>>288222
I think stuff might actually be happening right now - first we got Saiya not horndogging out when confronted with a doped-up Tessa, and now we might actually get a reason for why Tessa was acting so out of the ordinary.
(Actual reply ends here, everything past this is a rant on the state of the comic and its characters.)
As for the Aika church arc, I couldn't give less of a shit. Yes, she is very kind and all, but does this piece of ass-focused midlard every do anything besides surprised Pikachu face when Saiya, "against all the expectations" turns out to be a shit-eating pervert? No, of course not! They could have replaced the fucking church with the girl scouts of all things and there would legitimately be zero difference. For all intents and purposes, Aika is a sexually aware child. I have legitimately never seen a more one-dimensional character being put on paper than this cardboard cutout of a fat ass solely designed to farm wholesome 100 reddit karma. She's attractive, perverting Stacy (probably? I don't think Stacy is that much into this stuff), (somehow still) competing for Saiya and completely content being the human equivalent of a marketable plushie.
And the worst thing is, I completely get why people think she is the better girl of the two.
She's probably still more autonomous in her actions than Tessa. For all her bravado and high-strung outburst she is little more than a former nerd/outcast (remember that? Stacy showed us that picture like 400 years ago, Tessa really isn't such a popular girl by nature) who got picked up by Stacy, started believing her own hype only to get chewed up and spit out the second her massive degeneracy and lack of concern with the relationships of others got outed so bad that she could make a full-on bed with all the feathers she lost. In my opinion Tessa is nothing more than a blown-around beach ball in this story, needing to be controlled by others to achieve even a semblance of stability. She functions if and only if someone else is there to shitcoddle her out of ruining everything for herself. It's actually quite tragic, really. She is permanently in way over her head. Tessa was never ready to become as popular (for both right and wrong reasons) as she eventually turned out to be.
Stacy is probably one of the worst people in this comic, despite her recent "redemption arc". I think she quite literally ruined Tessa's life. I don't know what Tania is doing with her now, but it feels like it isn't much better - in fact, it's probably much, much worse. At least Stacy isn't an inflation fetishist.
That said, I still think Tessa is the better girl. Did she make many a dubious or even outright awful decision? Yes. Is this because she was never meant to be in a position where she could make such decisions? Also yes. She's a very flawed person, but also a person who should have never gotten into the mess in which she now is. She also has two other very convincing arguments - I'm a chest man more than anything. Get this girl much, much fatter, Kip.
>>288223
So when people complain of Tessa bias, it's because Tessa simply has more going on. Much, much more. And it is all Kip's fault.