Firstly, when I said good guy I was more or less referring to prostitution. Yes he is cheating on his wife and Stephen also admitted to cheating on her 3 times. I'd rather write it again. He did NOT admit to fucking students, that was just an assumption from Jade, nothing more. Back to Stephen. You also played EP10 and read Stephen's conversation with his psychiatrist, right? Nothing has happened between Jade and Stephen for a long time. Almost no sex, no productive conversations, etc. Jade and Stephen have themselves to blame for their marriage falling apart.
I don't want to make a work for you and quote a lines from the paths/branches that you don't ever play. That's regarding Cathy and Jade & Stephen sex and a lot of other things.
Regarding the canon part. Jade confronts Stephen at the intro flashback of EP3. We have no clue when their dialogue took place. It can be a one day ago, a several weeks-months before the EP3 events or maybe a couple of years. We know in general about Stephen and Quinn deal but we don't know - was there somebody before the Quinn who did the same for him or not or it started somehow only after Quinn got into B&R.
Make your mind. You either believe Stephen or not. He hadn't said "NOT" when Jade assumed that he is fucking freshwomen and I suppose he seriously lowered the numbers as well. Reread that scene if needed. Howether, I don't feel any sense to convince you, because you always interprete even a 100% damn straight facts and words into some fantasies on your own. Red herring is ok, but not every damn time and regarding every damn dialogue line and word that each character spells.
How does he use his money? He donates money to B&R. Is that immoral? He has a nice apartment. Is that immoral? He earned his money without doing anything illegal and was even fired because of it. Is immoral?
You understand pretty well what I meant. What for you're writing all this?
He bought his professor title. He covers the prostitution ring inside the college he is heading. He uses his state and title to decide who will get grants and who will not and since he is into freshwomen lately, he uses part of this grants for sex deals and bringing Quinn new "workers". And it's only the part that revealed. Even if he is not messed in anything else, it's quite enough to spend a solid time in jail.
Please make me refute the prostitution ring, sex scholarships, etc. thing again. There is no solid evidence for this. But you can believe whatever you want. I'm just wondering why many believe Quinn and Tommy, who have lied and betrayed more than once throughout the game.
There is no evidence that Stephen fucked Cathy. I didn't see them fucking together. It's heavily implied and through Jade. Since Quinn and Riona are at B&R, Stephen is always supposed to fuck the freshmen girls? He only cheated on Jade 3 times. Probably once with Cathy, then only two more times. All I know is that Stephen will go after Isabella and not a student. Stephen likes to go out for drinks with female work colleagues without his wife Jade. Who else was in the Milf Bar? Nora. She is single, unattached, just like Cathy. But just keep believing everything Quinn says.
I will not do that. Believe in what you want, fantasy and theorize how you want. But don't fly too far.
You're more likely to write a full-screen theory about some random pictures in the character's rooms, strawberries and milk, a fungus that Maya got from her father or a Porsche that Maya rides with Derek in secret from everyone, doppelgangers and twins and the hell knows what else. Rather than assuming a healthy versions and implying a plausible theories as well as getting the straight facts and information which game brings you since episode 1.
Tommy and Quinn have some secrets, but it doesn't mean that you can't trust them at all. Same (reversed) goes for other characters. There're a lot of them who could be trusted, it doesn't mean that they always tell the truth, but you act like a 99,9% of what we heard, seen or read is a lies. You're wasting your time by questioning absolutely everything instead of trying to discover lies or untruths. Mostly and a lot. Waste it further if you so like to. It's counterproductive.
What strikes me about your mushrooms is that DPC read a theory of mine that he liked, but he's not that mean. Which? I once wrote what if the muffins in EP9 were baked with drugs. Quinn asks Lily in EP10 if Lily wants to put the mushrooms in the DIKs' food. Lily replied so that it would be a fun idea, but then she wouldn't be so mean.
You're talking with DPC? Where? I suppose it's happening in your head or during your shrooms trips. It's ok, nothing wrong with that.
