If this is the original Sophia ... I want to fuck her. I wonder what her daughter looks like in the original.)
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Agreed.
Aiden has his little gang of trouble-makers and evidently a handful of older dudes, dropouts in their early twenties who hang around the neighbourhood dealing weed and whippits or something like that (but who never get too close to the school in case the principal recognises them).
A lot of the fear around Aiden's connections comes from a pretty small pool of sources - we know from the Principal that Aiden's Uncle really does consort with gangsters, and we know from Dylan that Aiden knows real gangsters himself. But Dylan could have got that information from Aiden's bragging, teenage boys talk a lot of shit to try and sound cool on the playground.
My hope is that the Aiden events will start to weave in some hints of how much he's pretending to be the tough-guy.
Like he's got the cool expensive motorcycle, but he drives real careful to and from the task - then after dropping Sophia back he tries to do a cool burnout take-off and nearly tips the bike over from speed-wobble, leaving Sophia to wonder if maybe he just bought the bike recently to impress her.
A friend observed, Aiden is too mature for his 17 years. He treats Sophia like a street whore.
I don't think he'll try to impress her and I don't see anything romantic.
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No one will fuck Sophia for at least 4 or 5 years.
Sorry.
And remember, this is not a porn game (L&P source)
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Ehh, Impress was the wrong word.
I don't see any kind of redemption arc/love story happening between them. That's obvious
Maybe Intimidate fits better.
He wants fear and respect. The usual trope for school bullies has them exerting power on the playground because they feel powerless at home.
I do feel like retconning the 'Dylan put him up to it' thing kind of pulls the rug out from under Aiden's motivation as a character.
That's right, L&P has rebuild the history, that's for sure.
But the new image and dialogue between Sophia and Aiden shows a very tough Aiden, the kind who seeks out girls for prostitution.
Look at him. He's very interested in Jennifer as a girlfriend.
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First of all: a bit of implausibility to point out: Aiden is referring to 1992's Basic Instinct? Sorry, there is no such 18-yo boy (born in ~2002) making that reference. At least, not one of Aiden's confidence and popularity and means.
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Aiden is certainly the aggressor and I don't think a genuine "romance" is possible.
There is a literary trope where a domineering male figure pushes a woman physically and emotionally through barriers to "unlock" her "true self", and the woman ends up romantically/lustfully drawn to that domineering male figure. Once enough barriers have been breeched - that is, if you sexually harass and emotionally abuse a woman enough they will eventually become sexually pliant - can (and is often considered by the woman (in her thoughts expressed in literature through POV inner monologue)) a consensual relationship born out of genuine lust and passion (pun intended).
This is of course a manipulative and kind of disgusting way to lure in a woman, sure. Even as a younger reader I interpreted this as a chauvinistic view of women. But, it is definitely a thing in the real world so ...
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I think it can work in an isolated environment, away from any moral/sentimental or material support. With threats and physical violence, also.
In real life it sure does happen, and it's enough to look at roadside prostitutes.
But in this case it's super complicated, without an active cooperation from Sophia. Sophia is not alone, she has a family, she can always ask for help if the tasks become unacceptable.
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In connection with the wedding, I am more interested in whether there will be a bachelor party and a divine party? Or rather, will we see them!
I just had thought that if there will be some wild bachelorette party (with male strippers), one of the strippers may be known by Sophia (I really hope so, it could be interestning!), maybe DeShawn? Anyway, the party is a great opportunity for really hot actions, so I'm looking forward to it to happen (I know - a lot of wainting... but no complains, I'm sure, that it could be worth wainting.).
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I certainly hope there's no wedding scene. Impossible to imagine how taking vows is a useful way to advance Sophia's story when weighed against the enormous amount of development required - even for a civil ceremony, there will be the couple, the officiating officer, witnesses - all new clothing and environments. Ugh.
I believe the opera house setting was recycled for Sam's dream sequence so it's not impossible to imagine that asset being used again:
Sam: "I dreamt of you again last night..." kind of thing.
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A wedding would doom us. L&P would go so over the top that it would almost certainly be a 6 month development cycle. That update would only be the wedding, nothing else.
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