance with mc too.
-Sage... still not need anything to say
-Jill, yes, Quinn is removable for Jill path.
extra... drug story isnt working without drug bitch.
This take would be way better if the main plot of the game wasn't centered around Maya at the moment. There's only 3 of the 5 main girls that are in for this plot, Maya, Josy and Sage. Sage is on mostly because she have a side content and is related to the HOTs, which is related to MaJo.
Now Bella is a teacher, so she is standalone. But Jill? Jill literally felt off from the game main plot for most of it. She just got plot relevancy at the end of ep 8 because of the Lynette connection that only she have and because DPC forced her into the Maya shit that I hope can be solved in ep 11 so we can move on.
For most of the game, Jill barely existed in the main plot and she felt more like a side girl than an actual side girl, completely isolated from the rest. And I can and will blame the gatekeepers that probably had their way into butchering her development. She still suffers from it, being so opposed to a DIK MC like no other girl in the game is. I can easily say, and this hurt like a motherfucker, that you can completely remove Jill from the game and it would be the same, even Bella wouldn't suffer much from it.
Now, the drug side thing is slowly becoming one of the main plots, who is on top of that? Quinn. Technically the main antagonist is Vinny, but I don't want to romance Vinny, so fuck him. And with the ending of ep 10, Rio is now on top too.
The same for the prostitution, the one on top is the Quinn Bitch herself.
If you remove Quinn from the game Maya wouldn't have a reason to join the HOTs, hence fucking with the plot.
just two thing.
1 - the story is mc's first year. not Maya's money problem. Maya's story is a big part of the story and meet all five namely MG in a team. what was did the Jill's music too for a moment.
2 - why dont want you romance vinny?
Guys, I've been thinking to myself. Taking into account that we won't have an episode this year, and that the theme of episode 11 is Christmas. I think it would be better for DPC to release the episode only at Christmas 2025. It would be great, and it would come with around 25k renders and around 900 animations. Are you with me on this??
No need to praise me, I know it's a great idea
i already once said. xmas update is for xmas, this is the rule. no matter the year.
so i am with you.
