Schemes and Dreams

I had a different arc in mind for Octavia and Thorne before I started gameplay. I thought they would be partners in trying to reach the pinnacle of Del Sol Valley's celebrity royalty, but with dueling ambitions and some tension. The more time I spend with them Thorne has been anything but supportive. He doesn't make any romantic gestures towards Octavia. It's all her initiating romance. I haven't seen him show much interest in Orange. He just runs around showing off and posing for pictures. He is totally, head over heels in love with himself. A lot of the previous versions of Thorne I've watched over the years have wound up cheating on Octavia. I have a feeling this one is not going to be any different. I wrote his lines to reflect his actions, but I did think long and hard before I used that sexist trope. In the end, as disgusting and over the line as it, it felt like something he would say. I see him as being very narcissistic, immature, and misogynistic. That remark he made to her was his misogyny boiling over. He lashed out at her in a verbally aggressive way for trying to put any degree of responsibility for that situation on his shoulders, trying to hurt her emotionally. I don't see them being a couple for long. She can certainly do better than him.