Agreeing with Alley-Cat, Dylan's actions, to me, always seemed to have a manipulative undercurrent, hidden by (apparent?) naivete, so when he does do something that's bewilderingly uninformed, it doesn't feel out-of-character. I laughed and exclaimed "Of course, you did, you little shit."
Conversely, Ellie's actions are more aggressive but also more open. She's honest about what she wants. And, in this update, she too got a bit dangerously ahead of herself.
You're right about the "bewildering" part, because it is
bewildering to think he'd go from copping a feel of his Mom's ass to arranging a fake emotional blackmail plot simply to make her wear more revealing clothes. That's like someone reading the intro chapter of "Astrophysics for Dummies" and thinking they can be the Director of the Hayden Planetarium, or someone who plays Hitman and then thinks they can be a world-class assassin.
Beyond the occasionally mild guilt-tripping, I've never once viewed him as being this manipulative. His actions are honestly those of a sociopath, and that is never how he has come across to me.
Because that's pretty much how I see him - from not engaging in class that gives Bennett the excuse to fail him
How do we know he wasn't "engaging" in class? Bennett's a sleaze and not to be trusted, so it's always seemed to me that's just been a lie because he (Bennett) was trying to manipulate Sophia.
to (although we know this not to be this case anymore) picking a fight with Aiden he couldn't win.
Even if it had been true, how does standing up to someone give off a bad impression of Dylan? If we forget for a moment that it was staged and remember it how we thought it was before, being able to stand up to someone you know is more powerful than you takes a tremendous amount of courage and bravery. Some people might look at it as foolish, but it's better to be a brave fool and than a stupid fool, and quite frankly, this whole blackmail plot makes him the latter whereas before this revelation, he was very much the former.
Then there's things like at the beginning, he's unwilling to help out around the house, like mow the lawn. Sam ends up benefitting. Dylan only helps out in return for something, like the bikini deal.
Oh, wow, a teenage boy who doesn't like doing household chores, I guess that's the smoking gun.
Dylan's a stupid, manipulative, sociopath because he won't pick up his dirty socks unless he's given a good incentive. You really got me there.
Sophia could have offered to buy him a freaking video game and he would have cleaned his room or mowed the lawn, it just so happens that, since this is a porn game, he gets something a little bit better than that.
Then there's things like the possibility he broke the dishwasher, so that he could wash the dishes for the bikini deal. If he would just man up and engage with people, a fair chunk of his problems would just disappear. He wouldn't have to try and manipulate things like he does.
Confirmed, #DylanIsKayserSoze.
I mean, really now. Are we really trying to turn Dylan into some sort of diabolical criminal mastermind to justify this sudden and out-of-the-blue character shift? If Dylan were the MC of a typical run-of-the-mill porn game, I might believe it, but all I've ever seen of Dylan is a shy, awkward teenager who's maybe a little too obvious in his desire to see more of his mother than he should be, but not someone who would resort to dangerous high-risk, low-reward schemes and manipulation.
Because as I've tried to explain, not everyone see's him as this wonderful ray of light from his mothers ass. He a godamn annoying little creepy idiot prick. He like that from his first scenes in the intro...if you 'want to see them'....
But that's the beauty of these, is all subjective and at many a time we see what we want to see but I don't think there can be any doubt whatsoever, his is written with some bad vibes at times. Just like you don't get where we are coming from and what we see, I really can't see why anyone likes him but I get all the characters are written for a purpose to be liked and disliked.
He isn't perfect, but he's far from sociopathic, which is what this blackmail plot makes him out to be. He likes to mess with his sister so I guess that makes him annoying, but that's typical sibling rivalry. He makes awkward advances towards Sophia and gawks at her at a lot, but if that makes him "creepy" then every character in this game, male and female, is creepy because they've all done that to Sophia at one point or another. And up until this point I haven't seen anything to suggest that he's an idiot. A bit slow on the uptake like most guys, but certainly no idiot.
Honestly, the only "vibes" I've had from Dylan are that he's been bit of a cheeky chancer but never anything approaching the outright level of extreme manipulative dumbfuckery that we saw in this update. But it is amusing to me that some people seem to view the advances of the male characters towards the female MC as "creepy", but give a pass to the female characters for their advances.
That, and these actions probably wouldn't be so off-puttingly "creepy" if this were the typical game about a male MC trying to get into his Mom's pants.
