It is funny how the MC is so surprised about these people's families. "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!! How could it be that she was a Burke all along?!" Well, maybe because you never asked for her last name? Ever think of that? It's such lazy writing. How can you spend like half a year living with people and you still somehow don't know their last names? It's retarded, it just is. Even Rusty at one point cuts the MC off from asking about him being a Burgmeister, then the MC just somehow forgets about the whole thing for months and never asks him about it ever again when Rusty literally told him that they should discuss it "another time". It's not just that these discussions about last names and families never came up, it's that the MC conveniently forgets about them whenever DPC starts feeling uncomfortable about revealing too much of the characters' backgrounds. I don't even know how many times in the game the MC should've just asked, should've just said or should've just done something about certain things and only because of DrPinkCheek's shitty writing ability does he not. Of course, everybody calling the MC a retard all the time could just be taken as lighthearted taunting, but I'm genuinely under the impression that he's severely autistic (another trait of the MC that's clearly a self-insert of the developer).
but it's not a matter of asking for the last name. i think , aside from work issues, i have asked for it on very few occasions, but it's information that hanging out with a person is impossible not to come to know. we're in a college, there are exam registrations, gym and library cards, name on books....
then in the specific case of Jade and Sage, that no DIK warns, even through a joke, that MC is dating the daughter of one of his professors (aside from Jacob's sphinx enigma phrase) is a clear symptom of widespread mental distress throughout BR.
Comical how DPC will go as far as to sacrifice necessary realism like that only to keep his stupid last name subplots hidden so that the "puzzling" nature of them is still supposedly going to be of significance to players, as if literally everyone at this point wouldn't find this garbage laughable. Seriously, the MC just never happened to ask his dad about his own mother, including what her last name is? He keeps avoiding the topic of Rusty being a Burgmeister simply because DPC has trouble writing a scene where the MC finally asks him more about it even though he literally said himself that he has a ton of questions about it? He somehow just decides to completely ignore what's obviously Jill Royce's childhood home right behind his own mother in pretty much the only picture he has of her? Is it just me and you who see where this hideous dogshit storyline is headed?
with that photo DPC simply made a mistake. the photo is a preview, a surprise, for us players, but it cannot be for MC, since only if in relation to Jill has he ever seen that house. so how could DPC carry on 2 stories in which on the one hand MC knows whatever he is supposed to find out from that photo and on the other hand he knows absolutely nothing about it?
that photo should have popped up later, maybe in that way he wanted to hype Jill's run as well as with the subplot of Bianca and her boyfriend.