It would have been better to end Immoral Desires Chapter Nine with the illustrious photo from the Chapter Five cover. Just have her say, "Daniel..." and close the door behind her. But ending with Sofia catching them has now created this awkward pacing where there has to be constant panning and awareness to Sofia's location, not to mention the reason she hasn't entered for so long. And while I would never presume to know the content of Daval's intentions, I have a sneaking suspicion that he was going to allow for Sofia to get involved, but because of the backlash at the prospect of her getting involved, he's had to backtrack, a backtrack for which by the way, I'm confident he prepared. It honestly puzzles me: it's clear that the lion's share of ID fans want the sexual interactions to remain primarily between Daniel and Lana; it's clear that the lion's share of MT fans want the sexual interactions to remain primarily between Sarah, David, Alice, Aaron, and at the margin, Luke (and I'm personally okay with Peter); it's clear that SN fans want the sexual interactions to remain primarily between Liam, Amanda, Alexa, and Emma (with some wanting Emma to have sex with her father.) Yet Daval repeatedly attempts to introduce kinks which are akin to time bombs, surely to blow up in his face, because the audience at large have, for better or worse, conveyed the narratives for which they are willing to pay and consume.
And what puzzles me even more is that he has two aliases. Why not just keep the saucier kinks under the alias of DirDogma. No one gets upset with that content because there's an expectation, almost an establishment, about which kinks will be featured. And I'll hearken back to something you said, Donnie, in that inventing plots along the way just creates a restlessness for which Daval will repeatedly have to address and kowtow. There's a hentai artist who goes by "Boindo, a.k.a. Siberian Hahasky" who creates fairly vanilla mother/son incest manga. Judging by the art style, Boindo is clearly an alias of Kurosu Gatari, who creates NTR manga. He was doing fairly well disseminating both genres through both aliases until he angered his fanbase with a "kink" in the third chapter of Kaa-san Datte Onna Nandayo. Suffices to say, her son wasn't the only one involved. It almost comes off as a compulsion to throw a wrench in the mix, just because... and if I get started on the dialogue, we'll be here all evening. I don't know, I don't know when, but I may take extended break from all this, like I used to, and come back when 50-60 pages have been leaked or produced.