I feel awful for Kat. Rylie is like I am promising that I will marry you while shes like yeah sure I like you I guess. 100% chance shes not sharing her true feelings with anyone much less in confessionals lest she be seen as manipulative imo. im getting the vibes shes concerned about how far this has gone in Rylies head. like, how do you turn down someone as obsessive as him when youre stuck in that house?
It's honestly has been giving me BMC/Amber vibes for a while, but Rylie has a lot more charm than BMC ever did. And that's why Kat feels more trapped than Amber ever did. Strategically, he's a good shield for her, and if she shot him down, she has no idea what would become of it. I think she's afraid of him being obsessed with her anyway, so she might as well keep him under her control. And if she has someone willing to die for her, it's certainly better than having a stalker in a small, cramped environment.
But for similar, but not entirely the same circumstances... gotta give Lauren mad respect here. Zach is willing to fall on the sword for her, just like Rylie is for Kat, but Lauren's found some way to prevent a hook-up that puts a target on her back while still maintaining that alliance as a shield. The key difference is of course that Zach is a nice guy, while Rylie is a creep. Zach respects Lauren's boundaries, while Rylie physically melted Kat's down. I don't know if there was much Kat could've done to buy time tbh.
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