She's always given me a weird vibe.
She's there for big events but always manages to stay on the outside of them, she has Min and AM twisted round her finger while coming off as far too nice.
She plays the role of the perfect girlfriend to get the MC attached but never commits herself fully. She's always held back.
I just thought the way she knew the MC would be watching her at that party and she managed to manipulate events to just right to get him to play the knight in shining armour. It was all too convenient.
I'll be honest, I think the NTR route was always the main route and the other was added because of backlash of people that hate that kind of content.
I think Lydia was always going to be the big bad behind it.
For the reasons you mention above I precisely thought she wasn't behind it - it was all too obvious, everything is pointing towards her as the big bad, the app was too convenient for her stated fetish of sex by proxy, she must have been a red herring or so I thought.
I completely agree that NTR must be the canon path. It is way more fleshed out in both length and effort (building a whole dungeon with animations compared to a simple prison cell) and it also makes more sense why she would "fall head over heels" for MC - or so it seemed - and still allow him to do all this stuff. The "cat playing with a mouse before she eats it" explanation of the NTR route works way better. The naivete of the LC route works a bit with her character but is even more over the top than the Marvel villain she turns out to be in its own way.
Pretty much this.
I have been saying since Week one that Lydia was way too suspicious. And during week two and three things became even more glaring, like when she was trying to induce AmRose to do anal sex with Mike. It came to the point we would need a
"deus ex machina" in the story for her not to be the villain behind Fetish Locator app.
Which i think ended up being true with the weak LC route. It simply make very little sense when compared to the villain she turns out to be in the NTR route. Even if a bit marvel-ish in appearence it felt to me the game was bulding up to that "i am the bad guy" revelation.
Yeah. I also get the feeling the NTR Lydia is the true one from everything the game has been bulding up over the three weeks and LC Lydia was added late in the game because of potential backlash from ntr haters.