Just an opinion. The Sage path in Ep8 and now Ep9 is sub-par for a character that could have been written in such depth.
1. Ep8, you only get something with her if you do the Quinn double.
2. Ep9. DPC trolls us by having MC talk about Sage's family while he is banging her. Everything but insurance and investment advice is mentioned. And the whole self-slut shaming tell me I am a whore/slut etc was just silly.
3. Ep9 early on has some sweet interactions with Sage at the start, but all you get with her at the end is prison sex; then self-slut shaming (wanting to do the walk) and announcing to anyone that will listen including MC is that she is going to line up a list of group bangs.
4. OK, if that had been some kind of DiK route option but there is no choice. This character could have been written really well with a great story line and well, that is all we get. I did like the Sage character a lot. Now. I put her at the bottom of the list of LIs with even some of the sides having a more interesting storyline.
5. Again, this is only MY opinion and it is the DPC show. So, I get it.
I think her wanting to do the walk is not slut-shaming, but being self-confident and don't giving a damn about what the DIKs and other people could think about her. And also saying to them "MC is my man now and we are going to have a lot of kinky sex together, so envy him, you losers". That thing of "tell me I'm a slut" is just dirty talking. Other characters do the same in other lewd scenes, and the same goes for the pillory scene.
She has been sexually frustrated for all the time she has been dating with a gay (even if she had sex with Chad at the beginning, I don't think it was good sex, and probably she actually didn't have any), that it's at least two years or more, and now that she has broken free of that toxic relationship, she wants to make up for the lost time since it's her last months in college and soon she will be into the "race of rats". She has found MC, the perfect guy to that, and she's decided to have as much kinky sex as possible until she graduates.
That thing of "lining up a list of group bangs" I suppose it's because she has been seeing the other HOTs banging a lot of guys for the last years and she was envious, being with an impotent (at least with her) boyfriend. So, again, she wants to make up for the lost time. Since MC is not going to be OK with her banging other guys or having "devil's 3somes" (I suppose and hope DPC is not going to go that way), she has decided to include other girls because it's a kink of her (and almost every single female character in AVNs, it's a cliché of the genre) and as she says to Maya, it's only with friends, for fun, and doesn't mean anything. Does that says something about Sage's personality? Only until certain point. This is a porn game, and I think that DPC is going to use her as an excuse to introduce more 3somes because it's something that people likes, even if it overdoes the "kinkiness'" of Sage's character.
But I don't think Sage has a fetish for self-slut shaming or she's a sub. The firs time she has sex with MC she tells him that sometimes she wants to be dominated and others, to dominate. Again, it's an excuse to introduce more variety in lewd scenes and of course, DPC overdoes it because it's a porn game (Sage allowing MC fuck her skull the first time they have oral sex is way too much), but what says about Sages' character is that after being so sexually frustrated for so long, she has liberated herself and is going to explore her fantasies with MC.
This time the update is just a crazy party, and we see mostly the kinky side of Sage. I hope next update we'll see her first date with MC and we'll see her romantic side too.
Anyway, I agree that I was expecting more from that character in this update (and the previous one), that I miss more sweet interactions, and that some of the scenes (over all, the one of MC talking about Sage's family when he's banging her) are silly.