I wasn't forgetting about Ellie, or Alyssa, or Nathalie, or any of the other characters, who apparently only served to enhance Sophia's corruption sufficient to make her receptive to Dylan & Sam's ticker-tape vomiting slew of basic, transparent compliments. All just driftwood now that AWAM is in full 'Dylanisation' mode. At least she features in the next update & the Ellie-drought may be over.
I wanted Bennett, an adult, to be the blackmailer & I started playing AWAM before there was any hint that this kink would be included, so it wasn't what got me into the game. He could have become a more complex, interesting character, with more sophisticated blackmail measures, than Aiden could ever be but there was an outcry, if I recall correctly. How could this be happening to 'our lady on a pedestal' & in a "corruption game," (yes, corrupt people, in a corruption game, what a shocker), "the very idea, shouldn't be allowed," so it wasn't & Bennett went into suspended animation. This was at a time before Sophia had morphed into a brain-dead bimbo, walking-talking, pair of tits-MILF for virgin teens to bounce on. That meant that I could understand, to a certain extent at that time, the horror, when coercion suddenly arrived.
Bennett is another 'supposed to return' character who is in reality, redundant, like Jason & Haru & even Aiden himself, given that Dylan is now the real MC, is well on his way to fucking his mother & with 'porn logic,' anything's possible. Future plans revealed as to when heterosexual actual sex will occur do not bode well for Mr. Bennett. He's totally disposable & it would save time to have him transfered to another school, before he even talks to Sophia again.
L&P wrote himself into a corner regarding Aiden by having the tasks staged sequentially within a timeframe. This precluded the kinds of time jumps that would have made the whole corruption saga, not just blackmail, more credible. I could never see why Aiden just didn't tell his teacher that he'd drag out the tasks over as long a period of time as he wished. They could have been set randomly according to his whims & it would also have given more time for him, (i.e. the Dev), to think up & set up tasks beyond the school environment.
Way back, when I thought I was playing a corruption game about a wife & mother, I wrote a scenario which would have had the effect of strengthening Aiden's hand. That's the kind of pointless activity that I havn't indulged in for a while but it seemed a good idea at the time.