The reason why the competition has to occur is because it's a pivotol turning point for the way Elves are treated going forward as has been said about 100 times by Runey in this thread.
No, Runey said that the way elves are treated will improve
if you win. Anything that happens as a result of winning is
not a reason the contest has to happen unless winning is
guaranteed.
Lin says she wants a child with MC, but she doesn't want her to grow up in this world. Do you really not understand how changing the opinion of the person who can give rights to Elves is important? Would you not do whatever it takes for your child to grow up in a better world?
As above, that's not a reason why the contest has to happen for the narrative to work. I don't really
care what is supposed to happen if you win, as I'm not doing the contest. Full stop. I'd just rather not do it through a choice in the game to avoid it, rather than stop playing Lin's story. What I'm asking is why an option to avoid the contest wouldn't work as part of the story.
While this is technically true, it's also false. The writer pens the story (literally) he or she wants to weave for the reader / audience. It may be something you dislike or find unpleasant, but that's life.
Suggesting the writer censor themselves because you feel uncomfortable is never going to work. They're either going to ignore you and suggest you move on to something else, or, if they for some reason acquiesce, the story itself will suffer because all of a sudden they can't do what they want and their heart isn't in it anymore. Guaranteed.
That was a response to the ridiculous idea that if bad things happen they
have to be explored in detail otherwise it is bad writing. I've played games where parts of the story include brutal rape and violence. These were not shown explicitly, they were implied, and it is
not bad writing to do so.
And I would hardly call suggesting the player be given some agency
censorship. If the next event for Autumn was the MC raping her, would you say anyone asking "Err, can we maybe have the choice not to do that?" was calling for censorship?