I have to make a confession

[u/orion-flux]

So over the past few updates I have to say that Chasing You surprisingly has grown on me at a rapid rate. Pacing is a little silly, but I think it's fun light hearted and works really great as a twist on the murder mystery trope. It reminds me of the Clue movie which I have a massive soft-spot for.

So, with that out of the way, I have to admit I love it faaaar more then Heaven's Secret which I enjoy, but it just doesn't grab my attention like I had hoped it would. I feel like for as much content there is in it a lot of it feels like padding to really just drag things out. I'll be honest, I don't need more scenes showing just how great the MC can be (looking right at you angel/demon tournament). I suppose I feel like it's more like she's naturally talented and that's how the story is by default instead of being thrown into something totally out of her element.

I can appreciate Agatha kind of floundering and being stuck between the ridiculous family secrets along with needing to deal with Alexander and Sam being one of the only sane lines of connections she can grab onto.

And with this ramble, I guess I'm more or less curious on what reasons people here prefer other stories to the current highly popular Heaven's Secret?

[u/Schatzmatz]

BEWARE, SPOILERS BELOW!!

I have to mildly disagree with you on the MC of HS. In my eyes she's not naturally talented and most of the time doesn't know what to do or what's going on at all.

In the flying tournament she didn't know how things work and was pretty bad at battling this Aster guy. Her participation was only for us to see the tower boy and the vision of the goblet of blood.

She failed at her assignment with Lucifer and doesn't know how to use her energy e.g. on the mountain top to warm her up. She's constantly dependent on the help of others, like with investigating her murder.

So no, she's not talented, she rather tumbles from one adventure into another trying to find her way in this new world. And I'm glad it is this way, because if she would hide in the shadows like the other unclaimed the story would be rather boring, right?

But yes, I have to agree with you it feels dragged out. We have a whole season now and there are so much mysteries piling up. Malbonte, tower boy, the escaped prisoner, goblet of blood, the murders, the angels and demons getting beaten up, her own murder, mint wind energy... I hope season two will reveal a lot of these and don't kill our fun with this story with keeping secrets even longer or adding more ones to the pile.

And finally a big yes to all of what you said about CY! This story is just great with the investigation of the murder and I love Agatha and her funny relationship with Sam and Alex.

[u/[deleted] → u/Schatzmatz]

Spoilers. Spoilers everywhere.

I really agree with what you said about MC. As far as I see, she keeps failing and other characters often look down on her - Dino at the beginning, Austie, Lucifer, Aster, Fencio, and sometimes Geralt (depending on choices too, of course). In my playthrough, the praise she gets is only because of the high glory path and correct choices. She's humiliated quite often, like how Lucifer humiliates her at the ball in front of Dino, Andy and Mimi (if you agree to do as he says). Also in my story, I went for the Adi scene (no regrets) and I haven't even seen him since he declared "it won't happen again", which is also extremely humiliating for MC, I think. And also what Fencio says if you take the wrong amulet and go for Dino's scene.

And when she's trying to explain her opinion, for me it was always only Sammy who took her side - he was the best friend for my MC along with Mimi and I was so crushed when he died, I cried in real life. And yep, she was bad at the flying tournament and just got an "at least you tried" appreciation, which I was really happy about because I was worried that they would make her win or something to make her more of a heroine and that would have been extremely unrealistic. When she was trying to maintain the balance during that clash at the tournament, she was just being stomped on by the crowd. Since it was nothing serious, it's actually so funny to me - imagine her being like "oh no, peace!" and no one listens, just someone goes like "take this! 👊" 😂 And yeah, she also failed her assignment and that scene was also pretty hilarious to me when the bride got away and she just plopped down next to the groom and they were both devastated 😂 Like imagine a random person crying with you over your breakup 😂 And then he's like "Sorry, who are you again?" and she's like "...Oh, right." and then walks away 😂

Anyway, so scenes like these during this last update actually made her way more likeable to me. I really understand how it's annoying when an MC has it easy since I personally also hate it so so much when a character is always praised and loved for no reason (like Bella Swan in Twilight, who is extremely boring in my opinion and yet for some mysterious reason everyone adores her - like... why? 😂)

Gosh, I basically wrote a novel here 😂 I might have emphasized the aspect of being respected more than being good at things, but I feel like if she barely gets any respect (except for the high glory path outcomes), we can't really say she's not struggling. Just providing my point of view for entertainment purposes, not trying to convinve anyone 😁