I'm exactly the one who keeps telling over threads of Ren'Py VNs to do just that as i'm perfectly and painfully well aware what that pesky older persistent file can cause, will cause with playthroughs after an update. So this is probably slightly more complicated then that.
You see i didn't have an older version. I am new to this, only played this with the newest version, didn't have older persistent and save files AND played it through in one sit on the harem path with incest patch (i'm like.. if i see incest patch its a reflex that i install incest patch). I didn't even reload, my savescaming started on Dom path which came after. And that line was still there.
Its not a big thing, can absolutely overlook it. But its there.
Why do you say like that as if I'm stupid. I am not! Not really. I mean.. maybe a litte. Somewhat? Slightly daft? ..at times? Have issues with obvious things on occasions? I'm not stupid that much you see!
Ah yes, the Love path. Okay. I'm heeding your adive and waiting till next update before playing that one. Yes, i remember Willow otherwise ..
now that he mentioned it..
shutup nobody asked you, you make us look like dumb or something! *cough* wherewasi... Y-yes, so Willow, yes i get that one. Yes, incest is in high demand as always plus Willow is both cute and old enough. Who wouldn't want to lewd her?
My obserwation wasn't about this you see From a storyteller perspective. They are there on the Love path right? But they aren't there on the Harem path. They are dead. My not so hard to figure out guess is that poor Ricky/Michelle will die on Love path later on. But on Harem we don't have a clue what happened and it peeks the player's interest. Even if the question of how they died can be avoided but some info on where, with who, she was living? Who was her ward and if the mc was, then why she wasn't living with him? She is barely adult, was minor like months ago.. she had to have a ward which apparently wasn't the mc. As a player i'm kinda curious who took care of her. This way her story is a tad bit "muscled" into the otherwise seamless flow. It's like she misses juuust that one extra line or two that would integrate her into the Harem path properly.