Thread:SeaniiBoi/@comment-3452092-20171119044143/@comment-3452092-20171121155442

I never thought about it as Redfield choosing Jane so much as Jane choosing Redfield. From what we've seen, she is the most enthusiastic about him of all the friends when they were kids. Even when you choose the "Let's do this" type answers, Jane is still more gungho about Redfeield than your character is. My guess is it was initially feeling them out and then choosing the one that was most interested in him, which probably was Jane with Ava close behind.

Oh, trust me, when given the chance to back Aleister when he betrays you, I will definitely be siding with him, but I think by that point, the others will like me enough that I won't have to worry about losing anyone liking me to the damage siding with him will cause. And that's at the end of book 2, anyway, doesn't affect how things will be at the end of book 1. Honestly, the very fact that you can still gain points with him at that point tells me that there is more to what is going on than at the surface. He really doesn't want to hurt you. I don't think he's thinking things through or he wouldn't have done that. I think he's reacting on emotion. He still hasn't gotten over the desire to please his dad and he still thinks he can get through to his dad. And I don't know that he's wrong. I don't necessarily believe he's right either, but I think that's what's going on there. And I think in book 3 he's probably going to come through for you and your friends in a big way. I think he will face that choice, again, choosing his dad or choosing you and I think he will choose you. Now, it could be like certain characters in The Flame & the Crown (I don't know if you've played that yet, so I don't want to spoil if you haven't) who face that type of decision and how you treated that character decides whether each betrays you or aids you (this happens more than once). And if that's the case, getting him to at least like you is just that much more important. It might decide whether he even lives or dies by the end of book 3.

Yes, I did notice that Redfield wanted to protect them, but specifically giving them something they could use against him, and there is no doubt in my mind that Hilda can be used against Redfield, is different than giving them protection against the school bullies.

That is an interesting and very valid point about Cid leaving just after Dan said Redfield could escape. I hadn't thought about that, but I did think it was odd that at first Cid seemed to be planning to be around for quite some time (offering to help anyway he could in the first chapter) and then all of a sudden he's leaving. So I noticed something was off there, but not that. Good catch.

Turning them into thralls is certainly a plausible and even probably plan of Redfield's, but I still don't see how Hilda helps with that plan. . . unless Hilda is supposed to do one thing, but because of your characters actions after agreeing to watch her, it changes things and Hilda turns on her master. That certainly is a possibility that would explain the inconsistency in my mind and one must never underestimate the power of kind acts. . . something the characters in "The Sophomore" would do well to remember when dealing with Sebastian, but that's another rabbit hole entirely.