Now I get why Maya is so damn calm with Derek & MC taking the shrooms

Regarding Lily & Quinn, you're trying to find a foreshadowing or double bottom absolutely in EVERYTHING. You can't just digest the dialogues, you must analyze and question every word in every sentence. Go on, if you're into it.
How can everything be canon from Stephen? We just don't make a direct decision regarding Stephen. You yourself are writing here so that there are changes to Jade's divorce share. What Jade gets less, Stephen gets more. This isn't canonical. How can we influence this? Through jade, indirectly. Who knows what else we'll affect when it comes to Stephen because the MC may have fucked Jade.
There're 3 choices (1 major and 2 are not) that changes things a lot. But the rest of the story remains intact and it's what I call the canon part. The prostitution, dealing with Quinn and so on stays intact. First choice is a Major one - let Jade jerk off MC or not. Then you're getting the opportunity to fuck her (2nd choice) and the latest one - tell Derek and share the video with DIKs or not. Only the last decision with sharing a video leads to a Jade divorce share fuck up. You posted the render above with dude with telescope and his wife probably assuming that this have any sense with this story. Because you're not playing any other paths outside J&M properly and constantly making a wrong assumptions most of the time because of this. Play the god damnit game at full at least once.
You are contradicting yourself here. I ate champions and you?
It's okay that you wrote this to everyone. But I'm also one of them all. You are right with what you wrote here. Follow your own words.
Stephen Burke: Stephen always behaved correctly towards the MC. Stephen is not a hardliner, this is his wife Jade. The MC overheard so that Stephen would donate money. Don't start with Mona because the MC only noticed Stephen coming out the door behind Mona. The MC can't know anything more.
Quinn and Tommy: I'll put the two together, it's easier. The MC is actively involved so that both of them are manipulative, lie, take drugs, etc. And through Quinn the MC finds out about the restaurant, i.e. about prostitution.
You completely ignore the behavior of some characters towards the MC.
Stephen don't have a reasons to behave incorrectly towards the MC. However, when MC fucked Jade and shown video to DIKs which is leaked to Stephen later - he has a reason and will get MC a gaze during the meeting at their place (for beginning, we don't know how this would unfold later). Video was not shown? Well, the Stephen then gets cucked and Jade gets her 50% of their property.
Josy replied that there is nothing wrong with taking a photo with a friend. This is where the rub lies. Maya introduces Patrick, the MC, as her boyfriend in EP10. The only thing left to do is for Josy to get a boyfriend. Whom? Come up with something, there is a hint. I have a suspicion.
Maya talked about the joint photos with Josy and the ones where they are all together. The only difference is that MC sees this dialogue and participate in a photoshoot being in Throuple branch. You assume that Maya is not wondering what this photos for and how they will be used if they are taking them w/o the MC? There are no any sense to worry about the separate photos of each girl with MC. Maya is worried only about the ones joint with Josy. And at that moment Josy calls "friends" both Maya and MC and she is caring not about the Patrick (they both get that he won't see it), but the rest of the people. Because at that time they thought of hiding their relationship. It all lost any sense a several hours later.
You even don't get such simple moments and nuances or you get them mostly wrong or in some perverted way. But you almost immideately build a hell tons of theories and seeing a foreshadowing signs out of the blue with absolutely zero grounds.
They are not planning to find and pretend with fake friends. They revealed their relationship publicly for the whole campus already (even if not the whole truth about it) and they are working on getting rid of the Patrick in one way or another. They don't give a fuck if he will learn about them in case if the loan problem will be solved. They don't want and need his "bless". As soon as the loan problem solved they could tell him to fuck off and do what they want. Maya wanted to get that free tuition to get rid of Patrick since day 1, so I suppose she knows how she wanted to behave when loan doesn't bother her anymore.
And again you theorize only based on a one potential choice of telling Josy about Chad & Troy and the beard thing which leads to presenting MC as a Maya's boyfriend. While there are at least two options. Now you will tell me that you feel and that you pick only the "right" choices. Only to tell later that everything may change in a future episode(s).