One Serving Choice! Page 706
Added 2026-01-16 13:29:17 +0000 UTCthen everyone had therapy and lived happily ever after the end
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This feels like basically the crux of what I'd felt before a few dozen pages back; at the end of the day, Aika's own self-control issues played a role in things going sideways in her relationship with Saiya. I mean, whether you love her or hate her, Stacy's reaction does put a spotlight on the fact that Aika wasn't content to leave it at just friendship either - no matter how messy things got, she actively did not want the relationship to end. Saiya made her share of mistakes (god, did she XD), and Tessa has actively encouraged it - in what's now been implied to be a subconscious self-sabotaging of a "persona" forced on her - but Aika... well, whether she intended it or not, she helped enable things because she didn't want to walk back the relationship, letting the boundaries keep getting pushed until Saiya herself had to take the serious step of wondering whether the relationship was actually ever gonna work. All of which is to say; it's three girls with a lot of issues and no experience in how to deal with them before this - so I dunno how it becoming a messy tangle wasn't a foregone conclusion ^_^;
MrMetroid
2026-01-16 22:08:42 +0000 UTCI think a problem with the story is that it's been favored towards / dominated too much by Tessa in dialogue and screentime. Leaving less for Aika casually and intimately to gradually explore her character properly. So what happens now can feel sudden, forced and too uncharacteristic if taken too far. Guessing her as a Sandy-like character is a real mischaracterization though. Sandy was entirely cuckoo for cocoa puffs and murderous.
Vib3s
2026-01-16 17:11:35 +0000 UTCOk so Aika obviously don't have a degradation kink. I am kind of concerned about her unfinished sentence. Aika is by far the least explained person in the story. She Is supposed to be airhead, but she seems quite grounded compared to lots of other people. Her childhood and how she entered the church are entirely mysteries. And the unfinished sentence... Maybe she wants to save Saiya because she sees her as a friend but *that's not a naughty thought…*. A wild guess of mine is that she's a Sandy-like character that has a whole other side and wants to punish the sins of Saiya…Aika seems way too nice, she doesn't belong in the story, I am almost certain something is not right about her. I hope we can find out soon whether I am wildly overthinking or actually on to something
Meridian_Prime
2026-01-16 17:06:43 +0000 UTCtherapy for you, and therapy for you, therapy for everyone! (or donuts)
Jumper9
2026-01-16 14:21:37 +0000 UTCEveryone just needs to be big bellied and happy
Philip Scarpa
2026-01-16 14:05:05 +0000 UTC
