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That more or less sums up why I don't play the Dylan route. Except I go further, in that it makes no sense for them to take the sports car in the Prologue for Dylan to sit on Sophia's lap. Only reason I can see to choose the sports car option is that as a player, you've already decided to play the Dylan route.From the perspective of choosing options, then yes, Dylan's options are not the most impactful. BUT, when Sophia is going through Dylan's path, her frame and how she saw things 8 days ago suddenly suffers a windows blue screen, she goes into total lobotomy, and she just lives in Dylan's fantasy.
Does a 40 yo woman wants to go to a club with a 16yo guy? NO, its embarrasing.
Does a 40 yo woman wants to be gropped and kissed in public by a 16yo guy? no, its embarrasing.
Does a 40 yo woman feels safe in a club with a 16yo guy defending her? no, its threatening and dangerous.
Etc...
Sophia doesn't want to take any of those options, you are just forced to live in Dylan's fantasy. If you swap things 180 degrees and ask before those events: "ey Sophia, what do YOU want at this point of the novel?" absolutely NONE of those things would be the reply, those are Dylan's replies. In AWAM S2 you do NOT live in Sophia's world, you are living in Dylan's world. We are mostly "living" in Dylan's fantasy from Sophia's perspective, not Sophia's "life / fantasy", and that makes Dylan the real protagonist.
The novel sometimes breathes when it moves away from Dylan', but the stupidification of Sophia is also gradually happening in the other paths. L&P is confusing corruption with submission and lack of self awareness. Sophia is in a huge lack of agency, of frame, of internal compass to feel like we are leaving her story. She is a passenger, not the captain. She is not the protagonist anymore, she is the main perspective, she is just the camera and the filler text, but she doesnt feel alive anymore.
Sophia S2 has better face (until recent changes), better ass, better tits (even if both look fake), better ambience lights and gloom, but she lost her soul, her opinion, her frame, her personality, etc...
I'm just waiting to see if L&P fixes the last Ellie event so that those who want the straight content can play it, and those that want the lesbian can play that branch. At the moment you can't separate the two.
And I agree about her stupefaction on other paths. I was hoping in the event with Logan and Tyler that Sophia would have more agency, especially since she doesn't like either of them right from the start. None of the decisions required to continue the event make sense for Sophia.
Although I believe Dylan is 17, and Ellie 18.
That Dylan doesn't make any decisions that affect the other routes is entirely my point.It affects his path in the game and not others.