- Oct 24, 2018
- 5,395
- 10,076
Only if you assume that Derek shoving a piece of cake into MC's mouth is part of MC's birthday celebration and not a do-over for the end of Hell Week. We know that some of the Diks feel bad about how Hell Week ended, it's far from inconcievable that they'd try to throw together a do-over.Well I didn't think we'd even see the MC's birthday until ep 8 for that very reason, but that tweet which will be an in-game Rooster post changes things and seems to move that timeline up quite a bit.
Apply Occam's razor and see if your hypothesis still works.There are people much older than the MC who have no idea who their real parents are, it's not an unusual situation. There are people who used to grow up with an "older sister" who turned out to actually be their mother because it was deemed shameful for girls under 18 and out of wedlock to have kids.
Not knowing the truth about your parents, whether you're adopted or grew up with just one parent, is not a foreign concept and happens more often than you'd think.
It may be fairly common for kids to grow up not knowing who their parents are but nothing we've been shown even hints at that scenario.
MC coming into an inheritence might mean a lot to the people around him and nobody has ever said otherwise, I was arguing that it wouldn'thave any significent effect on the relationship between MC and NeilIt would mean little to him but it could mean a lot to others when they find out because it adds a whole new dynamic to the MC's life even if they try to ignore it. As we've seen, the MC trying to ignore something doesn't work because it will invariably affect him somehow and this would do the same.
Neil's a DILF, I don't doubt, for one second, that he's hooked up with a few women since the death of Lynette. Equally, I don't doubt that he's kept those women secret from MC since they, presumably, weren't stepmother materialBeing a loving, supportive parent doesn't mean they're incapable of keeping secrets from their children, especially if they believe they're doing it in the best interests of their child. In that sense, I'd say it's a very parental thing to want to shield your child from something you think would do more harm than good to them.
You don't really believe this do you? I don't have the best relationship with my parents but I know they wouldn't let me attend a college founded by my great-grandparents without warning me that some of the students might be my cousins.Usually in these situations, parents will only tell their child the truth when they feel there is a need for it, like if someone who is adopted goes in for an organ transplant, that's when they find their parents aren't compatible donours because they're adopted. In Neil's case, while his son may very well be attending a college named after his mother's family, he probably didn't think there was any way the family would find out so there was no reason to tell him. But since arriving, the MC has been making some waves, including a very public fight with the Jock President, so this may be how the family found out about him and now Neil will be forced to tell him what he was keeping from him.
It is equally likely that Neil doesn't go into detail when talking to his 18 year old son because he's already said everything that needs to be said prior to the events of the game.It seems clear he doesn't know because it's noted how his Dad never gives a full and complete story about he and his mother got together, and specifically just says she came from a "rich family". Neil's lack of clarity has led the MC to not really ask his Dad much since he never gets a good enough answer and this, to me, seems like it could be a tactic of Neil's to keep the MC from asking him rather than Neil simply having a bad memory.
I'm sure he would but that misses the point of my post, MC doesn't have a great deal of interest in his mother's family so learning he and Rusty are cousins would make fuck all difference.I think Rusty would disagree. I imagine he'd be thrilled to find out the MC is a cousin.
Last edited: