Nope. Last scene in Episode 8: when MC, Sage, Josy and Maya are going to Sage's. Italic text: MC is telling us Stephen Slimey Burke is going to reject Sage's request for helping Maya.
The whole story is MC telling us a story from his past (you can tell it's MC's diary). As you write, Italic words is MC talking directly to us.
I don't think that's entirely accurate.
The italics bit is right. Whenever he talks directly to us as the listener, that's how it's presented, but none of them (excluding the intro and the library scene) break from the narrative at that point and talk about the future:
- There's the intro. (ep1)
- The library scene. (ep3)
- The "doors" monologue at the closing of episode 3. It's relevant to things at that time (Josy arriving, Dawe cancelling his "prescription", Bella's locked door etc.)
- The episode 7 mid-episode monologue when the mc reflects on how things had slowed down since Hell Week. These are just his thoughts about that time.
- The end of episode 7 monologue interspersed with the events at the time. Once again, just his musings at that episode's events.
- Episode 8's brutal dumping from Jill. He talks about it in retrospect, but once again, it's only talking about what happened at the time, and what lead up to it.
- Then there was episode 8's ending monologue. While talking from the future (like you say, the whole story is being related to us by his future self), he's only talking about the events at that time. He does question how it was he never knew Sage was a Burke, but he's not talking about the future, he's talking about discovering it then and there. There's nothing said about what he Burkes were going to do, or what the outcome of the meeting would be, he just explained his shock at discovering they were all related.
So like I said initially, the library scene is the only scene (other than the game's intro) where he alludes to future knowledge. And as far as I'm aware, 5 episodes later, we still don't have that knowledge yet.
Anyone who pursued Jill and chose her at the end of ep. 8 has realized by now that IF Being A DIK had a "true route" and a "canon ending" like those Japanese dating Visual Novels, Jill's route would be the REAL path and Jill would be the CANON girl. Jill is the real deal.
So, honestly, I think you might want to drop playing BaDIK.
I don't think that's true at all.
Each girl plays to a very different type of player preference:
- Jill is for the guys looking for the "perfect virgin".
- Sage is for the guys looking for the "sexy cheerleader".
- M&J are for the guys looking for a threesome with the "drama queen" and the "girl next door".
- Bella is for the guys looking for the "MILF" (even though she's technically not a mom, or is she?).
- Quinn is for the guys looking for the "bad girl".
and so on. There are heaps of base stereotypes that have been used, of course the characters have been developed beyond that, but those base stereotypes have their initial appeal.
If Jill appeals to you, and her final scene strikes a chord for you, that's great. For me, all her talk about destiny and shit creeps me out.
What's great about all these characters are that none of them are actually perfect. They are all humanly flawed, and it's quite interesting to see which flaws people here can overlook, and which flaws drive people here crazy.
