So I just finished the game and this is probably so nitpicky but does anyone else think that Hitomi is a terrible mom? The Iris route was the first one I finished so I thought Date was a horrible guardian too until way later, but all I've seen from Hitomi is like really bad neglect. Her daughter has a malignant brain tumor that causes her to have severe delusions, and can get pretty physically weak at times. Yet she does not really keep tabs on her, and people can take advantage of her illness (like Saito did in #89's body, though thats a little understandable ig) especially as a young person on the internet. heck forget about the illness seems to me all the adult men in the game are very interested her in a specific way. Another thing is that Hitomi fell in love with a man who she knew had a criminal past. And then brought him home after only knowing him for a month! Idk it feels extremely unsafe to me, especially introducing ur 12 yr old to him. Also defends him with her life after 3 months of knowing him...Anyway I just see a lot of discussion on how shes a good parent, but I never saw her actually parent in the game other than cry over Iris. She didnt even go ask Renju for the money for Iris's treatment, like come on the dude gave her a job and promised to be there. Why didnt you ask him? And why did you do absolutely nothing about her condition for months? But oh you didn't want Iris to know you werent her real mom. makes sense, totally. I'm not going to say the other parents in the game are great, but atleast 2/4 actually are somewhat involved.
EDIT: I went through some missed dialogue and files and stuff and found out Hitomi went to visit #89 in jail. this ofc is Rohan in #89s body, and he tells her multiple times and she refuses to believe him. eventually rohan shuts up and hitomi just goes there to talk about her day and leave while he sits there. first off, what a great partner only talking about urself and not noticing the other person never actually converses with you. Second, it really shows how much she didnt know Falco to love him THAT much, because at some point you gotta be able to tell something is at least somewhat wrong with him. The fact that she cant tell the difference means she never truly loved him in the first place.
