First of all, Patrick isn't really religious. He was just grasping at the last straw he had left and was only using religion for his own ends.
The last part is suitable description for all religious people.
Why would my MC want to reject Derek in EP8. Derek was there for my MC in EP4 when he needed Derek's help. One hand washes the other. Derek helped my MC, like in EP8 Derek gets the nod from my MC so he can stay in his room if he needs to. If it were otherwise, then my MC would be a brother license and I don't want that.
Because the game is not about
your MC and
your choices. And since you buiding a theory based on something that depends on player choices you should at least make it coherent and notice how author of game could play it out in both circumstances.
You forget who said that about the dress being too revealing and everything else. It was Patrick. The father who, outside the family, shows himself to be an overprotective idiot from his caring paternal mother, in Josy's words, but within the family he psychologically and physically abuses, controls and blackmails Maya and Derek. Besides, you forget everything Maya said. So that she hasn't had sex, but has had dates with other guys and so that she no longer believes her father's lies. She also said afterwards that she knows what she has to do now. Patrick doesn't believe Maya to have a boyfriend, so it has to be proven. Patrick is also such a religious father (sarcasm) that he has porn magazines and a computer. There are tons of porn sites on the internet. If he happens to see a picture of his daughter having sex with her boyfriend, he won't jerk off, but he'll have the confirmation he needs to believe Maya.
The moment you're talking is about Maya meant free tuition from HOTs and was more confident than ever before to get this free tuition even if some of the scavenger hunt tasks was uncomfortable and inapropriate for her. She clearly wanted to get rid of the Patrick by getting this free tuition from HOTs, so she can tell Patrick to fuck off. That's why she was so desperate later when she realized that it was also a lie (well, not, but she hadn't "fitted" and even so, I doubt that she would go for it if only she known what free tuition was about). She saw it as the only chance to get out of Patrick's trap.
Regarding porn... Patrick is very conservative and old-fashioned. Maya mentioned this magazines once btw, that Derek used to "use" them in the context that these were the only books he "read".
But seriously... The dude has been living with his sick wife for almost 20 years. He clearly wasn't cheating on her, so... the only option for him is to jerk off. It's strange to explain such obvious things. And don't tell me that "religious" people don't jerk off, have sex, etc., and if they do, it's only for childbirth purposes. Spare me these fairy tales. It's a bullshit.
There will be some evidence either way. EP8 classroom or EP10 MC room. Only in the EP8 classroom we don't know who took the picture, but in EP10 we know who will be responsible for it.
What picture? I've lost touch
If you are talking about render from outside the window, showing MC and Maya running inside the classroom, then there is no evidence that somebody watching on them of takes a photo. There're a lot of same shit, including Bella's place at night, etc. For me it still seems like DPC way of fucking with players, especially ones, who played AL. Because similar render there was used to point on Leah (crazy psycho bitch).
That's exactly why Maya's solo path will have consequences. You describe it perfectly here. Now just imagine Maya doing that to the MC and the MC finding out everything years later.
The major and most important consequences of solo Maya path that Josy will be absolutely devastated, even worse than in case of break up with Throuple. Because she loses both Maya and MC and remains completely alone. The very nightmare she had tried so hard to avoid and talked / meant about. After break up with Throuple, she at least have Maya and they getting motivation to save their relationship (if DPC will decide such outcome as an option and will write this sub-path in this way, of course).
On the other side, I can barely imagine consequences for solo Josy path. Because it was Maya words, that nobody should be forced to something if he feel different. And they both know that their own relationship goes south when they are not in Throuple. So, at first solo Josy path feels better and safer in terms of consequences. But let's wait and see.
Why you dragging different events from absolutely different paths and outcomes to some particular theory, while when playing for solo Maya you barely doesn't have those scenes and options that you had mentioned? No photos/videos, no class room, no curtain scene, etc. The only thing that may affect somehow the solo Maya path is telling Josy about Chad & Troy, since if you confide in Josy, she comes up with a "beard" idea and MC comes back to Maya's home as her boyfriend (and it would be evil move from DPC if this option will be req for success with Maya solo path, because in such case, Josy literally fucking up herself by coming up with this idea.)
Let's take a test of courage in Rusty's room. What can Maya say? So that Josy's wish is not wild in itself, but for Maya it is wild. Then in EP10, Maya asks the MC if he is about fun or feelings? As a player, prove your answer to Maya, because otherwise it's just words. When Maya is with the MC, it's mostly about sex. Things are different with Josy and the MC. It's about feelings.
Josy's heart is on her sleeve. Maya is more subtle and she's introvert. Replay all previous scenes with Maya and they will all be about sex too or about Maya's problems and her past partially. They NEVER talked about feelings. Maya acts subtle. Like, by asking MC in Gender 101 class "do you like me?" and game remember this choice. In EP1 she asked MC not to be attracted to her. And game remember MC response too.
Josy doesn't talk openly about her feelings either, but she doesn't know how to hide them, and her body language, her glance, and everything else speak for themselves. That's the difference.
Why? Because Throuple got the most late commitment among MGs - at the end of EP9. Before that moment they tried to behave and keep all those emotions low to not blow up later if something will go wrong. But even so, the break up with Throple was terrible, because hiding feelings does not mean not experiencing them and does not mean that they did not grow with every day spent together. And even Sage notes that she is not even standing next to them on an emotional level.
The screenshots prove to Maya that the MC was honest with her when his answer was for her to want the feelings too. But Patrick is not convinced when Helen later finds out that the MC is her daughter Maya's boyfriend, to whom Patrick says, "It is certainly something out of the ordinary." What do we know from EP3? So that Maya no longer believes her father's lies and she knows what she has to do.
Patrick obviously happy and he can't believe his eyes, in a good way. He said "I'm sorry" to Maya at the kitchen, and according to how Maya took it in, he haven't said something like that for years to her. She even asked him again "You are sorry?"
