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For the story line coming off of the date with Sophia, wouldn't you think it would be better to have a small event of having the talk with Dylan in the morning? Hopefully, the developer sees this and your thread because the audience is left hanging from the previous night's activities. There Sophia is torn with guilt and remorse after the hot tub scene, but we are also treated to Sophia's inner thoughts as she tries to explain the events to herself-- in one of those inner monologues she admits or questions had she crossed a redline and asks herself if not now, then when...
As a writing device for developing a plot, a writer has to throw the 800-pound gorilla out of the room before it takes a dump in the living room--that is a lot of cleanup.
And to be fair it doesn't need a whole lot of detail and work to address that plot hole. It can be a little scene where Sophia just apologies again and asks Dylan not to tell anyone and that it wouldn't happen again... Or a more confident Dylan can thwart the talk and make a pass at Sophia. Nothing else needs to happen in such a scene because its morning and Ellie and Liam are home. But if a little "something" does happen during the talk, it can move the story plot more forward to were crossing the redline is a near certainty and Sophia can anguish over her conscience about what is likely to happen for the next few releases.
That's right, at the end of the Sophia/Dylan scene we see a Sophia who is consumed by guilt, shame and regret and it seems that in some images she can no longer think clearly.
Now the next day we not only have a new Dylan event but before that (if nothing changes!!!!!) an Elli event and the two part-time jobs. L&P has always tried to tell the routes in such a way that you get the impression that there are no connections between them, but the chronological order of the individual events still remains a big problem here.
Sophia can't, for example, make the old men cum and have a serious conversation with her son about morals and decency at the subsequent event with Dylan.
Even with this event-based narrative, which
Talcum Powder has already complained about again in his post, this will create a break, a stumbling block, that many people cannot ignore, people for whom the story is just as important as those in it (still does not) contain explicit sex scenes (penetration scenes).
So I asked L&P exactly that! As is often the case, his answer was open to wide interpretation. "Actually, the guilty conscience is usually even greater the next morning than the evening before (grin)..."
This answer doesn't reveal anything about the rest of the story, but it shows, at least to me, that L&P is aware of the "problem" at this point and that he didn't let the Dylan/Sophia event end like this without having an "exit strategy" in mind .
As for your suggestion of solving this problem with a conversation between Sophia and Dylan, I don't think that will be effective. On the one hand, this conversation can only end in such a way that Sophia swears to Dylan that what happened last evening must never happen again. And it won't lessen their guilt and regret.
So my solution would be to have a quick chat with Liam in the morning. This time Sophia wakes up with Liam. If nothing happened, Liam wishes Sophia a nice day and goes to work. But if Sophia was sitting in front of the TV the night before, Liam will mention that he woke up briefly during the night but didn't find Sophia in bed yet. Sophia can now either tell him, depending on Dylan's decision the night before, that she watched TV or that she went out to dinner with Dylan. Dylan saw her sitting in front of the TV and decided not to go to the party but to cheer up his mother.
If you let Liam react the way he did in the bathroom the day before, namely by mocking his son for preferring to go out with his mother than meet a girl his own age at a party, Sophia would react quite angrily and this would be one To counterbalance their shame/guilt/remorse.
The effort for this short event would be limited, just a few pictures and a little text.
But while it's just a speculation how this could be solved, there are certainly better ones. And since I've been wrong so often in my previous speculations, I wouldn't take myself too seriously.
