We all know what's going on here . . . let's not gloss over the fact it's shota, modified to not be shota.
I've been all over the fence about the home schooling event but I can't rationalize a different conclusion: it's totally fucked up.
The pupils are portrayed as pre-pubescent children with regards to their understanding of human physiology, even their own. Not plausible. The dialogue can call them "teenagers", the artist can whip out the Kragle and affix some light pubic hair, the artist can flesh out their brow and jawline, amp up the muscle tone morphs, to make them look slightly older. None of that overcomes the fact that the personalities on display are clearly pre-pubescent.
Why is this? L&P wants to include child molestation in his game. Call it Shota, call it Melange, it doesn't matter. While there's a law firm's worth of plausible deniability to argue about, but the fact of the matter is there's no questioning the artist's intent or the result. We are watching Sophia molest children. This is intentional.
Why does L&P want child molesting in his game? I don't know. The answer to that isn't nearly as important to me as
why it is being portrayed without malicious intent? Sophia worries about the teacher/student taboo, at one point (and I think only once) thinks to herself "... never mind that they are teenagers ...", and mentions societal boundaries (also once, I think), but the overwhelming hurdle in her mind is that they are her students - that's the taboo for her. Not age.
There's a lot of inner monologue humming and hawing about should I shouldn't I, but none of it is that they are too young for sexual contact.
Why is this? Either we're meant to buy into the "late teenagers" idea that's presented on the surface and it's just kinda creepy but not abhorrent, or, we're deliberately meant to overlook the "late teenagers" language and see them as children being molested by a
completely well-intentioned adult.
I think it is deliberately the latter we are meant to take on board, and I think that makes the scene completely ugly and gross: "I did it for their benefit." That, is fucked up.
