Hol up, I actually never thought of this
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The game starts with the MC saying, "My dad once told me that a family is more than blood relations. Being related doesn't necessarily make you a family." What if Neil isn't actually his dad and it's a Jon Snow situation where Neil promised to take care of Lynette's kid and keep the secret of his birth until he was old enough to receive her diary? It would give Neil's teaching about family an extra bit of sense.
I'm sure this has been discussed and maybe debunked before but it's interesting to me at least
But yeah this is one of these topics that's hard to actually discuss because it could just be DPC using a single base model like you said and they're supposed to look more alike. I've always thought Tommy looked a bit like the MC too though, maybe the eyes or something.