This is still squarely on Momoka, like she decided on her own that Rin wasn't going to love her back, then started dating anyone and everyone she could to try and forget about her which made Rin uncomfortable (due to how her mom ran out on her and her dad) and made them spend less time together as a result.
Then Momoka goes "hey Rin date me and I'll stop dating other people" and like Momoka you should have had literally any amount of patience, like Rin agrees, she tries her best, in that moment Rin does genuinely try to overcome her trauma with love and relationships and as a result she needs to take it slow but Momoka apparently having ran out of patience entirely gives her a week before escalating. Which like predictably causes the relationship to fall apart, Rin isn't ready yet to have sex. But Momoka sees Rin push back once, and immediately goes "welp this doesn't work and will never work actually" when she fully knows that Rin would need time to become comfortable enough to give and receive that kind of affection.
So then Momoka breaks it off because she's just got zero patience for Rin anymore (which like again is entirely on her for spending several years dating around, trying to get over her feelings for Rin and then only giving Rin very little time)
Like Momoka I can understand your thought process but god damn you are way too up your own ass right now, like she's just not actually looking at Rin she's just not actually giving Rin a chance. She pretty much just convinced Rin to have that contract relationship purely so she could set it up to fail, in a weird ploy to get over her feelings for Rin, which like is understandable to a certain degree, Momoka is still a teenager both of them are and she's been dealing with her feelings for what seems like years, so yeah she's just kind of ran out of patience for her own feelings and is trying to just put a definitive stop to them even if that means directly ruining any chances of an actual relationship no matter how possible it turns out to be.
It just sucks to be Rin in that scenario because what do you do when an estranged childhood friend asks you date her out of seemingly nowhere (when you've got problems letting yourself be in any type of relationship due to trauma) and then she escalates way too fast for your comfort, and you push back just a little because you actually do want to make this work, and the other person just goes "any pushback at all? yeah this is never going to work let's just break up". Like Rin is being thrown around here by Momoka and Momoka is too wrapped up in her own tragedy of feelings to realise or even want to realise that Rin actually does want to make things work.
I just hope that regardless of how things go forward from here, Momoka gets a punch from reality you know, so that she can finally look at what is actually happening outside of her own angst fueled desire to reject Rin before she gets rejected herself.
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