A question aboit some of the lore in this game.
Ryan and Lucas are brothers, right?
What happened to Lucas after he knocked out the dad(F) in DMD? (not counting his cameo in Sunshine)
Does Ryan know about Lucas and F's fights?
I cant remember what was said in episode 1 and 2 anyone and tbh i dont find those two chapters any good. Thanks in advance
An answer as well as a bit of a side note:
Lucas is kind of a textbook example of what is a recurring negative about the devs plotlines in their titles.
Lucas was created to be a rival of sorts, a threat to the father. I (and others) would then say that the majority of the base disliked the notion of having a threat so he was thrown away as if he never existed.
So the dev takes a pretty central character of the story and just removes him without much fanfare. In this case he has Lucas try to attack D and then be caught by police for doing so. At that point the character is pretty much gone forever despite getting out of jail and showing up in the dev's other story for one scene. It's weird.
As for Ryan, I always assumed they were brothers as well and I could have swore it was stated as such in a previous build/release. If they are not and it was never stated, I just assumed it as well and admit that it's a possibility it was all assumption on my end. No harm there but should have been made more clear if it wasn't. As for Lucas' role, it's weird and probably the A-1 example of why writing without a plan and/or changing your plan to suit an audience is a bad idea.
This has zero to do with any fetish or personal desire, btw. I don't care how, who or what fucks what in a VN. I'm in it for story and if sexual in nature the sex (obviously). I don't put myself in the role of a MC or have any feelings personally about what happens to a fictional character in a story. D being a slut or perfect virgin wouldn't affect me personally IRL. I don't care, I just like good stories. Lucas could have been left out entirely or fucked D seven ways from Sunday. I don't care either way.
I do care about a story's basic sense of logic and continuity. That is probably this dev's weakest area despite being a solid developer overall. Chapter 1 of DMD might as well be an entirely different title than the chapters following it. It's bizarre and blatantly different.
Consider while playing later on in the story that her father (MC) bets her virginity on a game of pool/snooker just a few days after meeting her, lol. In this "love story" he takes her to a scummy bar where he bets her virgin pussy on a game of pool. Yes, MC wins that game but consider the message sent from within the story and put that against what the story is now. The reader has to assume the possibility that he loses and what that means from the perspective of us learning who he is inside. It absolutely does not jibe with the character seen later and many seem to forget this or willfully ignore the inconsistency.
Also, in chapter 1 the MC is saving D from being raped/molested a lot. Like, kinda constantly lol. Which, that's fine if that's what you want to do in a story! She is, after all, a naive fuckdoll of a girl. She's a blonde, walking set of tits. Guys would swarm her IRL so I can see adding that in to the story. Fine.
However, that shit gets abandoned real quick and nothing else of that nature happens beyond Chapter 1. That is also ok in a story by itself but not together! You gotta pick one but the dev isn't really good at that (or wasn't at the time). The vibe of the plotline varies wildly in DMD and it makes it one of the better but confusing VNs available. It feels as if the dev wanted to make one thing but then realized most readers didn't want that and placated them.
I would say that is always a bad practice for a writer and storyteller. Lucas specifically exemplifies all of that.
