I think we are all puzzled about this image and the choice of the dress, really cute but not fit for the meeting with your extortionist.
The romper for Sam's event didn't fit the occasion as well, on top of not looking good (the infamous boob pockets). At least we had the poll to blame in that occasion (well, and who put it among the choices!
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Not that it is necessary, but it is enough to take a stroll in the fan art thread to see how the meeting scene
could look like thanks to
gkdanuka (excellent work btw!):
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no, it's not a teaser!!!)
It really makes little sense.
We can imagine that the corruption has progressed, that Sophia is less inhibited and she might not care much anymore about the general dress code, that she is in a state of mind in which she gets "confused" about the assignments (she forgot to remove the bra before school, here she might think she has to wear a sexy dress anyway even if it's not the school). Still it feels odd.
Not to mention that she arrives at the meeting with different corruption paths: this could be explained in the full 4th task where she exposed herself in the class art and in the classroom, but the meeting happens even with much less corruption, i.e. she didn't exposed her breast in the art class (the most "chaste" version of the 3rd task), which prevented even the option of fulfilling the 4th task.
Sure, making different versions of the event with different dresses according to the previous choices it will require more work, but if the reason for the dress is to be found in the corruption progress there are inconsistencies to say the least. (And I won't go further on my personal cry for the increasing complexity of the story)
And even thinking that she might wear something on top of that, like a jacket and a long skirt is still strange (just think about the hot San Alejo) but I admit that I'm the last person who can talk about fashion, let alone female fashion.
I'm pretty sure that like for Sam's event, we will find our answer in Sophia's thoughts. That time he admitted through Sophia's thoughts that the (popular) choice was debatable to say the least, let's see what will be the rationale behind this choice.
All in all, just my impression, it felt that the this part was rushed in the release, and probably even cut out and postponed to 0.161 due to the pressure of making the release etc...
It think it's because Sophia is a woman of class and she does not stand people up nor break up over the phone
Jokes aside, you are right to ask the question, because a person who finally gets free from his persecutor the last thing she wants to do is to meeting him again. I agree with you.
Contrary to the dress though, I'd tend to frame this as a narrative device to use a single event for the resolution of the Aiden's deal or its progress. Probably it will serve as "the grand finale" of the Aiden's task with Morello's men barging in or for the continuation of the tasks. Two... pigeons(!) with one stone.
And even if going to the meeting anyway is not the rational thing to do, we cannot expect characters to always act rationally otherwise there will be no e.g. horror movies ("let's split up", "let's hide upstairs" and so on) nor interesting stories, because there is nothing more boring than someone that always take the right and wise decision. And even in RL people under pressure tend to act more irrationally than rationally.
Nevertheless, as for the dress, I expect that theses questions will be addressed to at least to justify and rationalize her choices, to preserve that semblance of realism that made the story so good (so far).